Did anyone catch the Dateline show about the murder of Moriah? I believe it was called "The Last Ride". It got the full treatment, starting with the "boyfriend" angle, then the evidence, then the hunt and capture, to her lawyer talking about how "new evidence will come to light" yada yada. He even tried to play off her fleeing to Costa Rica because "she thought Collin might be involved so she needed to flee from him." It sounds like their strategy is to put the focus back on Collin even though even Dateline seemed to agree that while he made some dumb decisions regarding women, he was not involved.
Thanks for posting this; I missed this when it was originally aired but it can be found on Peacock.
Pretty interesting for sure; I was certainly in the camp of thinking she is guilty since she fled etc. However, her attorney seems very confident that she will be acquitted. I guess we will see in due time.. I know I will be following this as it plays out.
SWGraveler wrote:However, her attorney seems very confident that she will be acquitted. I guess we will see in due time.
Yeah... I read the interview with him. He's good. But that is what he is paid to do... and after 3 jury trials where the case seemed nip and tuck and then in all cases the defendant was narrowly found guilty and then after the case all the truth comes out, you begin to see what scumbags some (not all) DA's are.
But who knows... it would be quite a twist if Collin did this. But I doubt it, not that it matters what I think.
Yeah pretty sure early on it was posted that her car was close to the murder scene. What do you think she tried to hide her identity and fled?
I was just thinking that, if her car was seen in the vicinity at the “wrong” time, and he had a plausible explanation as to where he was at that time, her attorney’s assertion that “she thought he may have been involved” holds water about like a colander…
It’s TV’s job to try to make straightforward tragedies seem more mysterious than they are or no one would watch. These things are never the kind of BS breathless viewers speculate about. They are always exactly what they seem. Yes, Colin is guilty of felony level Bro crappy behavior toward women. He was clearly playing both of them with fibs to keep the action going and by various accounts from Austin people this wasn’t new behavior for him. And he’s guilty of serious stupidity for buying her a gun knowing she had serious anger issues. He’s lucky he didn’t end up a target himself.
But seriously, people. Her car appeared on video seconds after he left the soon-to-be crime scene on a motorcycle. She declined to answer questions about whether she was involved and then when the cops screwed up and let her go she sold her car, altered her appearance in various ways including apparently plastic surgery and ... fled the country. She had threatened to kill Mo, she owned the gun used to do it, her car was on site immediately after her boyfriend dropped off the woman she had warned to stay away from him... The only mystery here is whether the lawyer can spin some really, really thin material into a decent plea bargain. I’m betting no.
Curious that Kaitlin's defense was not presented until the very end when it seemed like she (or her family) managed to hire what seemed to be a very competent defense attorney, but maybe she just had deeper pockets than it seemed. Also really liked that the Costa Rica surfer guy was totally chill and unmoved about a fling with suspect number one in a murder. Colin's behavior was also probably not in the spirit of gravel through all this.
zen_ wrote:Curious that Kaitlin's defense was not presented until the very end when it seemed like she (or her family) managed to hire what seemed to be a very competent defense attorney, but maybe she just had deeper pockets than it seemed. Also really liked that the Costa Rica surfer guy was totally chill and unmoved about a fling with suspect number one in a murder. Colin's behavior was also probably not in the spirit of gravel through all this.
I don't think the Costa Rica surfer bro gets too moved about anything........me thinks that dude smokes ALOT of dope. 😇
thumper88 wrote: Yes, Colin is guilty of felony level Bro crappy behavior toward women. He was clearly playing both of them with fibs to keep the action going and by various accounts from Austin people this wasn’t new behavior for him. And he’s guilty of serious stupidity for buying her a gun knowing she had serious anger issues. He’s lucky he didn’t end up a target himself.
Ah, thanks for that. I was thinking Specialized was grossly overreacting when they dropped him - from what I could see of things, it seemed like he was only really guilty of piss-poor judgement.
Ah, thanks for that. I was thinking Specialized was grossly overreacting when they dropped him - from what I could see of things, it seemed like he was only really guilty of piss-poor judgement.
He had a deal with Specialized? Mo did, but his bikes were Allied and he was one of theirs. Maybe he had some minor deal with them? Allied dropped him. It also sounded like he only started to come clean with the cops about where he was and what he was doing, and the time line etc after they confronted him with sone factoids.
It's a privilege to be factory sponsored. They do this to hopefully increase sales by people thinking if they ride that bike or use that gear they will be better. Kind of slanted but for sure they sure don't want any negative publicity to hurt them. Plenty of athletes have lost their sponsorship.
Zurichman wrote:It's a privilege to be factory sponsored. They do this to hopefully increase sales by people thinking if they ride that bike or use that gear they will be better. Kind of slanted but for sure they sure don't want any negative publicity to hurt them. Plenty of athletes have lost their sponsorship.
At first blush, it seemed that Strickland (and Wilson, if we’re being brutally honest) were only guilty of poor judgement in their personal lives, but as more info about him comes out, it becomes clearer what his role was.
Don't know why the focus on the Specialized reaction - I am pretty certain that most every one of his major sponsors dropped him. Rapha, Allied, Wahoo, Meteor. I think the only one that didn't publicly declare that they dropped him is Red Bull. I believe the last story I saw was that Red Bull said "no comment" when asked if they were still sponsoring him.
Konass wrote:Don't know why the focus on the Specialized reaction - I am pretty certain that most every one of his major sponsors dropped him. Rapha, Allied, Wahoo, Meteor. I think the only one that didn't publicly declare that they dropped him is Red Bull. I believe the last story I saw was that Red Bull said "no comment" when asked if they were still sponsoring him.
My info is pretty old. Initially, most of them said “…we’re looking into it…” but were noncommittal. Specialized dropped him like a hot rock, so I wondered why. Now I have a better idea, but at the time it raised an eyebrow at the time, since they were the only ones.
I didn’t really follow things much after that, apart from seeing the occasional update as to where Kaitlin was.
