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Bible and the Holy Koran I started to wonder on the battle of good versus evil on heaven and hell and which many
believe is a spiritual battle within oneself and not an actual physical presence some believe that evil resides
in all people the yin and yang for example certain things happen to me in life that I considered evil yet they
were perpetrated by those who were supposed to be the good guys and role models the things they did are
considered wrong to their own way of thinking so why did these things happen did I do anything to these people no but
I am crucified while they are accepted and this is taken as a consequence of life so I looked at life in the ruling
class and the so called powers-that-be I began to read books and studied them keeping
thoughts to myself until I could no longer keep it in I came across what many would find such as conspiracy
theories in secret societies but this again crucified me as a paranoid or even worse shouldn't these people be
suffering a state of hell and not me these are quotes from an e-book titled the Luciferian theory this is true crime
garage and this is the case of the Malibu Creek murder [Music] on Thursday June 21st 2018
Tristan Beaudette and his two daughters set out for a weekend camping trip they were accompanied by Tristan's
brother-in-law Scott mccurdy and Scott's two young sons their destination the Malibu Creek Campground located inside
Malibu Creek State Park this is a huge park of 8200 acres the park has 15 miles of trails and is
located in beautiful low-crime Malibu California just 25 miles from Los Angeles the park
itself is pretty famous it contains the set for the iconic TV show mash and was also the site for filming of the
original Planet of the Apes and many famous movie stars live in the area Will Smith's 43 million dollar compound is
nearby and the Kardashians are also not far from here all right configu with it the campground in the park is located
near Los Virginia's Road which connects Calabasas and Malibu the campground has 63 campsites each with a picnic table
and fire ring rented by the knight to people looking to enjoy the great outdoors in this scenic area yeah so on
that Thursday morning Tristan and Scott and the kids they headed up to Malibu Creek Park arriving by early afternoon
they were assigned a campsite at the gate but upon arriving there they decided that they could do better they
scouted around found a different area that they preferred and requested a change at the gate they set up their
tent cook dinner and put the kids to bed in their sleeping bags Tristan and Scott
talked late into the night and according to Scott they then retired in their separate tents where their kids were
already sleeping there are reports out there that on the night of Thursday June 21st 2018 66 0 of the 63 campsites were
occupied so the campground is almost full now at 4:40 4:00 a.m. on Friday morning now June
22nd a 911 call came in to the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department reporting shots fired in the 1900 block
of Los Virginia's Road we don't know who called 911 reports that it was Scott who
heard the shots then found Tristan bleeding and called the police when the police and paramedics arrived they found
Tristan Beaudette he had been shot now the early report says he suffered a gunshot wound to his upper torso
unfortunately there was very little that paramedics could do for him and just a short time later he was pronounced dead
at the scene at 5:21 a.m. the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department lieutenant Rodney Moore told the media
that the man who was shot had been inside a tent with his two daughters when he was struck the girls thankfully
are unharmed they were taken to the Lost Hills sheriff's station in the company of their uncle Scott
sheriff's deputies woke other campers in the campground inspecting their tents for weapons and asked whether anyone had
heard or seen anything strange many didn't have anything to report a few reported hearing three or four loud
bangs which they thought were from some distance and then going back to sleep investigators closed the park so they
could conduct a thorough investigation of the events of that early morning they did not have a lot to go on and they
told reporters that no other information was available to give them at this stage
they had no suspect and no known motive but one thing they did know this was a homicide
what a strange set of circumstances here's a father he's 35 years old he's a young father he's camping with his
daughters and and the fact that he is murdered nobody else in the campsite seems to be affected
not even an injury as far as we could find yeah it's like what's the motive you there's no signs of robbery doesn't
make any sense yeah hit so his two girls they were sleeping with him in that same tent
their ages at the time were two and four but from what I could find their names have not been released to to the public
or to the media Tristan what we know about him he met his wife Erika whoo when they were in high school in Fresno
Tristan was clean-cut and solid he loved cooking Ultimate Frisbee I guess he played on a team called the air squids
which is a pretty cool name mm-hmm he loved nature outdoor activities obviously he's out camping with his
young daughters he likes snowboarding and biking and science in fact he was a scientist for his profession after high
school he took a year to study in Switzerland and then he matriculated at UC San Diego while erica was at Stanford
well it seemed like I said this seems like a all-around pretty cool guy and then fact that he's taking his
daughter's camping yeah cool guy a good father and smart obviously is what we can see here right once he graduated he
was awarded for the highest GPA in his graduating class that is an award I've not received he was enrolled at the
Graduate School at Berkeley where he received his PhD in chemistry so as you pointed out captain as I pointed out one
bright dude the two got married in 2008 and settled in San Francisco but moved to Irvine Erica began an OBGYN residency
and Tristan took a job at a pharmaceutical company in June of 2018 so just shortly before this murder
the couple was one week away from a move back to the San Francisco area this would be so that Erica could begin her
tenure as a practicing doctor and Tristan actually accepted a job with a Bay Area farm
suitable company so they had plans plans to move Erica all she had to do was pass
her medical boards and then she was good to go mm-hmm this is the reason why Tristan took the girls camping Erica
needed to be alone and focused she need to study needed to study for these medical boards Oh with no clear motive
you gotta think that law enforcement is wondering where where she was during these events and was there any type of
relationship outside of the marriage well here's what we do know on Friday June 22nd this is at 6:45 a.m.
