Mitrice Richardson /// Episode: 76 /// Part 2 | Forensic Files

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beer, and let's talk some true crime. And we are back with the second part of the My Trice Richardson case. Yeah. So,
a quick recap. We got a 24 year old. She's arrested on Wednesday night. She is put in jail. She's there for a couple
hours. They release her and then maybe, you know, there's possible sighting of her maybe as a prowler in somebody's
yard. Um, so she's been missing for several days. They've done several searches,
>> big scale searches, >> right? The family is basically at a loss. We have we have a bunch of areas,
a bunch of red flags going up. We got a lot of fumbling around by the sheriff's department and law enforcement and and
all these we're getting less answers and more questions at this point in the case.
>> And pretty much the standpoint by the two parties involved in this. We have the sheriff's department who they're
kind of saying that they believe she probably just took off. Um, and what the family is saying is, "No, we don't
believe she took off." Mother's intuition is that somebody picked her up. You guys let her go in the middle of
the night in the dark. She was in an unfamiliar area. She probably got picked up by somebody, got in a car, and that's
why we It's been months and we've not seen her. And where we left off was several months after the case and after
the investigation and the searches have gone on, the family has begged the sheriff's department for the release of
surveillance footage inside the jail from that evening when she was picked up. And they're claiming there was no
tape and then all of a sudden there is a tape. Amazing. It just it just appears out of nowhere. Well, not out of
nowhere. It's in the captain's desk the entire time. >> Look, magic. It's magic. Well, then some
some other magical items happen that it takes it takes three months for them to decide to show the video to the family.
The family thinks that the video has been doctorred. Um, and it's they have some good points. Now, we've not seen
the video. I I don't believe that that it's available to the public. >> Well, I've seen clips of it, but
>> you've seen clips, >> but I've only seen the clips where um I believe it was on Disappeared. So, if
you're looking for something cool to watch, I know Disappeared, they have all their episodes on Hulu. That might be
something that would be interesting to check out. But they do show some clips, but it's just of her in the jail cell.
>> Yeah. >> And so it's kind of like, and again, I don't know what her baseline is, so I
can't tell you if her actions are are weird or not. I know that um like we talked about that she was a go- go
dancer, but she also had a a background in actual dance. And so, you know, maybe
she's just kind of a restless person. And so, I don't know. The family said it was a little odd, but the thing that the
family is starting to stick to is as she's leaving the station, she turns right, I believe, uh, out out of the
station. And a little bit after, um, her leaving, a deputy leaves. >> He leaves from a from another door close
by. And he leaves about 2 minutes after she leaves the building. >> Right. And basically,
okay, so let's view let's look at it from the viewpoint of the family. >> Mhm. every turn it seems like the the
law enforcement is not on your side. Seems like they're hiding stuff. So then you start becoming very weary of one
their competency, how much they actually care or were they involved, >> right? >> And so when they see this and they know
that, you know, it took you months and months and months to tell us that you even had a tape and then once you had a
tape, it took you months and months and months for us to see the tape. Now that we see it, you've told us several times
that there was no deputies on duty at the jail and now we see one in the footage. So, are you trying to cover up
for this guy? So, we have this we have this deputy. Now, they don't want to release his name, but what they did find
out was this deputy was just there dropping off a person in custody and then was going back out in the route.
they had a partner that day that uh that deputy and his partner then make a citation for speeding or something
within 45 minutes. Now again a big red flag but it comes down to if you believe that my trice was the prowler in
quotation marks then does does it matter that there was a deputy seen leaving roughly with her? Well, but you know,
this is a situation where the the sheriff's department is called out again for, you know, to do a driveby for this
person that might be trespassing on the property that could be my trice. >> Mhm.
>> Um it's strange, too, that you know, shortly after she was released, there is
a a shift change um according to her parents, uh that there was a shift change that would have taken place. Um,
I I don't know what that means. Uh, because if she was the prowler, then she somehow made a trip uh six miles to this
home. >> And we can't figure out if that was on foot or if somebody picked her up and
dropped her off out in the middle of nowhere, >> right? And and what the sheriff's
department is saying is they believe that she was just wandering on foot >> is what And again, it goes back to was
she calling a friend or was she just talking to herself on the phone? Who knows? But it seems like she left on
foot. So the the sheriff's department is saying she got here, she was the prowler. Not like she was, you know,
causing any disturbance, but she was on somebody's property. They believe by foot. Now the family thinks no. No way
in hell. She was drove there. Now who drove her there? Was it a police officer? I look, I don't know if it matters if
she drove there or she got there by foot. It it all it starts to matter is do you believe that's her?
>> Mhm. >> And and that's the that's the question. Now, the one thing that I thought was
interesting is during some of these searches, they did like drone searches and they did like foot searches and they
did I think one of the largest searches in like California history or or that county's history. But, uh, one of the
things that the father brings up constantly, um, his name is >> Michael. Michael Richardson. Um, loved
him in Seinfeld. Um, one of the things that he brings up is when they started a search, they know by
the videotape that she leaves to the right. Well, when they started the search, they left the building and
started the search to the left. >> Well, and then you have the the scent dogs that that leave Bill Smith's home
where she was seen possibly trespassing and they they follow the tracks and follow her scent for a bit, but they get
lost in horse tracks. Mhm. >> So, I think one thing that the parents had brought up here and and I I
mentioned a shift change. Now, I'm a bit unclear if if that shift change took place right around the same time that
she was leaving or if they're talking about a shift change that would have taken place shortly after the time she
was seen possibly trespassing on Bill Smith's property. Because one question that they have brought up to law
enforcement was that if somebody from your department was involved now, they would have had as as far as some
somebody with evil intent, >> they have a lead because the the lead would be they know there's this woman
that's out on her own wandering around in the dark with no means of transportation, no money, no cell phone.
