WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.160 --> 00:00:05.040 This episode may contain content of a graphic nature, including descriptions of physical and 2 00:00:05.120 --> 00:00:10.480 sexual violence against adults, children, and animals. Listener discretion is advised. 3 00:00:12.720 --> 00:00:18.000 Hi everyone, I'm Tanya and I'm Talia, and we are Crimes and Consequences, 4 00:00:18.079 --> 00:00:35.520 a true crime podcast. Hi Tanya, Hi Talia. Welcome back. 5 00:00:35.560 --> 00:00:41.840 Everybody did this week's episode of Crimes and Consequences. I hope everybody's doing awesome? 6 00:00:42.119 --> 00:00:46.240 Are you doing awesome? Don't answer? Am I doing awesome? I'm 7 00:00:46.240 --> 00:00:51.280 doing You're doing splendid, absolutely great today. If you haven't done so already, 8 00:00:51.320 --> 00:00:55.119 I'd like to ask y'all they hit that subscribe like follow, love you, 9 00:00:55.200 --> 00:00:58.280 button, love You. I think I should hit and they probably do. 10 00:00:58.399 --> 00:01:00.439 Let me kid they I know, harp by us Right, Are you 11 00:01:00.479 --> 00:01:04.640 ready? I am? All right? Well. It takes place in Austin, 12 00:01:04.920 --> 00:01:07.840 which is the state capital of Texas. Have you ever been to Austin? 13 00:01:08.000 --> 00:01:11.640 No? I want to go. It's known for its warm weather and 14 00:01:11.840 --> 00:01:15.439 it has three hundred days. It's unshiny. Oh my god. Seriously. 15 00:01:15.719 --> 00:01:21.439 Yes, we're from Michigan. We get one day. It's got a lot 16 00:01:21.480 --> 00:01:25.239 of food and are as. Wow, I know, I'd be so happy. 17 00:01:25.799 --> 00:01:32.599 Friendly communities. The economy is primarily driven by high tech industries like pharmaceutical 18 00:01:32.640 --> 00:01:38.079 companies, bio technology companies, IT and there are a lot of companies that 19 00:01:38.079 --> 00:01:44.799 are developing AI technology that's way too advanced for me. I'm gonna let that 20 00:01:44.879 --> 00:01:48.079 technology be has to me by because I think I'm done learning new stuff and 21 00:01:48.439 --> 00:01:52.280 I'm still trying to work on my iPhone. And something cute about Austin is 22 00:01:52.359 --> 00:01:56.159 there's a lot of people that have these bumper stickers that say, quote, 23 00:01:56.280 --> 00:02:00.359 keep Austin weird o. Cute little little keep. Yeah, that's cute. 24 00:02:00.599 --> 00:02:06.239 This is where Caitlyn Armstrong and Colin Strickland met. I'm gonna give you a 25 00:02:06.280 --> 00:02:09.439 little background on Caitlin. She was born November twenty first, in nineteen eighty 26 00:02:09.479 --> 00:02:14.360 seven. And you know where she grew up, Michigan, Livonium, Michigan. 27 00:02:15.159 --> 00:02:19.000 Yeah. Yeah, she went to high school there. Classmates described her 28 00:02:19.039 --> 00:02:23.400 as being outgoing, friendly, but sometimes it could be bossy and controlling. 29 00:02:23.319 --> 00:02:29.639 I know people like that. She was very athletic as a teenager, and 30 00:02:29.719 --> 00:02:32.800 she had this red, curly hair, so it kind of made her stand 31 00:02:32.800 --> 00:02:38.919 out. She liked volleyball, track and field and did some basketball in two 32 00:02:38.919 --> 00:02:43.400 thousand and five, she was voted best hair. Oh yeah, I'm picturing 33 00:02:43.439 --> 00:02:46.360 some really great hair. I would like some. Yeah. Like, no, 34 00:02:46.520 --> 00:02:47.599 I didn't get voted shit. Yeah, I mean neither. Don't worry 35 00:02:47.639 --> 00:02:53.560 about it. We're only not voted for shit category. She ended upvoting to 36 00:02:53.639 --> 00:02:57.360 Schoolcraft College. You know where that is? This community college. Before she 37 00:02:57.400 --> 00:03:01.479 went to Eastern Michigan University, she got a job working in finance for several 38 00:03:01.639 --> 00:03:07.960 years before she changed her career and she became a licensed realtor and on the 39 00:03:07.000 --> 00:03:12.439 side of yoga instructor. Oh my goodness, that sounds awesome from finance too. 40 00:03:13.039 --> 00:03:15.879 Yoga yoga good for her. Yeah, that finance probably stressed her out. 41 00:03:16.479 --> 00:03:21.639 That's why she did yoga. Yeah. In October twenty eighteen, that's 42 00:03:21.680 --> 00:03:24.759 when she met Colin, and she met him on the dating app Hinge. 43 00:03:25.280 --> 00:03:29.240 Oh hinge. It's better than Tinder, isn't it. I don't know. 44 00:03:29.360 --> 00:03:31.719 I don't know. This dating app that there are those that don't know, 45 00:03:32.080 --> 00:03:38.360 is designed for you to meet the one to fall in love with. And 46 00:03:38.360 --> 00:03:40.599 I don't from what I know, that's not really what it was for. 47 00:03:40.800 --> 00:03:44.479 Maybe the one for the night. I don't know, So let me tell 48 00:03:44.479 --> 00:03:46.800 you about Colin. He was born in November seventh, in nineteen eighty six, 49 00:03:47.000 --> 00:03:51.879 and he grew up in Johnson City, which is in Texas. His 50 00:03:52.039 --> 00:03:55.199 family they owned a farm on the outskirts of the city, and he developed 51 00:03:55.199 --> 00:03:59.240 a love for the outdoors, coming out in the country and he would ride 52 00:03:59.280 --> 00:04:04.240 his bike down the gravel roads. He was described as eccentric, and he 53 00:04:04.400 --> 00:04:09.840 loved music and he loved art, but he was eccentric. I love eccentric 54 00:04:09.919 --> 00:04:14.039 people. They're fun, yeah, just you know, not when they were 55 00:04:14.080 --> 00:04:17.920 family members, That's true. And just from experience. As he grew up 56 00:04:17.959 --> 00:04:23.199 on the farm, he became very conscious of where his food source was from. 57 00:04:23.240 --> 00:04:25.560 Because when I'm saying he grew up on a farm, I'm a girl 58 00:04:25.600 --> 00:04:29.160 I'm talking about he grew up on a farm. By the age of twenty 59 00:04:29.199 --> 00:04:32.839 five, he was a member of the Red Bull athletic community and he was 60 00:04:32.879 --> 00:04:40.120 a professional cyclist cyclist. I didn't see that coming. Yes, after college, 