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I'm calling from Joffrey's restaurant in Malibu um we have a guest here who is refusing to pay her bill and we think
she may she sounds really crazy she may be on drugs or something um we wondering
if someone can come by and pick her up okay well what's the address there it's 27400 Pacific Coast
Highway and is she a white black Asian Hispanic she's um young black girl she probably in her
20s okay what's she wearing she's wearing a black T-shirt and I think blue jeans is she with anybody else no it's
just [Music] turn I am calling I'm a little frazzled right now understand my daughter is
being brought into the station my tce Richardson has a made it to the station yet and she's been book okay is is do
you know where she's coming from it's from restaurant out in Malibu and I I didn't even think to get the name the
manager only the only place we have somebody that's in custody that they just announced on the radio that they're
coming up is from joffre inic Highway it's the only female that's being brought up to the station as we speak
they actually just put on the radio right before you called okay okay I'm I'm her mother and
are you guys want to book her and then release her on her own recogn tonight because it's dark she does doesn't have
a car and I don't want her wandering out I'm I'm totally just taking a back cuz this is so out of character for her and
you'll see when she comes in she she's well spoken I think the only way I will come and get her tonight is if you guys
are going to release her tonight if going to be held in custody for some type of arraignment tomorrow then I will
wait until tomorrow she definitely has no place you know I mean she's not from that area and I would hate to wake up to
a Morning Report girl lost somewhere with head chopped off so I guess I would have to come and get her oh my God yeah
we're in agur Hills the only thing is at least in the station here she will be separated so nobody's going to be with
her uh so at least that's you know the plus thing so you don't have to worry about her safety oh yeah no I feel safe
with her being in Cy it's being released but I'm worried about it's it's crazy out
[Music] here in 2009 we have a 24-year-old woman who's briefly detained by deputies for
not paying her bill at a restaurant we have no idea why she didn't pay this bill but the events of this evening
probably could not get any stranger in my opinion she's detained by the sheriff's department yeah she's held
there for a couple of hours and then she's released after midnight now the key here though is she's released
without a vehicle without a cell phone no purse no money no provisions and they just let her off wandering out into the
darkness in an area that she's unfamiliar with she may have been spotted trespassing hours later we're
not convinced not 100% sure but shortly after that if that was her she disappears yeah diving into this case
this week it seemed like you know when you dive in you're trying to get some answers and it seems like all I got was
more questions well you know I I agree with you when I first dove into this lots of questions lots of questions and
I still have plenty of them and we'll go through all of those as well but you and
I have been looking at this case for over a week now and I do think we have some answers here that we're going to
present tonight um quick a little background here who are we talking about we're talking about 24-year-old myrice
Richardson um she grew up in the suburbs east of LA with her mom and her stepdad
uh her father and grandmother lived in nearby South La she graduated with honors from Cal State Fullerton with a
degree in Psychology in 2008 uh she had been working doing some clerical work for a shipping company and on Friday
nights she worked as a go- go dancer in Long Beach now this was a lesbian club uh her dancing name was
Hazel now the day in question here is September 16th 2009 this is a Wednesday myrice is driving her 1998 Hond Honda
Civic down Pacific Coast Highway yeah when she decides to stop at a place called joffre's This is regarded as an
upscale restaurant near Malibu so it's a bit of a Swanky place and I hear the big
attraction at at joffre's is the wonderful views of the Pacific when she arrives well they have
valet parking at the restaurant so we all know the drill right you pull up and sometimes there's a line of cars and you
got to wait for the valet to come up to you and greet you um the valet does come
up and greet her correct yeah so he comes up and greets her and he's got other things to do he's got other cars
to shuffle around and by the time this is just within minutes but by the time he gets back to her car to move her
vehicle she's no longer in the vehicle and he finds her sitting in his vehicle of all
places his vehicle is parked nearby and he said that he had left the door open uh but when he discovered her in his car
of course you know he wants to know yeah why the hell are you in my car what are
you doing in my car yeah so and she seems to be rumaging through like CDs and stuff and starts making comments to
him about the CDs and stuff that she's finding and later he would report you know what she was wearing and he he
described her as wearing a rosarian style hat a long sleeve white shirt under a Black Bob Marley short sleeve
shirt and she was wearing you know like distressed jeans or I don't know maybe they were tore up jeans with Van shoes
same thing in a pink belt uh the valet ask her of course what she's doing in his car and uh she replies it's
subliminal uh what does that mean well it's subliminal that's now my my answer for anytime I get caught doing something
strange subliminal man uh and then this is not real clear but she also says something about uh she's avenging the
death of Michael Jackson who you know so this is 2009 Michael Jackson died June 25th 2009 but still a very strange thing
to say say uh she does give him the keys and then ask if vanessa is here the valet does not know whom myrice is
asking about uh she told him to keep an eye out for a girl with tattoos on her arm strange thing to say to somebody
that you don't know or that doesn't know Vanessa and then you go into joffre's and then you ask for a table for one not
a table of two but anyway strange then you sit down you order steak and some wine and you enjoy your meal she's
inside she's sitting alone she orders a cocktail she orders a steak and nearby her there's a table of seven and she
goes over to the table and she sits down and joins in the conversation uh she does return to her table at some point
to eat but then goes back again to the Sev toop and sits down mitrice tells them she is going to Hawaii and she
would contact them when she arrives uh the seven diners leave J joffre's and shortly after matrice goes to leave as
well and the manager confronts her about her unpaid dinner Tab and this is amounting to a grand total of $89 yeah
expensive place and MRI states that the other table should have covered her check the manager tells her that this is
not the case they did not they're you know they didn't cover it and she is responsible and MRI says that she is
from Mars and maybe she could settle her debt with with sex um she pulls out a joint
and then a staff member at the restaurant calls the Lost Hill sheriff station so there's a lot of questions in
my mind right now like one why is she there why is she at this restaurant why is she 45 minutes away from her uh house
and and this is an area that her family claims that she's not familiar with but as we all know you know my parents don't
know every place that I go to or places that are familiar to me MH so maybe they're just not familiar with the fact
that she goes to Malibu often right um but it's very odd that she talks to this valet guy and says hey well is Vanessa
here okay so there's a couple things she's assuming that the valet knows Vanessa so one one of the things that I
think is was she meeting Vanessa as a as a date cuz she was open lesbian was it it was it a date was it just a friend or
was Vanessa somebody that worked there and maybe that uh maybe myri actually visited this restaurant multiple times
we don't know that you know what I mean and so when he says well I don't know who you're talking about or maybe she
had the wrong location right you know this is an area she's not familiar with maybe she stopped at the wrong
restaurant you know she's given directions something and she thinks she's at the right place very possible
and that's why I'd want to know what the cell phone records were before all this
because you know what again what if she's meeting Vanessa that works at a restaurant and so she goes and stops in
