Just a few miles off the Thailand coast, the island of Kothau looks like a postcard.

I'd underneath the surface lies something sinister.

In the last 20 years dozens of tourists have died mysteriously on the island.

A dark cloud who's come over the island, death, mystery and danger.

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The Corridor's office has done extensive amount of forensic in the last several days.

And it's to my sadness and disappointment that I'm reporting to you that it is the confirmed remains of my tree's Richardson.

On August 9, 2010, 11 months after my tree's Richardson went missing,

state park rangers were hiking in Dark Canyon, deep in the Santa Monica Mountains.

They were looking for a marijuana grow farm that they had eradicated the year before.

They found a human skeleton.

The rangers were way off the hiking trails that are open to the public.

They had access the canyon through a private residence, located on Payumarode, where dark creek begins.

There's a hiking trail nearby, the backbone trail, and it's possible to climb down from that trail into the creek bed, if you know exactly where to look.

So they started down into the creek, which is more of a climb than a hike.

They scaled giant boulders, navigated through steep and jagged terrain, and hacked through thick foliage, sharp thorns, vines, and poison oak.

They found several items of clothing, a pink belt, a black bra, a pair of blue jeans.

This was the same clothing that my tree's Richardson had been wearing when she was released from the Lost Hills Sheriff Station almost a year earlier, and started wandering through the dark alone.

The team marked the clothing's location, and then continued their hike.

They started down the south side of the creek bed, and that's when, at around 1 p.m., the supervising ranger saw a human skull and a leg bone.

He also saw toughs of hair, which the ranger believed to be African-American.

The ranger's cell phone wasn't working, so he radioed into the dispatcher and used his handheld GPS device to give them the exact coordinates of the team's location.

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