WEBVTT - Lost in Lost Hills 0:00:08.285 --> 0:00:25.965 School of Humans. It's Friday night, and we're driving down 0:00:26.005 --> 0:00:29.685 the Pacific Coast Highway that winds through Malibu toward the 0:00:29.725 --> 0:00:34.885 blue neon glow of Jeoffrey's Restaurant. On September sixteenth, two 0:00:34.965 --> 0:00:38.165 thousand and nine, twenty four year old my Trees Richardson 0:00:38.445 --> 0:00:41.805 took this same route in her nineteen ninety eight Honda Civic. 0:00:42.925 --> 0:00:45.645 She went inside the restaurant and ordered a Kobe's Steak 0:00:45.765 --> 0:00:50.205 and a sea breeze. Many diners and restaurant workers noted 0:00:50.205 --> 0:00:56.205 her behavior as quote off. Before the night was over, 0:00:56.645 --> 0:00:59.805 my Trees found herself in a Lost Hills Sheriff's Department 0:00:59.805 --> 0:01:06.165 holding cell. The officers who took her to jail drove 0:01:06.245 --> 0:01:10.045 way past the strip of sand called Billionaire Beach, home 0:01:10.085 --> 0:01:15.645 to CEOs and Hollywood Royalty. My Trees was in the 0:01:15.645 --> 0:01:17.925 back of the cruiser as it curved sharply into the 0:01:17.925 --> 0:01:22.125 Santa Monica Mountains, near the gated communities of Calabasas that 0:01:22.245 --> 0:01:25.725 Kim Kardashian West and Will and Jada Pinkett Smith call home. 0:01:26.885 --> 0:01:29.125 But it's a long way from the surfers and the 0:01:29.165 --> 0:01:34.725 celebrity hotspots up here. The roads have no shoulders, and 0:01:34.765 --> 0:01:38.605 steep drop offs. Her final destination was the Lost Hills 0:01:38.645 --> 0:01:44.525 Sheriff Station in the middle of nowhere, and that's where 0:01:44.725 --> 0:01:50.285 on Thursday at twelve fifteen am, My Trees was released. Now, 0:01:50.285 --> 0:01:53.005 this is the same sheriffs station where mel Gibson was 0:01:53.085 --> 0:01:57.565 arrested for drunk driving. Even after a drunken rant, officers 0:01:57.605 --> 0:02:00.245 safely drove Meil back to his car when he sobered up. 0:02:01.125 --> 0:02:03.965 There was no courtesy ride for My Trees, the young 0:02:04.045 --> 0:02:08.285 African American woman with no famous last name. She was 0:02:08.325 --> 0:02:11.365 released into the pitch black night and had no car, 0:02:11.885 --> 0:02:17.045 no cell phone, no money. She was forty miles from 0:02:17.045 --> 0:02:20.965 home and had no way of getting back. My Trees 0:02:21.045 --> 0:02:24.645 disappeared into the darkness and was never seen alive again. 0:02:25.685 --> 0:02:29.205 To this day, no one knows what happened to My Trees. 0:02:30.125 --> 0:03:12.365 I'm Catherine Townsend. This is Helen Gone. So Catherine, where 0:03:12.405 --> 0:03:15.765 are we going. We're going to Inglewood Cemetery and we're 0:03:15.765 --> 0:03:20.645 going to talk to doctor Ronda Hampton at my Teresa's 0:03:20.725 --> 0:03:24.925 grave site, because today is the anniversary of the day 0:03:24.925 --> 0:03:29.085 that she disappeared. Take the next right onto East Florence Avenue. 0:03:29.165 --> 0:03:37.285 Then your destination will be on the right, Sorry, excuse me. 0:03:38.845 --> 0:03:43.805 Inglewood Cemetery is located right next to the airport. The 0:03:43.845 --> 0:03:47.285 cemetery is huge, so huge that it's divided by two 0:03:47.365 --> 0:03:51.285 way streets, beautiful, peaceful lots of palm tree line streets. 0:03:51.765 --> 0:03:57.525 My Teresa's plot is located on fair Haven. Today, some 0:03:57.565 --> 0:04:02.045 of her friends and loved ones have gathered to remember her. Oh. 0:04:02.405 --> 0:04:06.325 Doctor Ronda Hampton organized the event today. Doctor Ronda is 0:04:06.325 --> 0:04:09.085 a clinical psychologist who first met my Trees in two 0:04:09.085 --> 0:04:11.765 thousand and six when My Trees was her intern. This 0:04:12.405 --> 0:04:19.725 is where my Trees is laid to rest and next 0:04:19.765 --> 0:04:23.365 to her great grandmother and her uncle. She's buried next 0:04:23.365 --> 0:04:25.845 to her uncle who was shot and killed by police 0:04:25.845 --> 0:04:29.405 in nineteen eighty six, and her great grandmother