the restaurant and thinks well I'm just going to go get a table and my friend works at the restaurant and she said
come down meals on me well and here's the thing too about her interaction with the valet so there's a lot of red flags
there right it sounds like everything that she did and said to the valet sounds to be crazy talk however if you
take away a couple of those actions some of it's not crazy talk so had she not sat down in his car and had she not said
anything about Michael Jackson's death her just asking about a Vanessa would not seem crazy just because he doesn't
know who she is yeah and second of all when when she says MH keep an eye out for a girl with tattoos
on her arms well that sounds crazy too however what if the van she thought she's meeting a Vanessa and she's just
letting the valet know oh he doesn't know who I'm talking about keep an eye out for the girl with tattoos on her
arms Vanessa has tattoos on her arms right right you know so those last two things sound crazy unless you take away
the Michael Jackson and the the sitting in the vehicle yeah or like you said if she's at a restaurant that Vanessa works
at then you know she missed one phrase what if it was is Vanessa here I don't know who Vanessa is the girl with the
tattoo she works here then the guy could have said n Vanessa doesn't work here and then maybe she would realize I'm at
the wrong place either way she sits down and and and we don't believe that she's
there to meet Vanessa mainly because the hostess says she asked for a table for one right but like we all know they
don't make some table where you sit in the corner and just stare at the wall you know it's you can ask for a table
for one but that's really just going to be determin how many menus you get right
right so I mean oh so okay so she ask for a table for one then she sits down now I find this odd because I'm not one
to go over and just talk to a group of people you know yeah yeah I mean you could see talking to one person or or
but but a a group of seven yeah and and the strange thing here though is it sounds like she just
went over and sat down and joined in mid conversation it's not like she walked over and introduced herself and asked if
she could sit down it sounds like she just there happened to be an empty seat and she just went over and took that
seat and talking like she knew the people now the valet did come in at some point and tell the hostess hey that girl
that came in by herself she's she's a little weird so so the staff is on a little bit of heightened awareness of
what's going on here this table of seven they don't know anything that's weird they just see this young good-looking
girl that comes over to their table and sits down and starts talking she she she's well spoken she has a jovial
personality um they probably didn't want to kick her off of the table but somebody at from the staff did drop by
at some point and kind of check in on the table to make sure every you know is everything okay well you worked in a
restaurant and so like there was probably times that people came up when you had like a kind of weird customer
and said hey guy at table 7 kind of talking to himself you know what I mean like just like small talk is that what
goes down well the the restaurant that I worked in and I worked there for quite some time but usually the weird
customers were repeat customers uh that they would often come in by themselves or just one
person they were regulars so you always knew how to handle the situation so if you saw them you know talking with
another table it didn't you didn't really care cuz you'd seen them do it a hundred times before and you knew they
were harmless they're a bit annoying but they're harmless now uh there are two different accounts here uh when you when
you listen to uh when you listen to my tesa's family talk about how this restaurant thing went down they
explained that they think that maybe she thought that the the table was going to
buy her dinner that that they believed that she she didn't placed the order until after she had gone over to the
other table talked with them for a while uh somebody at that table did say something to the fact like well aren't
you going to eat right and and they said well she being a young attractive woman
might have believed that they were offering to buy her meal yeah and so she was under the assumption that they were
buying I kind of take expensive I kind of take it more as you know oh aren't you going to eat like
kind of a reminder to go back to your own table like in a very polite way trying to be polite about it so but but
that's also makes sense because when they when she goes to walk out and they say hey ma'am are you going to pay your
bill she says well the other table's going to take care of it right and so again this is so strange because she
doesn't have her ID on her she doesn't uh you know on her person you know and she doesn't have her wallet so she has
no way of pain right on her person and then there's a couple accounts where it says that some of the staff members
offered to pay her bill yeah but the manager was like No And I wonder if that's just a I mean I I hate to say it
but I wonder if that partly is just a race thing well uh the from what I heard was the manager thought that she was
intoxicated because of the way he Bill well just Sheriff's Department going her in and he didn't feel
comfortable with her getting in a car and driving off okay um so he thought he was looking out for her is what he says
after the fact that that he wasn't going to let them cover the bill yeah I buy that some but what we'll find out later
is that you know he has her car towed mhm right so if you're really trying to help her out then yeah you don't mind
the cops coming and taking her away and then she doesn't have to drive cuz she's
drunk uh but you're not going to tow her car so she has to pay the towing fee in
the inpound lot but I think a lot of this stuff is hindsight and he's like oh well I was just trying to help her yeah
right so but it's strange so they they offer to pay her a bill he doesn't let her do that uh she's acting a little
strange like you said and there's I I haven't heard any accounts uh of her fumbling through her pants and and and a
joint falling out well what what I said she pulled pull out a joint but the the account I actually heard was that she
opened up her Pockets to show that she had no money and in the course of that a joint fell out um now but you mentioned
something leading up to that of her pulling out the pockets was you had you had seen something where where the
account was that she said busted you know right yeah yeah when when she's asked how are you going to pay for your
bill or no they're not covering your bill you need to settle up and then she said yeah I'm busted and I actually took
it a different way rather than you took it as oh well you caught me you know I thought I was slipping out the door and
you caught me I actually took it as I'm busted as in I have no money and then pull open the pockets to prove that
you're you know your wallet's busted you have no money yeah it seems like she's kind of just joking around with the
staff trying to get out of it which I I don't know I mean I I don't see that as being crazy or manic or bipolar or
anything like she seems to be like coherent but like you said the manager is thinking that that she's drunk right
so now we're waiting for the cops to show up and I think U my tree starts taking this a little more serious well
the thing here just backing up just a second where she does say that I'm from Mars that now that's extremely strange
because it doesn't seem like she's working towards solving this issue of there's this unpaid bill you know what I
mean I I wouldn't go say I'm from Mars I would figure out a way that it's all subliminal man right but can but can I
make arrangements for you to pay later can I can we work this out somehow I do believe yeah but you also said that she
offered sex yeah but I think that might have been a joke I oh I think it was a joke yeah I I think she was kind of
joking like oh what am I going to do here you know you want me to wash some dishes you want right yeah want me to
give you a hand job in the lobby I it sounds strange but I kind of think thought of it as a joke uh during during
the course when they're waiting for the sheriff's department to arrive the the manager says that myri seemed to be
confused and almost like she was in some kind a trance from time to time uh the sheriff's department uh they arrive they
sent out some deputies to joffre's to check on the situation mitrice is now telling the hostess that she had been