And was she possibly picked up by somebody that would have known that she was in that situation? Placed somewhere
near this Bill Smith's home where she was later seen so that she could be picked up again later once that person
was off work or did not need to be accounted for. Um the thought here is though that Bill Smith's home, we're not
talking about like a regular neighborhood. This is near like trails and hills and things like that where
people go on horseback to go venturing out hiking or running. Now, what's happening here is there's probably some
of you uh as our nasely drones are, you know, boxing your your eardrums. You're thinking, "Oh my god, cop conspiracy,
right? I mean, this is like making a murderer, right?" Which we every a lot of people jump. Look, there's somebody
going, I never bought the the the cop conspiracy and making a murderer, but some people did, right? Uh I don't buy
that in that case. But that's for a different day. And but then there's some of you listening going, "No way. Cops
cop conspiracy not happening, right? Don't buy it." Well, I was just reading a report the other day and and normally
I never jump on the cop conspiracy bandwagon, but I was reading this report where this police officer was spending 6
months in jail, which is not enough time for this crime that he did, but there was a car accident. The cop goes up, you
know, to take the report, ends up raping the person in the in the car accident. Now, he only serves six months in jail.
he's he should serve the rest of his life in [ __ ] jail as far as I'm concerned. Um, but this stuff does
happen. So, when when you hear reports like this, it's not crazy with all these things going on that the the the parents
are champion going, "Hey, look, there's something not right here." And it's either that you're fumbling douchebags
or you had something to do with it. >> Now, I'm I'm with you. I I seldom believe in a in a police officer being
the perpetrator of horrible crimes, but we all know it does happen on occasion. When my where my mind starts to wander
in this case is let's let me think about this for a second. Okay, I want to I want to this is this kind of the path
that I went down when I was thinking would >> Are you going to like take five minutes
and go in the corner? >> Would a sheriff have been involved? one of these would have a a deputy have been
involved? Would it, you know, somebody that that knew she was being released that could pick her up later? Offer her
to drive her to her car? I mean, that's the perfect ruse to get her in your vehicle because, hey, I know where your
car is impounded and I have the ability to get you your car back. Why don't you give me a I'll give you a ride. And not
only that, I'm not some stranger that's out driving around in the dark. I'm the police. And well and and my thought too
is that you have officers when they they pick up this beautiful girl young 24 and
what was the joke that we think that she made when they said you need to pay your
bill and she says I don't have any money but how about you know I pay you in sex
which we we believe is a joke that's her joking correct >> that that was she was serious by that
but there's this joke and so then there's these rumors then they take the girl to the jail house then the cops are
talking then people on their radio are talking and they go or and and I guarantee you cuz guys, you know, look,
I'm all for I'm a dudes dude, right? I'm a dudes dudes, man's dude, whatever. When it comes down to it, there's a lot
of creepy dudes. And so, how many cops are going, "Hey, did you see that hot chick?" You know, did you see that hot
chick that we picked up? She's a little nuts. She She offered sex to the manager,
>> you know. So then somebody sees her leaving and goes, "Hey, well, if she offered the manager sex, maybe I pick
her up, take her to her car, maybe she offers me sex." >> You're exactly right. You took the words
out of my mouth. If if she was willing to offer that to the manager, what would she give me in trade for for a ride or
for me helping her out? And then guess what? She's not she's not heterosexual. She's she's a lesbian,
>> right? But they don't >> No, I know I know that. But what I'm saying that would be less likely that
she was going to offer sex for a stupid little you know favor. >> Right. Right. Right.
>> Um and you know that could have turned sinister at some point. It could have turned bad uh in that situation. And I
don't want to sound I don't know how to make this not sound weird but she was weird.
>> She was very attractive. Now do I believe that attractive women >> she didn't like her team though
>> right? But do I believe that more that that attractive women are more likely to
become a victim? >> Um, I would I don't know in every situation, but I would say one that is
wandering out in the dark or wandering around by herself might be more likely to be picked up,
>> right? Yeah. >> Um, >> and I think that's the that's the concern the family has,
>> right? And well, the other thing too is that when they talk about her personality, okay, so her personality,
the the first thing is the sheriff say, "Well, maybe she got on a bus." Well, first of all, her mother says she's
never rode on a bus. She's never taken a city bus anywhere in her life. She wouldn't even know how to do that. So,
we don't think she got on a bus. And second of all, she says my trice is not an outdoor person. She does not like
bugs. She does not like the dirt. She does not like the elements. She is not one to just have taken off and wandered
out into the middle of nowhere and went hiking all of a sudden in the dark and then again that morning after she's seen
>> well and I I think the issue with that is they know they know their daughter when she's mentally stable. Mhm.
>> I think the the question in here is you don't know what if somebody is going through a mental illness, if she's
dealing with u manic episodes or hyper manic or any type of episodes like that, you don't know how that person is going
to react. So you have and you know if this was her first episode that they know of of her being manic, then they
have no way to judge how she would react, why she's manic. And that's when they really start talking about and
going through the things that she did that day and the events that may have led up to her going to that restaurant.
>> So her mother and her her aunt were both saying that the reason why we think that
she was having mental issues was that she w she had been sending us some strange text that day
>> to which they were both responding, you know, how can I help you? Could do you
need to talk to somebody? And now, mind you, this is this is hindsight. Right. >> Right. And but that's their proof to the
sheriff's department that we got to be worried about her state of mind. We think she went nutso and she was out
wandering around in the middle of nowhere and somebody took advantage of that. >> So some of the things that had happened
that day, she, like I said, she had worked in a secretarial type position at this shipping company.
>> So she did work there that morning. uh she went and she took a lunch break. Now
remember she had said to somebody at some point that day that she was watching a soap opera and God had
instructed her to take the afternoon off. So she did not return to work that day.
>> Uh meanwhile her mom and her aunt are receiving these strange text and at the
same time we said that she was a go- go dancer and she went by the name Hazel. Well she had business cards that she had
printed up uh with her dancer name on on these business cards. her aunt had found
a whole bunch of these business cards laying all over the front porch of of her home with a written note on her car,
which made absolutely no sense. I I read it and I thought of trying to include portions of that note, but it made so it
made no sense at all to even try to to try to pick through it. Um, so after working a half day, leaving for lunch,
she does go to the great-g grandandmother's house at some point and then she does leave and she does not
return. It's believed at that time is when she went off driving, ended up in Malibu, and ended up at the at Joffrey's
restaurant. >> Well, I mean, the again the whole uh I was watching a soap opera and it
and it told God told me through the soap opera like that's like is again is that just a
joke? Is that just is that a joke or is that for real? You know what I mean? like she she made the joke, "Well, I'll
just pay for, you know, what about a sexual favor to pay off this bill?" You know, was she just making some absurd
jokes? >> Right. Well, after several largecale searches, like we had talked about,
early in 2010, Mrice's father, Michael Richardson, was hanging out in Las Vegas. He is riding in the back of a
vehicle when he spotted Maitrice, who he said looked as if she was working the streets. Now, Michael got out of the
vehicle. So, and he wanted to run up to her, right? So, but before he could tell
the driver to stop and he could get out of the vehicle and run up to her, he lost sight of her.