61 00:04:40.120 --> 00:04:43.959 he had won his first cycling race, so he was much better at 62 00:04:44.000 --> 00:04:47.639 biking than me. I haven't been on a bike in ages. And he 63 00:04:47.680 --> 00:04:53.360 had actually went on to compete internationally. He was considered a public figure for 64 00:04:53.399 --> 00:04:57.800 the cycling community, and he had a large following on Instagram. Wow, 65 00:04:57.879 --> 00:05:00.959 this whole world out there, say, there's all kinds of stuff out there 66 00:05:01.000 --> 00:05:09.519 that true crime cycling part of. So Colin and Caitlin's relationship was described in 67 00:05:09.560 --> 00:05:14.519 the beginning as being healthy. That's what her friends said. His friends said. 68 00:05:14.879 --> 00:05:18.240 Both Colin and Caitlin enjoyed cycling together, so it was kind of a 69 00:05:18.240 --> 00:05:21.800 hobby they had, like you and your husband, but only without a bike 70 00:05:23.000 --> 00:05:27.360 and not moving and sitting on the couch. As a relationship continued, it 71 00:05:27.439 --> 00:05:30.279 be got more serious. So when Caitlyn's apartment was hit by an ice storm 72 00:05:30.279 --> 00:05:34.399 that ended up barreling through Texas, oh yeah, it caused the pipes to 73 00:05:34.439 --> 00:05:40.040 burst. So they decided that would be a great time to move in together. 74 00:05:40.560 --> 00:05:46.199 They purchased some property together and they spent hours planning on the renovation of 75 00:05:46.639 --> 00:05:49.600 the house. So they took a big step. Yeah, it's a huge 76 00:05:49.600 --> 00:05:54.399 They also started a business together. It was a man and they're not married 77 00:05:54.480 --> 00:06:00.800 yet, Wheelhouse Mobile where they would restore and resell customized Barton trailers for those 78 00:06:00.839 --> 00:06:05.040 that don't know what a Spartan trailer is, their vintage style ur vs. 79 00:06:05.920 --> 00:06:11.040 Yeah, I think it's probably like those metal Yeah, I'm not really sure. 80 00:06:11.120 --> 00:06:14.240 I did look, but I think they're like old school r vs, 81 00:06:14.759 --> 00:06:17.839 wooden bagos, whatever, doesn't matter. They're restoring them, they're fixing them 82 00:06:17.879 --> 00:06:21.800 up, and they're selling them on the side. Caitlin became an agent for 83 00:06:21.839 --> 00:06:27.680 Sotheby's it's a broker of fine arts and jewelry. Could do all those auctions, 84 00:06:28.199 --> 00:06:31.240 yes, and she sold the trailers, oh nice, around three hundred 85 00:06:31.279 --> 00:06:35.720 fifty thousand bam. She had that background, remember, in finance, So 86 00:06:35.839 --> 00:06:41.959 she started to manage Colin's racing finances because he was making money, believing or 87 00:06:42.000 --> 00:06:45.639 not cycling around the place. I still wan't ride a bike, but that's 88 00:06:45.680 --> 00:06:49.639 fine, and so she had access to his passwords. Some close friends said 89 00:06:49.680 --> 00:06:56.120 that they felt that Caitlin had become obsessed with his online presence because he was 90 00:06:56.199 --> 00:07:00.199 a local celebrity and a celebrity with a cyclists out there. A friend of 91 00:07:00.199 --> 00:07:05.199 the couple recalled an awkward encounter that this person had experience with Colin and Kitlin 92 00:07:05.480 --> 00:07:09.720 like it was one of those things that made me really uncomfortable. One of 93 00:07:09.759 --> 00:07:16.199 Colin's sponsors, Rafa, it's a brand of cycling Clothing designed an exclusive cycling 94 00:07:16.279 --> 00:07:21.560 kit with all the sponsors logos on them as a gift. Colin decided to 95 00:07:21.560 --> 00:07:26.279 get a set for Caitlin, but told her that she couldn't wear it in 96 00:07:26.480 --> 00:07:30.519 public, just in case his sponsors didn't like that. And she's like, 97 00:07:30.639 --> 00:07:33.000 huh, what is this. One day, the pair decided to go for 98 00:07:33.040 --> 00:07:40.040 a ride with some friends and Caitlin wore that old I don't know cycling kit. 99 00:07:40.199 --> 00:07:43.800 I guess that's like a helmet with sure, I don't know what a 100 00:07:43.879 --> 00:07:47.319 cycling kit was. Colin told Kaitlin to change, like you need to change, 101 00:07:47.759 --> 00:07:50.680 you get out of it, and Caitlin said, you know what, 102 00:07:50.759 --> 00:07:55.079 I'm not going for a ride with you guys. I'm not going. So 103 00:07:55.120 --> 00:07:59.319 that was a sign of tension, but some also recall having to call Colin 104 00:07:59.360 --> 00:08:03.040 out on sometimes tis because it was really condescending. He would be rude to 105 00:08:03.360 --> 00:08:07.480 even his friends, and he was often demeaning to Caitlin. He was saying 106 00:08:07.680 --> 00:08:13.720 things that just to the people around him, it just wasn't right. It 107 00:08:13.800 --> 00:08:16.199 was it was rude, it was inappropriate, it was wrong. He was 108 00:08:16.240 --> 00:08:18.600 looked like a jerk. This is where the couple started to feel the strain 109 00:08:20.120 --> 00:08:22.600 of what it was like to actually have a partner, because you know, 110 00:08:22.639 --> 00:08:26.079 in the beginning, it's of honeymoon, yes and stuff. But now the 111 00:08:26.120 --> 00:08:30.319 cracks started to show between the couple, and as they said, friends were 112 00:08:30.360 --> 00:08:35.000 noticing. Now we're in October of twenty twenty one, the couple decided this 113 00:08:35.080 --> 00:08:39.279 is not a good idea. It would be best to end the relationship on 114 00:08:39.600 --> 00:08:45.360 mutual terms, but remain friends and roommates. No no, no, no, 115 00:08:45.360 --> 00:08:48.240 no, that does not sound like a good idea. No no, 116 00:08:48.360 --> 00:08:52.000 They split. They each had their own separate rooms in their home, and 117 00:08:52.639 --> 00:08:58.519 Caitlin reportedly had brought over multiple men. Oh no, she met on the 118 00:08:58.639 --> 00:09:01.919 dating app Bumble. She switched over to bumba Bumble because Hinge, you know, 119 00:09:03.080 --> 00:09:07.679 ended up not working out so well for her. And although this didn't 120 