066 - The Mysterious Death of Mitrice Richardson

Trace Evidence

Steven Pacheco

True Crime, Documentary, Society & Culture, History

4.7 • 4.2K Ratings

🗓️ 8 January 2019

⏱️ 87 minutes

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Summary

Twenty-four year old Mitrice Richardson wasn't making sense. She was sending cryptic text messages and indecipherable social media posts. Her mother was concerned, and on September 16th, 2009, she received a call explaining that Mitrice had been arrested in Malibu.

After speaking with the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department, Mitrice's mother was told her daughter wouldn't be released until the morning. With plans of picking her up the next day, her mother went to sleep. When she awoke, she was startled to discover Mitrice had been released and now, no one knew where she was.

Over the course of the next year the anger between the family and Sheriff's department continued to grow as lies were uncovered and Mitrice's family felt the Sheriff's department was conducting a coverup. On August 9th, 2010, eleven months after she disappeared, Mitrice's body was recovered down a remote Canyon some six miles from the Sheriff's station. The discovery sadly confirmed that Mitrice had died, but the question of how would become the center of a firestorm of controversy.

Join host Steven Pacheco as he examines the details of this deeply tragic and confusing case.

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0:35.8	24-year-old Mitrice Richardson was enacting like herself. For days, she had been making bizarre posts on
0:43.3	social media and sending confusing and chaotic text messages to friends and family. On Wednesday,
0:50.3	September 16, 2009, the young woman decided to take a 40-minute drive down to Malibu to look at
0:58.6	the ocean. After a string of bizarre actions, Mitrice finds herself at a fancy restaurant,
1:05.6	unable to pay her bill. Deputies from the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department arrive and
1:12.3	question Mitrice. She's given a field sobriety test, which she passes. When her vehicle is searched,
1:19.3	though, a small amount of marijuana is discovered. At the time, Mitrice was placed under a rest and brought
1:26.7	to the Lost Hills Sheriff's Station while her vehicle was impounded elsewhere. A deputy spoke with
1:33.6	Mitrice's mother, Lateece, and explains that she'll be held until the morning, at which time
1:39.7	Lateece plans to come down and pick her up. Unfortunately, Mitrice is released at 12.28am and
1:47.6	disappears into the darkness. Over the course of the next year, a riff divides Mitrice's family from
1:55.2	the Sheriff's Department. Accusations of racism, a cover-up, and illegal activity are hurled out into
2:01.9	the media, which creates a firestorm of controversy. Why was Mitrice released when she was clearly not
2:09.3	behaving normally? Why was the young mother told they'd hold her only to release her a few hours
2:15.3	later? Why was the young woman allowed to walk out into the darkness with only her car keys and
2:21.6	driver's license, rather than being given a ride back to her car, some 15 miles away? All of these
2:29.4	questions culminate in August of 2010 when Mitrice's body is discovered down a ravine, six miles from
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