Mildred, who 0:04:29.445 --> 0:04:32.005 my trace was living with when she went missing. Okay, 0:04:32.085 --> 0:04:34.485 let's see this all right. Dear Father, God, would come 0:04:34.525 --> 0:04:37.125 before you and we thank you that this is the 0:04:37.245 --> 0:04:42.005 day that you have made. We are accepting Father, what 0:04:42.245 --> 0:04:47.405 has happened to my Trees, but we are not accepting Father, 0:04:47.645 --> 0:04:52.885 that justice is has happened. So Father, we're praying for 0:04:53.005 --> 0:04:57.245 today that this would be a reminder for us that 0:04:57.325 --> 0:05:01.685 we will all continue to work together to push forward 0:05:02.325 --> 0:05:07.365 for justice, and even though the road becomes hard and difficult, 0:05:07.965 --> 0:05:10.325 we thank you that we can rely upon your strength. 0:05:11.845 --> 0:05:15.485 Doctor Ronda and mourners have brought dozens of sunflowers, my 0:05:15.605 --> 0:05:18.845 Teresa's favorite. She sets up a memorial display with my 0:05:18.925 --> 0:05:22.405 Teresa's graduation photo, and she brought gift bags for anyone 0:05:22.445 --> 0:05:25.605 coming by today featuring the Justice for my Terre's logo, 0:05:26.325 --> 0:05:30.365 a sunflower with a butterfly inside her masks, a sign 0:05:30.405 --> 0:05:34.445 of the COVID times, and sunflower seeds. Anytime I see sunflowers, 0:05:34.805 --> 0:05:37.005 that always makes me happy, I think because because my 0:05:37.045 --> 0:05:39.165 trees love the flowers. And then when I see some 0:05:39.285 --> 0:05:43.365 flowers for her, then it makes me feel really happy. 0:05:44.285 --> 0:05:47.925 And actually I've been really scared to come to her 0:05:49.525 --> 0:05:53.605 her sight. I don't even know why. Yeah, and this 0:05:53.765 --> 0:05:57.045 is the first time you've been here since yeah, since 0:05:57.085 --> 0:06:02.645 the service. Yeah, I don't know. This is the first 0:06:02.645 --> 0:06:05.285 time that Ronda has been to my Teresa's grave site 0:06:05.565 --> 0:06:08.485 since the day they buried her. And that is a 0:06:08.565 --> 0:06:11.165 day she doesn't want to remember. And on that day, 0:06:12.125 --> 0:06:14.085 you know, like it's not done, you know what I mean, 0:06:14.125 --> 0:06:16.965 It's like, Okay, here we're burying her. It was like 0:06:17.005 --> 0:06:20.045 a circus. It was like a media circus to begin 0:06:20.125 --> 0:06:23.925 with no respect for her whatsoever, you know, Like the 0:06:23.925 --> 0:06:26.325 sheriffs were talking shit. It's like, come on, let her 0:06:26.365 --> 0:06:30.245 just be buried, you know. So that was just very frustrating. 0:06:30.285 --> 0:06:33.605 And then and then on the day of her funeral, 0:06:35.125 --> 0:06:38.405 I so this is what happened. I asked the forensic 0:06:38.445 --> 0:06:43.565 anthropologist that was volunteering that whenever, whenever we found my 0:06:43.645 --> 0:06:48.605 Teresa's body, would she come and do like an autopsy. Right, 0:06:49.085 --> 0:06:51.805 So when she was found, then I called her and 0:06:51.845 --> 0:06:54.285 I said, they found her. The thing is, she was 0:06:54.285 --> 0:06:57.525 in England at the time, so she had to She says, 0:06:57.565 --> 0:07:00.245 the way. The only day I can get back is 0:07:00.285 --> 0:07:03.965 on September seventeenth, And that was the day that the 0:07:04.005 --> 0:07:08.405 service was already planned, so like only hours before her funeral. 0:07:08.725 --> 0:07:13.645 She uh was doing the autopsy just hours before. So 0:07:14.685 --> 0:07:18.165 then right when the service was gonna start, right then, 0:07:18.165 --> 0:07:22.765 that's when I get the phone call. Right, her body 0:07:22.845 --> 0:07:26.885 had not been analyzed, her clothing were in the body bag, 0:07:27.405 --> 0:07:30.525 clothing in the body bag, her body had not been analyzed. 0:07:30.805 --> 0:07:33.885 And apologist is like, we gotta figure out what to do, right, 0:07:33.925 --> 0:07:39.205 So we got like five minutes to make a decision. 0:07:39.245 --> 0:07:41.325 What are we gonna do. I was at the church. 