hey so Colin hey so um do you know Anna last night was Wilson Oh yes de so there's really no EAS way to say this so apparently last night she she passed away this is Colin Strickland and he was just told that his ex-girlfriend Anna wison was brutally murdered only hours ago [Music] Austin 911 what's your emergency my friend is staying with me and I just walked in and she's laying on the bathroom floor and there's blood [Music] everywhere Austin please do I stop I don't know what happened I just walked in on her when c s first arrived at this gruesome site they suspected a robbery gone wrong but a series of damning Clues found at the crime scene quickly pointed to not just a meticulously planned murder but a deadly love triangle and a killer that was closer to home than anyone expected did you kill though no no no on May 11th 2022 police were called to an address after a woman made this disturbing 911 call what's the address the emergency it's it's 1708 Maple Avenue okay tell me exactly what happened um my friend is staying with me and I just walked in and she's laying on the bathroom floor and there's blood everywhere and I don't know what happened is she awake she's not awake there's all over her face on the back of her head is she breathing no she's not breathing I've got the paramedics on the way to help you stay on the line Caitlyn that caller was Kaitlyn cash and she'd arrived home to find her friend Mariah Wilson clinging to life after being shot awesome police do I stop I don't know what happened I just walked in on her okay to them okay yeah head nobody heard any shots we don't know how long she's been down no that's oh we got CSF in there after assessing the situation officers noticed cerebr spinal fluid or CSF for short oozing onto the floor this fluid surrounds the brain meaning the bullets had actually pierced her skull and killed her instantly this meant there was no saving her no matter what anyone did but officers could still bring her killer to Justice which is why they need answers right now answers that only cash can give as she is the only witness that officers currently have do you know if he's talking to anyone or any you say you don't live here I know she was with her friend Colin Strickland strick Strickland yeah yeah I they went swimming think did you see a gun or anything like that saidin stck and you know where St is pH give you his phone number information from you you said so she went swimming with Colin stricklin swimming I left to go have dinner with my friends and then I came back this is my house that's your my house she's staying with me right now police are a bit disoriented as to what exactly went down just hours earlier but they would soon run into some evidence that would change everything worth noting is that situations like these can be extremely traumatizing for those involved but that's also the case for people watching these types of videos just like you at home if you've ever felt you need help with mental health you should know there are always people you can reach out to that's that's why I'd like to thank betterhelp the sponsor of today's video I've partnered with them to provide you with an easy and simple solution to therapy therapy has helped me overcome my anxiety manage my stress levels and become confident enough to build a team that helped grow this channel to over a million subscribers thank you guys by the way the biggest problem I found with therapy is that you usually have to go through a lot of therapists before finding the one that's right for you better help makes this easy with their 30,000 licensed therapists better health will match you with someone who understands your needs the best and gives you a safe space to talk and if it's not right the first time no sweat you can switch therapists as many times as you want no hard feelings so if you're struggling consider joining betterhelp simply click the link in the description or go to betterhelp. com insanity and faill out the easy questionnaire to get 10% off your first month of therapy now let's get back to the video when is the last to smoke with th uh when I left here at 5:30 are you guys friends you and him are friends are I mean like cences d well know what part drives cyclist a cyclist you live in this area uh he lives in South Austin does she have like um a license or wallet up there at all you know I she she should yeah said she from San Francisco well she's from Vermont but she's living in San Francisco she came to visit you yeah yeah I was just here for a bike race this weekend okay did her and Collins have an argument at all you I don't have I don't have any idea the only thing I know is she said I'm needing him to go swimming okay what time was that 5 5:00 p. m.
today yeah I mean I can see in my text messages I when was the last time you saw her was that when you saw left for dinner at a 5:30 so you left for dinner at 5:30 what time did you come back right two minutes before I called 911 oh yeah so according to cash Mariah had been with Colin her ex-boyfriend all day and was home only a few minutes before she was found dead this made Colin a major Person of Interest that the cops would interview later on but for now there are more pressing matters it turns out Mariah was in town for a bike race and had brought along with her a $114,000 racing bike which could have been a massive Target for someone and as the cops would soon find out that bike was missing it quickly became a possibility that someone could could have been waiting for Mariah to be home alone and attempted to rob the bike only for Mariah to resist and end up