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ready? I am? All right? Well. It takes place in Austin,
which is the state capital of Texas. Have you ever been to Austin?
No? I want to go. It's known for its warm weather and
it has three hundred days. It's unshiny. Oh my god. Seriously.
Yes, we're from Michigan. We get one day. It's got a lot
of food and are as. Wow, I know, I'd be so happy.
Friendly communities. The economy is primarily driven by high tech industries like pharmaceutical
companies, bio technology companies, IT and there are a lot of companies that
are developing AI technology that's way too advanced for me. I'm gonna let that
technology be has to me by because I think I'm done learning new stuff and
I'm still trying to work on my iPhone. And something cute about Austin is
there's a lot of people that have these bumper stickers that say, quote,
keep Austin weird o. Cute little little keep. Yeah, that's cute.
This is where Caitlyn Armstrong and Colin Strickland met. I'm gonna give you a
little background on Caitlin. She was born November twenty first, in nineteen eighty
seven. And you know where she grew up, Michigan, Livonium, Michigan.
Yeah. Yeah, she went to high school there. Classmates described her
as being outgoing, friendly, but sometimes it could be bossy and controlling.
I know people like that. She was very athletic as a teenager, and
she had this red, curly hair, so it kind of made her stand
out. She liked volleyball, track and field and did some basketball in two
thousand and five, she was voted best hair. Oh yeah, I'm picturing
some really great hair. I would like some. Yeah. Like, no,
I didn't get voted shit. Yeah, I mean neither. Don't worry
about it. We're only not voted for shit category. She ended upvoting to
Schoolcraft College. You know where that is? This community college. Before she
went to Eastern Michigan University, she got a job working in finance for several
years before she changed her career and she became a licensed realtor and on the
side of yoga instructor. Oh my goodness, that sounds awesome from finance too.
Yoga yoga good for her. Yeah, that finance probably stressed her out.
That's why she did yoga. Yeah. In October twenty eighteen, that's
when she met Colin, and she met him on the dating app Hinge.
Oh hinge. It's better than Tinder, isn't it. I don't know.
I don't know. This dating app that there are those that don't know,
is designed for you to meet the one to fall in love with. And
I don't from what I know, that's not really what it was for.
Maybe the one for the night. I don't know, So let me tell
you about Colin. He was born in November seventh, in nineteen eighty six,
and he grew up in Johnson City, which is in Texas. His
family they owned a farm on the outskirts of the city, and he developed
a love for the outdoors, coming out in the country and he would ride
his bike down the gravel roads. He was described as eccentric, and he
loved music and he loved art, but he was eccentric. I love eccentric
people. They're fun, yeah, just you know, not when they were
family members, That's true. And just from experience. As he grew up
on the farm, he became very conscious of where his food source was from.
Because when I'm saying he grew up on a farm, I'm a girl
I'm talking about he grew up on a farm. By the age of twenty
five, he was a member of the Red Bull athletic community and he was
a professional cyclist cyclist. I didn't see that coming. Yes, after college,
he had won his first cycling race, so he was much better at
biking than me. I haven't been on a bike in ages. And he
had actually went on to compete internationally. He was considered a public figure for
the cycling community, and he had a large following on Instagram. Wow,
this whole world out there, say, there's all kinds of stuff out there
that true crime cycling part of. So Colin and Caitlin's relationship was described in
the beginning as being healthy. That's what her friends said. His friends said.
Both Colin and Caitlin enjoyed cycling together, so it was kind of a
hobby they had, like you and your husband, but only without a bike
and not moving and sitting on the couch. As a relationship continued, it
be got more serious. So when Caitlyn's apartment was hit by an ice storm
that ended up barreling through Texas, oh yeah, it caused the pipes to
burst. So they decided that would be a great time to move in together.
They purchased some property together and they spent hours planning on the renovation of
the house. So they took a big step. Yeah, it's a huge
They also started a business together. It was a man and they're not married
yet, Wheelhouse Mobile where they would restore and resell customized Barton trailers for those
that don't know what a Spartan trailer is, their vintage style ur vs.
