woman was arrested in Costa Rica On Thursday, after being charged with the murder of a professional cyclist, he will be detained on a $3.5 million bond. Caitlin Armstrong must also hand over her passport before he can be released, and it will be monitored via GPS, according to court records from Travis County.
Armstrong was discovered in a hostel on Santa Teresa Beach in Provincia de Puntarenas, Costa Rica, earlier this week, the US Marshall Service reported in statement. The agency said Armstrong is expected to be returned to the United States, where she faces a murder charge in the death of Anna Moriah Wilson. A native of Vermont, Wilson was a competitive mountain and gravel bike racer known as “Mo,” in Austin, Texas, for a cycling event.
Wilson was found in a house in Austin with Gunshot wounds on May 11. Responding officers performed CPR, but she died at the scene. The 25-year-old was in Austin to race bikes – she was from Vermont.
Six days after her death, authorities issued an arrest warrant for Armstrong, accusing her of killing Wilson.
Authorities said Armstrong sold her car on May 13 and then traveled from Austin to Houston shortly after being questioned by authorities that day about Wilson’s death. The service said she then traveled to New York before using a false passport to travel from Newark, New Jersey, to San Jose, Costa Rica, on May 18.
“The Marshall Department elevated the Caitlin Armstrong investigation to key case status early in this investigation, which likely played a key role in her arrest after a 43-day march,” said Susan Pamerlow, U.S. Marshal for the Western District of Texas.
Wilson had previously dated Armstrong’s boyfriend, cyclist Colin Strickland, who had cooperated with investigators and was not a suspect, according to an affidavit. Armstrong’s SUV was seen in a surveillance video outside the home where Wilson was found shot dead.