0:07:43.685 --> 0:07:47.205 Everybody's rolling in. Yeah, so we were like, okay, so 0:07:47.325 --> 0:07:49.325 we're just gonna have We're just gonna have to bury 0:07:50.245 --> 0:07:54.245 because we were It's like if they would put her 0:07:54.525 --> 0:07:58.965 clothing in the body bag to be buried, you know 0:07:59.485 --> 0:08:03.245 that they're trying to high. So we had so we 0:08:03.325 --> 0:08:05.605 had to We just had to have the funeral. So 0:08:05.845 --> 0:08:09.445 all the time we're sitting there or I don't even 0:08:09.485 --> 0:08:11.005 think I told her mom. I think I just had 0:08:11.005 --> 0:08:13.925 to wait, like just sitting there. It's like, okay, so 0:08:13.925 --> 0:08:17.285 we're just gonna let this uner what happens. So I'm preoccupied. 0:08:17.725 --> 0:08:20.725 I'm not thinking about none of this. I'm thinking about 0:08:21.405 --> 0:08:26.245 Colin Lee Baka in the corners and like what the fuck? 0:08:26.845 --> 0:08:31.725 So all that, I'm not even thinking about it, none 0:08:31.725 --> 0:08:37.365 of it. Sitting in the church, pissed off, right, Yeah, 0:08:37.405 --> 0:08:39.085 so that's what happened on that day. So no, that 0:08:39.205 --> 0:08:42.245 was not a beautiful day or whatever. I was there 0:08:42.365 --> 0:08:44.685 a p occupied, getting the hell out of here and 0:08:44.805 --> 0:08:49.445 just jamming up whoever needed to be jammed up. I've 0:08:49.445 --> 0:08:52.565 been following my Teresa's case for a long time. I 0:08:52.645 --> 0:08:54.565 first heard about it in late two thousand and nine 0:08:54.885 --> 0:08:57.045 when I was living in LA and I remember seeing 0:08:57.045 --> 0:09:00.045 a mention of the search in Malibu. The story seems 0:09:00.085 --> 0:09:03.045 so strange, a woman who had been arrested, then let 0:09:03.045 --> 0:09:05.205 go in the middle of the night, and then vanished 0:09:05.205 --> 0:09:08.765 without I was actually working and training as a PI 0:09:08.885 --> 0:09:11.245 during that time in Agra Hills, so I would have 0:09:11.285 --> 0:09:14.605 to make the drive through the Calabasas area. I remember 0:09:14.605 --> 0:09:17.285 seeing people holding signs and wearing have you seen my 0:09:17.325 --> 0:09:21.325 Tree's t? Shirts. According to news reports, there were multiple 0:09:21.325 --> 0:09:25.005 searches by police in Malibu, by the LAPD, and by 0:09:25.125 --> 0:09:29.445 hundreds of volunteers, but then the story just seemed to disappear. 0:09:30.165 --> 0:09:32.365 I never even knew that her remains had been found. 0:09:34.405 --> 0:09:36.805 When I first read about my Teresa's story, it was 0:09:36.885 --> 0:09:38.645 kind of presented as a girl who may have been 0:09:38.645 --> 0:09:41.485 on drugs or on the streets, or possibly wandered into 0:09:41.485 --> 0:09:44.805 the woods and was suicidal. As it turns out, it 0:09:44.885 --> 0:09:47.645 wasn't like that at all. My Teres was a young 0:09:47.645 --> 0:09:50.565 woman with a caring family who was vulnerable on one night, 0:09:51.125 --> 0:09:53.245 and the people around her wanted her to be safe. 0:09:54.085 --> 0:09:56.005 Then she went to what should have been the safest 0:09:56.005 --> 0:09:59.045 place in the world the Lost Hills Sheriff Station, and 0:09:59.085 --> 0:10:02.285 then just vanished. Another thing that interested me about the 0:10:02.325 --> 0:10:04.485 area where this took place was the fact that it's 0:10:04.645 --> 0:10:07.925 very remote. People have this misconception that this area is 0:10:07.925 --> 0:10:11.045 buzzing because it's close to Malibu Beach in the Hollywood hangouts, 0:10:12.205 --> 0:10:14.445 but the truth is, once you turn up toward the canyon, 0:10:15.085 --> 0:10:18.485 the areas around there are cut off from anywhere you're 0:10:18.525 --> 0:10:21.125 in the mountains within a couple of minutes up there. 0:10:21.125 --> 0:10:24.685 It's all horse trails and very remote neighborhoods that are 0:10:24.685 --> 0:10:26.725 cut off from the surrounding world by the Santa Monica 0:10:26.765 --> 0:10:30.565 Mountains and the nearby communities of Agora Hills and Simi 0:10:30.645 --> 0:10:33.445 Valley are also very different from Malibu and Los Angeles. 