getting killed this being their only lead officers needed to trace down where this bike went as it could take them straight to the murderer that's cover yeah so the bike there there people fting where bike so so if you R to right this first unit right here this this is um these are her L this this so This bik covering yeah where would her B would it would be right inside the door yeah bikes inside the door is there a bike anywhere you see a [Music] bike she said she would put it right by the door no bike that's next Jes with no trace of the bike in the house officers decided to begin searching the woods nearby when they made a discovery that showed them they were on the wrong track completely leaving them with absolutely zero leads hey come here somebody might be in here this might be the bike okay but hold on somebody might be here [Music] okay all right over thereport 32 I located the bike since the bike was dumped nearby officers suspected that this was placed as a red herring for them to chase officers are being tricked and if the Killer is smart enough to trick officers they're also smart enough to begin covering up their tracks this is why the officers swiftly move to gather evidence from the scene the most important of which are the shell casings from the bullets used there's one right there there those bullet shells will help cops identify the gun used now they just had to find that gun and the shooter who officers initially believed could have been cash it is for this reason that officers bring cash back to the police station in order to conduct a crucial test to confirm whether she's innocent or not so let me tell you this an upfront by no means in the world do I think that that you did any of this okay but so what they're what they're going to do we're just going to have them swab your hands for gunshop residue um if we don't do this to you then in court they can say oh what about this other person why didn't you do this part of the investigation a GSR or gunshot residue swab test of Cash's hands presented a negative result considering that Mariah was in a very narrow space of the home officers concluded that Caitlyn could not have been the one to to murder her fortunately though cash did provide an important piece of information the last person in contact with Mariah was Colin Strickland digging deeper into this cops discovered that the two were having drinks at a nearby cafe and have never suspected that this would be the last time that they saw each other this is why Colin was an important lead who could give officers valuable insight about the events leading up to the murder but before police went in to interview Colin they noticed some houses in the neighborhood had CCTV cameras installed which could possibly help reveal the Killer's identity when investigators watched the footage back they found something very [Music] interesting CCTV footage revealed this black Jeep driving directly towards Cash's home where Mariah was staying that night the moment it arrived ring cameras caught this gut-wrenching audio [Applause] and immediately after the shooting the killer escaped although this was a massive breakthrough there was one glaring issue officers had no way of identifying the driver after all the cameras were too grainy and the vehicle was too far away for officers to get a shot of the driver or run the plates however only a few days later they come across something incredibly interesting when going to question Colin strick Mariah's ex-boyfriend this is the same black jeep that officers saw on cameras parked right outside Colin's homein hey so um do you know Hanah um mo mo yeah uh everybody calls her Mo um last name is Wilson rder she's a yes grael Rider yes yes I do okay so um there's really no he's say to Ser so apparently last night she she passed away how she right now it's it's an open inves but it is being investigated as a hom right now the cops know he was the last person to see her alive they've discovered a vehicle in his driveway that matches the one captured on security cameras and it even has a bicycle rack attached to the rear end Colin Strickland has just become their number one suspect but he doesn't realize this yet as officers continue to question him okay [Music] do you happen to have her mom's address chance I know that she lives in um I have an address for her brother but we're just trying to send someone to her mom's address instead of us actually calling her over the phone didn't know I Edie yesterday afternoon and theno her apartment she's been staying at the cop intentionally avoided telling Colin how Mariah died as they do with any suspect in a murder case but they notice his body language is concerning as he is barely able to look them in the eyes this could either be because of pure shock as the two had spent the previous day together or in the worst case scenario he's afraid to look them in the eyes because he had something to do with the murder so to uncover these secrets police started looking into Colin's life and his history with Mariah this is when they discovered Caitlyn Armstrong Colin's girlfriend who separated from him in October 2021 but then got back together a month later in November however during their breakup period he had a month-long romantic affair with Mariah and remained in contact with with her even after he resumed his relationship with Caitlyn immediately officers begin suspecting that Caitlyn could be one of the major suspects in this investigation these suspicions were further confirmed when they ran the plates of the black Jeep and found that it didn't belong to Colin but it