{"id":135547,"date":"2026-01-23T20:58:08","date_gmt":"2026-01-23T20:58:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/135547\/"},"modified":"2026-01-23T20:58:08","modified_gmt":"2026-01-23T20:58:08","slug":"texas-appeals-court-affirms-murder-conviction-of-kaitlin-armstrong","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/135547\/","title":{"rendered":"Texas appeals court affirms murder conviction of Kaitlin Armstrong"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p data-v-6c8e215c=\"\">AUSTIN, Texas &#8211; Kaitlin Armstrong&#8217;s appeal was denied by the Texas Third Court of Appeals on Friday.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p data-v-6c8e215c=\"\">Armstrong was convicted of first-degree murder for the death of Anna Moriah Wilson back in November 2023. She was sentenced to 90 years in prison.<\/p>\n<p>    <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/et7ak7qec06h6s42.jpg\" alt=\"Kaitlin Armstrong sentenced to 90 years\" class=\"sr-only\" data-v-4292be72=\"\"\/>   <\/p>\n<p data-v-6c8e215c=\"\">According to documents, the appellate court had three issues to decide, including whether Armstrong\u2019s statement to law enforcement should be suppressed.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p data-v-6c8e215c=\"\">All three grounds were denied.<\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"KTBC\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-6c8e215c=\"\">What they&#8217;re saying:<\/p>\n<p data-v-6c8e215c=\"\">Travis County District Attorney Jose Garza released this statement:<\/p>\n<p data-v-6c8e215c=\"\">&#8220;Our hearts continue to break for Moriah\u2019s family and friends. The Appellate process, while a fundamental right of any defendant, prolongs closure. We will continue fighting to ensure that the defendant is held accountable for her actions.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"group-source-paragraph\" data-v-4fbf7207=\"\">The Source: Information from court documents<\/p>\n<p>    <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox7austin.com\/tag\/kaitlin-armstrong\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-6c8e215c=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Kaitlin Armstrong<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox7austin.com\/tag\/crime-publicsafety\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-6c8e215c=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Crime and Public Safety<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox7austin.com\/tag\/us\/tx\/travis-county\/austin\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-6c8e215c=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Austin<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"AUSTIN, Texas &#8211; Kaitlin Armstrong&#8217;s appeal was denied by the Texas Third Court of Appeals on Friday.\u00a0 Armstrong&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":135548,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[132,134,133,1046,57779,223,394,216,393],"class_list":["post-135547","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-austin","tag-austin","tag-austin-headlines","tag-austin-news","tag-crime-publicsafety","tag-kaitlin-armstrong","tag-news","tag-travis-county","tag-tx","tag-us"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135547","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=135547"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135547\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/135548"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=135547"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=135547"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=135547"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}