Scorned woman strikes again - Yoga teacher murders the 'other' woman in Austin

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So…. He literally put the gun in her hand? As in he bought it and gave it to her?

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Anonymous wrote:It seems like it’s so much more salacious and interesting when it’s a woman who murders the AP rather than a man. That’s the vibe I get. Am I wrong?

No. The NYC murder of that rich SAHM who was having an affair with her maintenance guy was just as salacious and interesting...

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:So…. He literally put the gun in her hand? As in he bought it and gave it to her?

In Jan of 2022 the accused discovered text messages on his phone that indicating him contacting the decedent. She called the other woman and said stay away from my man or some such. Male cyclist changed the contact name of the other woman in his phone and continued texting her. He also purchased two firearms and placed them in his home around this time. Horrifically bad judgement and timing, at minimum.

[Anonymous]

The boyfriend seems like a huge narcissist. Unfortunately, the decedent was pulled into this train wreck.

Our kids should learn about good dating habits as a part of sex education.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The boyfriend seems like a huge narcissist. Unfortunately, the decedent was pulled into this train wreck.

Our kids should learn about good dating habits as a part of sex education.

Women should not go on dates with men who are taken.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:So…. He literally put the gun in her hand? As in he bought it and gave it to her?

In Jan of 2022 the accused discovered text messages on his phone that indicating him contacting the decedent. She called the other woman and said stay away from my man or some such. Male cyclist changed the contact name of the other woman in his phone and continued texting her. He also purchased two firearms and placed them in his home around this time. Horrifically bad judgement and timing, at minimum.

Bad judgement? So he knew the girlfriend is a likely murderer and should have done something else?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:So…. He literally put the gun in her hand? As in he bought it and gave it to her?

In Jan of 2022 the accused discovered text messages on his phone that indicating him contacting the decedent. She called the other woman and said stay away from my man or some such. Male cyclist changed the contact name of the other woman in his phone and continued texting her. He also purchased two firearms and placed them in his home around this time. Horrifically bad judgement and timing, at minimum.

Bad judgement? So he knew the girlfriend is a likely murderer and should have done something else?

He shouldn't have been making sh#tty life choices and *also* keeping deadly weapons in the house he shared with an unstable romantic partner he was at minimum, emotionally abusing.

This is why Americans will never reconcile gun violence. You don't have to pull the trigger. You just have to keep it around. And if you make enough other bad choices, violence will intersect with those bad choices. Access to firearms 100% pushed this whole situation over the edge. Argue otherwise.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:So…. He literally put the gun in her hand? As in he bought it and gave it to her?

In Jan of 2022 the accused discovered text messages on his phone that indicating him contacting the decedent. She called the other woman and said stay away from my man or some such. Male cyclist changed the contact name of the other woman in his phone and continued texting her. He also purchased two firearms and placed them in his home around this time. Horrifically bad judgement and timing, at minimum.

Bad judgement? So he knew the girlfriend is a likely murderer and should have done something else?

He shouldn't have been making sh#tty life choices and *also* keeping deadly weapons in the house he shared with an unstable romantic partner he was at minimum, emotionally abusing.

This is why Americans will never reconcile gun violence. You don't have to pull the trigger. You just have to keep it around. And if you make enough other bad choices, violence will intersect with those bad choices. Access to firearms 100% pushed this whole situation over the edge. Argue otherwise.

Argument: She might have poisoned her? Post: I am not pro-gun either, but Strickland had more than "PROXIMITY" in this mess. I hope he gets charged with the max for accomplice or abetting or something.

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Anonymous wrote:Obviously this is terrible and please don't misconstrue anything I'm about to write as a defense of what this woman did. She murdered someone, it's terrible, I feel awful for the victim and her family. No one deserves that.

I used to see stuff like this and view it with detachment, like "oh that person must just be a bad person, I can't relate, why are people so terrible." But I went through something in the last few years (not a cheating partner, thankfully, something totally different) and experienced what I can only describe as social humiliation. It was crushing and really messed me up. I feel like I'd been deprived of my humanity, unfairly. I got very paranoid for a time and felt like everyone I knew was laughing at me and pitying me behind my back. I wound up quitting my job for a time, doing intensive therapy, and making several other big changes, and eventually got through it. It was the hardest thing I've ever done.

But now I understand how this stuff happens. I didn't kill anyone when this happened to me and I really don't think I would (I'm a pacifist and abhor guns), but now I get how it happens. When you feel humiliated in this way, it feels like there is nothing left to lose. If you are convinced that everyone hates you anyway, especially if it feels like they hate you for things that are not your fault and out of your control, it's like, well what's left? It's like your connection to society is severed. It's terrifying.