watching a soap opera and God had told her to take the afternoon off wow mrie said that she had no parents but she did
have a great grandmother so the restaurant decides at this point well let's call her great grandmother and ask
her if she would like to help out her her great granddaughter and pay the bill and of of course the great grandmother
answers the phone and she does want to help out her her great granddaughter uh she gave she gave the um credit card
information correct well let me take this over real quick because she gives her credit card information and this
goes back to the idea that this manager is he's so helpful he's just trying to help my treats right mhm so the the
great-grandmother which is 80 some years old says hey here's my credit card information and then they say well we
can't take the the payment right because they require a signature right which I which I get uh but the fact that you
want 80 some year old lady to drive down which I I don't know how far is away from the great grandmother 45 minutes or
so um which again again take the credit card and say hey look come in in the next few days and and and sign it and
we're good to go um also you could run it as probably a debit or something there's probably all these different
ways and then the whole thing was that they wanted a fax they want the grandma to send a fax and the Grandma's like I
got fax machine right right so now you have the situation where the bill needs to be paid the cops are on their way the
grandma can't help out mitrice is there by herself and now the cops are coming in MH yeah so they send it's about 900
p.m. when the deputies arrive and there's three of them so I mean this sounds to me like a slow night you heard
the 911 it's not you know it's doesn't sound like she's you know she's referred to as
there's a guest here and she's refusing to pay her bill but but the the person calling the waitress or the hostess
calling doesn't seem to be like there's any kind of big uh commotion going on you know not violent she's not creating
a scene um so they send three of their finest out there um and one of the deputies got on the phone with the great
grandmother and let uh matrice talk to the great grandmother um and so there is some interaction between matrice and her
family at this point um it sounds like the great grandmother kind of gave up figuring out that she's not going to be
able to pay the bill and figured out that her great-granddaughter is going to have to go to jail for the night um at
this point two of the deputies search mitrice's car they don't note that they find her cell phone or her wallet they
do note that they found her driver's license and half empty bottles of booze so one of the officers and I guess that
he may have been going off of the booze bottles and the cocktail that she ordered at dinner and some of the crazy
statements that mitrice is making uh but of course he says that she is drunk so at that point one of the other officers
administers a field sobriety test and then he concludes that she in fact is sober she's she's not in right she
passes the field sobriety test then they start asking her other questions like have have are you on any medication she
says no right because if she's not drunk then then she's either drunk or she's crazy is what the officers are thinking
MH have you ever been placed on a 72-hour hold for psychological evaluation right again with the crazy
yeah and she says no uh so at this point myrice is arrested and as you said later
the car is towed from the parking lot well and I I heard that they found less than an ounce of wheat it yeah Center
cons Soul yeah it sounded like it was uh uh it it didn't sound to me like it was
packaged up weed it sounded like it was like you know like maybe you roll a joint and Things fall out it sounded
like it was little bits and fragments and debris of marijuana right I I don't know if they'd actually hold those
charges or they just drop them later the fact of the matter is we have a young 24-year-old black female in Malibu that
didn't pay her bill mhm right they called the cops the cops can't make arrests because that's just a
misdemeanor and so it's actually a a citizen arrest right on the on the unpaid bill right because the restaurant
says they will press charges on the unpaid Bill and and and I think again uh with her mental state or whatever is
going on the the manager probably did not want her to drive I understand that cops show up they find her ID they know
who it is now matrice Richardson and we think she's drunk she passes the test m mhm but we got a little bit of weed but
we're still going to take her down to the station and we'll get back to this case right after this quick beer break
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2023 cheers everybody we're back and where we left off matrice she didn't pay her bill the cops came they gave her a
filled sobriety test that she passed and now they to took her back to the police
station yeah and her car has been towed as well and at this point her remember she had called her great-grandmother
from the restaurant to to see if she would pay the bill yeah um at this point the great grandmother calls my tesa's
mother and tells her what just went down and that at this time that myrice is probably being taken back to the
Sheriff's Department so mri's mother her name is Leti she calls the sheriff's department now remember we heard in the
trailer there that's her calling the sheriff's department asking you know have you picked up my daughter is she in
your custody and they're stating well she's in route back to the sheriff's department and she's also saying you
know if you guys are going to keep her there overnight then I'm not going to come down and get her tonight yeah
because I feel she's safe Leti has a daughter at home that she's caring for and probably doesn't want to wake up the
daughter and make the long drive to go pick up her other daughter yeah I want to say it's about 60 miles away once my
tce is back at the sheriff's department she's in Sheriff's custody at this point
she is granted her phone call or phone calls uh the only number that myrice has memorized is her great grandmother this
was the person that was called at the restaurant um a log book shows that matrice called her great-grandmother or
at least tried to call her four times matrice is overheard talking on the phone but Mildred which is the
great-grandmother insists that she never spoke to mitrice once she was at the station these phone calls were placed on
a non-recording line the pay phone which records outgoing phone calls was broken
at the time of mitrice's detainment so she's calling on this phone that does not record any anything and the
grandmother is saying we didn't speak to her that night once she has been arrested I have no reason to not believe
her grandmother right again I mean well based off the age we could one assume that maybe the grandma doesn't remember
but that this is such a big thing because she goes missing and this is such a big ordeal for the family that I
do believe that she didn't call her so matrice was calling somebody and that's the big red flag to me was who the hell
was she calling well just to address that real quick I as you said I believe the great- grandmother as well because
the great grandmother she repeats later on the conversation she had with matrice
at the restaurant when mitrice called from the restaurant yeah and it was not a very friendly conversation from the
great grandmother's perspective she basically said they're going to take your black ass to jail um you know well
she's old grandma that's what my grandma would have said the same thing verbatim
um but say Nick they're going to take your black ass to jail well I think Mildred
here is sharp as attack is what I'm getting at and she she does not fumble on having the conversation with myrice
at the restaurant she is saying she may have called somebody four times she did not call me um but here's what I think
happened here Captain I think that maybe the great grandmother that might be the
only number that she did have memorized right right and I think that she may have just been pretending to talk into
the phone you know uh I don't know the setup there but if you're not behind bars or given her state of mind I don't
know well yeah well given her state of mind I mean again there's speculation that she you know hints hints of some
kind of mental illness bipolar maybe she's manic so yeah maybe she is sitting there talking to her the phone and if
and that would you know with evidence that she was crazy but you'd have to be crazy just to be sitting there talking