Yeah, I think it's probably like those metal Yeah, I'm not really sure.
I did look, but I think they're like old school r vs,
wooden bagos, whatever, doesn't matter. They're restoring them, they're fixing them
up, and they're selling them on the side. Caitlin became an agent for
Sotheby's it's a broker of fine arts and jewelry. Could do all those auctions,
yes, and she sold the trailers, oh nice, around three hundred
fifty thousand bam. She had that background, remember, in finance, So
she started to manage Colin's racing finances because he was making money, believing or
not cycling around the place. I still wan't ride a bike, but that's
fine, and so she had access to his passwords. Some close friends said
that they felt that Caitlin had become obsessed with his online presence because he was
a local celebrity and a celebrity with a cyclists out there. A friend of
the couple recalled an awkward encounter that this person had experience with Colin and Kitlin
like it was one of those things that made me really uncomfortable. One of
Colin's sponsors, Rafa, it's a brand of cycling Clothing designed an exclusive cycling
kit with all the sponsors logos on them as a gift. Colin decided to
get a set for Caitlin, but told her that she couldn't wear it in
public, just in case his sponsors didn't like that. And she's like,
huh, what is this. One day, the pair decided to go for
a ride with some friends and Caitlin wore that old I don't know cycling kit.
I guess that's like a helmet with sure, I don't know what a
cycling kit was. Colin told Kaitlin to change, like you need to change,
you get out of it, and Caitlin said, you know what,
I'm not going for a ride with you guys. I'm not going. So
that was a sign of tension, but some also recall having to call Colin
out on sometimes tis because it was really condescending. He would be rude to
even his friends, and he was often demeaning to Caitlin. He was saying
things that just to the people around him, it just wasn't right. It
was it was rude, it was inappropriate, it was wrong. He was
looked like a jerk. This is where the couple started to feel the strain
of what it was like to actually have a partner, because you know,
in the beginning, it's of honeymoon, yes and stuff. But now the
cracks started to show between the couple, and as they said, friends were
noticing. Now we're in October of twenty twenty one, the couple decided this
is not a good idea. It would be best to end the relationship on
mutual terms, but remain friends and roommates. No no, no, no,
no, that does not sound like a good idea. No no,
They split. They each had their own separate rooms in their home, and
Caitlin reportedly had brought over multiple men. Oh no, she met on the
dating app Bumble. She switched over to bumba Bumble because Hinge, you know,
ended up not working out so well for her. And although this didn't
seem to bother Colin at the time, he acted like he didn't because,
oh, it fucking bothered him. I'm sure it had. But guess what
he was doing. Oh he's doing the same thing, bringing home some girls
and doing some how awkward kick a boom boom stuff. Awkward Is that I
know, That's what I'm saying. That's why it's a bad idea yes,
and Colin met Anna Maria Wilson. Anna went by Maria, and I'm gonna
give you a little background down Maria. She was born in May eighteenth,
nineteen ninety six, so she gonna be lit twenty five. She was born
to Eric and Karen Wilson. She had brother named Matthew. The family lived
in a small town called Kirby, which is a northern part of Vermont.
She grew up in Kirby, and the Wilson family was surrounded by beautiful greenery.
They loved the outdoors, just like Colin did. At a young age,
Mariah displayed signs of perfectionism, which would overwhelm her and cause her to
have anxiety. Oh yeah. In middle school, her parents center to a
therapist to help her find a way to manage all of this. This trade
would later become really prominent in her adult life. She was very motivated because,
as you know, perfectionists are motivated to be perfect, right, and
so she was very motivated to become something in her life. In twenty fourteen,
she graduated from Burke Mountain Academy, one of the first ski academies.
Wow, that's impressed in North America. There's a skid, And I know
I was just thinking the same thing as someone that's skied once. I never
skied, Yeah, I bet never. I bet you haven't. No,
I didn't even do it. In high school. She had a talent for
alpine skiing. Good for her. I don't even know what it was.