I think PPs are right that her anger stemmed from feeling like she was losing her plan for her future, and feeling this woman stole it from her. But I think the thing that made her willing to kill this woman, instead of just yelling at her spreading nasty rumors or something, was the sense of humiliation. It was being lied to and then finding out, feeling like everyone was in on a joke that she was the butt of. Or at least that's what I think. When I was going through this, I had violent thoughts I can't believe I had. Thoughts that scared me.

I've since vowed that if anyone I know ever goes through there, to show up and let them know they are loved and valued, that I'm not laughing at them. To remind them they are still human and they are still connected to someone. I wish this woman had had something like that.

Gently, you should seek therapy.

“I wound up quitting my job for a time, doing intensive therapy, and making several other big changes, and eventually got through it. It was the hardest thing I've ever done.”

Gently, you should seek baseline reading comprehension skills.

I read that. It sounds though, that you need perhaps more consistent therapy to manage violent tendencies generally, given your history.

Telling someone you don't know, who has just stated they are in therapy, that they "seek therapy" makes no sense. Also, violent thoughts are not the same as violent tendencies. It's actually a common response to trauma. People who have experienced physical or sexual abuse often report having violent fantasies about hurting their abuser or even people who enabled the abuse. It can be upsetting and alarming, but is not the same as having "violent tendencies." Most likely it is an instinctual response to feeling powerless and threatened, a way for their subconscious to try to re-assert control over their body.

It might scare you to hear about it but these are things people deal with. It takes courage to say, even anonymously, "I have been through this and found a healthy and productive way to get through it." Maybe if we talked more honestly about dealing with feelings like this, we'd see fewer horrible crimes like this one. If we normalized the idea that having negative, vengeful, even violent thoughts does not mean you are an evil person or that you need to act on those thoughts, but instead can and should seek out places to talk through them, maybe more people would do so and we would be a less violent society.

Very well said. Thanks.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:My takeaway is to never put my location information out there so people can track me. That this woman would kill was surely not on the victim’s radar. If you check in somewhere, do it after you have left a place. Obviously, it’s not that hard to find someone’s home address but no need to put more info out there.

Most 20-somethings keep their GPA location public to all of their friends on snapchat, among other apps. Teens and 20-somethings have no appreciation for or understanding of privacy -- big tech has eroded it.

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Anonymous wrote:Don’t sleep with other people’s partners.

She did nothing wrong. She wasn’t the other woman. There was no committed relationship

The vehicle resembled an SUV registered to a woman who lives with Strickland, according to the affidavit.

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Anonymous wrote:The boyfriend seems like a huge narcissist. Unfortunately, the decedent was pulled into this train wreck.

Our kids should learn about good dating habits as a part of sex education.

Women should not go on dates with men who are taken.

I mean...that's not helpful to someone that is really young/inexperienced, which is what the PP before you was trying to say.

This dude was/is a train wreck. Older, more experience women (who are apparently just lucky not to get killed) can spot guys like this a mile away.

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Anonymous wrote:The boyfriend seems like a huge narcissist. Unfortunately, the decedent was pulled into this train wreck.

Our kids should learn about good dating habits as a part of sex education.

Women should not go on dates with men who are taken.

He probably lied to her! JFC And even if he didn't, it's NOT THE VICTIM'S FAULT.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:It seems like it’s so much more salacious and interesting when it’s a woman who murders the AP rather than a man. That’s the vibe I get. Am I wrong?

No. The NYC murder of that rich SAHM who was having an affair with her maintenance guy was just as salacious and interesting...

The latest is he told investigators that he confronted her because he thought she gave him AIDS and because she was cheating on him with other guys. She had a date with another guy. She was married too, btw.

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As someone that’s known him, lived with him and been associated with him for nearly 8 years. This isn’t surprising. Anyone in the Austin cycling scene will tell you his game, find the most unstable attractive girl he can find and play games with her till it explodes into drama, it’s his dating cycle. It’s ended in theft of property, restraining orders, all kinds of wild shit.
At what point is a person responsible for pushing another to the point of insanity? Did he pull the trigger? No… and she deserves everything she gets for that murder. but I will always consider him at fault for pulling Mo into his trash fire of a dating life.
She deserved better than this.

https://cyclingtips.com/2022/05/arrest-warrant-issued-for-kaitlin-armstrong-in-mo-wilson-shooting-case/

Wow - why would you deliberately seek out someone mentally unstable as a lover and then seek to destabilize them even more?

Because he's a narcissist or a sociopath and he's an abuser. Total scumbag.

This doesn't absolve Armstrong at all btw, but Strickland is also a garbage person.