to nobody yeah you know I mean like that why would you do that doesn't make any sense to me well here's the other it's
it's a bit of The Perfect Storm and we're going to see this from time to time again in this case she happens to
be arrested on a night where the regular phone does not work it's not working it's not recording the conversation it's
the perfect storm it's another big question like you said so many questions here's a question I have okay LA county
is one of the largest jurisdictions in the United States I think it's the second or the third largest so we're not
talking about some po dunk uh operation here right this is supposed to be one of
the better operations in the country we're not talking about a garage based podcast this is also a case that took
place in 2009 okay can we at least get to can we get up to speed can we get into the present here and what I mean by
that is there are so many of us walking around right now that do not have phone numbers memorized we just don't memorize
them anymore it's kept in this magic little box that that's in your pocket or your pocket book and it's with you at
all times and it has all of your contacts in there well one of the faults of the deputies is when they arrest her
they they do not you know they find her ID so they know who she is but they do not find her wallet or they do not find
her cell phone and if they would have found those two things then I believe that they should put that with her
that's what I'm getting at and I think that we need to as a country and and and and these big counties these big
jurisdictions like this should be the ones that lead the way this needs to become a part of regular procedure when
somebody is abducted or somebody is arrested sorry that that they are asked do you have a cell phone or do you have
access to one now I'm saying within reason it shouldn't be like oh I was arrested 10 miles away and my cell
phone's at home we have to go retrieve it no but if if she says my cell phone's in my car or if someone insists that
their cell phone is somewhere within a reasonable distance that they obtain that because you are supposed to be
granted a phone call or a phone calls and whom are you supposed to call if you don't know any phone numbers right right
I I totally I get that but it it it's tough because it's like there's a part of me that feels for the cops you know
you're dealing with this individual that is saying some stuff I mean I'm revenging the death of Michael Jackson
uh the other thing uh what did she say to the the valet driver again um it's subliminal yeah it's subliminal so who
knows what she's saying to them and then so did she even tell them hey my wallet
my and my cell phone are in the car it's a little strange to me though that they
they note that they find her ID that they note that they find marijuana and that they find um half empty bottles of
booze I like to think of them as half full but that's just me um but they do not they don't know that they find her
cell phone or her her purse or her wallet uh did did they it sounds like a very cluttered car I'm just going to goe and
throw that out there so I can understand that they they may not have found it but
I mean what's the procedure here if you are following procedure if you find a little bit of drugs aren't you supposed
to search that car pretty hardcore right wouldn't you think wouldn't you think so
that that's yeah you think and not only that you're picking up a girl and you're
not really sure why you're arresting her you know what I mean we know citizens arrest right we know she didn't pay her
bill but you can't you can't figure out why she's talking the way that she's talking she's not drunk she's not on Med
medication according to her and she's never been checked for psychological problems according to her well that
that's the other thing though too is like the family really goes after the police department saying hey you guys
should be more well aware of her condition well the problem is is that you're meeting matrice for the first
time so when you're hearing crazy talk you don't know what the Baseline is you don't know how she normally is so it's
kind of hard to say well she's acting crazy because you don't know what what hurt you know some people just act crazy
all the time you know how many times that cops nurses and people like that you know that deal with the public and
that are servants to the public have to deal with people that are intoxicated people that have alcoholism uh people
that um that have mental problems and they're they're just so used to this you know so how are they supposed to know
how are they supposed to know what myri is normally like yeah but I think I'm going at this from actually a benefit to
no no no yeah yeah so I agree with you on the idea they should have found the cell phone and then once they find the
cell phone they should have brought it to the department and I want to be clear why I'm bringing this up because I think
this is actually a benefit not just to the person you're detaining but also a benefit to the police department as well
right if this if if you take this person back and they have no one to call who's
going to pay this bail who's going to pick up this person this person may become your problem for a much more
extended period of time than it needs to be and if that person has a phone directory of of persons that are
supposed to know them and care about them then hopefully they get picked up safely and a bail gets paid in a timely
manner and all these things can happen so that this person doesn't end up being your problem well here's what happened
though the the the Lost Hill sheriff's department they figured out how not to make this their problem right because at
at a little after mid midnight this is 12:15 a.m. okay so how many hours after so she's the the the sherff deputies
arrived around 900 p.m. MH so she's in rout shortly after that time okay so this is after midnight 12:15 a.m. on
Thursday September 17th 2009 right this is according to to several accounts here
jayer sh Sharon Cummings released myrice Richardson uh now as you had said this is about 40 miles from her home uh with
no phone no money and no Transportation [ __ ] says that myrice refused the offer to stay in the lobby and wait for
a ride saying that matrice said she was going to meet some friends right now we do have to talk about this for well let
me before we move on the let me I want a definitive answer from you who do you think she was talking to is it just a
big question mark for you or do you think she was just talking to herself I think it I think she might have been
talking to a dial tone I think she may have I think she may have called her her great grandmother's number and nobody
picked up and and maybe there's no voicemail set up there and she was just talking to the the ringing phone um and
I don't think I don't it's either a sign of her having a mental break or buying some time for whatever reason uh or to
buy another phone call sometimes you have to sometimes they're very strict about the amount of phone calls they
give you unless you seem to be putting together actions to get You released where you you might be able to
manipulate the situation a little bit and say okay okay well I just talked to my great-grandmother she's going to make
arrangements with so and so and so and so and she told me to call back okay yeah it could be a bit of an acting job
is what I'm getting at yeah it's weird though but to me when you're offered by you know the deputy offers you a place
to stay again who knows we we we only have one side of the story M we you know there there's three sides of the story
there's matrices and then there's deputies and then there's the truce somewhere in the middle but we don't
have matri's side and so she's offered to stay she doesn't stay which then makes me wonder was she actually talking
to somebody in Malibu and was she often in Malibu and was she there to actually meet a Vanessa and was she on the phone
to Vanessa but she was saying it was my my you know I'm calling my grandmother well you say my grandmother because then
they're going to give you more calls but if you say you're meeting Vanessa or your date or your girlfriend or whatever
you're saying then maybe they don't give you as many calls so anyways we're at the point where that they they let her
go and this is like 1230 something right 12:15 and the later you know much later
after the fact the uh Sheriff's Department would go out of their way to bring up that Sharon Cummings is an
African-American woman um because you know they're going to have to defend themselves later because they're