was actually owned by Caitlyn considering that Colin was good friends with Mariah and Caitlyn hated this this made her a suspect in this investigation so to get to the bottom of this officers bring in Colin 2 days after the murder in order to achieve two objectives with one interview the first would be able to see whether Colin has a solid Alibi that he can present to the officers after all whether he did it or not Colin was the last person to see Mariah alive and the second is to gather information that can be used against other suspects like Caitlyn and you you said that y'all left around like 6:30 to I don't I don't think it's as accurate because it must we must have full Burg at about 7:45 or even later probably maybe more like 8 yeah just as it was getting dark cuz we went straight to her place and it wasn't dark yet but it was it was get cooling off and it was like Austin evening okay what about whenever y'all were at the at the bar um was there anybody that was like watching y'all or was act weird with Mo or mo didn't know she's doesn't live here so no not at all yeah nobody anybody like tried to hit on her at the bar or anything or no okay no not that I saw nor that she mentioned I didn't notice anything out of theary today at the bar the cops are looking for more than just details of what he and Mariah did that day they're going to try and figure out why exactly the black vehicle from the murder scene was conveniently parked at colins's home and whenever I was over there earlier I saw there was the the other car cuz you said that you you drive a motorcycle and then you drove the Mercedes Mercedes up here I guess the other one the Jeep is hers my girlfriend Caitlyn okay so that belongs to her okay all right so you you got back around like 7:30 I exactly when that was I think I I think I texted um Caitlyn as I was leaving just saying hey are you still out getting food yeah more like 8:30 is when I dropped her off at her house okay like just before dark cuz I texted Caitlyn as I was like after I left okay and that was whenever you says 8:36 and she I think she was in yoga class she showed up close so you you end up getting back home she's not home what time was it that she got home um short right after I texted her probably 920 or so 9:21 okay like where where had she been like that whole she had a actually a laser hair remove removal appointment she said in the at 700 p. m. downtown uhhuh and then after that I'm not exactly sure she text me asking if I wanted to meet up and I didn't reply and then I didn't see her hear from her until till um I was back at home and did she say anything like whenever she got home where' she been no but she was in her like a yoga outfit carrying yoga M although Colin had heard from Caitlyn the night of the murder he couldn't give her a solid out by and didn't even know exactly where she did her yoga classes he also managed to avoid mentioning his romantic affair with Mariah but he'll soon be left with no choice but to tell the cops everything so how long had had you and Caitlyn been dating about a year and a half maybe two years actually okay and then how how long was it that y'all broken up whenever you gotten big not very long actually while you were dating Mo Caitlyn was still living with you um she was moving out oh okay I mean she had another house she had a sister in town and um yeah it was definitely very I was about to say that would probably be pretty pretty uh it definitely was It was kind of almost like something I felt like I like to force the situation which is stupid but so why was it that you had to change the name for Mo phone just because I've I don't because in the past Caitlin has looked at my phone and and I just didn't want to I just didn't want to surface Bas that would always start fights exactly basically nobody else can have you yeah yeah you know so get kind of jealous understandable exactly unique to yeah I got you after listening to Colin officers achieved what they set out to do first they cleared Colin who had texts and times to back up his Alibi secondly they managed to gather information about Caitlyn who entire story is Shady that means that out of the three suspects that officers have Colin cash and Caitlyn only Caitlyn's movements are entirely unaccounted for this is why cops were now more suspicious of her than ever but had no irrefutable evidence to arrest Caitlyn at least not until the cops searched the police database and hit the jackpot Caitlyn Armstrong had a warrant on her head for a minor infraction it was all they needed to bring her in and then use it as an excuse to question her about Mariah all right so I'm Detective Connor and um so my partner is actually talking um to Colin right now um so I wanted to come in here and start chatting with you and everything so you don't have to wait super long um so it sounds like you may have some information May witness something so I just wanted to chat with you about some stuff um but you're here for a warrant right now I guess um are you familiar with with what you have going on with with that no idea okay so I guess it was like a theft of service warrant something kind of minor nothing okay so that's why you're here you've got a theft of service warrant that's why you got picked up today and everything so I was just letting you know on that part observe how the detective maintains an almost nonchalant demeanor despite the gravity of the situation this is deliberately done to create a sense of security for Caitlyn ensuring she remains unaware that she is under any suspicion by the police despite this Caitlyn appears