• "Yoga Teacher Killer" is about Kaitlin Armstrong, who murdered her boyfriend's lover,  Anna Moriah Wilson.
• Armstrong shot Wilson dead in May 2022.
• Armstrong fled to Costa Rica and evaded the authorities for a month before being caught.

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"Yoga Teacher Killer: The Kaitlin Armstrong Story" is based on a murder that happened in May 2022 in Austin, Texas.

The true crime drama tells of how yoga teacher Armstrong (Caity Lotz) discovered that her boyfriend, Colin Strickland (Kyle Schmid), was having an affair with pro-cyclist Anna Moriah Wilson (Larissa Dias).

On May 11 2022, Wilson went to dinner with Strickland in Austin, Texas, before dropping her back to a friend's apartment where she was staying.

After Stickland left, Armstrong arrived at the property and shot Wilson twice in the head and once in the heart in revenge for the affair, assistant district attorney Rick Jones told the court during Armstrong's trial, The Independent reported in 2023.

Police questioned Armstrong three days after Wilson was shot, but she wasn't arrested at the time. She evaded the authorities by flying to Costa Rica using her sister's passport.

There, she had plastic surgery in San Jose to change her appearance and spent 43 days on the run. The task force that traveled to Costa Rica to search for Armstrong spoke to CBS in 2024 about finding her, and Deputy Marshal Damien Fernandez recalled being told by locals it would be difficult.

"I think from the get-go we were told … you're gonna be in for a surprise 'cause a lot of the women in Santa Teresa look just like Kaitlin — a lot of them," he said, referring to the tourists that the town attracts.

According to a 2022 press release from the US Marshals Service, Armstrong was eventually arrested on June 29, 2022at a Santa Teresa Beach hostel in Provincia de Puntarenas, Costa Rica.

Deputy Marshals told CBS that they caught Armstrong by putting out an advert for a yoga teacher near the hostel. She responded and was apprehended before being extradited to Texas.

Armstrong was sentenced to 90 years in prison

On November 17, 2022, Amstrong was found guilty of first-degree murder and sentenced to 90 years in prison for killing Wilson. She did not testify during the proceedings, ABC News reported. Armstrong will be eligible for parole after 30 years in 2052.

Following the verdict, Karen Wilson, the victim's mother, addressed Armstrong in court, The Independent reported.

"Kaitlin Armstrong. I'm not sure that my words can penetrate your heart but I'm gonna try. I hate what you did to my beautiful daughter it was very selfish and cowardly.

Referring to Wilson's brother and father, she said: "When you shot Moriah in the heart, you shot me in my heart. You shot Eric and Matt in the heart… You shot cousins and aunts and uncles and all the people who loved her, there in their hearts."

According to the Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Armstrong is currently serving her sentence at the Dr. Lane Murray Unit in Gainesville, Texas.

• Elon Musk said Tesla could be worth $30 trillion one day, and Donald Trump is a Cybertruck fan.
• The Tesla CEO compared cutting costs to washing dishes, and floated an AWS-style cloud business.
• Here's a roundup of Musk's 12 best quotes from the EV maker's annual meeting on Thursday.

Elon Musk proclaimed that Tesla could be worth $30 trillion, compared cost cutting to washing the dishes, and revealed Donald Trump calls him randomly and loves the Cybertruck.

The Tesla CEO spoke at his company's annual meeting in Austin on Thursday. Musk thanked shareholders for approving his controversial $56 billion pay package, and suggested Tesla could emulate Amazon's cloud-computing business.

He also predicted robot companions would become the default, and flagged challenges such as rising US-China tensions and a tougher electric vehicle market.

Here are Musk's 12 best quotes, lightly edited for length and clarity:

1. "I just wanted to start off by saying: Hot damn, I love you guys." (Musk was thanking his shareholders for voting in favor of his contested pay package once valued at about $55 billion.)
2. "I guess I've been pathologically optimistic from birth. If I wasn't optimistic, this factory wouldn't exist."
3. "I think it's actually conceivable, it's within the realm of possibility, for Tesla to achieve a valuation 10 times that of the most valuable company today." (Musk's comment implied a $30 trillion valuation — or 10 times the market value of Apple.)

4. "It's actually pretty wild we have a giant car factory in the San Francisco Bay Area. It's not exactly the cheapest place to have a car factory. It's like that and the Swiss Alps or something."

   

5. "It is a hard problem. I have to say there's quite a lot of brain damage required to be good at cell manufacturing — it's like a brain damage high."
6. "Amazon Web Services became more valuable than the entire rest of Amazon. I think there's some kind of opportunity there that's pretty significant for Tesla down the road. Nobody's really factoring that in." (Musk was envisioning renting out the spare computing power from a fleet of 100 million Tesla vehicles.)
7. "It is getting a little crazy these days. To first approximation, the probability that a homicidal maniac will try to kill you is proportionate to how many homicidal maniacs hear your name. So they hear my name a lot — I'm like, okay, I'm on the list. Think of John Lennon who was singing about, 'Hey, can't we all just be nice to each other,' and then he got shot by one of his fans. Like, okay, we'll try to avoid that."