>> So, he's like in a taxi or or Uber or something. >> Yes. And where we say he saw my trice,
mind you, he believes that he saw my trice and he lose sight of her and he does not see her for the remainder of
her trip, his trip. This is really confusing to me cuz on one point it's like you go with the idea that this is a
grieving father. He loved his daughter. He wants her to be safe. He's in Vegas. He thinks he, you know, um he thinks he
sees his daughter. So So that part I go he's grieving. He's just making this up in his head. But when he says, "Well,
she but she was a prostitute." >> That she look like she was working the street. Because as the as a father, you
don't want to say, "Well, my daughter, it was working the street." So that makes me almost believe his his sighting
more, >> right? >> But I the grieving part, you know. So, but because of this sighting, now we're
going to start getting a bunch of more sightings of Matrice and um in Las Vegas.
>> Yeah. and he said where his head was at was that he thought maybe somebody that
this was not her character that he thought that this was something that maybe somebody had taken her captive
that night and taken her to Las Vegas and put her to work so to speak. Um in June of 2010 the same year a high school
friend of mrice's reported having seen her in a Vegas casino. Mhm. >> Uh Las Vegas PD said that during this
time u over the course of several months they had received about 70 such reports
of my trice sightings in Las Vegas. >> Again a lot of the times is th this case started becoming uh publicized and and
good for the case. I mean anytime that you can talk about a case and get the word out and I think that had a lot to
do with the family. I also believe that had a lot to do with the the father was very ad admit and he was um anybody that
was going to talk to him, he'd talk to you about it. Now, sometimes he'd say some goofy [ __ ] when he was being
interviewed. Um like there's one interview where he keeps on reiterating that, you know, he he is a black father,
but he's involved in his child's life. Even though she's missing, he's involved in his child's life. I don't know if he
was an absentee, you know, parent before this or not, but what I do know is anybody that was given him a microphone
to talk, he he talked. So then he sees deciding then we get all these other ones. And I think it that is just people
wanting to see what they want want to see. >> And in most of these cases, we're talking about a face in the crowd and we
both know that if you want if you look hard enough and you want to see a face in a crowd, you might just you might
trick yourself into believing that you did. The other issue here too, I think, is we talked about Maitric being in
pageantss. We talked about her uh being a go-go dancer, and there's a lot of pictures of her outside of both the
pageantss and working at as a dancer. So, we see a lot of different uh views, a lot of different looks of my trice.
And a lot of times if you watch videos of her on YouTube, you know, missing person's videos of her on YouTube,
they'll show you five or six pictures of her at once where she she does, you know, she looks like herself in all of
them, but she's done up in some and she's casual in others. And like I said, if you want to see a face in a crowd,
>> you're probably going to see it. >> Yeah. And with the whole classmate thing, first he is hearing that his
classmate is missing. He sees this lady. He tries to confront her and he's yelling, you know, "My
trees, my trice." And this girl starts acting a little crazy and a little weird and takes off. Now, again, that could be
as simple as this girl is not Matrice and you're yelling Matrice at her and she's going, "Who who's this crazy
asshole?" And she takes off running. Or again, that could be, you know, look, if
you're a go-go dancer, it doesn't matter if you're a go-go dancer, if you're a bartender, if you're a server, if you're
a guy in a band at a bar, you know, bars are normally not like this hub of positive lifestyles.
>> Oh, really? It's not like a collective group of saints getting together to uh
>> No, there's just some anoint there's just some bad [ __ ] that can go on. And
especially in that environment, it's one of those things where it's like, you know, every friend, I have friends that
have danced, you know, men and women that have danced uh in gay and straight clubs. And I've had friends that have
been cocktail waitresses. >> Even the cocktail waitresses are offered drugs. >> Oh, I'm sure. you know. So, I think
that's the other thing too is if maybe she was going to uh Malibu to meet somebody that she met at through this,
you know, dancing and maybe maybe they did give her a ride. And if they did give her a ride, then again, I have a
problem with all this stuff if you believe that she wasn't the the trespasser. >> You know what I mean? like that she was
picked up at night. And if she was picked up at night, then to me, it's probably somebody that she knew. Uh uh,
you know, somebody that she wasn't telling other people about, maybe some shady character from the club. But if
you believe that it was her trespassing, then to me, she's picked up by a stranger,
>> you know, or unless she went, you know, because the trail leads to the other guy's house. What if she got in the
house and she remembered somebody's number? I mean, there's so many questions, you know, but I don't fully
buy the the Las Vegas stuff. Well, one thing that has brought up a lot of other questions is during the summer of 2010,
they're doing more searches in the area of these horse trails and out in the hills and the mountains,
>> and they come across a mural, a largecale mural, uh, depicting African-American women in sexual
positions, most of them nude. Um, and they believe that this could be a potential lead or it could have been
done by the person responsible for her disappearance. >> Yeah. And this uh this is kind of
creepy. So, let's get into this after a quick beer break. All right, we're back.
Cheers, everybody. And when we left off, we're talking about a mural. >> Yes. And what this mural is is this was
found by searchers who were out looking for Maitrice Richardson. Okay. This is the summer of 2010. Now, this search was
highly publicized. Um, everybody knew that this was going to happen. It's about over a hundred people were out
looking for her. Yeah. And it's mostly hikers and cyclists that were out looking for her.