But she placed third in the twenty thirteen US Junior National Championship downhill event at
a national level. Yeah, she was good, and you know that third
place wasn't good enough for her, right, She probably stressed about it,
poor thing. But then something bad happened. She ended up tearing her acl
and her sophomore year. Oh damn, but a healed, but then she
tore it again three years later. She doesn't let of pain. She didn't
let us stop her. She ended up growing up and learning to embrace adversity,
the pain with a grace and a purpose. And she had a really
strong work ethic. The people close to her would describe it as being abnormally
amazing, like out of this world. Then she went on to attend Darthmouth
College. She got a degree in engineering in twenty nineteen. She was pretty
much ready to take the world on. She had a great education, and
she did have a really good personality. In her spare time, she would
write. She ended up traveling to different places in the world and enjoyed experience
all the other cultures out there. She's got obviously some money going on,
because yeah, that's not cheap. Dartmouth isn't cheap either. So even though
she had her engineering degree, she was an aspiring chef. Oh me,
and this girl is talent, right. She loved tackle Tuesdays. I love
tackle. I like tackle Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday. And she ended up
having a deep love for cycling. That became her biggest hobby and then it
became her profession. So you can kind of see where I'm going. She
had come to the decision that engineering wasn't for her, and so she ended
up doing more cycling. She had had, by this time, a corporate
job for a few years, and she was just getting sick of no corporate
job. So yeah, working for the man blows. Long story shorty,
she ended up being a professional cyclist. She want to be free nature and
all that. I get it, girl, No you don't. It's totally
not my chosen way to spend my time. No, I understand, some
people do enjoy it. She became popular in the cycling community. And after
competing in two gravel cycling seasons and they're like three months long. I know
nothing about cycling seasons or gravel cycling season. She rose to the top of
the pack and she had a lot of victories both in gravel and mountain races.
Okay, she was she was forced to me rocking with Unfortunately, due
to the worldwide spread of COVID, the racing community experience a hold on.
They couldn't have any races. Yeah, we lost like two years, yeah
lives, yes, but that didn't really stop Mariah and November of twenty twenty,
she attended the proving ground of American Endurance Races and bombs and pressing.
In just seven hours with only a hydration packet and two water bottles, she
completed the Moobs White Rim Loop, a one hundred mile loop through the canyons
of Colorado and the Green Rivers, and she set a record for women one
hundred miles miles. Wow, seven hours and one hundred miles. Oh,
I don't think I drive that fast. No, I mean yeah, but
that is pretty impressive on a bike. Mariah was determined to be in as
many cycling events as possible, and she told one reporter that she often found
it hard to compete in all of them because there were all these overlaps and
events, and she wanted to just do all of them, you know,
she wanted to get into all of them. In October of twenty twenty one,
Mariah moved to Austin, Texas, and she got very well known in
the local cycling community. This is when Colin and Mariah met at a local
cycling event in town and became bonded over their mutual love for cycling. Both
of them were in the middle of a break up. Mariah had left because
she broke up with her boyfriend, wanted a fresh start. She was newly
single, and it didn't take long before their relationship developed laws. You know
what I'm saying. Yeah, I know what you're saying. Girl. Colin
didn't realize that his relationship he had with Maria hurt Caitlyn's feelings. So when
I told you before, she was bringing over men, but he was bringing
over women, right. He really didn't think Caitlin cared. No, I
wouldn't either, but Caitlin was pretty open about her feelings towards Maria and that
she didn't like her. Healing Head somehow gotten Mariah's number, I don't know
how, and spent the next few months harassing and threatening her, telling her
she'd better stay away from Colin. That never works, girl, That never
works. Girl. You're just showing you're crazy. You live with him,
he's your ex. You're bringing home guys because her Maria is not going to
be like Caitlin's been calling me. She's nuts, right, How are you
gonna win over someone by showing that you're crazy? Well, my thing is
you dumped him. You don't want to be with him. You don't want
to be with them, So what's the problems and you're being with other people?