releasing an African-American woman so I think they they wanted to really make that clear to every body it was an
African-American woman that was working the jail that night um but there's other
deputies there too it's not just it's not just the Sharon coming show you know there's other people there making these
determinations as whether to release somebody or not release somebody now the deputies would say that you know once we
got her back to the Sheriff's Department we found that she was well spoken and that she seemed to beware of her
surroundings and aware of the situation and what was going on so we decided because she's an adult and she wanted to
leave we couldn't make her stay and wait for a ride from her mother right uh so we we had to let her go there there's I
have several problems with this okay what what the hell happened between being picked up at 9 p.m. and midnight
that made you go from this chick is crazy to oh she's well spoken and she knows what the heck's going on let's go
ahead and release her well and what we were talking about earlier is we have this idea that these deputies show up
the three deputies cuz it's a slow night but then we give her a field sobriety test because we think that she's drunk
or she's crazy well she passed the test so she's probably not drunk so then she's probably crazy right so it's
really the transfer of power when they have her in custody and then they hand over the custody of matrice to the the
actual jail then it's on the jail and was did the deputies not speak up to the jail enough you know and I'm not look
you know you have to file a report and all that stuff but when you're transferring the person what was that
conversation like because did that conversation happen and then the then the jailers just go well we're going to
let her sit here and see what happens you know because if there wasn't much of a conversation right and there wasn't
this much of a interaction and there was not a hey this girls acting a little crazy well then you put her in a cell
and for 3 hours she just kind of Paces around in the cell it is which is understandable but what's your point
when they transferred custody did they provide the information correctly and if the jail was provided that information
what made them overturn that information because the protocol would be well let's
put her on a watch and then she won't be able to be released until a doctor and it's a Wednesday so you know that
there's a doctor going to be coming in on that Thursday Thursday morning right and then they get psych evaluated and it
covers your ass but again it's it's miscommunication and handing over custody so matrice has been released by
the sheriff's department and then at 5:35 a.m. her mother calls back to the sheriff's department now let's play that
clip Sheriff St yes good good morning my name is Leti Bretton I'm calling to follow up on my
daughter who was brought in last night around 10:30 11:00 okay let me chance through the Jailer hold on please thank
you m hold we'll hold down phille station bomb Garder yes hi my name is Leti and I
called not too long ago regarding my daughter mitrice Richardson how long before a missing person's report can be
filed is it 24 or 48 hours that's Norm well it depends on the circumstances but uh um I I didn't take your call so I'm
not familiar with it did she just not return home after going out she was arrested last night this is the first
time she's been arrested um she's in an unknown area she's never been in she's without a
vehicle nobody can find her and and where was this at where was she arrested at your your facility her name is
matrice Richardson okay do do you know if she's if she's here now or was she released they said she was
released okay and what time was she released um at at just shortly after 12: a.m.
yeah normally I we wouldn't I wouldn't recommend doing one uh that soon um right what is the time frame you
know I I guess probably 24 hours would be reasonable I mean if if there would be some some mitigating factors you know
where you know you would suspect maybe [Music] something right she doesn't know the
area she's never been in your area where where do you where does she live she is
unfamiliar with that area do you think she possibly could have gotten a bus and oh listen my child has never
written a bus no she would not know how to write a bus I would probably wait till you know
early this morning and if she doesn't turn up you can certainly call I don't suspect
anything um bad happened I'm concerned because well first of all I thought they were going to keep her overnight because
she was highly intoxicated um something some some something is obviously going on with her
have you talked to the Jailer and yes yes yes yes I have he said he tried to get her disable because she wasn't adult
they had to let her go I I believe that she is highly depressed um and she she she's in a depressive
[Applause] State you know it could be possible that maybe she I mean there's a lot of
options and I a lot of possibilities and I don't think all of them would be um you know something dire but I can
certainly understand your fears you know being your daughter and all that well I
think she's suppressed that's what has me that's worried you more than just her okay that and the fact that she's in an
area where she doesn't know where she's at yeah does she take medication at all no she I I I believe it's a state that
she's in right now because of just the the weird activi that's been going on what's your name what's your name her
name is her name is MRI Richard okay and your name ma'am La okay here here's what I want you to do
let get why don't you wait a couple hours and and give us some time to kind of I'll go back and talk to the Jailer
and try and get a timeline of when she was released and you know make sure she's not asleep in our lobby or
anything like that and then once you give us a call back in a couple hours she hasn't shown up or made contact with
you then maybe we can do something for you okay and with that um phone call you can really hear the emotion going
through the mother and the and her gut feeling is saying that there's something wrong yeah I mean she doesn't know where
her daughter is she knows that the daughter's been released uh she called while the daughter was in transit to the
sheriff's department and she even says as long as you guys are not going to you know let her out you know cuz it's crazy
out here people get you know she could get her head chopped off I think is what she says and so you hear the concern and
and how scared she is but I will say one thing that I commend her on is she keeps
her composure she's talking to the officer in a respectful manner asking him questions for his advice
um I think that myrice was a well spoken lady and and it comes stems from her family seems like her family is of of of
I don't want to say High Intelligence but they're definitely intellectual and they carry themselves in a professional
manner from from what I've seen and as we heard here on this phone call she's in probably the worst situation the
worst day she could ever have her daughter's missing and she's still being respectful of the officer and asking his
opinion on when the when is it the proper time to file the missing person's report yeah and the proper time is now
yeah you know well for the officer for her she doesn't know any better you know what I mean I get what you're saying as
a parent you you should you should push the envelope but I think what we're seeing here is I I put myself in her
shoes because I can be forward when I need to be but at the same time I do start off every conversation in a
respectful Manner and try to be nice to because I want the uh I always go into everything as you know how can I help
you to help me kind of thing you know I don't want to come in there aggressively
saying you got to do this you got to do that because they might not follow through the only thing is the
disconcerning thing here is with the officer bumgardner he he he can understand that she's
distressed and he says he's going to go back and talk to the Jailer and he's going to work on these things I don't
doubt that he's going to do these and maybe I'm reading him the wrong way I just I just hate when I hear the shi's
department and and I say them particularly because I've I've experienced this in my own life in a in
a much less um severe situation but I've seen a lot of passing the buck with some
of these Sheriff's departments where it's always like I mean he keeps saying well why don't you call back in a couple
hours well is his shift over soon you know is is this is 5:35 if it's anything like columus his shift's over about