noticeably tense and uneasy can you tell me what it was that was the theft of service I can look um I'm not sure what it is at this point um but I can look that up later and get you a little bit more information on that for sure but because you are here and because you were under us for that portion of it we always have to read Miranda and stuff because I want to talk to you about some other stuff that's unrelated to that the officer has ignored Caitlyn's questions about her warrant because she is more focused on digging up information about Mariah's murder a tactic that becomes dangerous as Caitlyn begins to raise concerns about her legal counil if I have an existing warrant and you don't know what it's about do I need an attorney here so the warrant is just a class be just theft of service type thing the reason I'm here is because your name came up um during a conversation with Colin um I think there's a lot more information that you have that can kind of explain some of the stuff he's saying thing but to be able to do that I have to read you your rights just so that you know and you're protected and things like that okay okay and so if you're reading Me My Rights and that's because of the warrant because you're under arrest for the warrant so you're technically in custody because of that warrant um so they're two separate things does that make sense I think so but I have never heard even though they have Caitlyn exactly where they want her one tiny mistake is about to allow someone cops suspect to be killer to walk away scottt free well good news um so that's what they were just knocking on the door is apparently that warrant the date of birth was wrong so it had your name but the date of birth is wrong so it's to a different person so that's not you're not under arrest okay okay I know it's a little crazy although the cop tries to make a joke of the situation Caitlyn now knows that she can leave whenever she wishes after all cops have no legal ground to hold her any longer this is why it's down to this cop to try and convince her that talking is the right thing to do but I would really like to talk to you and clear some stuff up um because Colin did bring your name up and I think there's a lot more information that you have that can kind of clear some stuff up does that make sense it makes sense I feel like I should have an attorney present so that's totally your choice um so you so at this point you are free to leave at any point so this is going to be consensual at this point because you're not under arrest okay to make matters worse Caitlyn has just requested an attorney legally the detective is now bound to cease any and all questioning related to Mariah's murder but she's about to thread a very dangerous line of breaking the law in order to get any information out of Caitlyn I would love to leave he would he just arrested me in front of my house in front of all my neighbors and carried me in here in handcuffs in front of downtown Austin it was incredible I can imagine yeah and I'm so sorry I don't have control over that part okay I'm not upset with you so there's a situation that's going on did you hear about what's happened over the past 24 hours Colin walked in the house and said one of the women in the cycling Community passed away yes yeah um while Colin was talking to us your name came up and so that's where I would really like to talk to you because it sounds like there was some some issues between you and this girl and I think that there's probably a lot more to it that you could help explain okay I'm not I'm not sure exactly what you mean or what information well so so it sounds like maybe he went out with this girl the other day and maybe it sounds like from what he's saying that you were a little upset about it um and so that's why I kind of wanted to get your side of it because that's not fair if he's just saying one thing and and trying to to go down a route and I want to make sure that's not the case that it's not accurate yeah and that's why I wanted to chat with you because it's a guy he's going to say stuff and so we want to make sure that we get both sides of the story and everything and clear it up so what what were you doing yesterday I would like to leave I think you would like to leave yeah okay but understand if you do then we only have one side of the story to go on and from what we're hearing from Colin you know it's one side and it well I just am uncertain as to even what you mean or what he could have said because I didn't have any idea he saw or went out with this girl okay recently has he been like talking to her leave I don't actually know and I would like to leave okay at this point getting Caitlyn to talk willingly seems like a lost cause she knows she can walk out of the station and nobody can stop her so the detective decides to drop their bombshell evidence in the hope she might crack and your vehicle was seen next to her house um and we needed to talk about that okay because when he's saying this stuff and then your vehicle is seen like I want to be able to explain okay there's logical explanation for this maybe you were upset and you were just in the area or something like I don't know because I don't have your story when I can't explain that and all I see is that your vehicle is over there that that kind of makes it look not too good right okay and then when we're talking to Colin and we're hearing like yeah there was some some jealousy stuff going on like that doesn't sound very good um and so that's why I really want to get your side of the story because maybe there's a lot more going on I would like