so the 9-1-1 call comes in at 4:44 a.m. Tristan is pronounced dead at 5:21 a.m. and this is now 6:45 a.m.
Erica woo was up and getting ready to go and actually take her boards take the test to her surprise even at this very
early hour she found her sister Priscilla at her door Priscilla was there as she had the unfortunate job of
delivering the terrible news right after they spoke Erica and her sister made the
long drive to Malibu to the Lost Hills sheriff's station this was to retrieve her two daughters
Erica of course was in a daze she could not wrap her head around what had happened it was just supposed to be a
short fun camping trip and this wasn't in some remote treacherous or even threatening environment this was a
public park with some of the priciest residential areas in the world nearby one like you said it was almost
completely fooled that day yeah 60 of the 63 campsites were occupied to everyone this murder seemed totally
random and it seemed very bizarre the whole the whole public opinion in theories they were starting to get
tossed around pretty quickly okay here's what we were thinking in the very beginning one there was a thought
that this could be an accidental shooting by one of the daughters or a possible suicide mm-hmm now this was a theory but
this was ruled out almost immediately because the police found no gun inside the tent with the girls in Tristan no
gun at their campsite really no gun anywhere for that man right another thought was this could be a hunting
accident there we should note though no hunting is allowed in this area at all right there are some more complicated
theories that were tossed out there and some of these well we'll go through first was Tristan's murder was somehow
related to the marijuana growing farms operated by the Mexican cartels in this area this was tossed out there this was
a theory though that there's there's just really no evidence to carry this theory any further way are there actual
marijuana fields out there there there are farms that are operated by Mexican cartels in that general area yes the
other thought was as you kind of hinted towards tristan was killed by a family member or someone he knew well it just
seems so odd to have three people in a tent and only one of them was murdered I agree and with the thought to that
there's no other injuries no other attacks it seems like this would be a very pinpoint targeted attack one also
seems to like when you think about stranger motive we could assume it's not sexual because he's a he's a male but
then they're they're camping so what are they stealing if the motive is robbery and then there's the other possibility
that I would think that all what he hears this man camping with his daughters that maybe killed the father
and two and kidnapped one of the kids but that didn't happen either well regarding this theory they were
able to prove very quickly in their investigation that Erica his wife was nowhere in the area and at a time and
they were also able to rule out Scott now we know Scott is along on this camping trip but we don't know publicly
they've never stated why they just simply stated Scott did not do this I believe that you got several things one
no evidence that Scott had any type of firearm there's no evidence that he had any kind of gunpowder residue on him
right I think that would be the first test that they would give him and as we said it's believed that Scott was the
one that called 911 found Tristan that that that made life-saving efforts yeah but we've seen in a two hour
mother-in-law where where somebody's actually responsible for the murder but they're the ones that called 9-1-1
so that wouldn't rule him out right this other portion is quite complicated and this would be a targeted hit with
Tristan being the target this theory really started to gain some traction Tristan's work at allergen was thought
to be a possible motivating factor Tristan I show him as working on a protein based anti-cancer vaccines and
drug delivery systems mm-hmm people wanted to know could this be why he was killed it was reported that he
held numerous patents as well maybe somebody wanted the rights to his discoveries right or perhaps he was
working on something top-secret you know your mind really starts to wander when you hear these things here because you
could we could be talking about the rights to lucrative medications at stake yeah I understand that and I don't have
the knowledge firsthand but I would assume that if somebody owns a patent on something on something they discovered
that that would go to like next of kin like transfer over you'd think for a time period yeah
you would think maybe even for the amount of the patent itself right so these conspiracy theories were really
making their way around the internet people wanted to know did someone see killing him as a way to personally
benefit mm-hmm the theory here like some of the others that we that we've already
discussed is not ironclad obviously we mentioned several different versions of the same theory but one major problem is
