A yoga teacher suspected of killing an elite Vermont cyclist in May fled from the area after speaking with investigators and eventually made her way to Costa Rica using someone else's passport and multiple aliases, U.S. Marshals said Thursday.
Kaitlin Marie Armstrong was found at a hostel on Santa Teresa Beach in Provincia de Puntarenas last week, according to the U.S. Marshals Office. The 34-year-old was deported and brought back to the U.S.
Authorities had been searching for Armstrong since May 17, when a homicide warrant was issued for her arrest. She is accused of fatally shooting Anna Moriah Wilson after discovering the athlete had been romantically involved with Armstrong's cyclist partner, authorities have said.
It wasn't immediately clear if Armstrong had an attorney who could speak to her arrest.
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Wilson, a 25-year-old Vermont native who was in Austin, Texas, for a cycling race, was found by a friend bleeding and unconscious after she was shot multiple times inside a home on May 11. She was pronounced dead at the scene.
The U.S. Marshals released a video last month that showed Armstrong going through security at the airport in Austin. Investigators said at the time that she boarded a plane to Houston, then took a connecting flight to New York's LaGuardia Airport.
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Investigators said last week that Armstrong used a fake passport to fly from Newark International Airport to San Jose, Costa Rica, on May 18. They found her black Jeep Grand Cherokee and learned that she sold the car on May 13 to a CarMax dealership in south Austin for $12,200 dollars.
The dealership gave Armstrong a check one day after she'd been questioned by Austin authorities. She left the airport in Austin on May 14 and was dropped off at the Newark Liberty International Airport on May 18, authorities said.
Investigators found out through an interview that Armstrong was driven to the Newark Liberty International Airport on May 18, but couldn't find any outbound flight reservations at the Newark Airport under her name, the Marshals said. On May 25, investigators obtained an arrest warrant in the U.S. District Court in the Western District of Texas for an Unlawful Flight to Avoid Prosecution.