Why do you care what I'm doing? What is Colin's supposed to be
alone for the rest of his life? Exactly? I know. The threats
had become so constant that Maria attempted to end it by blocking Caitlyn and telling
Colin, listen, you gotta stop her. This is out of control.
But because all three of them we're into cycling. Oh come on, they
shared the same group of friends. Oh no, and that made up the
outings very awkward for all their friends involved. As you can imagine, it
was only literally after two weeks of officially dating, Colin decided to call it
quits with Maria. So this all happened in two weeks. She's harassment phone
calls Maria's Yeah, she gets dumb by Colin. It didn't take long for
Caitlin to snatch Colin back up and they rekindled the romance. But they really
they did. Well, he's an asshole. Colin and Mariah would continue to
be friends, and Caitlin didn't know that they were meeting privately. Still,
no, you know how this all goes? Oh no, this is messy.
Oh boy, Colin had changed Mariah's name and his phone to something different.
I don't know what it was, so Caitlyn wouldn't find out. It
was probably like Steve or something, their secret hanging out. But Caitlin eventually
figured it out. There was basically a secret romance happening behind her back.
And if you thought they were just grabbing coffee Maria and Colin, they weren't.
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It's May eleventh, of twenty twenty two, so this is recent. Just
before ten pm, emergency services were called by Mariah's friend and she was in
a state of panic. She was hysterical. She told nine one one she'd
just returned home to find her friend motionless on the bathroom floor. Not long
after that call was made, authorities arrived on the scene and they found a
woman, Mariah dead. Oh no, she had multiple gunshot wounds. Oh,
at a very close range. They'd been shot. She'd been shot.
Mariah was supposed to perform in a mountain bike race the next day where everybody
thought she was going to win, but obviously she didn't make it to that
race. The autopsy confirmed that Mariah's death was homicide case. You're like,
whoa, She just got the shot multiple times, which came as no surprise
to the police. Given how gruesome the crime scene was. She sustained two
gunshot wounds to the head and one to the chest while she was face off
laying on the floor. The police inspected the crime scene and the officers found
multiple shell casings, but they couldn't find the weapon in the house, and
it led them to believe that somebody did this crime. The front door was
unlocked at Mariah's home and her bike had been stolen. The officers found the
bike later on had been tossed into this thick growth of bamboo about seventy feet
from her friend's place where she'd been staying. So she was staying with a
friend. The community of Austin and the larger cycling community to them Mariah's I
mean, it really shook him to the core. She's young, she's active,
and people were just confused, like who would come in and shoot Maria
then in the head and then steal her bike because a big clue. No
one could think of anybody that would want to harm Mariah because she was kind,
friendly, well natured. She didn't have any enemies except for that toxic
love triangle. Prior to Mariah's murder, Caitlin allegedly openly spoke about how she
wanted to kill Maria. Oh, she did. So there were some people
that were like, hmm, you had said you wanted to kill her and
now she's dead. Is that a coincidence? I think? Since Maria was
staying at her friend's house, the police interviewed her friend in an attempt to
figure out like, who, why, what, what do you think happened
the house? Maria was staying at her friend's house. It had like an
electric lock or of those you needed the code to get in, and then
there'd be a time stamp when someone accessed the property. Police were able based
on that to tell exactly when Mariah had entered and acted the apartment and her
timeline for the day. According to the timeline they put together after investigating,
Maria and Colin had met up went to a local pool to go swimming together
just before six pm. After a quick swim, the pair went to a
restaurant for dinner. While they had dinner, Colin's phone started to go off.
When he checked it, he saw it was Kate calling. He ignored
the call because he knew that it would upset Caitlin and Maria, and he's
not gonna be like, yeah, I'm sorry, I'm out at a restaurant
right now with Maria. Then Colin took Maria home and that was about eight
thirty pm. He never entered the property and he just went straight home.
Colin and Mariah didn't know that Caitlin had been stock in the pair. Oh
she had been, so she knew when she was calling Colin where they were.