00:09:07.679 --> 00:09:11.399 seem to bother Colin at the time, he acted like he didn't because, 121 00:09:11.759 --> 00:09:13.519 oh, it fucking bothered him. I'm sure it had. But guess what 122 00:09:13.559 --> 00:09:18.480 he was doing. Oh he's doing the same thing, bringing home some girls 123 00:09:18.679 --> 00:09:22.120 and doing some how awkward kick a boom boom stuff. Awkward Is that I 124 00:09:22.159 --> 00:09:24.240 know, That's what I'm saying. That's why it's a bad idea yes, 125 00:09:24.600 --> 00:09:31.159 and Colin met Anna Maria Wilson. Anna went by Maria, and I'm gonna 126 00:09:31.159 --> 00:09:35.639 give you a little background down Maria. She was born in May eighteenth, 127 00:09:35.679 --> 00:09:39.159 nineteen ninety six, so she gonna be lit twenty five. She was born 128 00:09:39.159 --> 00:09:41.840 to Eric and Karen Wilson. She had brother named Matthew. The family lived 129 00:09:41.840 --> 00:09:46.399 in a small town called Kirby, which is a northern part of Vermont. 130 00:09:48.080 --> 00:09:52.000 She grew up in Kirby, and the Wilson family was surrounded by beautiful greenery. 131 00:09:52.120 --> 00:09:56.960 They loved the outdoors, just like Colin did. At a young age, 132 00:09:58.080 --> 00:10:03.240 Mariah displayed signs of perfectionism, which would overwhelm her and cause her to 133 00:10:03.240 --> 00:10:05.559 have anxiety. Oh yeah. In middle school, her parents center to a 134 00:10:05.600 --> 00:10:09.960 therapist to help her find a way to manage all of this. This trade 135 00:10:11.000 --> 00:10:16.080 would later become really prominent in her adult life. She was very motivated because, 136 00:10:16.080 --> 00:10:20.960 as you know, perfectionists are motivated to be perfect, right, and 137 00:10:20.080 --> 00:10:26.000 so she was very motivated to become something in her life. In twenty fourteen, 138 00:10:26.320 --> 00:10:31.039 she graduated from Burke Mountain Academy, one of the first ski academies. 139 00:10:31.279 --> 00:10:35.000 Wow, that's impressed in North America. There's a skid, And I know 140 00:10:35.080 --> 00:10:37.879 I was just thinking the same thing as someone that's skied once. I never 141 00:10:39.000 --> 00:10:41.879 skied, Yeah, I bet never. I bet you haven't. No, 142 00:10:41.120 --> 00:10:46.480 I didn't even do it. In high school. She had a talent for 143 00:10:46.559 --> 00:10:48.320 alpine skiing. Good for her. I don't even know what it was. 144 00:10:48.519 --> 00:10:54.559 But she placed third in the twenty thirteen US Junior National Championship downhill event at 145 00:10:54.559 --> 00:10:58.720 a national level. Yeah, she was good, and you know that third 146 00:10:58.720 --> 00:11:01.440 place wasn't good enough for her, right, She probably stressed about it, 147 00:11:01.600 --> 00:11:07.919 poor thing. But then something bad happened. She ended up tearing her acl 148 00:11:07.159 --> 00:11:11.559 and her sophomore year. Oh damn, but a healed, but then she 149 00:11:11.679 --> 00:11:16.519 tore it again three years later. She doesn't let of pain. She didn't 150 00:11:16.559 --> 00:11:20.279 let us stop her. She ended up growing up and learning to embrace adversity, 151 00:11:20.399 --> 00:11:24.679 the pain with a grace and a purpose. And she had a really 152 00:11:24.720 --> 00:11:30.759 strong work ethic. The people close to her would describe it as being abnormally 153 00:11:30.799 --> 00:11:35.200 amazing, like out of this world. Then she went on to attend Darthmouth 154 00:11:35.360 --> 00:11:39.320 College. She got a degree in engineering in twenty nineteen. She was pretty 155 00:11:39.399 --> 00:11:45.080 much ready to take the world on. She had a great education, and 156 00:11:45.600 --> 00:11:48.039 she did have a really good personality. In her spare time, she would 157 00:11:48.039 --> 00:11:54.399 write. She ended up traveling to different places in the world and enjoyed experience 158 00:11:54.440 --> 00:11:58.000 all the other cultures out there. She's got obviously some money going on, 159 00:11:58.159 --> 00:12:03.360 because yeah, that's not cheap. Dartmouth isn't cheap either. So even though 160 00:12:03.399 --> 00:12:05.960 she had her engineering degree, she was an aspiring chef. Oh me, 161 00:12:07.080 --> 00:12:11.919 and this girl is talent, right. She loved tackle Tuesdays. I love 162 00:12:11.960 --> 00:12:18.279 tackle. I like tackle Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday. And she ended up 163 00:12:18.799 --> 00:12:24.679 having a deep love for cycling. That became her biggest hobby and then it 164 00:12:24.720 --> 00:12:28.440 became her profession. So you can kind of see where I'm going. She 165 00:12:28.480 --> 00:12:33.919 had come to the decision that engineering wasn't for her, and so she ended 166 00:12:33.000 --> 00:12:37.080 up doing more cycling. She had had, by this time, a corporate 167 00:12:37.159 --> 00:12:41.879 job for a few years, and she was just getting sick of no corporate 168 00:12:41.919 --> 00:12:46.759 job. So yeah, working for the man blows. Long story shorty, 169 00:12:46.960 --> 00:12:50.720 she ended up being a professional cyclist. She want to be free nature and 170 00:12:50.639 --> 00:12:56.879 all that. I get it, girl, No you don't. It's totally 171 00:12:56.919 --> 00:13:01.200 not my chosen way to spend my time. No, I understand, some 172 00:13:01.279 --> 00:13:05.000 people do enjoy it. She became popular in the cycling community. And after 173 00:13:05.159 --> 00:13:11.440 competing in two gravel cycling seasons and they're like three months long. I know 174 00:13:11.559 --> 00:13:15.559 nothing about cycling seasons or gravel cycling season. She rose to the top of 175 00:13:15.559 --> 00:13:20.480 the pack and she had a lot of victories both in gravel and mountain races. 176 00:13:20.799 --> 00:13:26.120 Okay, she was she was forced to me rocking with Unfortunately, due 177 00:13:26.120 --> 00:13:31.399 to the worldwide spread of COVID, the racing community experience a hold on. 178 00:13:31.480 --> 00:13:35.080 They couldn't have any races. Yeah, we lost like two years, yeah 179 00:13:35.559 --> 00:13:39.799 lives, yes, but that didn't really stop Mariah and November of twenty twenty, 180 00:13:41.000 --> 00:13:46.159 she attended the proving ground of American Endurance Races and bombs and pressing. 