something we've already pointed out in this story with with it being a targeted hit right the fact that the brothers the
brother-in-law's together they switched assigned campsites at the guard station it doesn't really build in well then I
guess you could look at it on the other side was there somebody out to kill Scott and they've got the wrong guy no
they I don't mean that they switched with each other they switched completely to a whole nother campsite okay
so what I'm getting at is for this to be a targeted hit a couple things would had
to take in place one the offender would need to know that they were in fact going camping would then need to know
that they switched campsites basically what I'm saying is if somebody I think the better word has moved camps moved
thank you you're correct if somebody if this were to be a targeted hit everything to me points to
that somebody would have had to have been watching him watching his movements talking Tristan down I'm no professional
but I think - it doesn't make a lot of sense if you're gonna have a hit to play it out this way I mean I understand that
the park might make a little more sense to carry out a hit but being with his daughters and being with you know his
brother I mean that doesn't make a lot of sense so as the investigation into Tristan's murder continued there was
more information that was coming out Tristan's brother Dyl Beaudette was named by la's KCBS TV news
as the source for its report that Tristan's tent was found to have two holes in it one on the top of the tent
and the other on the side of the tent police would not publicly acknowledge that these were bullet holes but that's
where your mind goes right captain yeah so here is where I start going well maybe there is something to this
targeted hit theory if someone I knew he was going camping it wouldn't be difficult to watch him this is an area
where mm-hmm you you could probably blend in I don't know how you're staying there without the without bringing the
proper equipment with you in advance or remaining to blend in even late into the
night possibly having Rangers there you know knowing that you shouldn't be on the property yeah and so the thing is
with these holes with the bullet holes well they're not saying that they're below holes there are two holes in the
tent one on top one on the side you think if somebody is trying to hit a target from any kind of distance that it
becomes very tricky to actually hit your target when you have three people inside
of a enclosed tent you mate you're not gonna be able to see your target you're not gonna be able to distinguish your
target from the other two people in this tent so so any shot from a distance seems very strange and it makes it seem
like it's a random act that it's not a targeted hit the other problem though is when we see the hole on top of the tent
that to me looks like it could be a targeted event I don't know the specifics the the very details of this
tent but I just thinking about tents I've owned in the past there are some that have like mesh tops right or or an
opening up at the top if this were a smaller tent you could walk up down inside in aim at your target
especially even if at night you could you could use a flashlight to assist you in this well I I think if these holes
will say you they're bullet holes if they're coming from similar directions I could see maybe the idea of you know an
accidental shooting right or a hunting accident or even maybe a crazed hunter that decided to shoot into tents but the
fact that they're coming in from different angles that's strange to me well and I think that's why it's
important that police did not publicly say that these were bullet holes we don't know for certain that that they
were we're assuming that one of them had to be unless he was shot from inside the
tent but the the issue here being that we don't know exactly how fast Scott responded to what he heard but it
sounds like he acted very quickly after hearing the noise he found Tristan very quickly we don't have him as seeing
anybody fleeing from Tristan's tent so again this is it's just a very weird situation in a weird investigation and I
don't want to go to see CSI on everybody but you would think they would be able to do ballistic tests to see if the
roughly what range possibly the the bullet went through the tent yeah well and I believe they would be able to
determine that they were in fact bullet holes or if only one of them was that that that would be the case so this is
this is a perfect way to lead us into some more information that would come out and this was big for the case this
came directly from the LA County coroner's office from assistant Chief Ed winter he said Tristan was killed by a
single gunshot so if the holes are thought to be bullet holes unless one missed there
mark only one could actually be a bullet hole the twist in the story here captain
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cheers to everybody out there listening I do want to point out before we get too
