Kaitlin Armstrong, the 34-year-old woman accused in the so-called “love triangle murder” of pro cyclist Moriah Wilson, used several names and snuck around Costa Rica before she was arrested last week. According to Deputy US Marshal Brandon Filla, she used the names Beth Martin, Liz Martin and Ari Martin. Filla updated the public at a news conference on Thursday.
Wilson was murdered by gunshot on May 11. A warrant for Armstrong’s arrest went out days later, and she fled the country. She was last seen in New Jersey. Armstrong was dating Colin Strickland, a pro gravel racer, and became jealous when she learned he had spent time with Wilson. Investigators believe she murdered Wilson in a fit of rage.
Changed her look to avoid being spotted
Armstrong was arrested at a Don Jon’s Lodge, a a $50-a-night hostel where she taught part-time yoga under the Ari Martin alias Costa Rican cops arrested her at the hostel where they discovered she had changed her appearance, by cutting her hair and dyeing it brown, and she had a bandage on her nose. They found a $6,350 receipt for cosmetic surgery, and two passports.
According to Filla, US Marshals explained they sent two agents to Costa Rica and found Armstrong through “good old-fashioned police work. The feds went door-to-door at hostels in San Jose, Jaco Beach and Saint Teresa, for six weeks.
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Kept on the move
“During the investigation in Costa Rica, it was learned that Armstrong traveled to multiple destinations to include San Jose, where she landed there at the airport, to Jaco Beach and to Santa Teresa, Costa Rica,” Filla said.
She was ultimately captured at Don Jon’s Surf Shop and Yoga Lodge. She gave local cops a fake name when they questioned her for entering the country with a fraudulent passport, Filla said. Within minutes, she confessed that she was lying and gave her true identity.
Filla said that Armstrong had fled the country by way of Newark Liberty International Airport using a legitimate passport except that it belonged to someone “closely associated” with her.
Once she arrived in Costa Rica, she started her stay by taking a six-hour bus ride out of San Jose.
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Trying to start a new life
“She frequented other hostels, as well as other yoga studios. So she was really trying to build something to where she could instruct yoga…
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