>> And what is discovered in this area, it's a concrete culvert which is off of a road. Um, you know, and you have the
drainage pipes, the large drainage pipes that you see near coming out of the culvert. It's basically a large concrete
wall. and somebody had painted uh what is described as a racist mural. Um it depicts many African-American women that
are nude and they're some of them are in sexually explicit positions. >> Um and it even seems to show a couple of
uh white faces looking on or looking at the women. You have women that are tied up. Uh one that is in a wheelchair. Uh
some that are on, you know, on their knees. Um, I don't know how much we can describe this without boring the
listeners because without looking at it, it's it's tough to uh >> I'll post that on Instagram. So, if you
want to check that out, you know, go to our Instagram at true crime garage. Uh, what's also interesting about this is
that some of the the ladies are not they're outlined most of the ladies are outlined in black, right? And uh but
some of the ladies are outlined in blue kind of like a ghostly blue. >> Yeah, I thought the same thing. And
there's one that's in a sexual position. And one of the things that makes people
say that this is a a mural that is also depicting uh my my trice and then possibly other victims is because one of
the girls that is outlined in blue uh some people think that means that those victims are dead uh on this girl's butt
uh is a LA symbol and everybody knew that you know Richardson was from LA. >> Yeah. And this this is a large mural
though. I mean it's it's it's pretty darn big and it would have taken somebody quite a bit of time to to paint
this thing. Yeah. >> Um now they find along with this mural they find paint brushes and paint can
lids at the same location and the paint on these items had not yet dried. >> Yeah.
>> So it's almost like somebody >> either they happened to do it in the area that they were going to be
searching just before >> Mhm. >> or they did it on purpose. >> Yeah. uh which is creepy.
>> The problem here too is, you know, like like we said, it's it's African-American
women. And I believe there's one part on on the concrete on the ground that's kind of leading into the area. The
there's a walkway where somebody had painted something like welcome to Afro land or something like that. And they
they keep all the women are having these afrostyle haircuts. >> This is not a heavily diverse populated
area. >> Well, yeah. And this is actually not a well populated area. They're purposely
looking for her out there because they think she could have been wandering basically out in the middle of nowhere.
>> And it it seems to me, like you said, it's one of those things where they this
the search was publicized and somebody was just trying to make a point what that point was. I don't know if it was
malicious or not, you know. >> Um it Well, here's the thing. When when you see it and you know why the people
were out there searching, it sends chills up your spine. >> It's creepy. Now, had had I not known
why the searchers were out there, it may not have may not have scared me. You know what I mean? It I mean, it kind of
it's almost terrifying in a way to look at it. Um but but knowing >> that my trees could be out there
somewhere or could have been abducted near this point. >> Yeah. >> Is what is absolutely terrifying about
it. Is this is this the killer coming back to taunt us and to tell us that he's got more than one victim? you know,
because there's many girls, many women that are depicted on this mural. Now, the the thing here is I'm sure that it
was well photographed so they could figure out who had done the quote unquote artwork or graffiti, better to
say. Um, but you can find pictures of it on the internet. It's it's despicable stuff really. Uh, but they quickly
painted over all of the items, uh, all of this mural. I believe it was the very next day.
>> Mhm. A lot of people thought this was going to be a significant lead. Do you know where this lead takes us?
>> Uh yeah. Yeah. I I I'm with you. I you know, I can see how the family would think this would be a significant lead.
Uh especially the area. Um but what ends up happening is I'm not certain if it's
weeks after they find it or maybe a couple months after they find it. But they do track down the person that is
responsible or persons that was were responsible for painting this mural. um because they had put up graffiti in
other locations and it was all of the same style, may have even been signed. You know, some people sign their
graffiti. Uh there's a couple of issues here though and some more red flags by the sheriff's department. They pick up
the people and and I don't think that they're making up that they found the um the person who painted this, the artist,
let's call them, or the criminal, whatever you want to call him. Uh I don't believe that they're making it up
because they had a statement by the person or persons uh for why they painted it. They said that they are a
graffiti artist that this is something they do in multiple locations and their style is reminiscent of one of their
favorite graffiti artists. So it seemed a little >> and there's a little more detail to
that, but it seemed a little much for something just like the sheriff's department to say, "Oh, we found who did
it and uh whatever." The the problem here though is the persons that were responsible for it, they didn't charge
them with anything. They they didn't, you know, they didn't give them a fine. They they they simply painted over it.
Said, "We know who did it. They don't have anything to do with the disappearance."
>> I wonder if there's some kind of law though that they can't charge them for something.
>> You know, >> I don't know if they agreed to admit to doing it in in trade for not being
charged with it. We don't know the details of it because they won't tell us who did it. The problem I have here
though is that particular sheriff's department has a zero tolerance on uh policy on graffiti,
>> right? >> So you you know you can't really have but maybe maybe finding the the uh the
authenticator or finding the person that painted it was more important and so you
had to wave that. I don't know. It seems strange to me. It was very It was a very
despicable display of graffiti. Uh and extremely distasteful knowing that they're out looking for a missing young
woman. Uh >> yeah, it's I mean it's just weird. I mean there's And the thing that doesn't
make a lot of sense to me is why some of the women are outlined with black and why some of them are outlined with this
like ghostly light blue. It's it's very strange. So, >> well, not only outlines, some of them
are are almost completely blue or gray and and other ones are very colorful. >> Yeah.
>> You know, almost alive versus dead kind of thing. >> Yeah. And so, okay. So, here here's
where we're at on the case, right? So, she goes to the restaurant, she doesn't pay, she gets arrested, she goes to the
jail, she's released from the jail. We got searches going on. We also have some eyewitnesses thinking that maybe she got
away somehow and now she's in Las Vegas and now we got all these searches continuing and now now what happens?