181 00:13:46.559 --> 00:13:50.639 In just seven hours with only a hydration packet and two water bottles, she 182 00:13:50.879 --> 00:13:56.679 completed the Moobs White Rim Loop, a one hundred mile loop through the canyons 183 00:13:56.679 --> 00:14:01.679 of Colorado and the Green Rivers, and she set a record for women one 184 00:14:03.399 --> 00:14:07.840 hundred miles miles. Wow, seven hours and one hundred miles. Oh, 185 00:14:07.919 --> 00:14:11.080 I don't think I drive that fast. No, I mean yeah, but 186 00:14:11.360 --> 00:14:16.279 that is pretty impressive on a bike. Mariah was determined to be in as 187 00:14:16.320 --> 00:14:20.399 many cycling events as possible, and she told one reporter that she often found 188 00:14:20.440 --> 00:14:24.399 it hard to compete in all of them because there were all these overlaps and 189 00:14:24.480 --> 00:14:26.639 events, and she wanted to just do all of them, you know, 190 00:14:26.720 --> 00:14:30.759 she wanted to get into all of them. In October of twenty twenty one, 191 00:14:31.200 --> 00:14:35.679 Mariah moved to Austin, Texas, and she got very well known in 192 00:14:35.759 --> 00:14:41.200 the local cycling community. This is when Colin and Mariah met at a local 193 00:14:41.240 --> 00:14:48.559 cycling event in town and became bonded over their mutual love for cycling. Both 194 00:14:48.559 --> 00:14:50.440 of them were in the middle of a break up. Mariah had left because 195 00:14:50.480 --> 00:14:54.000 she broke up with her boyfriend, wanted a fresh start. She was newly 196 00:14:54.039 --> 00:15:01.039 single, and it didn't take long before their relationship developed laws. You know 197 00:15:01.080 --> 00:15:05.600 what I'm saying. Yeah, I know what you're saying. Girl. Colin 198 00:15:05.639 --> 00:15:11.440 didn't realize that his relationship he had with Maria hurt Caitlyn's feelings. So when 199 00:15:11.440 --> 00:15:16.000 I told you before, she was bringing over men, but he was bringing 200 00:15:16.000 --> 00:15:20.240 over women, right. He really didn't think Caitlin cared. No, I 201 00:15:20.279 --> 00:15:24.919 wouldn't either, but Caitlin was pretty open about her feelings towards Maria and that 202 00:15:26.120 --> 00:15:30.559 she didn't like her. Healing Head somehow gotten Mariah's number, I don't know 203 00:15:30.639 --> 00:15:35.080 how, and spent the next few months harassing and threatening her, telling her 204 00:15:35.120 --> 00:15:41.320 she'd better stay away from Colin. That never works, girl, That never 205 00:15:41.360 --> 00:15:45.039 works. Girl. You're just showing you're crazy. You live with him, 206 00:15:45.159 --> 00:15:50.240 he's your ex. You're bringing home guys because her Maria is not going to 207 00:15:50.320 --> 00:15:54.960 be like Caitlin's been calling me. She's nuts, right, How are you 208 00:15:54.000 --> 00:15:58.639 gonna win over someone by showing that you're crazy? Well, my thing is 209 00:16:00.279 --> 00:16:02.399 you dumped him. You don't want to be with him. You don't want 210 00:16:02.399 --> 00:16:04.360 to be with them, So what's the problems and you're being with other people? 211 00:16:04.360 --> 00:16:07.480 Why do you care what I'm doing? What is Colin's supposed to be 212 00:16:07.519 --> 00:16:10.399 alone for the rest of his life? Exactly? I know. The threats 213 00:16:10.440 --> 00:16:15.200 had become so constant that Maria attempted to end it by blocking Caitlyn and telling 214 00:16:15.240 --> 00:16:18.240 Colin, listen, you gotta stop her. This is out of control. 215 00:16:18.879 --> 00:16:23.679 But because all three of them we're into cycling. Oh come on, they 216 00:16:23.720 --> 00:16:27.679 shared the same group of friends. Oh no, and that made up the 217 00:16:27.720 --> 00:16:33.759 outings very awkward for all their friends involved. As you can imagine, it 218 00:16:33.799 --> 00:16:38.799 was only literally after two weeks of officially dating, Colin decided to call it 219 00:16:38.879 --> 00:16:44.440 quits with Maria. So this all happened in two weeks. She's harassment phone 220 00:16:44.480 --> 00:16:48.879 calls Maria's Yeah, she gets dumb by Colin. It didn't take long for 221 00:16:49.000 --> 00:16:55.600 Caitlin to snatch Colin back up and they rekindled the romance. But they really 222 00:16:55.600 --> 00:16:59.480 they did. Well, he's an asshole. Colin and Mariah would continue to 223 00:16:59.480 --> 00:17:04.319 be friends, and Caitlin didn't know that they were meeting privately. Still, 224 00:17:04.680 --> 00:17:11.720 no, you know how this all goes? Oh no, this is messy. 225 00:17:11.759 --> 00:17:15.759 Oh boy, Colin had changed Mariah's name and his phone to something different. 226 00:17:15.799 --> 00:17:18.200 I don't know what it was, so Caitlyn wouldn't find out. It 227 00:17:18.240 --> 00:17:23.200 was probably like Steve or something, their secret hanging out. But Caitlin eventually 228 00:17:23.240 --> 00:17:29.799 figured it out. 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She told nine one one she'd 254 00:19:33.039 --> 00:19:38.000 just returned home to find her friend motionless on the bathroom floor. Not long 255 00:19:38.079 --> 00:19:42.680 after that call was made, authorities arrived on the scene and they found a 256 00:19:42.839 --> 00:19:49.640 woman, Mariah dead. Oh no, she had multiple gunshot wounds. Oh, 257 00:19:49.680 --> 00:19:53.759 at a very close range. They'd been shot. She'd been shot. 258 00:19:55.319 --> 00:20:00.839 Mariah was supposed to perform in a mountain bike race the next day where everybody 259 00:20:00.839 --> 00:20:03.119 thought she was going to win, but obviously she didn't make it to that 260 00:20:03.279 --> 00:20:07.799 race. The autopsy confirmed that Mariah's death was homicide case. You're like, 261 00:20:08.039 --> 00:20:12.559 whoa, She just got the shot multiple times, which came as no surprise 262 00:20:12.640 --> 00:20:18.039 