Yeah, there's probably looking at him. Right. There's the CCTV footage
around the property where Mariah was staying, showing Caitlin's black jeep driving by the
property at about eight thirty seven, just after Mariah had returned home from her
date with Colin. Caitlyn jeep, it was distinct, it was large,
It had that rack mountain on the back that for luggage and bike. The
police were able to get a search warrant for Colin and Caitlin's house, and
of course they'd find the same car that they saw on the CCTV footage.
They also phoned in their search of the property a handgun, girl, What
stupid ass, Why are you bringing that gun home? And it was it
was identified as a murder weapon with the same bullets would have been found at
the crime scene. Really, really, you brought it home? God,
messy, messy messing. I'm not trying to make light of it, but
there, but jeeze, you're going to kill somebody, at least try to
cover your tracks. Colin was the only person of the property at the house
when the police arrived, and so at first they were like, maybe it's
Colin that did it, But he was very cooperative with the police. They
interviewed him and he said, yeah, I've been seeing Maria on the side.
I have nothing to do with this murder, he told him. He
admitted that he went swimming, and he went out to dinner and he took
her home, and of course he's the last person to have seen her,
and only a few minutes after he took her home, she's dead. He
also admitted to police that he lied to Caitlin about his whereabouts and after dropping
off Maria, he sent Caitlyn a text message, Hey, how are you?
I went to drop some flowers off for Allison at her son's house up
north and my phone die. Heading home unless you have another suggestion and you'd
like some food. He returned home about eight forty and guess who wasn't home?
Yes, around a half hour later, Caitlin came home and then Colin
and Caitlin had sex. Oh no, no, she just killed Maria.
He just cheated on her with Maria. Yeah, and now they're they're having
sex. Colin told police that in December of twenty twenty one, he did
purchase two guns, one for himself and one for Caitlin, and the police
believed them, so they took a closer look at Caitlin, and they discovered
that Caitlin heady, classy warrant out for her arrest. Oh would she do?
Just unpaid bills related to bow tax treatment? Girl, come on for
paid for your bow tax So she'd had a few years earlier? What?
Oh no, how's that possible? It's kind of funny. According to the
warrant, Caitlyn got some bow tax treatment at this beauty spot in Austin.
It costed six hundred fifty three dollars. When Caitlin went to pay, she
pulled out a card and said, oh, you know what, this isn't
the right card. The card I need to use is in my car.
So she went to get the card, but she never came back to pay
for her Both time she did a dining dash with Both times, she was
arrested for the warrant, but then on a technicality, they wrote her a
wrong birthday down so she was released. But before she was released from their
custody, she was asked about Mariah's death and a relationship with Colin. She
was asked, so she knew anything about what happened to Mariah? And she
just rolled her eyes. Nah. When they confronted her about the CCTV footage,
she simply said, I don't know anything about that. Lin't it cool?
And there was nothing else to hold her on and as I said,
that technicality made the warrant invalid, so she was let oh by the police.
Only three days after Mariah's death, an anonymous tipster told police about Colin
and Caitlin's on again off game relationship and how Caitlin had become furious and was
shaking in anger whenever the name Maria was mentioned. This tipster said she was
so angry that she'd often say she wanted to kill Mariah. Police were able
to obtain some text messages between Maria and Colin that clearly indicated the pair still
had feelings for each other. I mean obviously, so one of the text
messages between Maria and Colin said quote, Hey, so I'd like to talk
to you at some point. I originally text you on Friday, but appears
that your texts aren't going through this weekend was strange for me. I just
want to know what's going on. If you just want to be friends,
then that's cool, but I'd like to talk about it because honestly, my
mind has been going in circles and I don't know what to think. And
then Caitlin became the prime, obviously prime suspect of Maria's murder, which caused
her to lose her fucking mind. She suddenly moved out of her home with
Colin, cut off all ties with Colin, stopped hanging out with a recycling
group of friends, and deleted all of her social media accounts. She sold
her black keep for twelve thousand dollars, so now she had some cash.