What's next? >> Well, what happens is the there are remains that are found. >> Now, this is out in a extremely remote
location. This is August 9th, 2010. Right around noon, just after noon, the uh this is in the Santa Monica
Mountains. This is deep in the dark canyon. Rangers checking on a remote area known for growing pot discovered
human remains. Now, when I first heard about this, I kind of I wanted to call BS on this. I was like, "No, that
>> you want to say [ __ ] >> right? I wanted to the cops founder, uh, they, you know, I I was looking at all
these conspiracy theories." Uh, but but the truth truth of it is that this area >> Well, we're not done with red flags. Law
enforcement had discovered over a year ago what is suspected to be an area known or used by a Mexican cartel to
grow pot. It's a grow spot. Um when conducting a flyover the year before, law enforcement spotted marijuana plants
and of course no persons were present. Uh these plants were simply planted and left there to mature. But law
enforcement when they discovered it, they pulled over 1,000 marijuana plants from the site. So, the rangers were
going back to check on the spot to make sure that somebody hadn't returned and and used it as a grow spot again for the
following year. >> Uh, the rangers spotted some old equipment lying around, hundreds of feet
of garden hoses that were used to siphon creek water into PVC lines. Of course, this would be used to water those
awesome weeds that they're growing. Um, but there there was no new plants at this time and so they ventured on down
and this is where they found the remains. They noticed a skull >> and under under debris of leaves and
dirt, a semi decomposed naked body. >> There was some hair still attached to the skull. There was some hair scattered
nearby. uh what appeared to be an earring and some kind of metallic object were tangled in that hair that was found
nearby. Um and the the Lost Hills deputies, they are called out to the scene >> and they arrive on the scene
approximately around 1:30 p.m. that day. >> And we have some articles of clothing as
well, right? >> Yes. Yes. There were a uh there was a pair of jeans and a belt that was found.
>> Pink belt >> and a bra. Correct. Um to my knowledge, the rest of the items that they may have
been looking for were missing at that time. >> Yeah, it's uh and so like we know um
Matrice was wearing jeans and a a pink belt. So, you know, there's they need to get the coroner involved to to identify
these remains. And then we get some kind of confusion with this as well. >> Well, yeah. What what ends up happening
is before the coroner gives his or her permission for the remains to be removed, the sheriff's department
decides to remove them. >> Well, and think about the Okay, here's the problem with think about this family
for a second. So, she is uh arrested at at at the sorry, the restaurant. It's a long day.
Uh, she's arrested at the restaurant. That's not a crime scene. Cops don't make that a crime scene. Sure. Her car
is impound. They don't make that a crime scene. She's released from the jail. They don't make that a crime scene. And
then she's found, you know, there's remains found and we think it's her. >> Mhm.
>> And they again don't make that a crime scene, >> right? They take the the remains before
they, you know, basically what happens, it's pretty simple. The sheriff says, "We got, you know, we we're following
protocol. We're following this this by the book." Now, we're talking, they already have judgments against them.
They have lawsuits against them, from the family, from other families, for treating inmates wrong, for treating
people in the jail wrong. Uh, they got a lot of issues in this department. But here's another one. And a lot of
people go, "Well, wouldn't you take this a lot more serious? Wouldn't you, you know, you have all these people, you're
under, you know, we have all this publicity for this case. You're under a microscope. Wouldn't you handle this
with care?" So, there's a miscommunication between the sheriff department and the coroner's office. And
then once they act coroners actually get the remains, the coroners are now vocal
about this. >> What ends up happening is that the sheriff has a uh they investigate this,
the coroners investigate this, and then they also have a private group investigate this. All three findings
were that at the end of the day, yes, they have botched some things. Maybe they made some misjudgments about this
case and about this this lady and how they've handled everything, but at the end of the day, the moving of the
remains was a misunderstanding. And I don't know if I buy that. >> Yeah, you're exactly right. They claim a
misunderstanding. I claim BS because here's the situation. The Lost Hill Sheriff's Department and their personnel
had exclusive access to the remains for about 6 and 1/2 hours. They kept the coroner's team on standby for almost 4
hours of that time and without permission which is state code they removed the remains without without
permission. So they're doing multiple things wrong here. Now keep in mind this is a very remote location like we said
that these people had to be flown in via helicopter to get to the spot. um their
their reasoning is they can claim miscommunication, but they've also said that, you know what, um it was getting
dark and we were getting worried that animals might come and and mess with the remains. So, we decided we had to make a
judgment call and we had to pull them out of there. >> It's just, you know, they're constantly
covering their ass in this case. >> Well, here's some other things that they failed to do. You know, mind you, they
were at that scene for at least 6 and 1/2 hours. M >> what they failed to do during that time
is they they failed to collect soil samples. They did not photo document the scene. They didn't photo document the
body positioning or the individual stages of recovery. >> Yeah. >> Uh the rangers took some pictures of the
scene. So, looks like we should have let the park rangers conduct the investigation on this case, right? I
think they would have had a better job of solving it. Uh, listen. According to the Lieutenant Michael Rosson and the
Captain David Smith, the deputies were given permission from the corner staff member from from a staff member, right?
That they may move the skull to see what was beneath the debris pile. And when they did so, because the skull was still
connected to the rest of the skeleton, when they lifted the skull, the body followed intact and unearthed itself as
they lifted the skull. It was later determined that five of the neckbones were not even recovered from the scene
that day. So the captain and the lieutenant's statement about the recovery, >> not my cap, not this captain.
>> The the recovery of the skull, the skeleton, the recovery of the remains is not only false, but it's impossible,
>> right? >> The head the skull was not connected. >> So it's basic, but it's just like the
[ __ ] tape. You know what I mean? It's like it's a blatant lie. We caught you in a blatant lie that you you have
surveillance of her in jail. And then it comes out months and months later. And then it takes you months and months and
months to show the family because you got to doctor it up cuz you're just a bunch of [ __ ] liars. And then you
say, "Well, well, what happened was we moved the skull and then that was connected to everything." And then then
that's what happened. And then based off the coroner report, you're you're a [ __ ] liar again. Well, the things
that the sorry, the things that the sheriff's department would claim is that, you know, the the cause of death
is ultimately ruled undetermined, right? But the situation we have here is that the sheriff's department is going to say
that she probably succumbed to the elements or that she had been bitten by a rattlesnake. They do have rattlesnakes
in the area, but let's keep in mind, the state of California only averages two of
those deaths a year. So, she would be one of two unlucky people to strike the rattlesnake lottery and get bit out in
the middle of nowhere. Uh, their basic claim is they believe that she took off on her own on foot. She ended up there.