seven it should be seven if if they do things they wait way call back in a couple hours when I don't have to deal
with you exactly ex L exactly this sounds like a lot of paperwork well but time and time again it's you know
mother's intuition is normally not wrong and she has this gut feeling that's saying hey something's not right one
it's weird that she went to this restaurant I don't I don't understand the area I don't understand why she
didn't have money to pay for this right this is not like her she's talking crazy
talk okay I I don't know what the hell's going on are you going to keep her no okay good cuz if you're going to keep
her awesome because I don't want her head chopped off right and oh you let her go what the [ __ ] right I I just got
done talking to you and said don't let her go you know and and and that's the issue because like I said the transfer
of power when of custody when when the deputies took her in and then on top of that you have a mother going this is add
a character and and I think if she would have said certain words well I'm very concerned maybe she's depressed maybe
she's suicidal if she would have said certain words if she would have said suicidal that could have been big yeah
yeah it could have been big but I'm not going to put the fault on the mother she
is trying to be respectful you know of of the sheriff department right she's trying to be
respectful she's not going hey you need to do this or you need to do that and they constantly well let's have you call
back again um well I like here and I when I say like I mean I'm being sarcastic here but she asked when do
when can I file a missing person's report do you have to wait 24 hours or 48 hours and his answer is well that's
usually the case unless there's other mitigating factors well guess what officer the mother calling you is
another is that mitigating factor that you're talking about and you can hear her breaking up you can hear her choking
up and and uh and what's the worst thing that can happen You released her she's in an area she's not familiar with and
they're going what's the worst thing that can happen hey we should probably just pick her up let's put out a couple
squads or units right put out a couple units it's a Wednesday it can't be that busy you you set three deputies over for
a girl not paying her bill for a citizen's arrest right put out a couple to look for th morning if we find her
bring her back and her mother will come and pick her up in a couple hours MH and
and and this all this stuff could be uh all this this whole tragedy could have been
avoided if if they would have just got off their ass and did a couple things and that brings us to the next thing so
then we have this uh report about uh a Prowler on on some property yeah so they received that call from from matri's
mother at 5:35 a.m. and then less than an hour later at 6:30 a.m. they receive this phone call sherff station yeah hi
hey this is Smith at Colt Canyon we had a Prowler walking around through the backyard here but we don't know what the
situation was I don't know if you had a unit in the area might do a little driveby or
something okay where's this at this is Cold Canyon like hot and cold in mono um but it's in the back of the
house uh which is right where Wood Bluff hits the hit it's a cold Canyon uh and we just had a strange woman walk
up through the backyard here a fairly large property and she was sitting on the steps right right on the back of the
house here this is kind of a circular driveway and the gates were closed so we don't know where this woman came from
you see the cross was Wood Bluff yeah that's right there there's a a horse trail hiking trail access through here
but we've never had this kind of thing happen before what she look like white black as uh you know a tall slim black
woman with with afro hair but how tall uh well she was sitting down stretched out on the wooden steps in the back of
the house hard to tell but she looked like she might have been medium to slightly tall uh with a big April hair
very skinny I think she was wearing maybe jeans or tight pants with a t-shirt you never you've never seen her
there before no never nobody never does that I mean the people hike on the trail
all the time we you know the trail goes through our property but we leave it open on purpose cuz it's kind of a nice
thing for horses and people and you said she's laying across the she was laying across the steps or she was sitting kind
of sprawled out on the on these wooden steps in back of the house right against the back of the house she since got up
and left uh she's since gone yeah she' been gone about 5 minutes now but as we thought it over we thought maybe a
little driveby wouldn't be a bad idea and what direction were she she last seen headed never saw her once she left
she just disappeared we I moved from one window to another I said to her I holl her down are you all right and she said
I'm just resting or something like that uh but she's certainly gone out of her way to get to that close to the house
cuz the Trail is not that close on the ridge all right we and check the area for appreciate that very much not a
problem sir thank you bye so that is Bill Smith he's a retired KTLA reporter that's the guy that calls
in saying reporting the prowler uh and he lives in Monte Neo which is about six miles west of the sheriff station uh I
do want to clear one thing up because he's a little muffled at the end there and it's a little confusing what he's
talking about but at one point he says that he opened up his window to ask the woman if she was okay and she says
something like I'm just resting and that's when he said he went to another window to try to get a better look and
at during that time she had left she had left the property you know so where he says I don't know I never saw her that's
what he that's what he's referencing right he never saw her the second time he went to look for her right he saw her
there he didn't see which direction she left these dispatchers crack me up though cuz every time somebody says
something they're like what was that again yeah well it's like the first part of the phone call it you like they greet
you but you have to prove to them reason for them to continue the phone call right but we see this happen twice when
he goes well I'm here and then we got a Prowler where you at where are you at and then when when the mother is talking
to the one dispatcher and says I'm calling about my daughter you know myri Richardson and he's like who are you
talking about well not only that I think when when uh Leti is on the phone yeah the call we heard the mother uh I
believe that she's actually speaking with a detective or an officer it's not just a dispatcher at that point that
bumgardner guy is is an officer of some form you know he's not just some dude paid to answer the phone maybe when you
answer the phone have a pad by you don't pull a Nick and not pay attention when people talk I'm not in public service
these people are in public service you are in public service this podcast is a public service you need a listen we
should point out though that it's not 100% verified that this is actually my myri right but we we can assume I mean
the vague description that's given it it matches her very well yeah you know and
when you see her mug shot of that night her her hair is kind of it's not a a it's not an afro I mean look I'm a white
dude from the suburb so I have no uh uh you know African-American hairstyle expert but it's uh but it's kind of
disheveled M you know it's like it's not but it's not I wouldn't consider an afro
but this white reporter is going wow here's this uh black lady she's middle to tall she has tight pants of course
it's such a man thing well I noticed that her pants were tight well if if you look up pictures of mitrice now she did
pageants um so she's you know she's attractive and most of the pictures you will see of her she's pretty well done
up um now if you see the arresting photo from that night uh her hair is quite poofed out compared to the pictures and
I can only imagine that if if that's what her hair looked like around midnight let's say now she's been
released and let's let's assume here because we don't know for certain but let's assume that she made that five and
a half six mile hike to Bill Smith's backyard on foot if that hair was pretty poofed out before then well it might be
it might be full you know Diana Ross afro at some point I don't know no but at the end of the day she has jeans on
this this Prowler has jeans on it's africanamerican lady uh it's Slender and and not tall medium to tall right and
she has a black shirt on which we know that she um myrice had a Bob Marley black T-shirt mm so we could just assume
