WEBVTT - Coming Soon - Season 4, Dark Canyon

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<v Speaker 1>Pushkin at twelve twenty five am. On September seventeenth, two

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<v Speaker 1>thousand and nine, twenty four year old my Teres Richardson

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<v Speaker 1>was released from the Malibu Lost Hill Sheriff Station. She

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<v Speaker 1>had no money, no phone, and no ride. She walked

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<v Speaker 1>out of the station and into the night, and she

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<v Speaker 1>never made it home. A beauty contestant and honor student

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<v Speaker 1>and now a missing person. We were told, he says,

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<v Speaker 1>another black girl missing out of Malibu, that we were

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

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<v Speaker 1>skeletonized remains were discovered in a remote canyon six miles

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<v Speaker 1>from the station. Her death is Malibu's greatest unsolved mystery.

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<v Speaker 1>I'm Dana Goodyear. Five years ago I started reporting on

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<v Speaker 1>the my Rice Richardson case. Everyone knows something horrible happened

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<v Speaker 1>to my trees. Nothing about her case makes sense, and

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

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<v Speaker 1>I got a text message, Hey, there was a partially

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<v Speaker 1>mummified skeletal remains naked found in Montanito. They discovered a skull,

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<v Speaker 1>they discovered a pelvis, and they discovered a lake just bones.

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<v Speaker 1>So it was a cover up from the time My

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<v Speaker 1>Trees was released all the way up is still to

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<v Speaker 1>now to this day, is still a cover up. Homicide

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<v Speaker 1>will continue their investigation. If there was foul play involved,

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<v Speaker 1>someone could confess. It's likely that we can never find

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<v Speaker 1>out exactly how she got there, but they're going to

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<v Speaker 1>do their very beast to figure that out. My Terce

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<v Speaker 1>was young and black and beautiful, a professional dancer who

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<v Speaker 1>was applying to graduate school in psychology. She was also

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<v Speaker 1>in the midst of what law enforcement now acknowledges was

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<v Speaker 1>a severe mental health episode. The cops say this might

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<v Speaker 1>explain her death. Maybe she wandered into that canyon and died.

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<v Speaker 1>Maybe she was bitten by a rattlesnake or a poisonous spider.

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<v Speaker 1>What they don't say is that her mental state would

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<v Speaker 1>have made her an easy victim for a human predator.

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<v Speaker 1>Malibu is a place of secrets, but no secret can

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

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

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

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<v Speaker 1>What girl? She's like the girl, the girl, you know,

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<v Speaker 1>the girl, that fucking the girl is dead, the girl

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<v Speaker 1>that dive out. He knew exactly where she was, which

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<v Speaker 1>gives me the chills. In Malibu, every seductive surface has

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<v Speaker 1>a dark side. The beauty is the danger. The unspoiled

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<v Speaker 1>wilderness hides unspeakable crimes. And a place like that, a

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<v Speaker 1>place like that breeds monsters. Coming June tenth, Lost Hills,

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<v Speaker 1>Dark Canyon, Subscribe to Pushkin Plus to hear the whole

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