Coming Soon - Season 4, Dark Canyon

Lost Hills: Dark Canyon

Western Sound and Pushkin Industries

True Crime, Society & Culture, Documentary

4.2 • 3.6K Ratings

🗓️ 30 May 2024

⏱️ 4 minutes

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Summary

The disappearance and death of Mitrice Richardson remains Malibu, CA’s most baffling unsolved case. It’s been nearly 14 years since her remains were discovered in a remote canyon, and still, no one has been held accountable for her demise. From the beginning, the LA County Sheriff’s Department said Richardson’s case likely couldn’t be solved. And to this day, her death remains a mystery. The truth lies in the remote Malibu community where Mitrice was last seen. And now, finally, people are starting to talk.

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0:00.0	Pushkin. At 1225 a.m. on September 17th 2009, 24 year old Mitrese Richardson was released from the Malibu Lost Hill Sheriff Station.
0:27.2	She had no money, no phone, and no ride.
0:31.1	She walked out of the station and into the night and she never made it home.
0:37.0	A beauty contestant and honor student and now a missing person.
0:42.0	We were told you just another black girl missing out of Malibu
0:45.0	that we were wasting our time.
0:47.0	Nearly a year later,
0:50.0	Mitre's naked skeletonized remains were discovered in a remote canyon six miles from the station.
0:57.3	Her death is Malibu's greatest unsolved mystery.
1:08.0	I'm Dana Goodyear. Five years ago I started reporting on the Mitre
1:10.6	Richardson case. Everyone knows something horrible happened to my Tries.
1:16.0	Nothing about her case makes sense.
1:18.0	And for 15 years, the Sheriff's Department has failed to solve it.
1:23.0	I got a text message.
1:25.0	Hey, there was a partially mummified skeletal remains
1:30.0	naked found in Montanito.
1:33.0	They discovered a skull,
1:35.0	they discovered a pelvis and they discovered a leg,
1:38.0	just bones.
1:40.0	So it was the cover of from the time my treats was released all the way up and still to now to this day is still a cover out.
1:47.0	Homicide will continue their investigation.
1:50.0	If there was foul play involved, someone could confess.
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