If you're just joining us, this is part three of the Mitrease Richardson case.

We encourage you to go back and listen to parts one and two before continuing, so that you'll

have the full picture of Mitrease's story and the strange turns her case has already taken.

In part two, we followed the discovery of Mitrease's remains in the Malibu Canyon,

less than two miles from the station where she was released. We heard about the disturbing murals,

the family shock at finding one of her finger bones left behind,

and the troubling decision to move her remains before the coroner ever arrived.

Through it all, her cause of death remained undetermined.

And for her family, that word was torture, proof that evidence had been mishandled and that the truth

was still out of reach. In the years since Mitrease's death and disappearance, the official

version hasn't changed. She was released just after midnight and she never came home. For the

Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department, it remains an unsolved

tragedy, but not a crime. That explanation has never been enough. And now, maybe there's something

new. A name, a past, a possible encounter. Someone who may have crossed paths with Mitreuse in the hours after she left the station.

Someone whose story could change how we understand her final night.

My name is Sarah Reed and this is sequestered Season 2.

Case 6.

The Disappearance and Death of Mitrease Richardson.

Part 3.

The In 2004, a podcast called Lost Hills Dark Canyon was released and reignited attention on Mitrease's case.

The podcast, produced by Pushkin Industries and hosted by the New Yorker journalist Dana Goodyear,

brought focus to a man living in the Montanito community at the time of Mitrease's disappearance. His name was Rick Forsberg. When Mitrease went missing,

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