She got distressed. This this is a hard area to walk in, a hard area to that she
succumbed to the elements and at some point the this is I guess a flash flood zone and that it may have flooded and
that would be the cause for why because we said her body's naked. The the remains were naked. So those clothing
items that were found, the belt, the jeans, the bra, those items according to them would have been removed after she
had already passed. So I I I don't buy that. >> Of course, nobody Nobody in their right
mind would buy that. How How jeans? Jeans. >> We're talking about jeans here. They
don't just come off of you. >> Tight jeans. >> Well, yeah. And so jeans don't just come
off of you. And as well as I mean, maybe a bra. Maybe I could maybe I could if my
mind could wander wild and maybe some animals helped with this. And maybe you could say that about the bra, but you
can't say that about the jeans. You can't say that about the belt with the belt. It it went through the loops. You
know, there's belt loops here. It unbuckled itself and went through the loops and they're found elsewhere.
They're not found like right by the body. They're found, you know, like 100 ft away or something like that. So, here
here's a couple problems we have. The the other thing is they they recovered hair and the body was partially
mummified. That means that there's hair on portions of that body as well. They failed to comb the hairs of that body to
see if they could recover somebody else's hairs. >> I mean, this is >> right. It could be a mixture. Yeah.
>> This whether she ended up there on her own and did succumb to the to the elements or if she was placed there by
somebody else. >> Mhm. >> Regardless, they could not have botched this thing more.
>> You couldn't you couldn't you couldn't attempt to screw this thing up more. You
know what I mean? It's it's it's horrible, >> right? And then that becomes a question.
Did they they botch it because they're, you know, dumb asses or did they botch it because they they're trying to cover
something up? I mean, like, and I just think the whole thing where you go, oh, well, there's this flood that look, we
we've seen in cases where people have had manic episodes and hypermanic episodes and all that stuff, some sort
of psychosis going on where they start removing layers of clothes. >> Mhm. So that makes more sense, you know,
that she's wandering aimlessly. She's dehydrated, she doesn't know what's going on inside of her own brain, and so
she's she derroes herself. >> That makes way more sense, >> right? >> You know, but they don't even bring that
up. It seems like not only are we going to lie to you, but when we do lie to you, we're going to insult your
intelligence as well. >> This is such a Shannon Gilbert type case, isn't it? You know, when you think
about the the clothing found somewhat nearby, the the naked body found out in the middle of nowhere in in harsh
conditions, you know, areas that would be tough to travel on foot. >> Um, you know, they claimed with Shannon
Gilbert from the Long Island serial killer case that that she may have shed her own clothes and and kept wandering
into the brush. Yeah. >> Um, >> and then she was possibly having then a mental breakdown and some sort of
psychosis. >> Here's the other thing, though. I would just like their explanations to make
some sense. Like you said, it would make a lot more sense if she if they would have said she shed her own clothes.
There's another thing, too. When when a when a body is mummified, >> Mhm. >> you know, it it becomes awfully stiff
and it tends and it stays in the manner in which it last rest. >> Well, and this happens normally through
extreme heat, they say. Right. >> Yeah. And well, and and it could be because it's partially covered up. But
the thing here is her one of her arms, I believe it was her left arm was kind of
tucked up almost like a you know how people do the chicken dance almost like the chicken wing but with the with the
fist facing outward. So it's it's mummified tight up against her her body. >> Mhm.
>> So if that brawl came off postmortem then I don't understand how it gets underneath that arm. Yeah.
>> You know it's just none of this makes any sense. >> No. And the other thing too is like
Okay. So again, um the the other possibility is she's in this re um in this area that she's not familiar with
and this she could have fell and she would have fell from on top of the ravine that she would have po you know
they found her body next to a boulder a bigger rock >> and it's possible that she hit her head.
Now, there's no none of the bones that were found, and we don't know, you know, again, did the police tamper with what
evidence they did find? But the bones that they did find, um, and they found bones multiple times, but the bones that
they did find, there's no trauma, right? >> So, there's no signs of >> a bullet wound or being stabbed or or
hit over the head or falling to the death. Well, no, but that but there is a lot of cases that you can get hit in the
head and there's no uh trauma to the bones and stuff, but but there's inner bleeding of the brain.
>> So, I was talking to a nurse friend about this case. Uh big shout out to all the nurses. Um
>> and she said that's a very likelihood. And then if she was going, you know, if
she has this brain hemorrhaging, what is her body doing? She might be disroing because she's hot. She she might not
have any clue what she's doing. >> So, at least those things make some logical sense, but all this other stuff
sounds like a bunch of horseshit. >> Now, it I do we should clear up that they did find most of her remains. They
found most of her bones. Um there were some bones missing. Um like we said, the neck bones. Um, one of them, you know,
when we talked about the Shannon Gilbert case, we talked about the hyoid bone, uh, which which would usually depict
somebody being if that's broken, you can usually justify and figure out that that
that means that somebody was strangled to death or that there possibly their throat was slit. Unfortunately, the
vertebrae and the neckbones that were missing from her remains would you can't surmize what happened as far as being
strangulation or throat cut. Well, and that that's the that's the other problem here is I mean you don't have to be some
crazy uh true crime junkie to know that. >> And so again, if these cops are on the
scene and who were these cops, you know, were they cops that were in that would have been able to see her that night
that knew her? I mean like it's just it's a case that you know it's like we have all these questions and you can't
even toss out you can't even just there's a look there would be this huge argument that she never you know she
never left that area and she she um she died there by the hands of of a cop or she died by the hands of some other
crazy person or she succumbed to the elements >> or she hit her head. it was accidental
or whatever. So that's that's likely, but on the other hand, you can't rule out that
somebody did see her in Vegas. And then cuz the idea is, well, what if she was working for somebody or somebody had her
on drugs and got her in this sex working ring and it wasn't working out uh for him or her or whatever or this group and
then they decided, well, they're still looking for her in that area. Let's kill her and dump her remains there.
>> Mhm. You can't rule that out with 100% certainty. I don't think that's as logical, but you can't rule it out.
