Kaitlin Armstrong murder trial hears eerie message she sent to love rival – live

Mr Strickland asked Ms Armstrong to write a timeline of the day before. She reportedly said she went to yoga and visited a “healer.”

He then went to his businesses’ headquarters in Lockhart and did not see Ms Armstrong again.

Mr Strickland said he texted Ms Armstrong after dropping off Wilson at her friend’s home.

Ms Armstrong did not immediately answer, but later arrived at the home she shared Mr Strickland.

The following day, detectives with the Austin Police Department arrived at the home.

Mr Strickland said that Ms Armstrong seemed shocked to hear about news of Wilson’s murder. He went to the station with detectives and confirmed to them that Ms Armstrong owned a black Jeep, the same model that was seen driving off near the home where Wilson was found.

Ms Armstrong and Mr Strickland returned to Texas on 9 May, just two days before Wilson’s murder.

He deleted conversations with Wilson on his phone to avoid confrontation with Ms Armstrong, and saved Wilson’s number as “Christine Wall.”

On the day of the murder, Mr Strickland said that he picked up Wilson at her friend Caitlin Cash’s apartment, where she was staying.

Mr Strickland and Ms Armstrong went out swimming at a Pool Bar that night. He received calls and messages from Ms Armstrong but did not answer.

Mr Strickland told the court that the decision to buy a weapon with Ms Armstrong in October 2021 had been prompted by her concerns about a potential incident of road rage, the homeless population in Austin and fears she had when biking alone.

Ms Armstrong reportedly became more jealous in early 2022, and at one point even told Mr Strickland to “send [her love to Mo” after he posted an Instagram video at the end of a race with Wilson in the background. Mr Strickland told the court that he “felt it was extremely passive-aggressive.”

During the next few months, Mr Strickland continued texting with Wilson on different apps. He previously told the court that Ms Armstrong had access to his passwords because he was acting as his manager.

Mr Strickland and Wilson rode together before he left for Arizona to prepare for a race. He travelled to the event with Ms Armstrong and their relationship was “very smooth.”

Mr Strickland said that at one point, Armstrong called Wilson to confront her on the found, which Wilson found “ strange and unnerving.”

He looked very sad and defeated as he testified, according to reporters in the courtroom.

Wilson then left for a different cycling event but maintained communication with Mr Strickland, although the two were not very serious about moving on with a formal relationship, Mr Strickland said. The pair saw each other at different events

During that period, Ms Armstrong is said to have dated two other men, while still living at Mr Strickland’s home.

Mr Strickland and Ms Armstrong eventually reconciled and travelled together to a championship in Arkansas in January 2022.

A famed cyclist at the centre of an alleged love triangle who was with Moriah “Mo” Wilson the night she was killed took the stand in an Austin, Texas courtroom on Friday at the murder trial of his ex-girlfriend Kaitlin Armstrong.

Colin Strickland described his relationship with Ms Armstrong as “tumultuous” and said that they were on and off for a long period of time.

“I wasn’t sure we were compatible as long-term, life partners,” Mr Strickland told the court, per NewsNation.

According to NewsNation reporter Alex Capriello, Colin Strickland told the court that after meeting Wilson at a race, he thought she was the “most exceptional female racer and an obvious immense talent.”

Mr Stickland said he, Wilson, and other cyclists joined a race following a 2021 competition in Arkansas that Wilson had won.

Ms Armstrong, who was not invited, reportedly felt left out.

Ms Armstrong and Mr Strickland had an argument on their way back to Texas over that. He then broke up with her.

Five or six days later, Wilson visited Austin and texted Mr Strickland that she had just ended her relationship.

Mr Strickland tells the court that he met a woman in 2020, whom he later visited in Colorado the following year. When he told Armstrong that he was in Colorado with a friend, she sent him a semi-nude picture of the woman, which Armstrong had pulled from Mr Strickland’s private texts.

Mr Strickland said that he became angry and didn’t trust Armstrong in the aftermath of the incident – but insisted that he and the Colorado woman did not have a romantic or sexual relationship of any kind.

Mr Strickland described his relationship with Ms Armstrong as “tumultuous.”

“I wasn’t sure we were compatible as long-term, life partners,” Mr Strickland told the court, per NewsNation.

He said that they were on and off for a long period of time, but Ms Armstrong, who had moved in with him after the 2021 Texas freeze and was staying indefinitely, did not move out during the breakups.

Kaeli Arhelge, a manager at a bar where Wilson was seen shortly before her death, took the stand following a recess.

Ms Arhelge said that she provided footage to authorities of the night that Wilson and Colin Strickland were seen at the bar.

In the video, Mr Strickland and Wilson are seen together before she gets up to answer the phone. Another video from a different camera shows a Black Jeep driving by the business.