Cult leader found mummified, eyes missing; Dad murdered in Malibu while camping with kids

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🗓️ 14 May 2021

⏱️ 64 minutes

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This week on True Crime Daily The Podcast: Authorities find the mummified body of a suspected cult leader in a Colorado residence, decorated with lights and makeup and set up in a shrine. And a California man was shot to death while camping in a state park with his two young daughters in 2018. The New Yorker writer Dana Goodyear discusses her coverage of a string of shootings in the Malibu hills and the homicide, the subject of her "Lost Hills" podcast. Dana Goodyear joins host Ana Garcia.

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0:00.0	Award of warning. This podcast explores graphic and disturbing stories and includes some strong language.
0:06.4	It therefore may not be suitable for our young listeners or other folks who may find it disturbing.
0:12.4	Hello and welcome to True Crime Daily, the podcast covering high profile and under the radar cases
0:17.2	from across the country every week. We are recording this on May 12, 2021. I am your host Dana Garcia.
0:23.6	And our guest today is Dana Goodyear, an author and a staff writer at the New Yorker magazine.
0:30.1	Dana's year-long investigation into the Malibu Creek murder where a dad was fatally shot while
0:36.7	camping with his two young daughters has been turned into an incredible article at the New Yorker
0:43.3	plus a podcast called Lost Hills. Welcome, Dana. We're so excited to have you.
0:49.2	Thank you. I'm so excited to be here. Here's what we're looking at.
0:52.4	Authorities have found the mummified body of a woman believed to be a cult leader. Her body was found
0:59.6	in a Colorado home. The body was reportedly decorated in Christmas lights, glittery eye makeup,
1:06.3	and then posed in some kind of a shrine according to authorities. Authorities believe that the corpse
1:12.0	had been driven from California to Colorado in a small SUV with five followers. Yeah, very bizarre.
1:20.4	Our other case is Dana's investigation. This is the investigation into the murder of the dad
1:25.6	who was camping in the idyllic hills above Malibu. It now appears that murder may be linked to a
1:32.4	series of shootings in the area. Could that murder have been avoided if the public had been warned
1:39.2	by the police that there was the potential of a serial shooter on the loose there in the park?
1:46.0	A homeless man who claims himself who claims that he is a survivalist has been arrested.
1:51.4	And one more thing, we all know you've been following the bizarre case of the disappearance of
1:55.6	the Colorado mom Suzanne Morphew. There's been an arrest. Really not a huge surprise for those of
2:01.8	you who like to come up with theories. And we're going to have an update a little later in the program.
2:06.7	Okay, let's get to our first case. Our first case is a really strange one out of Moffat,
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