>> What do you think, Cap? What do you think happened here, Captain? >> H I don't know. I think, look, people
need to do their job at the end of the day. If you sign up to serve and protect, please serve and protect. Um
the there's some trouble things in this case. I mean, I think they I think so many times in cases they bring up the
race card a little too quick. I mean, their lawyer mentioned, "Well, if this if her last name was Spears or Lowhand,
they would have offered her a ride home." Well, you know, I don't know if that's the case. You know, uh I mean, we
could argue that people that are are good-looking get advantages, right? You know, there's all these things that we
can argue. At the end of the day, I don't think the cops did their job. I think the mental health issue is is one
that we're going to be wrestling with for years cuz the family saw signs of this. You know, here's the problem. Just
very shortly before she disappeared, though. This wasn't didn't seem to be an ongoing thing.
>> Well, here's the issue is like, yes, the the cops did some shitty stuff. They
lied about stuff. They should not do that. You were paid by these people. You are paid by the community to serve and
protect, not to lie, not to try to cover your ass. You know, if you made mistakes, own up to it. Own your own
truths. Own your own [ __ ] people. Right? This is what they should have done. And and they didn't. And if they
would have came forward with this stuff, there wouldn't be as many questions, you
know? So, do I think they were involved? I don't think so. I I I it doesn't make any sense. If they were
involved, then wouldn't they just take her away somewhere else to some other part of the country or some other But
she, you know, she leaves she leaves the jail and then at some point she's trespassing or we and I'm I'm pretty
sure that that was her. >> I feel like it's her and I and I'll tell you why. because it seems to me a little
improbable that you have somebody matching the description that closely uh within hours within within miles. It
just seems too convenient for it to be somebody else. >> Yeah. Unless again it's some conspiracy
and the guy's just making up the sighting. >> He's not I I don't get that vibe at all.
Retired reporter. Uh the the thing here is though, you say they and I don't know
that it needs to be the sheriff's department committed this murder. I feel like if if if
>> No, no. I think I don't think it would be >> I think if a member of the sheriff's
department's involved, it's a member. And here's the problem. Here's the problem I have with where she's found.
Okay. >> I don't see her But I don't see her getting to that location on her own.
But but then you argue, you say, "But Nick, she just made it six miles to this guy's house in the dark." So So maybe
maybe she did make it on her own. But but here's the problem. >> Well, I think the thing is, just going
on that point real quick, if she was manic, if she was going through some psych sort of psychosis, we're talking
about the the the the human body has way bigger cap capabilities than we were aware of. You
know, if you were stone cold sober and not mentally ill, could you do this hike? You'd probably eventually break
down and quit. >> I don't know if I could do the hike now. >> Right. That's what I'm saying. But but
but in this state, you just keep going, right? >> Maybe when you shouldn't. And maybe that
caused to some accident hitting her head or dehydration or I don't know. >> Here's the strange thing though. this
that I keep going back to is her remains are found in an area that is known to who?
>> Mhm. >> It's known to law enforcement and it's known to for by drug dealers, right? You
know, by by people drug cartel. >> So, who if if she didn't get there on her own, who put her there? I would have
to say it's one or the other, >> right? >> Um >> or she was close enough to that area.
That's that's another theory that maybe she had found her way there somehow and maybe a member or members from the drug
cartel had come back to to check on crops or to plant and found her wandering around. Now, again, here's
where here's where it doesn't make a lot of sense is people that So, the theory online that you see constantly is that
she was wandering around, finds this stash of weed, finds this drug cartel, and because because she found this uh
this weed that they had to kill her. >> Well, I don't know that they're saying that. I think that this theory is more a
little more evil than that where it's going, "Oh, we're out in the middle of nowhere and there's this strange young
woman out here. Nobody knows that she's here. Nobody knows that I'm here." >> Like, it's just a weird
>> coincidence. Um, they did find uh in this location, they did find like like rappers like like uh candy bar wrappers
and things like that. um which may may have been there from before when when they were out planting these crops and
setting up the irrigation system for for the weeds. But the other thing that I found strange in this case as well, you
know, it's all these little things. Her death, her disappearance is extremely mysterious, but then you have all these
other tidbits that are weird dealings by the sheriff's department. In my mind, they they didn't fully search the car
that well. They didn't they didn't really they painted over the mural very quickly. They didn't charge the people
that had had destroyed that property. I mean, that's tax dollars that it cost to
clean that thing up. And and then last but not least, what what do the rangers say that they found when they when they
came to inspect that area? They found the hoses from last year's uh crop. They founded the PVC pipes from last year's
crop. They they these these candy bar wrappers and fast food wrappers. We don't know if they've been there for
over a year. They probably they could have been there for over a year. We don't know why because we didn't bother
to clean any of that crap up when we were here the first time when we saw that a crime had been committed. I know
that they that the sheriff's department and their personnel and their staff is not the not uh you know landscapers or
or America's janitors, but come on. I mean, let's put a little more effort into these jobs. Well, and and one of
the things that her her father talks about is that, >> you know, one of the easiest ways to get
to uh this land would be through like a ATV. That was possible through ATV. And this sheriff's department, they actually
had a search team and and part of their search team was they had ATVs. >> So, but the theory that I was going with
is, yeah, it's probably more sinister than that. So, she's out in the middle of nowhere. Oh, I'm here. So then they
this guy or people rape her and kill her and then the other theory is that the sheriffs
know about this crop. They know about the gangs but they are working with them on some level
>> you know like a kickback or we just we don't mess with you. You don't mess with
us. >> We pretend you don't exist. and you give us a little kickback and and look, there's there's a lot of
there's a lot of evidence of cops getting kickbacks in drug areas, >> you know, hey, this is my corner. I give
you a little bit of money, you go away, and now you're not making 70 grand a year, you're making 150 grand a year,
you know. So, there are those cases. I I don't see it being like that, you know.
