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Originally Posted by Mark McM
According to information that has been released, Austen police originally brought her in on May 12th based on an unrelated warrant, less than a day after the murder took place (which happened in the evening of the 11th). During the interview it was discovered that the warrant was invalid, and the police were obligated to let her go. It wasn't until the following days that the police gathered the evidence (interviews, additional survaillence footage, an anonymous phone call, etc.) to get an arrest warrant for Armstrong. By that time she was long gone (last sighting of her is reportedly on the 13th).
It does make you wonder what the unrelated warrant was about.
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It says it was a Class B warrant, so stuff that's serious but not a felony:
https://www.pevetolaw.com/texas-warrants/
Read the affidavit again - they already had the surveillance footage, the Strickland interview, and knew she had a gun. They questioned her about the evidence they'd gathered and observed her reaction to the evidence and the death. They had plenty of reason to detain her yet didn't - whether this was by choice or by law because they originally detained her under the class B warrant which was discovered to be invalid we don't know. But at face value seems like a screw up.
https://www.documentcloud.org/docume...&sidebar=false
05-23-2022, 05:24 PM
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