to leave if I free to leave okay okay unfortunately there was nothing that officers could do to stop Caitlyn from walking out at this point they were incredibly suspicious of her as her behavior throughout the interrogation meant that she was hiding something but if officers couldn't find out what this was from Caitlyn they do it from the one person who knew her best Colin Strickland who was called in a second time for an interview in hopes of uncovering more information about Caitlyn however there is one problem this time Colin brought his lawyer with him and questioning him is about to become exponentially harder how was how was Caitlyn during that time I guess it's my understanding she wasn't too happy whenever she saw Mo Caitlyn had we were after Mo was in Austin for a week and we Mo and I I had settled I had broken up with cin before Mo came to town and then I had I actually did not know that she was coming to Austin in October I had no idea had discussed that and I don't think so it felt like a surprise and then she was here and I just said oh let's hang out I was mentally ready to kind of move on and I know after Mo left town after a week Caitlyn's things were still at my house we were sleeping in separate rooms and effectively you know Caitlin was on Bumble I know she had made several dates with people and I don't know I never asked like what how what they were what extent they were evolving a relationship but I know that she went on had several men that she was dating of and I was fine with it I mean that was kind of the understanding of course so um yeah it just seems very weird to me that she would be that there would be any dwelling on fix fting on a person when she was like live like you know moving on to other relationships you know at that time from what colins says the two clearly had a troubled relationship especially considering the facts that both Colin and Caitlyn rebounded well on break this is why officers need to dig deeper into what Caitlyn acted like both during and after this time to determine if she showed obsessive traits in her personality it's just kind of going back to you know me just trying to figure out like just kind of how she is her personality and stuff I mean if you were to ask me about like hey how is your wife well yeah you know I'm going to tell you yeah she's always happy but does she get mad yes everybody gets mad that's natural you know I'm not I'm not going to blow that out of proportion do I think that my wife could go and kill somebody no there's no way in the world do I think my wife would hit somebody no now if you ask me that about my six-year-old son yeah it wouldn't surprise me if he wouldn't punch somebody at all think would somebody no I honestly don't because it would be too I don't know do I think Kaitlyn could kill somebody no I don't if Caitlyn had been planning to murder Mariah Colin was about to make it clear he suspected nothing all along I said I think I think y'all need to stop talking to each other you need to separate yourselves from each other while the fact finding is going on I don't think it' be helpful of course and so so I don't think there's been very much there definitely not been any being together since she left and I left Saturday Friday sorry Friday midday eventually to get a new SIM card for my phone which I assumed was okay yeah had the same number you're allowed to have and um then s clir since then I [Music] have not I haven't spoken with Caitlyn or seen her and I so the two detectives you know two detectives came by my house yesterday looking asking if I if she was there if I had seen where she was and my father had contacted her that yesterday morning he had gotten in touch with her I gave him the number that Caitlyn had uh given our mutual attorney has she ever mentioned in the past of wanting to hurt Mo no she's never mentioned wanting to physically hurt okay do you think that that she is capable if I thought she was physically capable of hurting another human I would have extricated myself immediately from that situation not only for my not so much my own personal safety but my concern for another human mhm so what's that answer the answer is no okay I don't believe in any way she's capable of that okay the gun range that she visited with her sister do you know where that gun range is I think it was South I don't South I35 I told them to go to the Reds which is now something else which is the one I drove past on my way to school for 12 years at the Waldo school but they went to another one because of me ual friend had been there you bought the guns right I bought the guns yes when was that I think December early December okay there there's a receipt with them I'm sure you could look at the receipt in an ironic twist Colin had bought Caitlyn a gun for self-defense but after police conducted a firearm examination it just so happened that the bullets it used were the same caliber that were found near Mariah's body so far the cops had evidence of Caitlyn's car at the scene they knew about her obsessive behavior and they knew she owned the same model of gun that was used to kill Mariah but while they searched for her whereabouts the investigation continued to uncover crucial and damning evidence that not only heavily suggested Caitlyn was responsible for marah's death but also cleared Colin of any wrongdoing the cops gathered all cell phone data and compared it to the surveillance footage allowing them to map the movements of Mariah Colin and Caitlyn on the night of May 11th 2022 Colin and Mariah were at pool Berger after their swim and were there around 700 p.
m.