0:10:34.005 --> 0:10:38.565 They're small town, predominantly white, very conservative, and heavily populated 0:10:38.565 --> 0:10:43.245 by people who work in law enforcement. Side note, the 0:10:43.285 --> 0:10:45.605 community of Simi Valley was the home of two of 0:10:45.645 --> 0:10:49.405 the Ventura County jurors who acquitted the police officers who 0:10:49.405 --> 0:10:53.445 beat Rodney King in nineteen ninety two, triggering the La riots, 0:10:54.325 --> 0:10:57.045 and in the past couple of years there have been 0:10:57.085 --> 0:11:01.525 several mysterious deaths in the area. In January twenty seventeen, 0:11:02.045 --> 0:11:04.125 twenty year old a Lane Park had a date night 0:11:04.165 --> 0:11:07.005 with her boyfriend. He said she left in the early 0:11:07.045 --> 0:11:11.165 morning hours the next day. Her car was found abandoned 0:11:11.365 --> 0:11:14.645 on Pacific Coast Highway a few days later, but she 0:11:14.765 --> 0:11:20.245 was never seen again. Then, in twenty eighteen, Tristan Bodett, 0:11:20.605 --> 0:11:23.605 a young father of two, was shot while sleeping in 0:11:23.685 --> 0:11:28.245 his tent in the Santa Monica National Park campground. A 0:11:28.365 --> 0:11:31.645 drifter named Anthony Rauta has been charged with Bodet's murder, 0:11:32.245 --> 0:11:34.805 but there have been many other mysterious shootings in the area, 0:11:35.405 --> 0:11:37.805 and a lot of people believe that Rauta is not 0:11:37.845 --> 0:11:41.965 responsible for all of them. But what's so odd to 0:11:42.005 --> 0:11:43.965 me about my Teres's case is the fact that you 0:11:44.005 --> 0:11:47.125 can disappear so close to one of the most star 0:11:47.165 --> 0:11:57.045 studded and populated places in the world. When my Terce 0:11:57.125 --> 0:11:59.445 was taking the drive that night, she had a lot 0:11:59.485 --> 0:12:03.085 on her mind. For the past several months, her life 0:12:03.085 --> 0:12:07.765 had been in transition. She was interning with Ronda and 0:12:07.805 --> 0:12:11.405 looking at graduate schools. Before we went to the cemetery 0:12:11.445 --> 0:12:14.125 with Ronda, we gave her a call to get her 0:12:14.165 --> 0:12:18.085 perspective on the case. She's been investigating my Teresa's death 0:12:18.365 --> 0:12:24.485 for over ten years or else. Oh hi, doctor Hampton, Hi, 0:12:24.605 --> 0:12:27.405 how are you. I'm good? Thank you for talking to me. 0:12:27.685 --> 0:12:30.045 Ronda says she will never forget the first day that 0:12:30.125 --> 0:12:35.085 my ries walked into her office. What was she like? So, 0:12:35.925 --> 0:12:39.525 my Trees, I have to tell you when. Okay, So 0:12:39.645 --> 0:12:41.685 I kind of had a little bit of an attitude 0:12:41.725 --> 0:12:43.765 taking on an intern. I really didn't want to. My 0:12:43.845 --> 0:12:47.685 daughter was just starting school that week, first grade, and 0:12:48.125 --> 0:12:50.885 I just was really not interested in supervising someone because 0:12:50.885 --> 0:12:53.285 it's quite you know, it's a bit of a responsibility, right, 0:12:53.605 --> 0:12:57.165 And so on the very first day that she came 0:12:57.205 --> 0:12:59.285 into my office was the first day that my daughter 0:12:59.405 --> 0:13:04.165 started school, right, So I, you know, come rushing into 0:13:04.205 --> 0:13:06.405 the office and she was already there. But I'll tell 0:13:06.405 --> 0:13:08.445 you when I fell in love with her. I in 0:13:08.525 --> 0:13:11.725 between clients, I overheard her talking to someone else over 0:13:11.765 --> 0:13:15.285 the phone. Now I don't actually recall who it was, 0:13:15.725 --> 0:13:18.765 but she was very clear in saying, well, this is 0:13:18.765 --> 0:13:21.685 doctor Hampston's office and this is how she runs things. 