Speaker 1: Pushkin at twelve twenty five am. On September seventeenth, two
Speaker 1: thousand and nine, twenty four year old my Teres Richardson
Speaker 1: was released from the Malibu Lost Hill Sheriff Station. She
Speaker 1: had no money, no phone, and no ride. She walked
Speaker 1: out of the station and into the night, and she
Speaker 1: never made it home. A beauty contestant and honor student
Speaker 1: and now a missing person. We were told, he says,
Speaker 1: another black girl missing out of Malibu, that we were
Speaker 1: wasting our time. Nearly a year later, my Teresa's naked,
Speaker 1: skeletonized remains were discovered in a remote canyon six miles
Speaker 1: from the station. Her death is Malibu's greatest unsolved mystery.
Speaker 1: I'm Dana Goodyear. Five years ago I started reporting on
Speaker 1: the my Rice Richardson case. Everyone knows something horrible happened
Speaker 1: to my trees. Nothing about her case makes sense, and
Speaker 1: for fifteen years, the Sheriff's department has failed to solve it.
Speaker 1: I got a text message, Hey, there was a partially
Speaker 1: mummified skeletal remains naked found in Montanito. They discovered a skull,
Speaker 1: they discovered a pelvis, and they discovered a lake just bones.
Speaker 1: So it was a cover up from the time My
Speaker 1: Trees was released all the way up is still to
Speaker 1: now to this day, is still a cover up. Homicide
Speaker 1: will continue their investigation. If there was foul play involved,
Speaker 1: someone could confess. It's likely that we can never find
Speaker 1: out exactly how she got there, but they're going to
Speaker 1: do their very beast to figure that out. My Terce
Speaker 1: was young and black and beautiful, a professional dancer who
Speaker 1: was applying to graduate school in psychology. She was also
Speaker 1: in the midst of what law enforcement now acknowledges was
Speaker 1: a severe mental health episode. The cops say this might
Speaker 1: explain her death. Maybe she wandered into that canyon and died.
Speaker 1: Maybe she was bitten by a rattlesnake or a poisonous spider.
Speaker 1: What they don't say is that her mental state would
Speaker 1: have made her an easy victim for a human predator.
Speaker 1: Malibu is a place of secrets, but no secret can
Speaker 1: stay buried forever. I mean, that's what I told the cops.
Speaker 1: If anybody should get suspect, you'd probably be him. Do
Speaker 1: you know anything about that girl? And he's like, what girl?
Speaker 1: What girl? She's like the girl, the girl, you know,
Speaker 1: the girl, that fucking the girl is dead, the girl
Speaker 1: that dive out. He knew exactly where she was, which
Speaker 1: gives me the chills. In Malibu, every seductive surface has
Speaker 1: a dark side. The beauty is the danger. The unspoiled
Speaker 1: wilderness hides unspeakable crimes. And a place like that, a
Speaker 1: place like that breeds monsters. Coming June tenth, Lost Hills,
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