far along that really great coverage for this case was conducted by the Los Angeles Times and by a long-form article
in GQ magazine by Zack Barron we have relied heavily on these sources and putting together this week's case now
everyone agreed everyone publicly agreed that Tristan's murder was a bizarre incident not easily explained
and early on thought to be an isolated incident but just five days after the murder that was going to change because
on June 27th 2018 a story in the Los Angeles Times by Richard Winton would change everything
the B one-page article headline was 5 Park shootings in two years but no warning the article cites five separate
shootings all in the Malibu Creek State Park in just a two-year time period all before Tristan was shot and killed of
course yeah the other shootings in which at least one person was injured got little publicity at the time but now
prompted fears that they might somehow all be connected and the story got worse on June 30th The Times reported that
there were even more shootings and then again this information was largely unreported to the public mm-hmm the Los
Angeles Sheriff's Department the the paper said had identified seven other shootings in the Malibu Creek State Park
area since 2016 three of the seven were in Los Angeles sheriff department's jurisdiction and the remainder were in
the state parks jurisdiction a la SD spokesperson issued a statement saying quote homicide detectives are aware that
there have been other shootings near the location in the past however there is no
evidence that suggests this incident is related to any prior shootings and quote
The Times stated that the Los Angeles Sheriff's Department acknowledged these previous shootings only after the Times
went ahead and published stories regarding two of the shootings the Sheriff's Department announced that the
campground area would be closed indefinitely for a safety precaution sounds like they were a little late to
the game and closing the park right and yeah and they just it seems like they kept this quiet because of the area it's
in it's an area that people have some power it's area where people have some money especially with so many being
inside the part of a thing there would be some kind of warning to the public that this is happening be on the lookout
a swim at your own risk kind of situation at the very least and there's not like you said there's not a
lot of injuries right there was at least one injury well we're gonna go through these okay so we can try to determine
actually what's going on here you know is there a sniper hiding in the hills taking aim at unsuspecting park goers so
the dates of the previous shootings were published by the LA Times and are as follows November 3rd 2016 then through
then six days later November 9th 2016 January 1st 2017 June 8th 2017 July 22nd 2017 July 30th
2017 June 18 2008 team this last one June 18th just four days before Tristan was shot
and killed yeah the tricky thing here for me captain is I understand that this falls into two different jurisdictions
but some of these are so close together in time frame that it's hard to believe that that somebody wouldn't have
recognized that there's a problem here that there's a very big underlining we don't understand what's going on problem
here no let's go through the ones that we have detailed information on the the first incident was on November 3rd 2016
this is when a young wildlife biologist James Rogers was sleeping in his camping
hammock in the nearby Tapia Park area this is not a campground it's about 200 yards from Malibu Canyon Road he says he
quote heard a loud bang and then felt a burning sensation in his arm this is quoted in the LA Times he didn't
see anyone around but his arm was wounded and after a time pellets started leaking out of the wound Oh God
James noted that when his hammock he you know he when he's in his hammock he sleeps with his arm or arms up over his
head yeah if if he hadn't been positioned this way he would have been shot in the head or
the face the face yeah in the face he required surgery to remove the many pellets embedded in his arm then just
two months later in January of 2017 a woman named melis to tangelo she was camping with her boyfriend in her Honda
SUV inside the Malibu Creek State Park the two were asleep in the vehicle when she heard a loud noise this is around
5:00 a.m. they stayed inside the vehicle but later got up around 6:00 a.m. they're going to go out and get some
coffee take a drive while they're driving they can hear something rattling around in the back of
the vehicle when they got out they found a hole through the back hatch of the vehicle someone fired a shot at the SUV
and part of a shotgun shell was in the back of the car right near where she was sleeping that night Wow heavy heavy
sleepers malece she said that if the bullet had been an inch or two higher than she
would have been hit the campground host said that others reported what sounded like a gunshot sound around 5:00 a.m.