to the police. Given how gruesome the crime scene was. She sustained two 263 00:20:18.039 --> 00:20:22.720 gunshot wounds to the head and one to the chest while she was face off 264 00:20:22.160 --> 00:20:26.640 laying on the floor. The police inspected the crime scene and the officers found 265 00:20:26.759 --> 00:20:32.039 multiple shell casings, but they couldn't find the weapon in the house, and 266 00:20:32.200 --> 00:20:37.920 it led them to believe that somebody did this crime. The front door was 267 00:20:37.000 --> 00:20:44.559 unlocked at Mariah's home and her bike had been stolen. The officers found the 268 00:20:44.559 --> 00:20:48.680 bike later on had been tossed into this thick growth of bamboo about seventy feet 269 00:20:49.039 --> 00:20:52.640 from her friend's place where she'd been staying. So she was staying with a 270 00:20:52.680 --> 00:21:00.319 friend. The community of Austin and the larger cycling community to them Mariah's I 271 00:21:00.319 --> 00:21:04.119 mean, it really shook him to the core. She's young, she's active, 272 00:21:04.279 --> 00:21:10.720 and people were just confused, like who would come in and shoot Maria 273 00:21:11.240 --> 00:21:17.039 then in the head and then steal her bike because a big clue. No 274 00:21:17.079 --> 00:21:19.200 one could think of anybody that would want to harm Mariah because she was kind, 275 00:21:19.279 --> 00:21:26.599 friendly, well natured. She didn't have any enemies except for that toxic 276 00:21:26.680 --> 00:21:33.440 love triangle. Prior to Mariah's murder, Caitlin allegedly openly spoke about how she 277 00:21:33.480 --> 00:21:37.279 wanted to kill Maria. Oh, she did. So there were some people 278 00:21:37.359 --> 00:21:41.440 that were like, hmm, you had said you wanted to kill her and 279 00:21:41.519 --> 00:21:45.920 now she's dead. Is that a coincidence? I think? Since Maria was 280 00:21:45.960 --> 00:21:49.799 staying at her friend's house, the police interviewed her friend in an attempt to 281 00:21:49.799 --> 00:21:53.279 figure out like, who, why, what, what do you think happened 282 00:21:53.799 --> 00:21:57.759 the house? Maria was staying at her friend's house. It had like an 283 00:21:57.759 --> 00:22:03.519 electric lock or of those you needed the code to get in, and then 284 00:22:03.519 --> 00:22:07.880 there'd be a time stamp when someone accessed the property. Police were able based 285 00:22:07.880 --> 00:22:12.799 on that to tell exactly when Mariah had entered and acted the apartment and her 286 00:22:12.880 --> 00:22:18.160 timeline for the day. According to the timeline they put together after investigating, 287 00:22:18.319 --> 00:22:22.720 Maria and Colin had met up went to a local pool to go swimming together 288 00:22:23.079 --> 00:22:27.480 just before six pm. After a quick swim, the pair went to a 289 00:22:27.720 --> 00:22:33.720 restaurant for dinner. While they had dinner, Colin's phone started to go off. 290 00:22:33.240 --> 00:22:38.759 When he checked it, he saw it was Kate calling. He ignored 291 00:22:38.799 --> 00:22:45.000 the call because he knew that it would upset Caitlin and Maria, and he's 292 00:22:45.039 --> 00:22:48.039 not gonna be like, yeah, I'm sorry, I'm out at a restaurant 293 00:22:48.160 --> 00:22:52.640 right now with Maria. Then Colin took Maria home and that was about eight 294 00:22:52.720 --> 00:22:56.880 thirty pm. He never entered the property and he just went straight home. 295 00:22:56.440 --> 00:23:02.160 Colin and Mariah didn't know that Caitlin had been stock in the pair. Oh 296 00:23:02.200 --> 00:23:06.519 she had been, so she knew when she was calling Colin where they were. 297 00:23:06.759 --> 00:23:11.799 Yeah, there's probably looking at him. Right. There's the CCTV footage 298 00:23:11.839 --> 00:23:15.720 around the property where Mariah was staying, showing Caitlin's black jeep driving by the 299 00:23:15.720 --> 00:23:21.559 property at about eight thirty seven, just after Mariah had returned home from her 300 00:23:21.680 --> 00:23:25.880 date with Colin. Caitlyn jeep, it was distinct, it was large, 301 00:23:26.039 --> 00:23:30.720 It had that rack mountain on the back that for luggage and bike. The 302 00:23:30.759 --> 00:23:34.240 police were able to get a search warrant for Colin and Caitlin's house, and 303 00:23:34.440 --> 00:23:38.559 of course they'd find the same car that they saw on the CCTV footage. 304 00:23:40.079 --> 00:23:44.359 They also phoned in their search of the property a handgun, girl, What 305 00:23:45.160 --> 00:23:48.960 stupid ass, Why are you bringing that gun home? And it was it 306 00:23:48.079 --> 00:23:52.640 was identified as a murder weapon with the same bullets would have been found at 307 00:23:52.640 --> 00:23:55.640 the crime scene. Really, really, you brought it home? God, 308 00:23:56.119 --> 00:23:59.359 messy, messy messing. I'm not trying to make light of it, but 309 00:24:00.319 --> 00:24:02.759 there, but jeeze, you're going to kill somebody, at least try to 310 00:24:02.799 --> 00:24:07.079 cover your tracks. Colin was the only person of the property at the house 311 00:24:07.160 --> 00:24:11.000 when the police arrived, and so at first they were like, maybe it's 312 00:24:11.039 --> 00:24:15.680 Colin that did it, But he was very cooperative with the police. They 313 00:24:15.759 --> 00:24:21.000 interviewed him and he said, yeah, I've been seeing Maria on the side. 314 00:24:21.599 --> 00:24:23.519 I have nothing to do with this murder, he told him. He 315 00:24:23.599 --> 00:24:26.240 admitted that he went swimming, and he went out to dinner and he took 316 00:24:26.240 --> 00:24:30.079 her home, and of course he's the last person to have seen her, 317 00:24:30.119 --> 00:24:33.480 and only a few minutes after he took her home, she's dead. He 318 00:24:33.519 --> 00:24:37.839 also admitted to police that he lied to Caitlin about his whereabouts and after dropping 319 00:24:37.839 --> 00:24:42.240 off Maria, he sent Caitlyn a text message, Hey, how are you? 320 00:24:42.559 --> 00:24:47.720 I went to drop some flowers off for Allison at her son's house up 321 00:24:47.759 --> 00:24:51.680 north and my phone die. Heading home unless you have another suggestion and you'd 322 00:24:51.720 --> 00:24:56.279 like some food. He returned home about eight forty and guess who wasn't home? 323 00:24:57.519 --> 00:25:03.359 Yes, around a half hour later, Caitlin came home and then Colin 324 00:25:03.400 --> 00:25:10.680 and Caitlin had sex. Oh no, no, she just killed Maria. 