that it's it's more likely her yeah I think I to me I I feel good saying about 90% that it that it's her and one of the
things that come up over and over in this case is that people say that this call is fishy and the reason why they
say this is fishy is the way that the caller the way he talks to the officer as if he's done this before so a lot of
people say well this guy was probably a retired officer or if it is this conspiracy and that this Sheriff's
Department is in charge of this girl going missing and and they're uh charged they're responsible for everything that
happened to her what they're saying is that they think this call was like a part of the conspiracy and that this was
actually a police officer on duty well we know we know that it was a reporter and that's probably why the lingo is
coming out the way it is because he is a reporter and how much has a reporter dealt with law enforcement yeah
especially if he was a field reporter you know he might be used to being in situations of of stressful situations
plus he also says that they have there's Trail access right by the house and that you you hikers people on this
Trail so even though he said we've never had somebody in the backyard like this before it wouldn't be crazy for him to
think well this is not really a Prowler this might just be somebody that came off the trail and they might be
experienc exhaustion or something like that and that's probably why he opened up the window and said hey are you okay
um and and then when she doesn't seem to go anywhere you know then you know at first that's when he's probably like we
might want to have a have a squad car just do a driveby yeah and I think it was safety for the neighborhood but I
think it was also safety for this individual I think you're right you know like here's this walking path and maybe
this person came off but but but there are walking paths so it's not super uncommon now the question is if it is
her how did she get six miles away now the average person can walk a mile in about 15 minutes right right so that
puts her at about an hour and a half to get that that length and we're talking roughly about 6 hours yeah roughly about
6 hours afterwards so that's about the time or that would be so we have the time doesn't match up no the time
doesn't match up so what I'm saying is that we have this Gap but was she walking on these trails and that's how
she got to this neighborhood a good portion of that travel would have been conducted in the dark uh first off and
second of all this is an area that on especially on foot she's not going to know where she's going you know we've
we've heard her mother say that she does not know Malibu that matrice doesn't know Malibu uh she's not from there this
is an area unfamiliar to her well on the streets there's street signs and things
to help direct you even if you don't know the area if she's on foot and wandering around and again we don't know
that her State of Mind at this time it's very well that she could have it could have taken her five hours six hours to
get to this point the other thing too is how long was she sitting there or lying
there until Bill know outside yeah what if she what if she made she could have made it through
those trails and onto this property you know within let's say two hours and then
she was sleeping right because Bill could been as sleep the whole time and never noticed her maybe he wakes up at
6:15 and just spotted her at 6:30 and he says sprawled out but so my gut feeling
is it's her me too the strange thing here is that he he does more than once say how close is to the house and that's
what he found strange that that you know maybe it wouldn't be so strange for somebody to wander into his backyard but
he's saying she's she came really close to the house to be up on those steps well like like we know with the whole
valet thing I mean she got into a Valley's car I mean that's talking talking about invading personal space so
I feel like uh based off that evidence again my gut feeling it it is my trees me too now a few days later the
Sheriff's Department conducts their first search but they start the search at Bill Smith's house um this is one
thing that I thought and interesting that a reporter brought up because they were using uh scent dogs to to sniff out
and try to track my trees from Bill Smith's house right yeah now this reporter brought up a good thing that
that I would probably wouldn't have thought of on my own here but they suggested why wouldn't you have the dogs
start off at the sheriff's department because she she left there on foot you know she had no vehicle if you would
have had the scent dogs Tracer from the sheriff's department you would be able to make the determination most likely
whether she had actually left on foot or if she was picked up in a vehicle yeah um that that would be interesting to
know but of course they didn't do it in that fashion they started the dogs off at Bill Smith's house and they did find
um they did discover what appeared to be sneaker prints in the front yard um and
their guessing these would have been mitrice's uh Footprints uh and it appeared they say it appeared that she
had been running um I'm guessing maybe the maybe the footprints are further apart than you would expect for walking
there's some way they could probably determine uh the movement of the person creating those Prints but they say it
appears that she had been running uh now remember this area is filled with horse
trails So eventually they lose these tracks they lose the footprints amongst all of the horse tracks well not only
the horse tracks but this is also a walking path so basically all the tracks combined it just got too much where it's
lost so if it is mitrice uh we don't know if at that point if she got in a vehicle or if those tracks were just C
Simply Stamped Out by the horses right and what we don't know is did she get in a vehicle to get to this neighborhood if
if we're assuming that this was her the the AKA Prowler mhm then did she get there by foot or did did she get there
by uh a vehicle and then did she know the person in the vehicle or did did she just was she able to hit a ride cuz like
we said she's an attractive female there's probably a lot of guys that were would be willing to give her you know a
ride oh yeah so and so then she's there but again if you would have if you would
have followed the scent dogs from the police department we'd have a little more clarity on that well let's talk
about LAPD here because we the actual fact of the investigation is that because matrice lived in La LAPD was put
in charge of the actual investigation of her missing person's uh inves so LAPD found amongst other items in they they
went and searched her vehicle and they found these items amongst others they found her ATM card a checkbook and cell
phone in the car they also found journals and after re reviewing yeah that's the word
so yeah they they reviewed the journals and there's several days and what they did too which I thought was pretty
fascinating was they went back through her Myspace which that's dating this case a little bit uh I think she held on
to the MySpace account a little too long but uh Myspace and Facebook and any social media so they basically took the
journal entries and then looked at entries online and to try to and what they realized was there's so many
Journal countes and so many social media that they they started questioning was she even sleeping properly right right
and they're able to determine that from the journals as well they conclude that she may have been sleep depraved for
several days leading up to that day and it's quite possible that she had suffered a bipolar episode that night
now just to be clear that there bipolar is a very difficult thing it's one of the most mental illnesses that it's mix
misdiagnosed most bipolar is and so um and normally to get a clear concise bipolar
diagnosis it normally takes years so there is no she is not being treated for this right this is just speculation that
this stuff was going on and that maybe she was in a a manic or a hyper manic State and so by being in this state yeah
you will be you just will be sleep deprived because you will just be turning your wheels or turning now we're
going to start to see a lot of back and forth from the sheriff's department with
the uh family with the Richardson family because the Richardson family don't they
don't feel like the sheriff's department has done their job they don't think that
they should have released their daughter and they're they want answers from the sheriff's department and they're not
