Mitrice was a young, educated, bubbly young woman from Los Angeles who excelled at everything she did.  She was the first member of her family to go to and finish college.  However, after graduation, signs of a mental illness began to show.  She slowly became worse but refused to seek professional help.  Everything came to a head the night she was arrested for being unable to pay her bill at an upscale Malibu restaurant. 

Though she exhibited strange mannerisms and seemed to be generally confused, and though her mother warned the sheriff's office she had been behaving oddly, deputies released this young woman to the streets 40 miles from her home at midnight with no money, no car, and no cell phone.  Her mother was not alerted until 5:30 am police refused to accept a missing persons report until that afternoon.  Sadly, Mitrice was never seen alive again.

What caused the sheriff's office to release Mitrice at such an odd hour and with nothing more than her driver's license? Why did the sheriff's office hide evidence, alert reports and video records, and generally stonewall Mitrice's family from learning anything about her arrest.  Why did law enforcement move her body over the objection of the coroner when she was finally found?  And what cause Mitrice to meet her untimely death?

Listen to this episode as we try to puzzle these questions out.

SHOW NOTES:

https://www.lamag.com/longform/what-happened-to-mitrice-richardson/

https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2019-09-17/mitrice-richardson-reward-malibu

https://laist.com/2019/09/17/mitrice-richardson-disappearance-10-year-anniversary.php

https://medium.com/true-crime-by-cat-leigh/woman-found-dead-after-being-released-from-jail-55e6b0fb34c1

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_of_Mitrice_Richardson

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