325 00:25:11.319 --> 00:25:15.440 He just cheated on her with Maria. Yeah, and now they're they're having 326 00:25:15.519 --> 00:25:19.480 sex. Colin told police that in December of twenty twenty one, he did 327 00:25:19.519 --> 00:25:23.720 purchase two guns, one for himself and one for Caitlin, and the police 328 00:25:23.759 --> 00:25:27.519 believed them, so they took a closer look at Caitlin, and they discovered 329 00:25:27.519 --> 00:25:32.519 that Caitlin heady, classy warrant out for her arrest. Oh would she do? 330 00:25:33.000 --> 00:25:37.119 Just unpaid bills related to bow tax treatment? Girl, come on for 331 00:25:37.240 --> 00:25:41.519 paid for your bow tax So she'd had a few years earlier? What? 332 00:25:41.440 --> 00:25:47.319 Oh no, how's that possible? It's kind of funny. According to the 333 00:25:47.359 --> 00:25:51.039 warrant, Caitlyn got some bow tax treatment at this beauty spot in Austin. 334 00:25:51.359 --> 00:25:55.680 It costed six hundred fifty three dollars. When Caitlin went to pay, she 335 00:25:56.079 --> 00:25:57.279 pulled out a card and said, oh, you know what, this isn't 336 00:25:57.279 --> 00:26:00.599 the right card. The card I need to use is in my car. 337 00:26:00.960 --> 00:26:03.799 So she went to get the card, but she never came back to pay 338 00:26:03.880 --> 00:26:11.480 for her Both time she did a dining dash with Both times, she was 339 00:26:11.599 --> 00:26:15.319 arrested for the warrant, but then on a technicality, they wrote her a 340 00:26:15.400 --> 00:26:19.839 wrong birthday down so she was released. But before she was released from their 341 00:26:19.880 --> 00:26:25.160 custody, she was asked about Mariah's death and a relationship with Colin. She 342 00:26:25.240 --> 00:26:27.880 was asked, so she knew anything about what happened to Mariah? And she 343 00:26:27.960 --> 00:26:33.720 just rolled her eyes. Nah. When they confronted her about the CCTV footage, 344 00:26:33.839 --> 00:26:37.920 she simply said, I don't know anything about that. Lin't it cool? 345 00:26:38.079 --> 00:26:41.559 And there was nothing else to hold her on and as I said, 346 00:26:41.680 --> 00:26:45.640 that technicality made the warrant invalid, so she was let oh by the police. 347 00:26:47.359 --> 00:26:52.160 Only three days after Mariah's death, an anonymous tipster told police about Colin 348 00:26:52.440 --> 00:26:59.519 and Caitlin's on again off game relationship and how Caitlin had become furious and was 349 00:26:59.680 --> 00:27:06.240 shaking in anger whenever the name Maria was mentioned. This tipster said she was 350 00:27:06.279 --> 00:27:11.279 so angry that she'd often say she wanted to kill Mariah. Police were able 351 00:27:11.319 --> 00:27:15.799 to obtain some text messages between Maria and Colin that clearly indicated the pair still 352 00:27:15.839 --> 00:27:19.119 had feelings for each other. I mean obviously, so one of the text 353 00:27:19.160 --> 00:27:25.039 messages between Maria and Colin said quote, Hey, so I'd like to talk 354 00:27:25.079 --> 00:27:27.640 to you at some point. I originally text you on Friday, but appears 355 00:27:27.680 --> 00:27:32.640 that your texts aren't going through this weekend was strange for me. I just 356 00:27:32.680 --> 00:27:34.279 want to know what's going on. If you just want to be friends, 357 00:27:34.319 --> 00:27:37.400 then that's cool, but I'd like to talk about it because honestly, my 358 00:27:37.480 --> 00:27:41.599 mind has been going in circles and I don't know what to think. And 359 00:27:41.640 --> 00:27:47.319 then Caitlin became the prime, obviously prime suspect of Maria's murder, which caused 360 00:27:47.319 --> 00:27:52.480 her to lose her fucking mind. She suddenly moved out of her home with 361 00:27:52.519 --> 00:27:57.640 Colin, cut off all ties with Colin, stopped hanging out with a recycling 362 00:27:59.000 --> 00:28:03.240 group of friends, and deleted all of her social media accounts. She sold 363 00:28:03.240 --> 00:28:07.599 her black keep for twelve thousand dollars, so now she had some cash. 364 00:28:07.359 --> 00:28:12.640 I'm May seventeenth, a warrant was issued for Caitlin's arrest for the murder of 365 00:28:12.720 --> 00:28:18.039 Mariah, but by the time the police went to arrest Caitlin, she's gone, 366 00:28:18.200 --> 00:28:22.559 really girl gone, because you're going to get away. So Caitlyn's on 367 00:28:22.599 --> 00:28:25.720 the run and I have to admit something. Yes, I do know a 368 00:28:25.759 --> 00:28:29.200 little bit. I have a little personal knowledge about this case, because I 369 00:28:29.240 --> 00:28:33.160 do know. I wasn't gonna say it, but I do know somebody in 370 00:28:33.200 --> 00:28:37.640 Michigan that was with her for a couple years, like an ex boyfriend. 371 00:28:38.559 --> 00:28:44.400 But that's all I'm gonna say. Caitlin was caught on surveillance cameras at the 372 00:28:44.440 --> 00:28:48.359 Austin Birdstom International Airport wearing white pants, a blue jacket, and a black 373 00:28:48.720 --> 00:28:56.160 COVID mask. Yes, thank you whatever. She boarded a flight to Lagardia 374 00:28:56.519 --> 00:29:02.720 Airport to New York with her sisters stolen passport. She then traveled to Costa 375 00:29:02.839 --> 00:29:07.279 Rica. Oh, she stole her sister's passport. Costa Rica. Damn. 376 00:29:07.359 --> 00:29:11.200 This girl's on like some wild ass on the run. Costa Rica's nice too. 377 00:29:11.480 --> 00:29:15.799 She traveled to Costa Rica and settled in the town of Santa Teresa. 