WEBVTT - LA Confidential 0:00:08.245 --> 0:00:20.685 School of Humans. Hello. It's been well documented that the 0:00:20.685 --> 0:00:24.165 police made many mistakes on the night my Terese disappeared 0:00:24.685 --> 0:00:28.925 and at her crime scene, mistakes that tragically could have 0:00:29.005 --> 0:00:32.685 led to her death and also could have damaged evidence 0:00:32.725 --> 0:00:35.125 in a way that makes it much more difficult or 0:00:35.165 --> 0:00:40.645 even potentially impossible, to find and prosecute her killer. But 0:00:40.725 --> 0:00:44.285 over the years, some people have suggested that certain members 0:00:44.285 --> 0:00:47.485 of law enforcement could have actually been involved in My 0:00:47.565 --> 0:00:51.125 Teresa's death and in a cover up of her killing. 0:00:52.165 --> 0:00:55.445 So to investigate this theory, we have to go back 0:00:55.485 --> 0:01:00.165 to the timeline. In a potential homicide investigation, it standard 0:01:00.245 --> 0:01:03.565 procedure to start with the last people who were known 0:01:03.805 --> 0:01:07.205 to have seen the victim alive, but this logic did 0:01:07.285 --> 0:01:10.605 not seem to apply in My Teresa's case because some 0:01:10.685 --> 0:01:13.925 of the last people who saw her alive were the police. 0:01:14.445 --> 0:01:17.925 It's also good practice in either a homicide investigation or 0:01:17.965 --> 0:01:22.805 a missing person's investigation to track down suraillance footage, and 0:01:22.845 --> 0:01:26.205 we found out that there is suraillance footage that shows 0:01:26.205 --> 0:01:29.325 my Trees in the Lost Hills Sheriff's station on the 0:01:29.445 --> 0:01:33.085 night she disappeared, at least eight hours in all, on 0:01:33.205 --> 0:01:37.965 four different cameras. It's been eleven years since Ronda started 0:01:38.005 --> 0:01:42.365 investigating my Teresa's death, and she is still fighting to 0:01:42.365 --> 0:01:45.165 get access to that tape, right, And are they saying 0:01:45.365 --> 0:01:47.965 so they're saying to you, basically without saying that, they're 0:01:47.965 --> 0:01:50.445 saying no, we're not going to release it, whereas before 0:01:50.485 --> 0:01:52.325 they were saying we don't have the right equipment. So 0:01:52.365 --> 0:01:55.285 it's like, which is it. This call I had with 0:01:55.405 --> 0:02:00.085 Ronda was on September fifteenth, twenty twenty. She was explaining 0:02:00.125 --> 0:02:03.965 to me that finally the LASD had agreed to release 0:02:04.005 --> 0:02:06.565 the video footage of my tree from the night of 0:02:06.605 --> 0:02:10.605 September sixteenth, two thousand and nine, and the detective who 0:02:10.645 --> 0:02:13.245 she was talking to said that they were going to 0:02:13.325 --> 0:02:16.965 upload the footage onto the LSD website for all the 0:02:16.965 --> 0:02:19.645 world to see, and we'll see Thursday and let me 0:02:19.685 --> 0:02:27.165 know what happens, right, thanks, bye? Uh okay. So apparently 0:02:27.205 --> 0:02:28.965 they're going to give her. She thinks they're going to 0:02:28.965 --> 0:02:31.565 give her the actual VHS tape, which would be great 0:02:31.565 --> 0:02:33.165 because then we can figure out a way to play it. 0:02:33.205 --> 0:02:34.805 She says, she'll let us have it, but I'm like, 0:02:35.045 --> 0:02:37.645 you know, yeah, great, let's all play it. Figure out 0:02:37.685 --> 0:02:41.005 a way to view the footage, make a copy like 0:02:41.045 --> 0:02:43.405 it seems so crazy, and they still weren't going to 0:02:43.445 --> 0:02:47.165 do it. I started looking into my Teresa's case about 0:02:47.165 --> 0:02:51.605 a year ago. In any case, but especially one with 0:02:51.725 --> 0:02:54.525 so many theories out there about what could have happened. 