0:13:21.765 --> 0:13:24.645 And you know, I will take your you know, your message, 0:13:24.645 --> 0:13:26.325 and I will pose it onto her, but she was 0:13:26.525 --> 0:13:28.125 very stern and the way she said it, and I 0:13:28.165 --> 0:13:32.045 was like, wait a minute, car she was just like 0:13:32.165 --> 0:13:34.485 laying down the law. Its very in a very very 0:13:34.485 --> 0:13:38.005 respectful manner, but really firm. So I absolutely I was 0:13:38.045 --> 0:13:43.565 like just double take, like, way, who are we? And 0:13:43.605 --> 0:13:45.605 a couple hours later I had a break and then 0:13:45.685 --> 0:13:49.045 you know, we just it was just you know, it 0:13:50.565 --> 0:13:53.525 was on, you know, and I was I had graduated 0:13:53.525 --> 0:13:55.725 from cal State Polishes, so we had that in common. 0:13:55.805 --> 0:13:58.085 And and she was just smart as a whip, so 0:13:58.165 --> 0:14:01.125 it was nothing to kind of just really take her 0:14:01.165 --> 0:14:04.925 under my wing and you know, just show her everything 0:14:04.925 --> 0:14:08.805 that I possible it could. Yeah, she seemed like an 0:14:08.805 --> 0:14:13.365 amazing She seemed like a really amazing person. The good thing. 0:14:14.205 --> 0:14:16.365 She really was. And it's hard to you know, you 0:14:16.405 --> 0:14:18.205 hear that stuff all the time, but it's like she 0:14:18.405 --> 0:14:23.045 was so dynamic, you know, just just smart and very 0:14:23.085 --> 0:14:28.725 pleasant and very very cheerful and you know, just respectful 0:14:28.885 --> 0:14:32.565 and and inquisitive like all those things. And and and 0:14:32.725 --> 0:14:36.445 also I learned very quickly that she definitely was uh 0:14:36.885 --> 0:14:41.165 going to be a better therapist than than me. And 0:14:40.965 --> 0:14:43.965 she had much more compassion natural combassion than I do 0:14:54.485 --> 0:14:57.525 the week My Trees disappeared, she had scheduled lunch with 0:14:57.645 --> 0:15:01.205 Ronda to talk about her grad school application. She wanted 0:15:01.205 --> 0:15:04.685 to become a child psychologist, but until then she was 0:15:04.685 --> 0:15:07.685 working to pay the bill. She worked a clerical job 0:15:07.725 --> 0:15:10.725 with a shipping company, and on Friday nights she was 0:15:10.765 --> 0:15:13.405 a go go dancer at an LGBT club in Long 0:15:13.405 --> 0:15:17.445 Beach called Deborah's. My Trees lived with her great grandmother, Mildred, 0:15:17.445 --> 0:15:20.805 in Inglewood, a neighborhood in South Los Angeles near lax. 0:15:22.365 --> 0:15:25.725 Her father, Michael Richardson, had not been around much during 0:15:25.725 --> 0:15:28.925 My Teresa's childhood, but she grew up. They started to 0:15:28.965 --> 0:15:32.285 rebuild their relationship and they were in touch regularly. When 0:15:32.285 --> 0:15:36.245 My Trees disappeared. My Trees had also recently come out 0:15:36.245 --> 0:15:39.245 as a lesbian, and she started dating a boxer named Tessa. 0:15:39.765 --> 0:15:41.805 Tessa and My Trees had broken up in the spring. 0:15:42.805 --> 0:15:46.245 My Trees reportedly became fixated on a woman named Vanessa, 0:15:46.645 --> 0:15:50.965 who was a regular at Deborah's, but Vanessa wasn't interested. 0:15:52.165 --> 0:15:54.365 But My Trees also appeared to be suffering from some 0:15:54.405 --> 0:15:59.205 mental health issues. After her disappearance, her mom, Lettie Sutton, 0:15:59.405 --> 0:16:02.485 went through My Teresa's social media posts and what she 0:16:02.605 --> 0:16:07.725 found there was disturbing. On my my Trees had posted 0:16:08.405 --> 0:16:10.845 have you ever woke up at seven am crying on 0:16:10.885 --> 0:16:13.325 a Saturday? Because now that you see the light, you 0:16:13.365 --> 0:16:16.085 see all the people lost in the dark. Welcome to 0:16:16.125 --> 0:16:22.645 my reality. In the days before her disappearance, my Teres 0:16:22.685 --> 0:16:25.565 wrote on Facebook that she was not sleeping and her 0:16:25.605 --> 0:16:28.445 thoughts appeared to be becoming more and more erratic and 0:16:28.485 --> 0:16:32.525 had a kind of manic energy. Then on the day 0:16:32.605 --> 0:16:35.205 she went missing, her boss said that she showed up 0:16:35.205 --> 0:16:37.685 for work in a good mood. She went out for 0:16:37.765 --> 0:16:41.525 lunch but didn't come back. This was totally out of 0:16:41.605 --> 0:16:45.965 character for her. Then my Teres went back to her 0:16:45.965 --> 0:16:50.325 great grandmother's house in Inglewood. She had some business cards 0:16:50.325 --> 0:16:53.405 printed up with her dancer name Hazel on them, and 0:16:53.485 --> 0:16:55.605 she pasted them all over the windows of the house. 