now the Los Angeles Sheriff's Department deputies they guess that the shot was fired from about 20 feet away from the
vehicle police later told GQ magazine that the Sheriff's Department deputies were called to the scene of her shooting
they didn't really pay any regard to forensic evidence they were walking all over the place on potential footprint
evidence they didn't take any photos they weren't wearing gloves she never heard from any of those deputies again
after filing the report that's pretty ridiculous she says and it seems this way to me that no one was really
interested in her story until after Tristan's murder four other shootings occurred now there's less information
available regarding these but we'll go through what we have according to the times on November 9th 2016 this is just
six days after James Rogers shooting someone shot at a person sleeping inside a car at the Malibu Creek State Park
Campground six months after that On June 8th 2017 a car driving down Malibu Canyon Road was struck by a bullet
another car was hit on July 22nd then on July 30th The Times reported quote deputies investigated another
report of shots fired but were unable to determine what happened and quote then on June 18 2018 a Tesla driving
traveling along Malibu Canyon Road around 4:30 a.m. was hit someone shot at the car no one was injured
Tristan Beaudette brought his daughters to that campground just three days later
the troubling thing here captain for me is not only are we seeing some of these occurring some of these shots fired
occurrences within a relatively quick succession a time period that you should be able to realize that there is
something bad going on here something very dangerous to the public going on here but we also have similar
occurrences right we have people that say I'm I was sleeping and I was shot at or I'm driving my car down this same
road that somebody else was driving their car down and they were shot a couple things that we can assume is that
if it is the same person this person knows the area pretty well it's not that afraid to get that close to the victim
you know some of the shots only being where they say 20 feet away do it yeah the one that we have evidence of public
statements of would be 20 feet from the vehicle itself you're you're almost close enough especially if the shooter
walked past the vehicle the shooter very likely knew somebody was inside the SUV
right it might might a crept up to the vehicle or a tent and then backed away from it but this person also hates naps
and cars hates naps and cars yeah well and this is to put it very lightly needless to say residents in the area
were super troubled by the notion that it appeared that there was a random shooter stalking around the park based
on what I know unlike the we had a 270 shooter here yeah which 270 is our outer about around Columbus and so to me there
there's a there's a mental thing going on here there's mental illness possibly and so that's what that's what's scary
well we can somewhat understand what the people in the area were were going through and what they were feeling yeah
because you know these people are telling the press once they figure this all out once it's all reported that
they're afraid to hike there in the area they're afraid to go to the park they're
afraid to ride horses they say some of them saying they felt like sitting ducks now we felt similar when there were
shots being fired at random cars on 270 here in Columbus when you're traveling along and you're in your vehicle there
were there were injuries there was at least one murder that I can remember yeah what was interesting was he had all
these shootings going around 270 but it's mainly the southwest side and all those exits are the exits that I would
take to go to friends house go to work come home so is very scary and and then there was several I think it's shootings
that happen when people are going on the on-ramps so you want to talk about going
you have to take this exit and as you got on that on-ramp than your your nerves were shot you know you'd be
sweating well and I remember when that was going on people would jokingly say to one another all don't go on to 70 or
oh I stay off a to 70 but in reality even though they're trying to put on a hard shell for everybody they were
avoiding 270 they were avoiding these areas yeah one point there was they believe like a cross section and a
little bit before they caught the guy but it was 270 and State Route 23 and I remember me missing my exit one
time and having to take that we worked right in that area yeah and so I was I was
going a different way home and you know to and from work I was going a different way because they said
here's this cross-section so it was just like one why take the chance right yeah and so I was going a
different way and I but I mixed I yeah what would they call it your your muscle reflex like I it just wasn't paying
attention and and didn't go my alternate way that day and I remember driving down
to 23 and just like sweating going oh my god am I going to get shot and and then
I could just see the interview I was taking a different way and I just forgot that day and then that's when I was shot
right so I mean we know firsthand what what the public the general public hear what their fears were but their fears in
this situation we're only going to get worse because after Tristan's murder the shootings that the public is now aware
of they continued media reports emerged that in mid-july so this is just a this is a month after Tristan was killed
there were at least two reports of shots fired in the area on July 9th and then again on July 12 both occurring at night
and since June 22nd there had been several other reports of possible shootings according to the Malibu times
as many as nine reports of gunfire but sheriff's lieutenant James royal said deputies did not find any proof
that those were actual shootings three of the reports turned out to be something other than gun fire including
a backfire one was a transformer explosion but at least you have people on the alert now right right which which
you didn't afford the public that that safety net before right and now they're on high alert some of these were in fact
