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Speaker 1: Pushkin at twelve twenty five am. On September seventeenth, two

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Speaker 1: thousand and nine, twenty four year old my Teres Richardson

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Speaker 1: was released from the Malibu Lost Hill Sheriff Station. She

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Speaker 1: had no money, no phone, and no ride. She walked

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Speaker 1: out of the station and into the night, and she

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Speaker 1: never made it home. A beauty contestant and honor student

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Speaker 1: and now a missing person. We were told, he says,

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Speaker 1: another black girl missing out of Malibu, that we were

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Speaker 1: wasting our time. Nearly a year later, my Teresa's naked,

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Speaker 1: skeletonized remains were discovered in a remote canyon six miles

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Speaker 1: from the station. Her death is Malibu's greatest unsolved mystery.

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Speaker 1: I'm Dana Goodyear. Five years ago I started reporting on

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Speaker 1: the my Rice Richardson case. Everyone knows something horrible happened

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Speaker 1: to my trees. Nothing about her case makes sense, and

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Speaker 1: for fifteen years, the Sheriff's department has failed to solve it.

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Speaker 1: I got a text message, Hey, there was a partially

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Speaker 1: mummified skeletal remains naked found in Montanito. They discovered a skull,

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Speaker 1: they discovered a pelvis, and they discovered a lake just bones.

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Speaker 1: So it was a cover up from the time My

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Speaker 1: Trees was released all the way up is still to

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Speaker 1: now to this day, is still a cover up. Homicide

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Speaker 1: will continue their investigation. If there was foul play involved,

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Speaker 1: someone could confess. It's likely that we can never find

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Speaker 1: out exactly how she got there, but they're going to

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Speaker 1: do their very beast to figure that out. My Terce

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Speaker 1: was young and black and beautiful, a professional dancer who

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Speaker 1: was applying to graduate school in psychology. She was also

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Speaker 1: in the midst of what law enforcement now acknowledges was

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Speaker 1: a severe mental health episode. The cops say this might

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Speaker 1: explain her death. Maybe she wandered into that canyon and died.

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Speaker 1: Maybe she was bitten by a rattlesnake or a poisonous spider.

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Speaker 1: What they don't say is that her mental state would

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Speaker 1: have made her an easy victim for a human predator.

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Speaker 1: Malibu is a place of secrets, but no secret can

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Speaker 1: stay buried forever. I mean, that's what I told the cops.

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Speaker 1: If anybody should get suspect, you'd probably be him. Do

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Speaker 1: you know anything about that girl? And he's like, what girl?

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Speaker 1: What girl? She's like the girl, the girl, you know,

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Speaker 1: the girl, that fucking the girl is dead, the girl

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Speaker 1: that dive out. He knew exactly where she was, which

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Speaker 1: gives me the chills. In Malibu, every seductive surface has

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Speaker 1: a dark side. The beauty is the danger. The unspoiled

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Speaker 1: wilderness hides unspeakable crimes. And a place like that, a

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Speaker 1: place like that breeds monsters. Coming June tenth, Lost Hills,

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