0:16:56.605 --> 0:16:59.765 After my Trees left that afternoon, my Teresa's aunt, Lauren, 0:16:59.925 --> 0:17:02.205 found that she'd also left a strange note on her 0:17:02.245 --> 0:17:06.645 husband's windshield with some nonsensical writing and the words black 0:17:06.685 --> 0:17:11.445 woman scorned. Ronda also said my Trees had visited an 0:17:11.445 --> 0:17:15.005 old professor of hers that day. The day before my 0:17:15.045 --> 0:17:21.285 trees went missing. She had shown up to her old 0:17:21.325 --> 0:17:24.805 college professor's office. So this is a woman who she really, 0:17:25.125 --> 0:17:27.805 you know, liked a lot, so showed up and the 0:17:27.925 --> 0:17:31.445 office staff told her My treats like, you know, she's 0:17:31.485 --> 0:17:32.565 not going to be out for a while because she 0:17:32.605 --> 0:17:36.605 was teaching a class. My treets waited there for a 0:17:36.685 --> 0:17:40.525 long time, and then eventually the professor came and the professor, 0:17:40.685 --> 0:17:43.325 I know because I talked to the professor. The professor 0:17:43.565 --> 0:17:46.725 thought that my truf was acting odd. So she walked 0:17:46.765 --> 0:17:50.965 the trees over to and to a psychologist that you know, 0:17:51.085 --> 0:17:54.045 was in the same dome with her, in the hopes 0:17:54.045 --> 0:17:56.045 that this person would get my treat some help. And 0:17:56.085 --> 0:17:58.205 my treeth kind of picked up on it, and she 0:17:58.405 --> 0:18:00.005 ran away and said, okay, that's fine, I'm just going 0:18:00.045 --> 0:18:02.685 to go be with my friends. So she left and 0:18:02.725 --> 0:18:04.565 then she met up with her friends and she was 0:18:04.605 --> 0:18:07.685 crying because, you know, the progressor didn't believe her and 0:18:07.685 --> 0:18:10.925 thought that something was wrong with her. So everybody was 0:18:10.965 --> 0:18:12.845 picking up on that something was wrong with her. She 0:18:12.885 --> 0:18:15.565 was just acting on and she was posting on Facebook 0:18:15.605 --> 0:18:18.605 all kinds of odd things, probably for twenty four hours straight, 0:18:19.165 --> 0:18:23.205 constantly posting, and so one of the things that she posted, 0:18:23.525 --> 0:18:25.765 or I don't remember, she posted this a toll on 0:18:25.805 --> 0:18:27.205 her friends. I'd have to look at my notes, but 0:18:27.285 --> 0:18:30.645 that the ocean was calling her, and so we believe 0:18:30.685 --> 0:18:33.045 that that's why she went to Malibu, because the ocean 0:18:33.085 --> 0:18:38.805 was calling her. We're driving out to Jeffrey's to retrace 0:18:38.925 --> 0:18:41.965 my Teresa's steps the night she went missing. Yeah, so 0:18:42.125 --> 0:18:45.245 right now, we're going to Jeffrey's restaurant in Malibu, which 0:18:45.325 --> 0:18:48.085 is along the Pacific Coast Highway, and it's the last 0:18:48.125 --> 0:18:51.005 place where my Terse was. It's where she went the 0:18:51.085 --> 0:18:55.205 night that she disappeared and where she was arrested and 0:18:55.765 --> 0:19:00.445 taken into custody. So we're going to go and scope 0:19:00.445 --> 0:19:01.605 it out, and then we're going to go to the 0:19:01.645 --> 0:19:04.525 last hill Shriff station. Malibu, California, is one of the 0:19:04.525 --> 0:19:08.045 most famous cities in the world, known for its spectacular 0:19:08.085 --> 0:19:11.925 beaches and breathtaking views. It's also home to one of 0:19:11.925 --> 0:19:16.045 the country's most impressive restaurants, renowned for its natural beauty, 0:19:16.325 --> 0:19:21.805 impeccable service, and fabulous cuisine. Jeffrey's Malibu, an ocean side 0:19:21.845 --> 0:19:29.925 dining experience. From the way that my Trees was acting 0:19:29.965 --> 0:19:33.205 earlier in the day, we know that something wasn't quite right. 