Fugitive Texas murder suspect Kaitlin Armstrong has been captured in Costa Rica, a lot more than 6 weeks after Austin law enforcement obtained a murder warrant in the loss of life of pro bicycle owner Anna Moriah "Mo" Wilson.

U.S. Marshals introduced the bust Thursday morning, 43 days into the manhunt, and mentioned she experienced been captured Wednesday.

Costa Rican authorities assisted U.S. regulation enforcement in tracking Armstrong to a hostel on Santa Teresa Seashore in Proincia de Puntarenas, the Marshals declared. Authorities stated she employed a "fraudulent passport" to fly from Newark, New Jersey, to San Jose, Costa Rica, on Might 18.

"The Marshals Assistance elevated the Kaitlin Armstrong investigation to big scenario status early in this investigation, which likely performed a important function in her seize following a 43-day operate," claimed U.S. Marshal for the Western District of Texas Susan Pamerleau. "This is an case in point of combining the means of local, condition, federal and international authorities to apprehend a violent fugitive, provide an conclusion to that run and ideally a perception of closure to the victim’s family." 

TEXAS MURDER SUSPECT KAITLIN ARMSTRONG Through THE Years: Appreciate TRIANGLE FUGITIVE Viewed IN A long time-Outdated Pics

Remaining: target Moriah "Mo" Wilson immediately after a race. Proper: A picture of suspect Kaitlin Armstrong introduced by the US Marshals. (The Wilson Household/US Marshals)

Armstrong is predicted to be deported to facial area justice in the U.S., exactly where she has been billed with murder and unlawfully fleeing prosecution.

Austin police observed Wilson, 25, riddled with gunshot wounds in a friend’s property about 10 p.m. on May 11. The California resident is a person of the country’s best pro cyclists and was visiting Texas in advance of a levels of competition when she went out for an evening with Colin Strickland, an additional pro bicycle owner whom police describe as Armstrong’s boyfriend.

Moments just after Strickland dropped Wilson off that evening, according to investigators, Armstrong’s SUV showed up on surveillance movie exterior.

The Austin, Texas, household in which Kaitlin Armstrong and Colin Strickland are living. (WHD News Digital/Michael Ruiz)

The 34-year-aged yoga instructor was questioned and produced on May possibly 12. By Could 17, she was named in a murder warrant. By then, she’d now flown from Texas to New York, where law enforcement say she arrived at LaGuardia Airport on May 14.

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That very same day, an nameless caller told Austin law enforcement that Armstrong had just lately received a handgun. Months before, according to the tipster, she allegedly grew furious after studying that Strickland was associated in a intimate relationship with Wilson. Police mentioned a person of two 9 mm handguns they recovered at Strickland’s residence was "considerable to the investigation." Armstrong also lived there, according to the warrant for her arrest.

Surveillance movie demonstrates Armstrong at an airport right after she fled Texas. (US Marshals)

She may well have visited a campground about 120 miles absent, in accordance to a man there who told WHD News Electronic that he observed her "before the total factor blew up."

Then, her past recognised whereabouts have been at Newark International Airport in New Jersey, also about 120 miles away from the campground, on Might 18. Marshals stated they did not uncover a report of any departing flights in her title.

Moriah "Mo" Wilson, left, and Kaitlin Armstrong. (The Wilson household/ U.S. Marshal Assistance)

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Armstrong is a former genuine estate investor and may have a major quantity of funds, in accordance to authorities. 

Jason Jensen, a Utah-dependent private investigator who has been adhering to the circumstance, explained to WHD News Electronic that there is a opportunity Kaitlin Armstrong is working with her sister’s identification even though on the lam. A working day before Kaitlin Armstrong was observed in New Jersey, her sister allegedly obtained a New York point out driver's license, he claimed.

Colin Strickland found outside his Austin, Texas, house on June 17, 2022. (MEGA)

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Law enforcement in Austin previously mentioned they’d currently recovered the handgun used to eliminate Wilson immediately after searching Strickland’s dwelling, in which Armstrong also lived.

In accordance to the warrant for Armstrong, he had bought her the pistol earlier this calendar year. 

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