Introducing Lost Hills Season 2
Lost Hills: Dark Canyon
Western Sound and Pushkin Industries
4.1 • 3.7K Ratings
🗓️ 22 November 2021
⏱️ 4 minutes
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Summary
In January 1981, Verna Johnson-Roehler and her young son, Doug, drowned while boating thirty miles off the coast of Malibu. Verna’s husband, Fred Roehler, was the sole survivor and only witness.
Initially, the deaths were ruled accidental. But a phone call from a Malibu neighbor changed everything. Was Fred a monster, masquerading as the perfect Malibu dad? Or was an innocent man convicted by his gossiping neighbors?
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| 0:00.0 | Pushkin. |
| 0:06.0 | Pushkin. |
| 0:12.0 | Once upon a time in Malibu, there was a perfect family, the Raylers. |
| 0:27.0 | They were the picture postcard, Christmas postcard, family of two very handsome intelligent people |
| 0:36.0 | with four kids that were just delightful. |
| 0:39.0 | They lived a sunkissed life in the midst of one of the most he-nistic, free-wheeling subcultures |
| 0:46.0 | in America, Malibu in the late 70s and early 80s. |
| 0:54.0 | The 70s became pretty crazy. |
| 0:58.0 | Rockstar Robbie Robertson was out there. |
| 1:00.0 | There was a lot of drugs and a lot of everything. |
| 1:06.0 | And so was movie star Ali McGraw. |
| 1:09.0 | Neil Young, there were most of the Eagles. |
| 1:11.0 | There was Peter Paul and Mary and Chris Christofferson. |
| 1:17.0 | But the Rayler family was solid, wholesome, in a Brady Bunch kind of way. |
| 1:22.0 | Fred, the dad, was a widower. |
| 1:25.0 | Verna, the mom, was a widow. |
| 1:28.0 | Between them, they had four kids ages 6 to 11. |
| 1:31.0 | They were living the dream. |
| 1:34.0 | Until it all turned unfathomably dark. |
| 1:39.0 | On January 2, 1981, on a sailing trip off the coast of Malibu, something tragic happened. |
| 1:47.0 | We had just gotten past what they called bird rock and the dogs started to go over the side. |
| 1:55.0 | They're boat overturned in the frigid water. |
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