I think >> I think the mental the mental health angle is some that brings up the most
questions. What she said to you know what she was talking to her parents about didn't make any sense. What she
talked to the valet didn't make any sense at the restaurant didn't make any sense. Now if we go to there then stop
her at the jail and don't release her and have her evaluated. And if they would have done that and put that simple
hold, then the parents and the family have an opportunity to try to turn her life around and make it better. I mean,
her life wasn't going badly, but whatever was going on in her life, whether it was a drug thing or if it was
a mental health thing, maybe they could have got her a little help if all they had to do was say, "Hey, you're going to
sit here for a while and we're going to have a doctor look at you." And I think this country will step up and eventually
at some point it'll be like if there is any mental health concern you're going to wait maybe it's not 72 hours or 48
hours you know maybe it's just like we pay tax money for all this stuff. We give all these benefits to prisoners for
example but what about the what about the citizens? What about, hey, if somebody gets pulled over and we think
they're drunk or they're acting a little weird, we're going to arrest them because we don't want them to hurt
themselves. We don't want them to hurt somebody else. But instead of having them be being be caged for, you know, 12
hours, 24 hours or whatever, six hours, we're going to have somebody on call and within 6 hours of you being
brought to the station, we're going to have a doctor come in and evaluate you. And if you pass the evaluation, then
we'll let you go. >> But you know, and that's for the safety of the citizens. And we give all these
rights to these criminals like what? And we give all these benefits and privileges to criminals. When can we
start doing that for the community, >> right? >> I you know what I think happened here,
Captain? I'm going to go with Let is right. That's the mother. That's Matrices's mother. I think I'm going to
go with mother's intuition. Mhm. >> I think the whole time, from the very get-go, from the time this thing started
until they found her remains, her gut feeling was right every single time. And you know, when when she was picked up,
what did she do? She called the sheriff's department and asked, "Are you going to let her go? Because if you are,
I'll go and get her. If you're if you're going to keep her, then I'm going to get
her in the morning." >> She had that she had that mother's intuition from the beginning that they
might let her go. What ends up happening? They let her go. She calls in and wants to call in a missing person's
report five hours after Maitrice's released from the sheriff's office. >> They won't let her they don't let her
file a missing person's report. She she felt in her gut right then that her daughter was missing. And
>> within an hour she's by all purposes missing. When they started and she started saying right right after that
first search was conducted and they didn't find anything. She started saying, "You know what? My child had a
mental break. Some kind of mental health issue happened. She snapped. She was out
wandering around in unfamiliar territory. Somebody saw her, took advantage of the situation, picked her
up, they killed her, and they dumped her somewhere in some remote location. And when the sighting started happening in
Las Vegas, even even with her ex-husband's sighting, potential sighting, she was saying the entire
time, "That's not my daughter. I I just know it. I know that she's she's not alive and she's not with us anymore and
she's out somewhere. She's been placed somewhere. And so I'm going to go with my theory is that that she didn't end up
there on her own. I think that somebody did take advantage of a situation. I do believe it was probably her in that
backyard that was spotted early that morning. I think she wandered on before sheriff could arrive. I don't know if it
was a sheriff that found her or if it was some evil guy or an evil sheriff that found her, but I think that
somebody picked her up, took advantage of the situation. And I I'm going to go with mother's tuition intuition there
that I think Let's >> Yeah. I mean, I think I think that the two logical things, more logical things
is she either went on some manic rant and then she succumbed to the elements or there was accident. And then the
other is, you know, the whole thing about when people talk about like with the Mara Mari case, the whole idea that
she would be running down this road and just happened upon a killer. Well, yeah,
that's that's not super likely, but how long was um my trice wandering around? So the longer you wander around, the
more there's opportunity >> and and not just do you run into a killer, but do you run into a rapist and
that rapist then turns into a murder. >> Exactly. Right. Yeah. >> So, and I think I mean it's just a super
sad case and >> and and it's sad. Um, now we should just say that, you know, there was lawsuits
against um the sheriff and and the family was awarded like $900,000. >> Yeah. The the the father and the mother
who are separated, as we said, filed uh separately. They filed lawsuits against the sheriff's department. Uh they ended
up combining those lawsuits. Um and they each had had their own representation. Uh, and they did settle out of court for
my understanding was $900,000 which they split $450 450. >> No, that's not how they split it because
I guarantee you that lawyer that was bringing up this [ __ ] about spears and lowhand and he he the lawyer is
going to get 33 to 40%. >> Well, yeah, you cut me off before I could finish that. It it clearly says in
the settlement I read the settlement last night. It says, I believe in the first page or the second page that that
after the settlement is paid out, everybody will pay their own lawyer fees from that amount. They they are
responsible for their own uh counsel that they sought. Uh we should also mention that the body was exumed at the
at the uh at the encouragement of the family. Um, and it was also determined basically even though they examined the
body a second time, they pretty much came up with the same situation that cause of death is undetermined.
>> Yeah. And I think unless they find um, you know, do another search or find more
bones that that there's no way to there it's not a complete picture for them to be able to come to any conclusion. Mhm.
>> So, anyways, I hope you guys enjoyed this episode and man, it's been a long day. Uh, we got a recommended reading.
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Mitrice Richardson /// Episode: 76 /// Part 2

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September 16th, 2009 - 24 year old Mitrice Richardson is briefly detained by deputies for not paying her bill at Geoffrey's restaurant on the Pacific Coast Highway. After midnight she is released from the Malibu/ Lost Hills Sheriff's station. She is without her car, purse and cellphone. She simply sets off on her own without provisions and walks off into the darkness. A little after 6am a trespasser matching Mitrice's description is spotted in the backyard of a home in Cold Canyon. Was this Mitrice? Regardless Mitrice was sent out into the dark, alone with no transportation in an area that she is unfamiliar and she disappears. Tonight we look for Mitrice Richardson and ask who could have taken her?

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Brief Summary

Maitrice Richardson's case involves her mysterious disappearance, law enforcement failures, and the discovery of remains in a remote area.

Key points

Welcome to True Crime Garage. Hosts Nick and Captain introduce the show with humor and a beer review.
Surveillance Footage Controversy. The sudden availability of jail surveillance footage raises questions about the investigation.
The Mysterious Case of Maitrice Richardson. The hosts dive into the case of a missing woman and the family's concerns about law enforcement.
Mural Discovery Raises Questions. A disturbing mural depicting African-American women is found during the search for Matrice.
Human Remains Found. Rangers discover human remains in a remote area, raising concerns about Matrice's fate.
Sheriff's Department Miscommunication. Confusion arises as the sheriff's department removes remains without coroner's approval.

Episode highlights

Episode quotes

Are you trying to cover up for this guy?

Family's suspicion towards law enforcement's handling of the case.

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Tension

75/ 100High tension

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