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A Rising Cyclist Shot Dead | Presenting Clues with Morgan Absher and Kaelyn Moore
Mo didn't have any enemies, according to her friend Cash.
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A Rising Cyclist Shot Dead | Presenting Clues with Morgan Absher and Kaelyn Moore
She didn't really know anyone in Austin, except for that one other friend, Colin Strickland.
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A Rising Cyclist Shot Dead | Presenting Clues with Morgan Absher and Kaelyn Moore
So they needed to evaluate our first clue, the crime scene, stat, and see what they could really gather to get any idea of where to go.
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A Rising Cyclist Shot Dead | Presenting Clues with Morgan Absher and Kaelyn Moore
Detectives quickly arrived at Caitlin Cash's apartment on the night of May 11th, and they immediately started assessing the crime scene.
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A Rising Cyclist Shot Dead | Presenting Clues with Morgan Absher and Kaelyn Moore
There's no signs of a break-in or forced entry.
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A Rising Cyclist Shot Dead | Presenting Clues with Morgan Absher and Kaelyn Moore
No furniture is damaged.
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A Rising Cyclist Shot Dead | Presenting Clues with Morgan Absher and Kaelyn Moore
The room hasn't been torn apart.
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A Rising Cyclist Shot Dead | Presenting Clues with Morgan Absher and Kaelyn Moore
There's nothing noticeably missing to detectives.
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A Rising Cyclist Shot Dead | Presenting Clues with Morgan Absher and Kaelyn Moore
Immediately and very quickly, they're able to locate shell casings.
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A Rising Cyclist Shot Dead | Presenting Clues with Morgan Absher and Kaelyn Moore
There's three 9mm shell casings on the bathroom floor.
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A Rising Cyclist Shot Dead | Presenting Clues with Morgan Absher and Kaelyn Moore
However, no murder weapon was left behind and isn't clearly visible anywhere nearby.
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A Rising Cyclist Shot Dead | Presenting Clues with Morgan Absher and Kaelyn Moore
The landlord who lived in the unit below, David Harris, was home at the time and said he heard nothing unusual.
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A Rising Cyclist Shot Dead | Presenting Clues with Morgan Absher and Kaelyn Moore
What Harris did hear was footsteps running down the stairs and the sound of bicycle spokes clicking through the back alleyway behind the building.
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A Rising Cyclist Shot Dead | Presenting Clues with Morgan Absher and Kaelyn Moore
And that's when police realized Mo's bike, one of her most prized possessions, her livelihood, essentially like an extension of herself, her identity as an athlete.
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A Rising Cyclist Shot Dead | Presenting Clues with Morgan Absher and Kaelyn Moore
is missing from the apartment.
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A Rising Cyclist Shot Dead | Presenting Clues with Morgan Absher and Kaelyn Moore
A quick search of the area around the complex shows that it didn't go far, though.
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A Rising Cyclist Shot Dead | Presenting Clues with Morgan Absher and Kaelyn Moore
Police find it in the bushes approximately 60 feet away from the building, clearly not stolen.
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A Rising Cyclist Shot Dead | Presenting Clues with Morgan Absher and Kaelyn Moore
It's thrown, tossed haphazardly in the shrubbery.
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A Rising Cyclist Shot Dead | Presenting Clues with Morgan Absher and Kaelyn Moore
So with the one item that appeared to be stolen now accounted for, what's the motive here?
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A Rising Cyclist Shot Dead | Presenting Clues with Morgan Absher and Kaelyn Moore
Investigators quickly began canvassing the neighborhood, collecting any eyewitness statements, any evidence that they can.