Snapshot · Crime, Conspiracy, Cults and Murder
On October 11, 2023, just three weeks before her murder trial, Armstrong escaped from a corrections escort by fashioning a makeshift handcuff key and was recaptured after a 10-minute foot chase covering about a mile.
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Costa Rican authorities detained Armstrong on an immigration violation — entering the country on someone else's passport — on June 29, 2022. She refused to give her real name for six hours on the road to San José before finally relenting. Inside her hostel locker: two passports (her own and Christine's), a Newark boarding pass in Christine's name, and the receipt for her cosmetic surgery. She was deported rather than extradited — a deliberate legal distinction to avoid the formal negotiation process — and landed in Houston on July 2nd. By July 5th, she was in Travis County jail facing first-degree murder and theft of service charges, with bond set at $3.5 million. Mo's family released a statement expressing relief that the uncertainty was finally behind them.
Three weeks before her murder trial, Armstrong escaped a corrections escort by fashioning a homemade handcuff key from a thin piece of metal she'd stashed in her cell. She peeled off her jail uniform mid-sprint, climbed a tree, then a six-foot fence — and was caught at the top after a 10-minute chase.
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