0:02:55.205 --> 0:02:59.485 I try to investigate sherlock holmstyle. I follow the process 0:02:59.645 --> 0:03:04.445 of elimination, but we can't eliminate a possible theory if 0:03:04.445 --> 0:03:07.765 we can't even get base questions answered, which has been 0:03:07.805 --> 0:03:11.645 one of the most frustrating parts of this case. This 0:03:11.685 --> 0:03:16.125 surveillance video is key. It's one of the only pieces 0:03:16.165 --> 0:03:20.485 of physical evidence out there that could potentially provide clues 0:03:20.645 --> 0:03:24.765 to my Teresa's state of mind, her behavior, and possibly 0:03:25.325 --> 0:03:30.485 what happened to her on the night she disappeared. Two 0:03:30.565 --> 0:03:33.605 days after my call with Ronda, we met with her 0:03:33.685 --> 0:03:39.125 and Ceci at my Teresa's gravesite at Inglewood Cemetery. Remember, 0:03:39.285 --> 0:03:42.685 the detective told Ronda that they would finally release the video, 0:03:43.405 --> 0:03:47.045 which shocked her because she spent years fighting to get 0:03:47.085 --> 0:03:50.605 access to that video and now the LASD was just 0:03:50.645 --> 0:03:53.605 going to put it on their website. That's when she 0:03:53.605 --> 0:03:55.205 told me they were going to put it on the 0:03:55.285 --> 0:04:01.845 actual actual website of the sheriff's apartment, which whatever so 0:04:02.405 --> 0:04:06.325 did not sound Yeah. So, so I don't know when that. 0:04:06.405 --> 0:04:08.405 She didn't tell me when that was going to happen, because, 0:04:08.445 --> 0:04:10.085 like I think, the video had to be sent down 0:04:10.085 --> 0:04:12.445 to their tech people to get uploaded and all that stuff. 0:04:12.485 --> 0:04:14.205 I mean, she was really clear about what was going 0:04:14.245 --> 0:04:19.645 to happen. So I started thinking about it a little 0:04:19.645 --> 0:04:22.325 bit because, you know, so much of what we learned 0:04:22.365 --> 0:04:24.725 about my trees we learned in the news. So I thought, 0:04:24.765 --> 0:04:26.645 you know what I'm going to have to I'm going 0:04:26.725 --> 0:04:30.805 to ask Alex if he would please show some compassion 0:04:31.165 --> 0:04:34.725 and notify the family, you know, her parents before they 0:04:34.805 --> 0:04:38.685 just uploaded this, you know, on the site for the 0:04:38.685 --> 0:04:42.445 world to see. But at the cemetery, she told us 0:04:42.725 --> 0:04:47.125 that once again, the police had changed their minds. She 0:04:47.205 --> 0:04:51.125 talked to the sheriff, Alex Phillanueva, and he said the 0:04:51.165 --> 0:04:54.605 police weren't going to make the video public. I'm not 0:04:54.645 --> 0:04:56.245 really sure because then he got back to me and 0:04:56.285 --> 0:05:00.045 said that that they were not going to put it 0:05:00.085 --> 0:05:01.645 on the website. That's not what he wants if he 0:05:01.685 --> 0:05:03.605 doesn't want it on the website, And then he was 0:05:03.645 --> 0:05:05.725 clear that the only reason why he was released he 0:05:05.805 --> 0:05:11.645 was releasing it to me per my request, and that 0:05:12.725 --> 0:05:18.525 her this video does not fall within the policy of transparency. 0:05:19.925 --> 0:05:24.005 When Sheriff Philanueva was elected in twenty eighteen, he made 0:05:24.045 --> 0:05:28.285 a transparency promise. This was crucial for the community following 0:05:28.325 --> 0:05:31.885 the secrecy and corruption of the sheriff Lee Baca and 0:05:31.965 --> 0:05:37.485 Paul tanaka Era. Ronda says that Sheriff Phillanueva told her 0:05:38.205 --> 0:05:42.085 that the transparency promise doesn't apply to my Teresa's case 0:05:42.565 --> 0:05:46.885 because he made the promise after she disappeared. More like 0:05:46.925 --> 0:05:49.085 he's letting me know he's doing me a favor. That's 0:05:49.205 --> 0:05:53.765 kind of how it fell. So I so fine, whatever, 0:05:54.005 --> 0:05:57.805 So I don't know if that means. So I don't 0:05:57.845 --> 0:05:59.565 know what's going to happen now because I know what 0:05:59.605 --> 0:06:02.245 the detective told me, and so this morning he just 0:06:02.285 --> 0:06:05.445 told me something different. When I'm what I did ask 0:06:05.605 --> 0:06:08.525 for is I asked for the raw footage, So I 0:06:08.645 --> 0:06:11.805 want the complete digitized version and if that's what I 0:06:11.805 --> 0:06:13.685 If that's what I don't get, I'm going to continue 0:06:13.725 --> 0:06:17.645 to raise hell and there's no other option, so release it. 0:06:19.285 --> 0:06:23.725 I've seen police hold back information before and sometimes they 0:06:23.765 --> 0:06:27.725 have good reasons. They may want to avoid false confessions 0:06:27.845 --> 0:06:31.005 by restricting access to facts that only the killer would know, 0:06:31.125 --> 0:06:35.125 for example, But in a missing person's case, it is 0:06:35.205 --> 0:06:38.765 standard practice to release footage of where the person was 0:06:38.805 --> 0:06:43.045 seen last. It's been two months since they said that 0:06:43.085 --> 0:06:46.525 they would make the video public and we're still waiting. 