378 00:29:15.880 --> 00:29:19.960 It was about a three hour drive and a two hour ferry to get to 379 00:29:19.960 --> 00:29:26.200 the nearest airport. So she's like deep and deep in. She felt like 380 00:29:26.440 --> 00:29:32.880 she's pretty safe. She started to teach yoga to the tourists. Oh that's 381 00:29:33.039 --> 00:29:36.079 right, I forgot about the yell ga and the locals in the area, 382 00:29:36.200 --> 00:29:38.400 and she spent a lot of time at surfbars or on the island, and 383 00:29:38.480 --> 00:29:42.799 she's sipping Margharita's by the pool side without a care in the world. She 384 00:29:42.880 --> 00:29:47.160 got a job in a hostel and no one knew who she was. To 385 00:29:47.279 --> 00:29:51.480 her, she's gotten away with murder. She cut and dyed her hair. 386 00:29:52.200 --> 00:29:56.480 She went by Airy instead of Caitlin, and she got plastic surgery. She 387 00:29:56.799 --> 00:29:59.960 faced, yeah, she did so no one would recognize her. She got 388 00:30:00.079 --> 00:30:03.680 nose job for six thousand dollars. Wow, Okay, that's a cheap ass 389 00:30:03.759 --> 00:30:07.680 nose job number one, is it? I think? No, it sounds 390 00:30:07.680 --> 00:30:10.559 expensive. I don't know, but I don't know. So now she's Arie 391 00:30:10.599 --> 00:30:15.640 with different hair and nose. Yeah, and she'd pretty much fallen in love 392 00:30:15.680 --> 00:30:21.000 with paradise. She went to extremes. Oh yeah, hell yeah, man, 393 00:30:21.039 --> 00:30:23.119 she's on the run. Yeah. She became friends with a man named 394 00:30:23.119 --> 00:30:29.359 Teal Akerson. He worked at a tattoo shop on the island and they exchanged 395 00:30:29.440 --> 00:30:33.880 numbers and Teal noticed Ari or Arie. I don't know how she pronounced her 396 00:30:33.960 --> 00:30:37.000 new name, had a bandage on her nose and she said it was from 397 00:30:37.000 --> 00:30:41.000 a surfing accident. They went on a couple of dates where I'm gonna say 398 00:30:41.079 --> 00:30:48.160 Ari had suggested some very secluded spots on the island. Ari began to open 399 00:30:48.240 --> 00:30:52.359 up to Teal, said she was eager to explore the island and said that 400 00:30:52.400 --> 00:30:56.799 she'd gone through a terrible breakup, which is why she decided to go to 401 00:30:56.000 --> 00:31:00.240 Costa Rica. I'd say it was terrible. He had no idea that she 402 00:31:00.359 --> 00:31:04.079 was Caitlin running from a murder charge. Till ended up telling the Daily Beast 403 00:31:04.160 --> 00:31:07.559 quote, I didn't put any of it together. I mean, you wouldn't 404 00:31:07.559 --> 00:31:11.240 imagine it. After it all happened, and I hear that she's on the 405 00:31:11.359 --> 00:31:15.000 run, doing doing this, it made sense why she didn't want to be 406 00:31:15.000 --> 00:31:18.960 seen in public, why she wanted to go to secluded places. There were 407 00:31:18.960 --> 00:31:26.400 wanted posters up around the resort where Caitlin was staying. There was a big 408 00:31:26.440 --> 00:31:33.000 deal, fucking news. Hello, it's crazy in Costa Rica. At the 409 00:31:33.400 --> 00:31:37.599 resort, she was Wow, that's crazy. No one recognized her. She 410 00:31:37.680 --> 00:31:41.720 was staying at Don John Surf and Yoga Lodge for less than twenty dollars a 411 00:31:41.799 --> 00:31:47.240 night, so that's not really a resort. But maybe after only forty three 412 00:31:47.319 --> 00:31:48.839 days on the run, so she already had a nose job, damn, 413 00:31:49.039 --> 00:31:55.759 teaching yoga, making money in Costa Rica. Someone she was approached by the 414 00:31:55.839 --> 00:32:00.880 US marshals they were working with a Costa Rica and they demanded to see her 415 00:32:00.920 --> 00:32:05.839 identification. Already told him that she didn't have any, and they got a 416 00:32:05.839 --> 00:32:08.599 warrant and they searched her bedroom and they found her passport, and they brought 417 00:32:08.599 --> 00:32:14.559 her back to the US and she was charged for Mariah's murder along with additional 418 00:32:14.720 --> 00:32:20.720 federal charges of unlawful flight to avoid prosecution. On July twenty one, twenty 419 00:32:20.799 --> 00:32:22.960 twenty two, she was arraigned and she pled not guilty. She was being 420 00:32:22.960 --> 00:32:28.480 held on a three point five million dollar a bell. I don't blame them 421 00:32:28.519 --> 00:32:31.759 for that. She'd take off as soon as she could now. Colin had 422 00:32:31.799 --> 00:32:37.440 nothing to do with Maria's murder, but he defended her character in an early 423 00:32:37.480 --> 00:32:42.240 interview while Kate William was on the run, he initially told reporters that he 424 00:32:42.319 --> 00:32:45.400 was going into hiding in fear of his safety when it came to Caitlin. 425 00:32:45.799 --> 00:32:50.160 Then after she was caught, he told reporters that there was no relationship with 426 00:32:50.240 --> 00:32:53.039 Maria at the time. He was with Caitlin and they had gotten back together, 427 00:32:53.519 --> 00:33:00.000 and the affidavit for Caitlin's arrest completely skewed what the relationship had really been 428 00:33:00.119 --> 00:33:04.720 with Maria. Colin talked about his relationship with Caitlin and said, quote, 429 00:33:05.119 --> 00:33:08.759 we were clearly going our separate ways, but we didn't get enough inertia to 430 00:33:08.799 --> 00:33:15.200 separate. Caitlyn and I were involved in several business together. Maria and I 431 00:33:15.279 --> 00:33:21.440 communicated maybe twice a month after that, and I think the affidavit that basically 432 00:33:21.480 --> 00:33:27.119 said him and Maria had a relationship was skewed. Yeah, I quit your 433 00:33:27.160 --> 00:33:30.920 lion. Now. When I asked about whether he would have thought that Caitlin 434 00:33:30.039 --> 00:33:34.920 could have done something like this, he said, now, he didn't believe 435 00:33:34.960 --> 00:33:39.119 that she was capable anything like that, and he was shell shocked and in 436 00:33:39.160 --> 00:33:45.119 grieving mode, grieving the loss of caite of Caitlin. I don't know, 437 00:33:45.759 --> 00:33:49.240 he's shit, you know why he's seeing all that. He didn't want to 438 00:33:49.279 --> 00:33:52.400 look bad in the press, he said, quote, I would and I'm 439 00:33:52.440 --> 00:33:57.039 not trying to be totally mean to him, but damn son, he said, 440 00:33:57.079 --> 00:34:00.160 quote, I would say she is one of the least folatile people I 441 00:34:00.160 --> 00:34:04.559 have ever met, and that's why. It's so absolutely shocking. She had 442 00:34:04.559 --> 00:34:07.760 sides to her personality that I didn't think she shared with anybody. I had 443 00:34:07.800 --> 00:34:14.719 no indication of anything like this, even though she's signing threatening text messages when 444 00:34:14.760 --> 00:34:20.760 he was dating Maria. Many people were questioning his character after these interviews. 