I'm May seventeenth, a warrant was issued for Caitlin's arrest for the murder of
Mariah, but by the time the police went to arrest Caitlin, she's gone,
really girl gone, because you're going to get away. So Caitlyn's on
the run and I have to admit something. Yes, I do know a
little bit. I have a little personal knowledge about this case, because I
do know. I wasn't gonna say it, but I do know somebody in
Michigan that was with her for a couple years, like an ex boyfriend.
But that's all I'm gonna say. Caitlin was caught on surveillance cameras at the
Austin Birdstom International Airport wearing white pants, a blue jacket, and a black
COVID mask. Yes, thank you whatever. She boarded a flight to Lagardia
Airport to New York with her sisters stolen passport. She then traveled to Costa
Rica. Oh, she stole her sister's passport. Costa Rica. Damn.
This girl's on like some wild ass on the run. Costa Rica's nice too.
She traveled to Costa Rica and settled in the town of Santa Teresa.
It was about a three hour drive and a two hour ferry to get to
the nearest airport. So she's like deep and deep in. She felt like
she's pretty safe. She started to teach yoga to the tourists. Oh that's
right, I forgot about the yell ga and the locals in the area,
and she spent a lot of time at surfbars or on the island, and
she's sipping Margharita's by the pool side without a care in the world. She
got a job in a hostel and no one knew who she was. To
her, she's gotten away with murder. She cut and dyed her hair.
She went by Airy instead of Caitlin, and she got plastic surgery. She
faced, yeah, she did so no one would recognize her. She got
nose job for six thousand dollars. Wow, Okay, that's a cheap ass
nose job number one, is it? I think? No, it sounds
expensive. I don't know, but I don't know. So now she's Arie
with different hair and nose. Yeah, and she'd pretty much fallen in love
with paradise. She went to extremes. Oh yeah, hell yeah, man,
she's on the run. Yeah. She became friends with a man named
Teal Akerson. He worked at a tattoo shop on the island and they exchanged
numbers and Teal noticed Ari or Arie. I don't know how she pronounced her
new name, had a bandage on her nose and she said it was from
a surfing accident. They went on a couple of dates where I'm gonna say
Ari had suggested some very secluded spots on the island. Ari began to open
up to Teal, said she was eager to explore the island and said that
she'd gone through a terrible breakup, which is why she decided to go to
Costa Rica. I'd say it was terrible. He had no idea that she
was Caitlin running from a murder charge. Till ended up telling the Daily Beast
quote, I didn't put any of it together. I mean, you wouldn't
imagine it. After it all happened, and I hear that she's on the
run, doing doing this, it made sense why she didn't want to be
seen in public, why she wanted to go to secluded places. There were
wanted posters up around the resort where Caitlin was staying. There was a big
deal, fucking news. Hello, it's crazy in Costa Rica. At the
resort, she was Wow, that's crazy. No one recognized her. She
was staying at Don John Surf and Yoga Lodge for less than twenty dollars a
night, so that's not really a resort. But maybe after only forty three
days on the run, so she already had a nose job, damn,
teaching yoga, making money in Costa Rica. Someone she was approached by the
US marshals they were working with a Costa Rica and they demanded to see her
identification. Already told him that she didn't have any, and they got a
warrant and they searched her bedroom and they found her passport, and they brought
her back to the US and she was charged for Mariah's murder along with additional
federal charges of unlawful flight to avoid prosecution. On July twenty one, twenty
twenty two, she was arraigned and she pled not guilty. She was being
held on a three point five million dollar a bell. I don't blame them
for that. She'd take off as soon as she could now. Colin had
nothing to do with Maria's murder, but he defended her character in an early
interview while Kate William was on the run, he initially told reporters that he
was going into hiding in fear of his safety when it came to Caitlin.