0:19:34.365 --> 0:19:37.165 According to an LA magazine article written by Mike Kessler, 0:19:37.605 --> 0:19:41.285 when my Trees got to Joffrey's, she did something pretty strange. 0:19:41.885 --> 0:19:44.525 She got out of her car and into the valet's car. 0:19:45.365 --> 0:19:48.485 Then the valet, Kenneth Cargle, asked my Trees what she 0:19:48.565 --> 0:19:53.485 was doing there. She said it's subliminal and then started 0:19:53.525 --> 0:19:57.565 muttering something about avenging the death of Michael Jackson. Kenneth 0:19:57.605 --> 0:20:00.125 said he parked her car and when he came back, 0:20:00.165 --> 0:20:02.045 he noticed that my Rise was still sitting in his 0:20:02.085 --> 0:20:06.165 car going through a CD collection. Kenneth if he was 0:20:06.165 --> 0:20:09.085 a music lover. When he said that he was, she 0:20:09.165 --> 0:20:11.165 said she couldn't figure out how to get his car started. 0:20:12.005 --> 0:20:15.205 Despite the strange behavior, Kenneth said that my Terse was 0:20:15.245 --> 0:20:18.845 polite and friendly this entire time. Then my Teres asked 0:20:18.885 --> 0:20:21.725 Kenneth if he had seen Vanessa, as if he knew 0:20:21.725 --> 0:20:24.605 the person she was talking about. She told him to 0:20:24.685 --> 0:20:27.045 keep an eye out for a girl with tattooed arms. 0:20:27.765 --> 0:20:30.725 Vanessa was most likely the girl that my Teresa's friends 0:20:30.725 --> 0:20:34.365 and family said she had a crush on my Terce 0:20:34.405 --> 0:20:37.405 then went to the hostess dan. That's where Caroline Paris 0:20:37.445 --> 0:20:40.405 was stationed that night. She'd been working at Jeffrey's for 0:20:40.445 --> 0:20:44.005 a few months. Caroline immediately noticed that my Terse was 0:20:44.045 --> 0:20:48.125 acting a little strangely. She arrived near the hostess stand 0:20:48.605 --> 0:20:52.205 where I worked, so I greeted her and asked if 0:20:52.245 --> 0:20:57.085 she was having dinner with us, and said, you know't 0:20:57.125 --> 0:20:58.685 let you come over towards me and we'll put your 0:20:58.765 --> 0:21:00.565 name in the computer because I think she was standing 0:21:00.565 --> 0:21:02.965 in it a sense, and we'll check you in for dinner. 0:21:03.765 --> 0:21:06.965 But she didn't. She didn't respond to me, so I 0:21:08.365 --> 0:21:10.725 went back to the host to stand myself. I think 0:21:10.725 --> 0:21:13.165 I'd gone up to her and I encouraged her to 0:21:13.245 --> 0:21:16.245 come with me, but she didn't respond. So I went 0:21:16.285 --> 0:21:21.125 back to the computer, saw what tables were available, got 0:21:21.205 --> 0:21:24.205 a menu, and went back to her and said, you know, 0:21:24.285 --> 0:21:27.965 you can follow me to a table, and she didn't 0:21:28.285 --> 0:21:31.205 respond again, so I wasn't totally sure. Maybe she was 0:21:31.245 --> 0:21:34.725 shy or I just led her to a table and 0:21:34.845 --> 0:21:37.005 told her to enjoy her meal, and that's when she 0:21:37.085 --> 0:21:39.605 responded for the first time, and she smiled back and 0:21:39.725 --> 0:21:45.085 said thank you so much. After seating My Trees. The valet, Kenneth, 0:21:45.325 --> 0:21:47.925 told Caroline that there was something off about My Trees 0:21:48.725 --> 0:21:50.805 and told her about the odd comments My Trees had 0:21:50.805 --> 0:21:54.045 made in his car. He also said My Trees had 0:21:54.045 --> 0:21:56.805 told him she was there to avenge the death of 0:21:56.805 --> 0:22:00.765 Michael Jackson. And the valet told me all this thing 0:22:00.845 --> 0:22:03.245 that he didn't think she was dangerous. He just thought 0:22:03.325 --> 0:22:06.365 something was off. That was a word we used that night, 0:22:06.405 --> 0:22:09.725 if something was just off. So Caroline went over to 0:22:09.765 --> 0:22:12.885 Jeoffrey's manager and said that they had a customer acting bizarrely. 