Mitrice Richardson was a beautiful 24 year old woman who had just graduated from Cal State, Fullerton with a Bachelor's degree in psychology and a 4.0 gpa, with plans to become a child psychologist. She was also beginning to exhibit odd behavior and wasn't herself. On the evening of September 16, 2009, Mitrice was driving in Malibu, California, which was 40 miles from her home in Los Angeles, when she made a spur of the moment decision to stop at a restaurant for dinner, a decision which would have a lasting impact on Mitrice and her loved ones. After acting odd all throughout dinner and then attempting to leave the restaurant without paying, the police are called and Mitrice is arrested and taken into custody. When her mother calls the following morning with plans to come pick up Mitrice, she's distressed to learn that Mitrice had been released several hours prior in the dead of night. Her car had been impounded, and she had no phone, no money, no way of getting home, and was in an area she was completely unfamiliar with. Aside from a bizarre sighting later that morning, no trace of Mitrice Richardson was found for nearly a year, until on August 9, 2010, her remains were found in a canyon. Police concluded she had been in a manic state when she entered the canyon and died from exposure, but the family continues to fight for answers. How could someone in a state such as Mitrice was that night have just been allowed to leave in an area she was unfamiliar with, with no reliable way of finding her way home? And how did she truly end up where she would? 

Huge thanks to my friend Dani from the “Hear No Evil” podcast for joining me for this episode! Subscribe to her podcast here: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/hear-no-evil/id1507748156 

Sources for this episode: 

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

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

https://www.advocate.com/news/news-features/2009/11/16/where-mitrice-richardson

https://www.foxla.com/news/10-years-after-death-of-mitrice-richardson-case-remains-cold

Petition on change.org: https://www.change.org/p/curren-price-reopen-mitrice-richardson-s-case?recruiter=1112105893&utm_source=share_petition&utm_medium=facebook&utm_campaign=psf_combo_share_abi&utm_term=psf_combo_share_abi&recruited_by_id=53375be0-a86d-11ea-ab3e-e737a6e83d3d&utm_content=fht-22619848-en-us%3Av12

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