A woman who wanted to kill a cyclist was arrested
arrested in Costa RicaThe womanwill be detained on Thursday with a $ 3.5 million bond after being accused of killing a professional cyclist. According to Travis County court records, Caitlin Armstrong must hand over his passport before release and will be monitored by GPS.
Armstrong was found earlier this week at a hostel in Santa Teresa Beach, Puntarenas, Costa Rica, US Marshal Services said in a statement
Wilson was found in Austin's house on May 11th after being injured by a bullet on. The officer who responded performed a CPR, but she died on the scene. At the age of 25, she was in Austin for a cycling race — she was from Vermont.
Six days after her death, authorities issued a letter to Armstrong and accused her of Wilson's murder.
Authorities said Armstrong had sold her car on May 13 and flew from Austin to Houston shortly after being questioned by authorities about Wilson's death that day. She then flew to New York and then on May 18 using her fraudulent passport from Newark, New Jersey to San Jose, Costa Rica.
"Marshall Services has raised Caitlin Armstrong's investigation to the status of a major case early in this investigation, which plays an important role in her capture after 43 days of execution. "Maybe we've done that," said the US Marshal in the Western Texas region. Susan Pamellow.
Wilson was previously dating Armstrong's boyfriend, cyclist Colin Strickland. He is working with investigators and is not a suspect, Afidabit said. Armstrong's SUV was seen in a surveillance video outside the house where Wilson was found to have been shot dead.
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