445 00:34:22.159 --> 00:34:27.119 Someone wrote on this one thread, Colin is not honest. Caitlyn shared information 446 00:34:27.159 --> 00:34:30.440 with a friend that she wanted to kill Maria, and she was shaking in 447 00:34:30.559 --> 00:34:35.119 anger when she did so. Colin had to have known of the emotional state 448 00:34:35.239 --> 00:34:39.639 of Caitlin he lived with her. Why would Colin lie to Caitlin about where 449 00:34:39.679 --> 00:34:44.079 he was going that day if you didn't basically know what was wrong? Right, 450 00:34:44.880 --> 00:34:49.159 just so you know. According to this thread, Colin now only bought 451 00:34:49.239 --> 00:34:52.480 the gun, but he awesome bought a silencer for it. Oh shit, 452 00:34:52.079 --> 00:34:55.320 And he knew that Caitlin couldn't buy a gun herself because she had that weren't 453 00:34:55.320 --> 00:35:02.679 for botox anyway. Anyway, Apparently, later Colin reflected on the night of 454 00:35:02.719 --> 00:35:09.800 Mariah's murder, and he felt pretty traumatized about how Caitlin had initiated sex not 455 00:35:09.960 --> 00:35:14.480 long after killing Mariah. Yeah, that's kind of great, and he thought 456 00:35:14.559 --> 00:35:19.559 the way she was behaving was rather unusual to him. He felt like he 457 00:35:19.599 --> 00:35:22.039 was a trophy for Caitlin. That's why she did it, like she had 458 00:35:22.079 --> 00:35:28.719 claimed him. Yeah, yeah, exactly. Colin says he bought the gun 459 00:35:28.800 --> 00:35:31.599 originally because in the summer of twenty twenty, Caitlin had told him that a 460 00:35:31.599 --> 00:35:37.039 man maybe was drunk or suffering from mental illness, was banging on their door 461 00:35:37.400 --> 00:35:40.320 and the man eventually laughed, but she was really scared. Caitlin also told 462 00:35:40.360 --> 00:35:45.039 him that there was a man screaming at her at a grocery store, and 463 00:35:45.039 --> 00:35:46.599 then when she would ride her bike, creepy men would follow her and make 464 00:35:46.639 --> 00:35:49.840 her feel in safe. So I don't know if she wrote her bike around 465 00:35:49.880 --> 00:35:53.119 with a gun, I don't know. Colin said that he had contemplated suicide 466 00:35:53.159 --> 00:35:57.760 after Mariah's death, and then he lost a lot of the sponsors for his 467 00:35:57.920 --> 00:36:01.039 cycling. Well, he's kind of like, I wouldn't want to I wantn't 468 00:36:01.039 --> 00:36:05.559 want to sponsor. Even though he didn't do it, It's like, well, 469 00:36:05.679 --> 00:36:09.400 you're kind so he's guilty by association, right, right right. Police 470 00:36:09.480 --> 00:36:15.079 later found out that prior to Maria's murder, Caitlin went to a firing range 471 00:36:15.480 --> 00:36:21.119 to practice, which showed that it wasn't a crime of passion. Yeah, 472 00:36:21.360 --> 00:36:24.199 it was premeditated. This is all alleged. I want to say this, 473 00:36:24.199 --> 00:36:29.320 This is all alleged. Nobody knows what Caitlin did her trials not to left 474 00:36:29.320 --> 00:36:32.559 hold. Oh, so this is all alleged, allegedly, alleged, alleged, 475 00:36:32.639 --> 00:36:37.519 alleged. Did I say that enough? Alleged? Alleged? She may 476 00:36:37.719 --> 00:36:45.960 very well be innocent, She very well maybe m Her defense to this so 477 00:36:45.000 --> 00:36:49.800 far, because there was no trial, is that she had to leave town. 478 00:36:50.400 --> 00:36:52.679 She had to get the new job because she was trying to flee from 479 00:36:52.719 --> 00:36:57.079 Colin and she was scared of him. Well, yeah, you know, 480 00:36:57.679 --> 00:37:00.480 that's what people do when they break up from someone. They go to a 481 00:37:00.480 --> 00:37:06.360 different country and get those jobs and started in yoga. Yeah, why not. 482 00:37:06.920 --> 00:37:09.320 In honor of their daughter's memory, Mariah's family set up the Mariah Wilson 483 00:37:09.400 --> 00:37:15.760 Foundation. Their goal is to raise money for community youth organizations centered on helping 484 00:37:15.079 --> 00:37:20.760 young people develop self confidence, strength, and enjoy through the activities Mariah was 485 00:37:20.800 --> 00:37:23.960 passionate about, including cycling and skiing. To this day, they have raised 486 00:37:23.960 --> 00:37:30.400 one hundred and forty one thousand dollars and that is the end of the story. 487 00:37:30.559 --> 00:37:32.719 So her trials not until October. Yes, I love to keep an 488 00:37:32.719 --> 00:37:37.400 eye on that. Yes, damn, that's it. That's it. Well, 489 00:37:37.440 --> 00:37:42.000 that was a wild ride, no pun intended. Oh I know't mean 490 00:37:43.719 --> 00:37:47.840 clever. We're so so clever, so funny. Thank you guys for all 491 00:37:47.880 --> 00:37:52.480 listening to this story. And you guys can follow it because it's going to 492 00:37:52.559 --> 00:37:57.199 be happening in October. It's not too far away unless it get crazy, 493 00:37:57.280 --> 00:38:01.199 unless it gets delay delay so I mean it couldn't then again, yeah, 494 00:38:01.440 --> 00:38:05.719 be like next year, who knows. But that's it. That's it. 495 00:38:06.280 --> 00:38:08.519 Thank you everyone for listening. And before you go, if you haven't hit 496 00:38:08.559 --> 00:38:13.960 the subscribe or follow button, please do so. And if you want to 497 00:38:14.480 --> 00:38:19.079 visit our website, it's Crimes and Consequences dot com. 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