they're not overwhelmingly you know giving these answers they're not don't seem to be working the case to the
satisfaction of the Richardsons uh so I mean what's your stance on that I mean I
I agree that they shouldn't they probably shouldn't have released her based on her actions at the restaurant
based on what the dep deputies thought and then when they transfer the power I just think that was that was the first
fumble here and they should just not have released her I'm with you I the thing I keep going back to is is their
statements saying why they released her we let her go there was no reason to keep her she was well educated well
spoken and she was fully aware of her environment and her situation again I keep going to back back to how different
that account is you know for me to say she's well spoken she knows of her environment yet 3 hours ago she was
saying complete nonsense to the point to the point where we thought she was heavily intoxicated then we found out
she's not intoxicated then we have to ask her are you on medication have you ever been locked up for psychological
problems so it that's your assess 3 hours before either drunk medicated or or psycho you know some kind of medical
issue mental issue right uh and then 3 hours later oh she's perfectly normal perfectly happy normal human being send
her off into the darkness that's that's the big problem and like and like I said
in defense of them it always comes back to me on the that they don't know her Baseline they don't know what her normal
is right so then when you start hearing some clarity coming from her you're just
and again but I I'd still argue that if anybody's looked up much about hyper manic or manic states that people become
very capable of doing what they want to do it's almost like the crazy takes over
to make you look a certain way so you can get out of this and like you said maybe she's talking to herself on the
phone I mean who knows well and you said the sheriff's department they don't know
her Norm they don't know how she would normally behave but guess who would her family would and her family wants to
know well her mom was calling and telling you this is not normal right but her family wants to know you know okay
you've said your reason reasoning for letting her go okay now we know that the jails are typically under surveillance
we want to see the video the video footage of her that evening because we want to see how she was acting we want
to see if she was behaving abnormally so we can get an idea of what we think happened to our daughter do we think she
went wandering off on her own or did she'd leave the sheriff's department and get picked up by some evil dude um and
so there they're they're told there is no videotape they are told that there is no video okay so so this uh this
Sheriff's Department their Jail uh their their phone that records the phone calls
and their log that's broken right and they don't have cameras yeah the here's the exact wording they were told no such
video existed the captain of the sheriff's department Captain Martin was quoting in the Malibu Surfside News as
saying there is no video or tape of any kind well that's pretty darn black and white here right now Captain it's you
can't confuse that statement in any way right no he said there is no videotape no video or no tape of any kind mhm so
let's make this clear there are videos they're claiming that there's video cameras in the jail but those are just
to monitor those don't actually record well they we don't know exactly what they're there for because according to
his statement all he says is there's no videotape of any kind right now uh but yeah there clearly are cameras in this
facility um so you know like you said are they just using them to monitor live action or they using them to record
anything the problem here though is he he makes that statement very clear and what's the strangest part of it is in
January of 2010 the same person Captain Martin then confesses that there was a tape and it is in his desk okay well but
let's break this down this is how it happened so matri's uh mother and Aunt are in a meeting and they ask for the
tape hey they there has to be a tape these cameras can't just be for monitoring right this doesn't add up and
they and they're still during this meeting no no no we have no tape M and then aunt won't let it go proud proud of
her for doing that she won't let it go and then all of a sudden in the middle of this conversation the guy goes well
by the way we do have a tape and and it's not just a guy it's the captain he's in charge of that Sheriff's of that
building well and on top of that on on top of all this it's in my desk yeah I mean if that's not a red flag of we're
trying to cover some [ __ ] up I I don't know what a red flag is right well do you know what kind what that
kind of Honesty will get you promoted obviously yes it will get you a promotion um later that month later that
same month Captain Martin was promoted to com to Commander no Captain friend of mine now this promotion moved him to the
Monterey Park location so his old post at Lost Hills he lived just minutes away for the entire six years that he was in
charge of the Lost Hills sheriff station the promotion took him an hour away and
he was replaced by Joseph Steven uh who note is the first African-American captain at the Lost Hills location due
to technical difficulties it was about 3 months later before the Richardson family was allowed to view the video
that was sitting in Captain Martin's desk so I want to point a few things out here yeah there's a bunch of red flags
for me well I want to cover my own butt here real quick too I I I don't want to give the impression that Joseph Steven
is not capable of being the captain of the Lost Hills Sheriff Department okay I think he I think he can I do I think
it's a little convenient that you replaced him you know that you replace Captain Martin with an African-American
man might be is does this does this sound a little bit like the Catholic church that that takes a priest that's
under suspicion and ships them off elsewhere a little bit um I think that the the sheriff's department was really
not trying to help the family or the investigation I think they were just covering their own butts here constantly
well and then it also leads to the idea that if if there's this technical difficulty so we have the tap in and by
the way it's in my desk but by the way you can't watch it for months and months for three months because you know we're
got to pay some college interns to come in and Doctor up this video mhm I mean that's it's it's it is [ __ ] strange
after the after the video is released to the family uh the family three months afterwards the family states that myrice
looked to be distressed and agitated uh they also commented that the tape the video footage appeared to have been
edited uh and they're citing one one part here is that one second there's a on the footage there's one second where
she is holding myrice is holding a piece of paper and in the very next second the
paper is crumbled up on the floor um the video so you know you want to know what
happened between the time she's holding the paper and then it's crumbled up on the floor and the video also shows
matrice walking out of the station and 2 minutes later a deputy goes out an adjacent door uh the department refused
to release the name of that of course they they refused to release the name of that Deputy they got to wait three
months and they got a they got a doctor up his name and they got to get I mean this case just it's just question after
qu and red flags and is the cops involved or are they just incompetent douchebags I'm not really for sure but
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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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Mitrice Richardson vanished after being released from jail, raising questions about police procedures and her mental health.

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True Crime Garage Introduction. Hosts Nick and the Captain welcome listeners back to another episode of True Crime Garage.
Myrice Richardson's Strange Night. Myrice is detained for not paying her restaurant bill, leading to mysterious events.
The Mysterious Valet Encounter. Myrice is found in a valet's car, making strange comments about Michael Jackson.
Mitrice's Unpaid Bill. Mitrice Richardson's unpaid bill leads to a series of misunderstandings and police involvement.

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A mother fears for her daughter's safety after being detained.

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