Then after she was caught, he told reporters that there was no relationship with
Maria at the time. He was with Caitlin and they had gotten back together,
and the affidavit for Caitlin's arrest completely skewed what the relationship had really been
with Maria. Colin talked about his relationship with Caitlin and said, quote,
we were clearly going our separate ways, but we didn't get enough inertia to
separate. Caitlyn and I were involved in several business together. Maria and I
communicated maybe twice a month after that, and I think the affidavit that basically
said him and Maria had a relationship was skewed. Yeah, I quit your
lion. Now. When I asked about whether he would have thought that Caitlin
could have done something like this, he said, now, he didn't believe
that she was capable anything like that, and he was shell shocked and in
grieving mode, grieving the loss of caite of Caitlin. I don't know,
he's shit, you know why he's seeing all that. He didn't want to
look bad in the press, he said, quote, I would and I'm
not trying to be totally mean to him, but damn son, he said,
quote, I would say she is one of the least folatile people I
have ever met, and that's why. It's so absolutely shocking. She had
sides to her personality that I didn't think she shared with anybody. I had
no indication of anything like this, even though she's signing threatening text messages when
he was dating Maria. Many people were questioning his character after these interviews.
Someone wrote on this one thread, Colin is not honest. Caitlyn shared information
with a friend that she wanted to kill Maria, and she was shaking in
anger when she did so. Colin had to have known of the emotional state
of Caitlin he lived with her. Why would Colin lie to Caitlin about where
he was going that day if you didn't basically know what was wrong? Right,
just so you know. According to this thread, Colin now only bought
the gun, but he awesome bought a silencer for it. Oh shit,
And he knew that Caitlin couldn't buy a gun herself because she had that weren't
for botox anyway. Anyway, Apparently, later Colin reflected on the night of
Mariah's murder, and he felt pretty traumatized about how Caitlin had initiated sex not
long after killing Mariah. Yeah, that's kind of great, and he thought
the way she was behaving was rather unusual to him. He felt like he
was a trophy for Caitlin. That's why she did it, like she had
claimed him. Yeah, yeah, exactly. Colin says he bought the gun
originally because in the summer of twenty twenty, Caitlin had told him that a
man maybe was drunk or suffering from mental illness, was banging on their door
and the man eventually laughed, but she was really scared. Caitlin also told
him that there was a man screaming at her at a grocery store, and
then when she would ride her bike, creepy men would follow her and make
her feel in safe. So I don't know if she wrote her bike around
with a gun, I don't know. Colin said that he had contemplated suicide
after Mariah's death, and then he lost a lot of the sponsors for his
cycling. Well, he's kind of like, I wouldn't want to I wantn't
want to sponsor. Even though he didn't do it, It's like, well,
you're kind so he's guilty by association, right, right right. Police
later found out that prior to Maria's murder, Caitlin went to a firing range
to practice, which showed that it wasn't a crime of passion. Yeah,
it was premeditated. This is all alleged. I want to say this,
This is all alleged. Nobody knows what Caitlin did her trials not to left
hold. Oh, so this is all alleged, allegedly, alleged, alleged,
alleged. Did I say that enough? Alleged? Alleged? She may
very well be innocent, She very well maybe m Her defense to this so
far, because there was no trial, is that she had to leave town.
She had to get the new job because she was trying to flee from
Colin and she was scared of him. Well, yeah, you know,
that's what people do when they break up from someone. They go to a
different country and get those jobs and started in yoga. Yeah, why not.
In honor of their daughter's memory, Mariah's family set up the Mariah Wilson
Foundation. Their goal is to raise money for community youth organizations centered on helping
young people develop self confidence, strength, and enjoy through the activities Mariah was
passionate about, including cycling and skiing. To this day, they have raised
one hundred and forty one thousand dollars and that is the end of the story.
So her trials not until October. Yes, I love to keep an
eye on that. Yes, damn, that's it. That's it. Well,
that was a wild ride, no pun intended. Oh I know't mean
clever. We're so so clever, so funny. Thank you guys for all
listening to this story. And you guys can follow it because it's going to
be happening in October. It's not too far away unless it get crazy,
unless it gets delay delay so I mean it couldn't then again, yeah,
be like next year, who knows. But that's it. That's it.
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