shootings but this is how aware everyone is now any loud noise could be a shot yeah and don't fall asleep and don't
take now and my clap there was not very loud that was supposed to be much more theatrical in that it sounded like a
finger snap and every time you hear a loud noise lieutenant royal emphasized that the
public needed to stay vigilant saying quote I strongly encourage you to trust your instincts he said this at a
town-hall meeting that took place in August saying that if you see something that doesn't feel right if you have a
gut feeling please trust it the Malibu City Council advised residents to avoid the area in the early
hours of the morning since it seemed the shootings were occurring in the hours between midnight and Dawn right
complicating things further was the discovery of two additional bodies in the park area on May 16th 2018 the body
of Francisco Reynaldo Cruz aged 52 turned up in a ditch on Los Virginia's Road this is near the campground close
to the malibu hindu temple he died of blunt force trauma to the head and sharp force injuries to the neck and chest
according to sources who spoke with The Hollywood Reporter Cruz's body showed signs of torture in the form of drill
marks then on July 27th never were the drill marks I don't know say Wow well we do know that the report states that
there was sharp force injuries to the neck in the chest drill marks on the neck in the chest
that's so that would be my guess yeah Wow on July 27th 19 year-old Roger Shabbos Barajas his decomposed body was
recovered on an embankment in the 24,000 block of Puma road he died of multiple gunshot wounds the Sheriff's Department
representatives said that these homicides after their investigation were gang-related and were not were not
connected to Tristan's murder officials specified that the remote canyon roads unfortunately have been dumping grounds
for bodies for a very long period of time but keep in mind people in the area you're not very trusting of your public
servants right now are you yeah you weren't you don't feel that you were adequately warned about safety potential
injury or homicide due to flying bullets in the park or campgrounds so you can imagine that these people are not gonna
feel super great about you coming forward and going well there this is not connected yeah don't worry guys
don't worry it's it's gang-related don't you have nothing to worry about basically what you have here is hysteria
in the area at least as far as some media sources were concerned in touch which is a weekly gossip magazine
questioned quote is there a new serial killer terrorizing the affluent community of Malibu Canyon another
mainstream media pointed out that a 21 year old man named Matthew Weaver had vanished on August 10th 2018 this is not
far away in Malibu his four-door BMW was found quote hanging off the edge of the
Topanga Mountain motorway another disturbing case was the 2017 disappearance of Elaine Park the 20 year
old was last seen leaving her boyfriend's home in Calabasas and her car and personal belongings were found
on the Pacific Coast Highway near coral Canyon Road in Malibu and of course one of the area's most well known unsolved
deaths was still fresh in the residents minds this is of mitrice richardson in 2009
right mitrice as you might recall was a case we covered in episodes 75 and 76 she was detained at the
Lost Hills sheriff's station only to be released into the night with no car no purse no phone and was never seen alive
again right so another example of the incompetence of law enforcement in this area her body was found seven miles away
down a wooded hillside her cause of death could not be determined in August of 2018 officials from five different
law enforcement agencies held a town meeting of sorts lieutenant Moore acknowledged that they had no theory no
suspect or answers regarding Tristan's murder the thirty-five thousand dollar reward for information did not serve to
bring anyone forward the Los Angeles Sheriff's Department would not even address whether they believed that the
shooting of Tristan Beaudette was targeted or random or whether there were any perceived patterns to the shooting
crimes themselves the autopsy results were sealed and detectives would not disclose whether any of the other
shootings involved the same type of weapon they would not discuss ballistics at all they stated that they didn't see
any connection between these crimes and the mitrice richardson and alain park cases sheriff Jim McDonald told the San
Francisco Chronicle that the pattern at this point certainly is not clear if there is one at all after all
close-range shootings like melis and Tristan are quite different from Tesla's being shot on Canyon Road and that in
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Malibu Creek Murder /// Part 1 /// 337 Part 1 of 2 www.TrueCrimeGarage.com June 22nd, 2018 - a father of two is shot and killed while sleeping in a tent at a campground inside the Malibu Creek State Park. This story made national headlines. This week we take a deep dive into a case you may only think you know. Beer of the Week - Campfire Stout by High Water Brewing Garage Grade - 4 and a Quarter Bottle Caps out of 5 Support for today show is provided by the following: www.NativeDeodorant.com - use code GARAGE at checkout for 20% off your first purchase www.LightStream.com/TCG - get a great rate when you refinance your credit card balances with LightStream www.BetterHelp.com/Garage - use code GARAGE and get 10% off your first month

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Brief Summary

Tristan Beaudette was shot while camping with his daughters, raising questions about motive and safety in Malibu Creek.

Key points

The 911 Call. A frantic call reports shots fired, leading to the discovery of Tristan's body.
The Malibu Creek Murder. A father is shot while camping with his daughters in a seemingly safe park.
Tristan Beaudette's Background. Tristan was a dedicated father and scientist with a promising career ahead.
Theories Surrounding the Murder. Various theories arise about the motive behind Tristan's murder, including conspiracy.
The Bullet Holes in the Tent. Two holes found in Tristan's tent raise questions about the nature of the shooting.
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