The jealous yoga teacher who murdered her younger love rival with a bullet through the heart quietly transferred all her property to relatives to avoid compensating her victim’s family, a new lawsuit claims.
Kaitlin Armstrong, 36, was sentenced to 90 years in prison last year for gunning down Texas cycling star Anna Moriah ‘Mo’ Wilson, 25, in fury at her relationship with pro cyclist boyfriend Colin Strickland.
A judge last month ordered Armstrong to pay Wilson’s parents $15 million after they sued her for wrongful death, but a fresh lawsuit from the couple claims that ‘most, if not all, of her assets’ had already passed to her mother and sister.
‘If the family has financially benefited, then my clients believe that they’re entitled to receive and recoup those recoveries,’ said the Wilson’s attorney Randy Howry.
Wilson’s parents Eric and Karen sought $1 million compensation for funeral expenses, ‘loss of society and companionship’, and the ‘conscious pain and suffering and mental anguish’ their daughter suffered during her 2022 murder.
Kaitlin Armstrong, 36, was sentenced to 90 years in prison last year for gunning down Texas cycling star Anna Moriah ‘Mo’ Wilson, 25, in fury at her relationship with pro cyclist boyfriend Colin Strickland
Wilson was hailed as one of the most promising off-road cyclists in America
Wilson, a rising star in the world of gravel cycling, began dating Strickland after he broke up with Armstrong, and their relationship continued after he got back together with his former girlfriend.
In May 2022, Wilson traveled to Austin for a race and planned to meet Strickland for dinner.
Armstrong followed them to the restaurant and her black Jeep was caught on surveillance video circling the block.
After the meal, Strickland drove Wilson to her friend’s apartment, where she was staying before Armstrong pulled up outside and fired three gunshots, fatally injuring her love rival.
She fled to Costa Rica using her sister’s passport, dyed her hair and underwent a nose job, brow lift before law enforcement caught up with her after 43 days on the run.
A television movie called Yoga Teacher Killer: The Kaitlin Armstrong Story, starring Caity Lotz as Armstrong, Kyle Schmid as Strickland, and Larissa Dias as Mo aired on Lifetime last month, and Howry said the family launched their lawsuit against her for fear she would cash in on her notoriety.
‘The process is about getting a judgment against her such that if she gets a movie deal, a book deal, a TV deal, and money is coming into her account in some way or another, then our judgment will stand in the way of her getting that money and enjoying it to her personal benefit,’ he told CBS.
The attorney for Wilson’s parents Eric and Karen said their action was designed to stop Armstrong cashing in on her notoriety
Armstrong took several selfies with her nose in a bloody bandage after getting plastic surgery to evade justice in Costa Rica
A chilling screengrab of an Instagram story shows Armstrong pointing a gun. The images were taken from Armstrong’s phone
Colin Strickland revealed that he had dinner with Wilson on the night she was killed
But their new lawsuit claims that Armstrong has already transferred her stake in three properties to her family in a bid to avoid paying for her crime.
Two properties in Austin were reportedly transferred to her mother or sister before being sold, while her stake in a third that she co-owned with Strickland was transferred to her sister, Christine Armstrong before being gifted back to Strickland.
The suit also claims that Armstrong’s Chase bank account was drained of all $78,000 just three days after her victim’s family filed their wrongful death lawsuit against her.
Howry said Wilson’s family is ‘not interested in getting a bunch of money’.
‘What they’re interested in doing is making sure Kaitlin doesn’t financially benefit, nor does her family financially benefit because of the acts of Kaitlin Armstrong,’ he added.
Her trial was nearly derailed in October last year when she fled from two deputies while attending a doctor’s appointment.
This time she remained on the run for just 10 minutes before being recaptured and charged with escape causing bodily injury – a charge which was later dropped.
She was convicted of first degree murder the following month and told she would not be eligible for parole until 2053.
Armstrong filed motion for a new trial in December last year, and last week requested an evidentiary hearing citing ‘newly discovered evidence, false evidence, and ineffective assistance of counsel claims’.
Court documents reviewed by DailyMail.com reveal that Armstrong was pregnant ‘during or near the time of her arrest’.
‘Considering the sentence here was for 90 years and a maximum fine, there should be no question that this mitigating evidence would have resulted in a more lenient punishment,’ her attorney wrote.
The document painted Armstrong as a victim of sexual abuse and the daughter of an alcoholic mother and absent father.
However, the bid for sympathy is lost on the relatives of the woman she killed.
Wilson’s mother directly addressed Armstrong moments after her sentencing.
‘When you shot Moriah in the heart, you shot me in the heart,’ she said.