8. "I have had some conversations with him and he does call me out of the blue for no reason. A lot of his friends now have Teslas and they all love it, and he's a huge fan of the Cybertruck." (Musk was discussing his contact with Donald Trump.)

   

9. "It's tough sledding out there for EVs. Almost every manufacturer has announced reductions in their electric vehicle plans. Now Tesla, we're going to increase, but it is not an easy market."
10. "There's enough lithium refining if you count China. If there's a geopolitical challenge on that front, then there may be a shortage of lithium. I think it's pretty important to be careful with geopolitical risk and just make sure that in a worst-case situation that Tesla is okay." (Musk on Tesla's plans to scale up its lithium refining.)
11. "I really would describe making a car more affordable like 'Game of Thrones' but pennies: Game of Pennies. To be frank, it's not the funnest job in the world, chiseling pennies — it's like washing the dishes."
12. "We're headed for a wild future, I mean wild, wild, wild. Cars will drive themselves, people will have super helpful, humanoid help robots. I think it will get to this point where it'll be odd not to have a robot buddy, not to have your C-3PO and R2-D2." (Musk was touting Tesla's self-driving cars and Optimus humanoid robots.)

• I've stayed in 5-star hotels around the world, but an amenity on a recent trip surprised me.
• My room at the Balmoral in Edinburgh, Scotland, came with a complimentary power adapter.
• It helped me realize that sometimes, the best amenities are the most simple.

The past few times I've gone overseas, my trip has begun in a frenzy.

Without fail, shortly before I leave for the airport, I remember I need a power adapter. So with my bags already packed, I frantically research what kind of adapter I need and tear through my drawers to find one that will (hopefully) work.

I've always found adapters slightly mystifying. Sometimes, they work; sometimes, they don't. Sometimes, I think I have one that's compatible with a country's outlets, only to find out it won't fit.

So when I checked into the Balmoral in Edinburgh, Scotland, last month, I was thrilled to find one sitting on the desk, awaiting my arrival.

A good hotel anticipates what a traveler will need before they can ask for it

In my time as a travel writer, I've stayed in hotels around the world — from five-star accommodations to airport chains.

I've stayed in hotels with Michelin-starred restaurants and members-only cigar clubs, and yet I found this simple, cheap amenity to be one of the most helpful.

It sounds silly: Wouldn't the best amenity be something a little more… luxurious? Of course, the Balmoral had its share of fancy services. It has a fitness center that would make gym buffs swoon, and a scotch bar with hundreds of whiskeys. These are the things that help a five-star hotel earn its rating.

But I think some of the best hotels are those that predict a traveler's every need.

We've come to expect snacks and drinks in our rooms for when we're feeling peckish or slippers for the morning walk to the shower. It's only natural that this kind of thoughtful treatment should apply to the more granular parts of a hotel stay.

Other hotels should take notes

Having a travel adapter at my disposal felt like one less thing to worry about when I got to Edinburgh. I could charge my phone or start work right away instead of having to head out on a hunt for an adapter (which I have done before).

A spokesperson for the Balmoral told me that the adapters are in every room in the hotel. Guests don't get to keep them, but they're useful during the stay.

The adapter, despite being so simple, was exactly the kind of smart amenity I think every hotel should have — five stars or not.

• Honda has unveiled the N-VAN e, a tiny electric truck costing from $15,500.
• The diminutive truck is targeted at delivery companies and goes on sale in Japan in October.
• Japan is famous for its tiny Kei cars, which are ideal for short journeys and city driving.  

Japan is famous for its tiny vehicles, known as Kei cars, which are well suited for navigating the narrow streets of crowded cities like Tokyo.

The country's best-selling electric vehicle last year was the Nissan Sakura, a $13,000 electric Kei car that outsold EV giants like Tesla, according to data from auto industry groups compiled by Bloomberg.

Now, Honda is getting into the tiny EV game. The Japanese automaker has unveiled the N-VAN e, a miniature electric truck that starts at 2.44 million yen ($15,500).

It comes as Japan lags behind the rest of the world in transitioning to EVs. Just 2.2% of new passenger cars sold in Japan in 2023 were electric, according to data from industry bodies, compared to 25% in EV pace-setter China, per Nikkei.

Honda's electric truck will be targeted at delivery and construction companies rather than ordinary consumers. The company is already trialing the pocket-sized truck with logistic firm Yamato.

The EV will have a range of 152 miles and will be able to charge in 30 minutes with fast charging, Honda says.

Honda has also attempted to solve the issues EVs have in hot and cold temperatures, installing a battery cooling and heating system to ensure it remains at a stable temperature.

The company says the N-VAN e will also function as a mobile power storage device, with drivers able to use the truck's external power outlet to charge household appliances such as hot plates and electric kettles.

The N-Van can seat between one and four people, depending on which style the buyer selects; each option varies in price. The truck is expected to launch in Japan in October.

Separately, Honda announced it would establish a new company in partnership with fellow Japanese manufacturer Mitsubishi.

The new joint venture, Altna, will aim to lower the cost of electric vehicles and extend the lifetime of EV batteries.

Like other Japanese automakers, Honda was slow to get into the EV game.

However, it is now racing to electrify, investing $11 billion in a Canadian EV hub and pledging to have 80% of its vehicle lineup be EVs by 2035 and 100% by 2040.