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A jury has been set and opening arguments will be presented today in the murder trial of Kaitlyn Armstrong.

The yoga instructor is accused of killing professional cyclist Moriah "Mo" Wilson. Wilson was in Austin to tackle the \\u201cGravel Locos\\u201d race in Hico. As luck would have it, Wilson has friends in the area, so instead of booking a hotel, bunks down with her friend. The friend already has plans for the evening, but that\\u2019s OK.

Wilson has plans of her own. She tells her friend that she\\u2019s meeting up with a guy she dated briefly, to go swimming, grab a meal, and catch up. \\xa0

Wilson\'s friend was also Kaitlyn Armstrong\'s boyfriend. During a brief period when Armstrong and Colin Strickland were separated, he and Wilson dated. It made Armstrong angry, to the point that she confronted Wilson, telling her not to contact Strickland.\\xa0

When Mo Wilson\\u2019s friend returns home from her dinner plans, she finds Wilson unresponsive inside the home. There\\u2019s blood everywhere and her friend is in the bathroom, lodged between the toilet and the wall. 911 is called. Police arrived to find Wilson had been shot multiple times, with a 9mm weapon, and it doesn\\u2019t appear the shooting was random.

As the Austin Police Department investigates, they reach out to neighbors, asking for surveillance video. A neighbor\\u2019s camera, pointed at the driveway of the home where Wilson was staying, caught a Black Jeep Grand Cherokee driving past the house just one minute after Wilson went inside.

In the meantime, police reach out to Colin Strickland, who agrees to an interview at his home. When the police arrived, they see a Black Jeep Grand Cherokee in the driveway... the same one seen in the surveillance video. It belongs to Strickland\\u2019s girlfriend, Kaitlyn Armstrong. \\xa0

Police begin to look at Kaitlyn Armstrong as a suspect.\\xa0 An anonymous caller tells police Armstrong said she wanted to kill Wilson and even bought a gun.\\xa0\\xa0On May 12, Kaitlin Armstrong was brought in for questioning but APD wasn\\u2019t able to get probable cause until May 17. When Armstrong spoke with homicide detectives, she couldn\\u2019t explain why her SUV was in the area the night Mo Wilson was murdered. Police release Armstrong.

When officers try to talk to Armstrong again, she is nowhere to be found. Three days later, a video is released of Armstrong in Austin\'s airport. Investigators say she flew from Austin to Houston and then on to New York. Surveillance footage shows Kaitlin Armstrong flying into New York\'s La Guardia airport on May 14. On May 18, the day after a murder warrant was issued for Armstrong, someone dropped her off at New Jersey\'s Newark airport, but there\\u2019s no record of her taking a flight.

US Marshalls tracked Armstrong to Costa Rica. She had used a family member\'s passport to get there. She had dyed her hair and had plastic surgery to change her appearance.

After a 43-day manhunt, Kaitlyn Armstrong is taken into custody.\\xa0

Joining Nancy Grace Today:

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• Alan Bennett \\u2013 Former Assistant District Attorney, Partner at Gunter, Bennett, and Anthes, gbafirm.com
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• Dr. Bethany Marshall\\xa0\\u2013 Psychoanalyst (Beverly Hills); Twitter: @DrBethanyLive/ Instagram & TikTok: drbethanymarshall
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• Irv Brandt \\u2013 Senior Inspector, US Marshals Service International Investigations Branch; Chief Inspector, DOJ Office of International Affairs, US Embassy Kingston, Jamaica; Author: \\u201cSOLO SHOT: CURSE OF THE BLUE STONE\\u201d \\u2013 AVAILABLE ON AMAZON IN JANUARY; ALSO \\u201cFLYING SOLO: Top of the World;\\u201d Twitter: @JackSoloAuthor
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• Joe Scott Morgan \\u2013 Professor of Forensics: Jacksonville State University, Author, \\u201cBlood Beneath My Feet,\\u201d and Host: \\u201cBody Bags with Joseph Scott Morgan;\\u201d Twitter: @JoScottForensic\\xa0
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• Tony Plohetski - Investigative Reporter, Austin American-Statesman and KVUE; Twitter: @tplohetski
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