Occam's razor.
Strickland wanted to bang/date Mo without his current girlfriend finding out. Dude had a rep as a player.
Armstrong found out, lost her shit, and killed Mo. Not much more complicated than that.
If this was anywhere with sane gun laws, they would have had nasty words and a fist fight, but it's Texas, so it's guns and death.

Is it such a stretch to think that "on my way home, what's for dinner..." could have been the signal that Strickland dropped off Mo at the house she was staying at? Maybe it wasn't that, but maybe it was. I guess I wasn't the only one who thought the timing was interesting, regardless of what the actual message said.

Edit to add, clearly this dude is a scumbag, scumbags do scummy things, which can mean cheating on a partner/spouse or helping someone commit a very serious crime.

Timing made perfect sense to me. Text sent immediately after done with one woman and turn attention to next woman. Jeep shows up one minute later because Armstrong either followed Strickland and Wilson or was staking out the house.

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I'm sure Armstrong got wind of Strickland hanging out with another woman (maybe she knew it was Mo...maybe not. But another woman just the same). Followed Strickland from the pool to the burger joint then to dropping Mo off at her friend's place. Then we all know what happened from there,,,,,,

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Pink? Maybe. Maybe not. You decide.

The easiest explanation is exactly that. She was sitting up the street.

The legal term, which typically can elevate a murder charge from second to first degree, is lying in wait.

No, based on how much effort she went through it would have been a stabbing or a bombing.

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Washed up footy player turned Triathlete.

Curious…do you mean sane gun laws like Chicago or New York City? Or are you merely a lemming, piling on crazy ole’ Texas?

Because I’d wager Texas has far less shooting deaths than Illinois or New York…who have much stricter gun laws…

Then you’d lose that wager.

On a per-capita basis, red states are about 2x the level of gun-related deaths to blue states.
For the exact reason you’ (not you, clearly - generic ‘you’) would logically expect -
due to guns being far more prevalent and easily obtained in red states.

It’s almost as if more guns = more gun-related deaths?
Nah. That’s unpossible.

It’s not like Murcia leads the developed world in gun ownership, by a ridiculously huge margin.
And also leads the world in gun deaths, also by a ridiculously huge margin.

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Curious…do you mean sane gun laws like Chicago or New York City? Or are you merely a lemming, piling on crazy ole’ Texas? //

I think the real lemmings when it comes to guns, are the MAGA crowd, the far right and the plugged in FOX crowd. You know, the ones who think that gun laws here in the US are somehow in a vacuum. They like to point to places who are trying to tighten up there areas, and how it often doesn't help that much. They are so dumb and clueless, that they cannot see the gun shop across the county or state line still pumping guns into these areas. Those would be your lemmings, the ones that like to say if you cannot cure all the problems, and right now, what is the point?...

I understand what you are saying…I did not do a great job making my real point…i just think it is really narrow minded thinking to say this murder happened because of a gun law or lack there of.

As to your point I’d lose my wager…you are correct I was wrong. But you are not fully correct either…pertaining to the 3 states I mentioned…you are right on the mark with New York…but Texas and Illinois have basically equal gun mortality rates per the CDC. Texas 14.2, Illinois 14.1/100,000. While one state has much stricter gun laws…

Didn’t vote for trump…sorry Monty…and it’s just the California thing to paint anyone you don’t agree with as someone who watches FOX…this shit is so fucking tired…

There is almost no difference per 100k between Illinois (14.1 Deaths) and Texas (14.2 Deaths).

Can you explain why Delaware and Louisiana are so high? Louisiana may be purple, but the gun crime comes from one city, which is BLUE as can be.

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Washed up footy player turned Triathlete.

I didn't call you out personally, did the description offend you though? You know what is tired, people that parrot the talking points of all the right wing media and outlets, but then pretend they came up with those assumptions all on their own. Do you really expect that recent tougher gun laws are going to magically make things way better overnight?

It took us 100's of years to get to this place in our history, it will at the very least take many, many decades to get us out of it. We are at the very beginning of trying to do something about gun violence here in the US, and to cherry pick a county here and there who have begun that process, and call them out because it is still bad there, well seems kind of tired too, no?

Things like MAGA and CIS belong in the lavender room. Both are pejorative terms.

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Washed up footy player turned Triathlete.

You continue to make my points for me…

Monty talking equals supremely nuanced opinions and anything else is a “talking point” so you can label people…again…fucking tired

Why would this Strickland guy want her dead?

People, let’s get back on track here. https://www.crimeonline.com/...ports/?fs=e&s=cl[/url]

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Delaware is 25th, not really sure I’d call that high per se…more like almost exactly in the middle. Though it did jump a bit from 2019 (9.9) to 2020 (14.4). Given that the majority of firearm desths in Delaware are suicides and not homicides, perhaps there was an increase in firearm related suicides which lead to this jump

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Hello logella and All,

Some of you may have followed Seth Davidson some time back .... 'Cycling in the South Bay' ... with his daily (for many years) post on all things bicycle (it is not about the bicycle).

Seth left Palos Verdes some time ago and lives in the mountains up toward Lake Isabella, CA. about 144.9 miles from Valyermo.

After a couple of years off the grid ... he is now cranking out a post most every day again ...

You might find his take on Mo Wilson murder interesting ... Seth is also an attorney ... and can recite about 6 hours of Chaucer's 'Canterbury Tales' ... in middle english ... from memory.

https://citsb.com/...strickland-murderer/

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Cheers, Neal

+1 mph Faster

Thanks for posting this. Interesting read -- probably too quick to excuse Armstrong's alleged actions, but makes a well argued case, and I certainly agree with his assessment of Strickland.

Wow. That’s an amazing article.

Hmmm - a malignant narcissist gaslighting people into committing crimes on their behalf, then acting like they had nothing to do with it?

That sounds kinda familiar….
/ end pink.

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float , hammer , and jog

The majority of guns used in crimes in Illinois come from across state lines, where there are some of the latest gun laws in the country. Not to mention that there is a large section of red in the state with mostly just the cities being blue. Lot of guns in Illinois

As has been explained before, if you have a place with strict gun laws surrounded by places that have none, that unfortunately doesn't fully work. It's essentially the same thing as COVID

It's also incredibly speculative unless this guy actually knows Strickland and was privy to his relationship with Armstrong. He's taken a couple of facts and done a huge amount of speculation.

Is every person that cheats a narcissist? How does he have any idea Strickland was gaslighting Armstrong as opposed to her just being bat shit crazy?

His last text to Armstrong was pure gaslighting. He had just gone swimming with a romantic interest, and texted to Armstrong a lie that he was delivering flowers and his phone died. And, what do you want for dinner?

His other texts in the police affidavit indicate he was also gaslighting Wilson.

She's also batshit crazy, though.