After fleeing the United States, convicted love triangle murderer Kaitlin Armstrong was nabbed through a fake ad for a yoga instructor, a new report has revealed.
The Texas woman, who fled to Central America and eventually altered her face through plastic surgery, after fatally shooting professional cyclist Anna Moriah Wilson in May 2022, was allegedly captured by US Marshals that summer after she responded to a ad the feds placed for a yoga instructor.
It might have been their last, best hope: Sheriffs had chased the fugitive killer across the United States and into Costa Rica, where they believed she was hiding near the coast, according to CBS News.
But she was surprisingly cautious, using multiple new names and even changing the shape of her nose through plastic surgery to mislead authorities.
So the feds forced her to go to them.
They did this by leveraging their love of yoga: They posted an ad for a yoga teacher on a local Facebook page in the one-street town of Santa Teresa, Costa Rica.
At first it didn’t work: It took Armstrong, now serving 90 years in prison for killing Wilson in a fit of jealousy over a past relationship with Armstrong’s boyfriend, nearly a week to bite.
Convicted murderer Kaitlin Armstrong was captured by US Marshals after she responded to an ad they placed for a yoga instructor. Mikala Compton/Austin American-Statesman via AP, Pool Armstrong shot and killed professional cyclist Anna Moriah Wilson in May 2022 in Austin, Texas. Mikala Compton/Austin American-Statesman via AP, Pool
But just as the deputies were about to return to the United States, they received a message from someone who identified himself as a yoga instructor, CBS said.
“We got bit, by someone who, uh, identified herself… as a yoga instructor and said she wanted to meet us at a particular shelter,” Deputy U.S. Marshal Emir Perez told the network. “And we said… ‘This is our chance!’”
Pérez and his companion, Deputy Marshal Damián Fernández, rushed to Santa Teresa from San José, where they had been preparing to return home.
Armstrong fled to Central America after the murder. CBS News Deputies met with Armstrong at a shelter in Costa Rica after she responded to the Facebook ad. US Marshals and local mega-police arrest Armstrong in Costa Rica. CBS News
They found her sitting on a table in the shelter. Perez spoke to her in Spanish as she examined her bandaged nose and swollen lips, remnants of surgeries intended to conceal her identity.
But his eyes were the same ones I had seen in a previous photograph.
“He gets in the car and says, ‘That’s her.’ She’s there,’” Fernández told CBS.
Local police made the arrest and the feds brought her back to Texas. She was charged and imprisoned.
Armstrong returned to the United States after being arrested.
She managed to escape again, but didn’t get very far before officers caught her.
That was the first real step in the long march toward justice for Wilson, who was found dead on May 11.
Wilson, a Vermont native and former alpine skier at Dartmouth College in New Hampshire, was a rising star in professional gravel and mountain bike racing.
Armstrong killed Wilson in a fit of jealousy over a relationship she had with her ex-boyfriend. AP Wilson’s parents, Karen Wilson and Eric Wilson, hug at Armstrong’s sentencing. Mikala Compton/Austin American-Statesman via AP, Pool
She had been in Austin before a race in Texas and was among the favorites to win.
Armstrong tracked Wilson to the apartment he was staying in through a fitness app, investigators said. He shot her three times, twice in the head and once in the heart, according to the accusations.
A Jeep matching Armstrong’s was caught on camera outside the house where Wilson’s body lay, and a 43-day international manhunt ensued.
It took a Texas jury just two hours to convict Armstrong, and a day later, a judge put her behind bars for nine decades.
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