From NBI Studio, this is Truth Injustice, a crowdsourced investigation in real time.

I'm Bob Robb.

There are nine cities that make up the Southern California area known as the Coachella Valley.

Although most people just consider the valley, the greater Palm Springs area.

The cities include Palm Springs, Cathedral City, Rancho Mirage, Desert Hot Springs,

Palm Desert, Indian Wells, Lakinta, Indio and Coachella.

The first time I traveled to the valley to work on this case, I had a hard time deciding what

city I should stay in. The map, they all seem to be separated from one another.

But in reality, on a quick trip from my hotel to get a cup of coffee, I unknowingly pass through

three of these cities. They all just blend together. You'd have to read the streets signs if you

really cared to know which city you were actually in. The valley is a beautiful place,

surrounded by the serene mountains of the high desert. The streets are lined with palm trees,

and the golf course is never more than a couple blocks away. In its heyday, Palm Springs was

the favorite hangout of Frank Sinatra and his rat pack. But today, it's a tame place.

A great place to raise kids, go on a vacation or even retire to. The valley is clean,

sophisticated and calm. But just outside the valley, or up the hill as the locals say,

is a very different place. There, you'll find a small, unincorporated, I wouldn't call it a town

more like a village or better yet a community, called Pinyon Pines. It's made up of dirt roads,

not maintained by the county, half of which are washed out and unpassible with most cars.

It's a quaint place, but with the stories of fires, disappearances, UFOs, and murders,

what it isn't, is a quiet place. Welcome to season 12. This is episode 1 of The Hill.

I first traveled to the Coachella Valley in November of last year. On morning one, I made the trip

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