Texas prosecutors within the homicide trial of Kaitlin Armstrong, who’s accused of killing a romantic rival in a house invasion capturing earlier than fleeing the nation, rested their case Wednesday whereas she declined to testify in her protection.
Kaitlin Armstrong, 37, is accused of capturing skilled bike owner Anna Moriah “Mo” Wilson to demise in a pal’s condo on Might 11, 2022, after she went on a date together with her suspected killer’s boyfriend, former professional bike owner 36-year-old Colin Strickland.
Wilson, a Vermont native and rising star in gravel and mountain bike driving, was visiting Texas for a race. Strickland picked her up on his Harley-Davidson and took her swimming at a public pool. They ate dinner at a bar throughout the road.
KAITLIN ARMSTRONG TRIAL: COLIN STRICKLAND KNOCKS CAMERA OFF JOURNALIST’S SHOULDER AFTER 2ND DAY OF TESTIMONY
Colin Strickland, left, testified at Kaitlin Armstrong’s, proper, trial for the homicide of Mo Wilson, heart. On Wednesday, Armstrong declined to testify in her homicide trial.
After the slaying, Armstrong used her sister’s passport to fly to Costa Rica and evaded police for 43 days. As soon as in police custody, she allegedly tried to flee from Travis County jail guards, main them on a 10-minute foot chase earlier than they captured her a mile away.
All through the almost two-week trial, jurors heard from DNA and firearms specialists, in addition to picture knowledge and GPS analysts. Protection attorneys have mentioned the prosecution’s case is basically circumstantial.
Pamela Mazak, an intelligence analyst with the Texas Lawyer Normal’s Workplace, testified for the state and confirmed the jury a timeline of occasions utilizing location knowledge from Wilson and Armstrong’s cell telephones.
Strickland testified that he needed to conceal Wilson’s cellphone quantity from Armstrong underneath a pretend title in his cellphone. Two of Armstrong’s pals mentioned she advised them she needed to, or may, kill Wilson.
TEXAS ‘LOVE TRIANGLE’ MURDER SUSPECT KAITLIN ARMSTRONG’S SHORT-LIVED ESCAPE ATTEMPT CAUGHT ON VIDEO
Kaitlin Armstrong seems in courtroom for her homicide trial on the on the Blackwell-Thurman Legal Justice Heart in Austin, Texas, Nov. 6, 2023. Armstrong is charged with the deadly capturing {of professional} bike owner Anna Moriah Wilson. (Jorge Molina)
Police interviewed Armstrong, amongst others, after Wilson was killed. The day after that interview, Armstrong bought her Jeep for greater than $12,000 and was quickly headed to Costa Rica, the place investigators say she had cosmetic surgery to vary her nostril, and he or she modified her coiffure and shade.
Armstrong tried to ascertain herself as a yoga teacher in Costa Rica earlier than she was lastly caught on June 29.
The jury additionally heard about one other escape try by Armstrong, on Oct. 11, when she tried to flee two corrections officers who had escorted her to a medical appointment outdoors jail. Video footage confirmed Armstrong, in a striped jail uniform and arm restraints, operating and making an attempt to scale a fence.
Armstrong’s attorneys spent only some hours presenting her protection Wednesday. When requested by her lawyer in entrance of the decide and with the jury out of the room, Armstrong declined an opportunity to testify in her personal protection.
Kaitlin Armstrong is accused of killing Wilson when the 25-year-old athlete was visiting Austin for a race in Might 2022. (USMS and Jay Janner/American-Statesman / USA TODAY NETWORK)
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Protection attorneys have argued another person may have killed Wilson.
In addition they known as an skilled on forensic metallurgy, William Tobin, to attempt to debunk the firearms and tool-marking strategies used to match the bullets to Armstrong’s gun as defective, saying they’ll result in “false positives” and shouldn’t be used to find out guilt or innocence.
Tobin acknowledged he didn’t evaluation the proof on this case.
Fox Information Digital’s Michael Ruiz and The Related Press contributed to this report.
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