0:22:14.285 --> 0:22:17.365 He basically told her not to worry. This was Malibu, 0:22:17.445 --> 0:22:22.725 which definitely saw it's share of eccentric characters. My Trees 0:22:22.845 --> 0:22:25.965 sat at her table alone. She ordered an Ocean Breeze 0:22:25.965 --> 0:22:29.845 cocktail and a Kobe steak. She started to eat, and 0:22:29.885 --> 0:22:32.445 at some point she joined a large party of seven 0:22:32.445 --> 0:22:35.925 people who were sitting nearby. Later, I did my rounds, 0:22:35.965 --> 0:22:38.685 like walking around the tables, and I noticed that she 0:22:38.725 --> 0:22:42.045 had gotten up from her table and moved to a 0:22:42.165 --> 0:22:46.765 large party table, a table with several other people, and 0:22:48.325 --> 0:22:50.885 she was talking and all the people were listening to her. 0:22:53.805 --> 0:22:56.045 One of the customers got up from the table and 0:22:56.685 --> 0:22:59.285 as they walked past me, I asked if everything was okay, 0:22:59.365 --> 0:23:02.485 and they said that they used the word off, so 0:23:02.565 --> 0:23:05.085 that something was off with the person who joined their table, 0:23:05.125 --> 0:23:09.805 but she was harming anyone. I just at that point 0:23:09.845 --> 0:23:12.405 just kept working. I didn't really think anything of it 0:23:12.445 --> 0:23:17.245 because being in La things often seemed off to me. 0:23:17.325 --> 0:23:20.445 They were really different than where I was from and Malibu. 0:23:20.805 --> 0:23:22.845 We would get lots of different people out there, so 0:23:22.885 --> 0:23:26.925 I just at that point wasn't concerned. And the depositions 0:23:26.965 --> 0:23:29.565 of the people at the table my Teresa joined, They 0:23:29.605 --> 0:23:33.165 said my Teresa's behavior was strange, but they said she 0:23:33.245 --> 0:23:36.565 was friendly and animated. But it was not long before 0:23:36.605 --> 0:23:39.845 the conversation took a turn for the bizarre. She said 0:23:39.845 --> 0:23:42.485 she was from Mars and started talking about numerology and 0:23:42.485 --> 0:23:45.765 how everything was connected. She said a soap opera character 0:23:45.845 --> 0:23:50.165 had told her to drive there. Her server, Omar Martinez, 0:23:50.245 --> 0:23:53.765 told Caroline and others that something seemed off. This is 0:23:53.805 --> 0:23:56.965 the second person after the Valet to make that remark. 0:23:57.885 --> 0:24:00.405 Omar had asked my Trees where she was from, and 0:24:00.445 --> 0:24:02.565 he got a different answer from what she told people 0:24:02.605 --> 0:24:06.205 at the table. Omar suspected my Trees might not pay 0:24:06.205 --> 0:24:10.245 her bill. He said that he would make sure before 0:24:10.285 --> 0:24:11.925 she left and let me know that she had paid, 0:24:12.885 --> 0:24:17.285 and I said okay. He was said Genishal, probably just forget. 0:24:17.485 --> 0:24:19.365 She might forget. I don't think it's that she doesn't 0:24:19.405 --> 0:24:21.765 want to like. I think she just might forget to 0:24:21.765 --> 0:24:23.405 do it, because you know, she's in some kind of 0:24:23.445 --> 0:24:29.085 distracted state. At some point, the large party paid and left. 0:24:30.005 --> 0:24:32.405 My Trees got up to leave as well. When she 0:24:32.445 --> 0:24:35.565 got to the valet, the manager intercepted her and asked 0:24:35.565 --> 0:24:37.885 her how she planned to pay her eighty nine dollars tab. 0:24:39.085 --> 0:24:42.245 My Trees seemed surprised and said that the large party 0:24:42.285 --> 0:24:45.165 should have covered her tab. My Trees then told him 0:24:45.165 --> 0:24:49.885 that he wasn't understanding the language of numbers. She said, 0:24:50.405 --> 0:24:52.605 it's okay for me not to pay the bill because 0:24:52.605 --> 0:24:55.525 the language of numbers, when they coincide like this, it 0:24:55.605 --> 0:25:00.765 makes sense. At this point, the manager is starting to 0:25:00.765 --> 0:25:03.925 suspect that something is seriously wrong. He asked her if 0:25:03.925 --> 0:25:06.285 she had any money in her pockets, and, according to 0:25:06.325 --> 0:25:10.845 his deposition, Mitrees said, I am busted. She then told 0:25:10.925 --> 0:25:12.765 him that she was from Mars and made a comment 0:25:12.805 --> 0:25:16.325