US Marshals: Kaitlin Armstrong’s yoga fixation led to her getting caught
The woman wanted in connection with the murder of Moriah Wilson couldn’t stay away from the studio
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Kaitlin Armstrong, accused of killing cyclist Moriah Wilson, couldn’t skip yoga class, and that may have done her in. On Friday. Armstrong was arrested in Costa Rica after fleeing the country following an investigation of the killing which resulted in a warrant for her arrest. Wilson was killed on May 11, and authorities had not been able to track down Armstrong since May 18, when she was spotted at the airport in New Jersey.
Deputy US Marshal, Brandon Filla, said in a press conference on Saturday that Armstrong had been attempting to create a yoga career in Costa Rica.
“Once she got to Costa Rica, she didn’t really move around a lot,” he said. “We knew she was going to be associated with some type of yoga studio. When foreign officials arrived at that yoga studio, they did find a handwritten login that was the same alias that she was going by when she traveled to Costa Rica.”
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After Armstrong arrived in Costa Rica, she immediately changed her distinctive hairstyle–long red curls–and apparently had plastic surgery to alter the shape of her nose. After that, according to Filla, Armstrong decided to do what she did before the murder, and took yoga classes.
Armstrong arrived in Costa Rica with “a passport that did not correspond to her identity, but the document was not faked,” a spokesperson for the General Migration Directorate of Costa Rica said to CNN.
Although the owner of said passport has not been confirmed, Zachary Paulsen, told Inside Edition a second passport with the name of Armstrong’s sister, Christine was found in a locker at the hostel where she was arrested, along with a $6,350 receipt for plastic surgery.
Armstrong managed to evade authorities for 43 days. Although some suspected she may receive the death penalty, two factors will most likely avoid this. There is the matter of Costa Rican extradition treaties , but more importantly, under Texas law her crime is not considered a Capital Murder. She still may face life in prison.
