Lost in Lost Hills

Hell and Gone

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Society & Culture, True Crime

4.3 • 7.5K Ratings

🗓️ 28 October 2020

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Summary

This season, private investigator Catherine Townsend and her team investigate the mysterious disappearance and death of Mitrice Richardson. Mitrice was arrested at a seaside restaurant in Malibu, California on September 16, 2009. Later that night, she was released but never seen alive again. Catherine talks with Mitrice’s mentor and family friend Dr. Ronda Hampton and begins to retrace Mitrice’s steps the night she went missing.

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0:00.0	Just a few miles off the Thailand coast, the island of Kothau looks like a postcard.
0:07.0	I'd underneath the surface lies something sinister.
0:11.0	In the last 20 years dozens of tourists have died mysteriously on the island.
0:16.0	A dark cloud who's come over the island, death, mystery and danger.
0:23.0	Listen to Death Island every Wednesday on the I Heart Radio app, Apple Podcasts or wherever you get your podcasts.
0:43.0	It's Friday night and we're driving down the Pacific Coast Highway that winds through Malibu toward the blue neon glow of Jaffri's restaurant.
0:52.0	On September 16, 2009, 24-year-old Mytree's Richardson took this same route in her 1998 Honda Civic.
1:01.0	She went inside the restaurant in order to Kobe State and a sea breeze.
1:06.0	Many diners and restaurant workers noted her behavior as, quote, off.
1:13.0	Before the night was over, Mytree's found herself in a lost hill sheriff's department holding cell.
1:22.0	The officers who took her to jail drove way past the strip of sand called billionaire beach, home to CEOs and Hollywood royalty.
1:33.0	Mytree's was in the back of the cruiser as it curved sharply into the Santa Monica Mountains near the gated communities of Calabasas that Kim Kardashian West and Will and J to Pinkett Smith call home.
1:45.0	But it's a long way from the surfers and the celebrity hotspots.
1:51.0	Up here, the roads have no shoulders and steep drop-offs. Her final destination was the lost hill sheriff station in the middle of nowhere.
2:02.0	And that's where, on Thursday at 12.15am, Mytree's was released.
2:09.0	Now this is the same sheriff station where Mel Gibson was arrested for drunk driving.
2:14.0	Even after a drunk and ran, officers safely drove Mel back to his car when he sobered up.
2:20.0	There was no courtesy ride for Mytree's, the young African American woman with no famous last name.
2:27.0	She was released into the pitch black night and had no car, no cell phone, no money.
2:35.0	She was 40 miles from home and had no way of getting back.
2:39.0	Mytree's disappeared into the darkness and was never seen alive again.
2:44.0	To this day, no one knows what happened to mytree's.
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