0:06:48.285 --> 0:07:31.765 I'm Catherine Townsend and this is Helen Gone. The saga 0:07:32.045 --> 0:07:35.365 over the release of a simple videotape goes to the 0:07:35.405 --> 0:07:39.205 heart of this case because it's symptomatic of the battle 0:07:39.245 --> 0:07:43.885 that the family has been fighting with law enforcement for transparency. 0:07:45.125 --> 0:07:48.325 Tom Martin was captain of Lost Hill Station at the time, 0:07:49.205 --> 0:07:52.605 and for months after my Chase went missing, he told 0:07:52.645 --> 0:07:55.845 her family point blank that there was no video from 0:07:55.845 --> 0:07:58.285 the night that she disappeared. So the way the search 0:07:59.005 --> 0:08:01.845 did not happen was it didn't make any sense to us, 0:08:01.885 --> 0:08:04.925 like why you wouldn't start from the station. So at 0:08:04.925 --> 0:08:07.965 some point and they called the search off, we were like, okay, 0:08:08.045 --> 0:08:11.485 we don't know where the hell even which direction did 0:08:11.525 --> 0:08:14.645 she go left or right or whatever? When we asked 0:08:14.645 --> 0:08:16.525 for well, let us just see the video so we 0:08:16.525 --> 0:08:18.685 can determine which way to start. Our search, and then 0:08:18.725 --> 0:08:21.605 that's when they started out, well there's no video. It's like, really, 0:08:22.125 --> 0:08:26.245 there's no video, Like that makes no sense. Then in 0:08:26.365 --> 0:08:32.685 January twenty ten, Ronda, my Teresa's mother, Latisse, and documentary 0:08:32.765 --> 0:08:35.965 filmmaker Chip Croft were all at the Lost Hills Sheriff 0:08:36.045 --> 0:08:39.765 station in a meeting with Captain Tom Martin and Lee Baca, 0:08:40.365 --> 0:08:42.685 who was Sheriff of Los Angeles County at the time. 0:08:43.685 --> 0:08:47.845 In that meeting, Sheriff Boka asked Captain Martin point blank, 0:08:48.485 --> 0:08:53.885 is their video footage? And Martin said yes, the footage 0:08:54.005 --> 0:08:56.645 was in his desk just feet away from where they 0:08:56.685 --> 0:09:00.085 were sitting. It had been sitting in his desk drawer 0:09:00.325 --> 0:09:06.525 for months now. Ship and Ronda were shocked. A. Chip 0:09:06.805 --> 0:09:10.285 has also made multiple requests to get the video released. 0:09:11.165 --> 0:09:15.085 He remembers Sheriff Boka asking Captain Martin about the video. 0:09:15.725 --> 0:09:18.885 I was sitting right next to Captain Martin when Sheriff 0:09:18.925 --> 0:09:21.405 Balka asked him that question. You don't have any video 0:09:21.445 --> 0:09:24.165 with my terse in jail, and he turned be read, 0:09:24.445 --> 0:09:26.365 I mean really be read and just see why I 0:09:26.405 --> 0:09:29.285 do have this tape in my desk. And it turns 0:09:29.325 --> 0:09:31.445 out there was the four tracks of rail to take 0:09:31.565 --> 0:09:35.805 feeding from. Four cameras at the Sheriff's department and three 0:09:35.965 --> 0:09:38.085 rooting side, and one was outside on the side of 0:09:38.125 --> 0:09:41.245 the building. And there are two cameras on the front 0:09:41.245 --> 0:09:45.405 of the building which would have explained shown how my 0:09:45.605 --> 0:09:51.405 Teres left the sheriff station. And I still today suspect 0:09:51.565 --> 0:10:03.325 that those two cameras were operating. And what was he 0:10:03.405 --> 0:10:06.285 just said. He accidentally stuck it there, he said. So 0:10:06.445 --> 0:10:10.245 there's been various reasons. One of them was in that moment. 0:10:10.245 --> 0:10:13.285 He didn't tell us why. Yeah, So the next day 0:10:13.325 --> 0:10:17.405 I got a call from his chief, Neil Tyler, who 0:10:17.525 --> 0:10:22.205 told me that he had it in his desk because 0:10:22.485 --> 0:10:25.045 he was trying to protect the individual that was also 0:10:25.085 --> 0:10:30.165 on film. Okay, okay, because you could have just that's no, 0:10:30.565 --> 0:10:32.125 that would be a reason not to show it to us. 0:10:32.165 --> 0:10:34.125 That's not a reason about the live out its existence. 0:10:34.525 --> 0:10:38.845 So there's that, And that was what they said, And 0:10:39.365 --> 0:10:43.645 they had other limsy excuses about why he he had it. 0:10:43.685 --> 0:10:45.565 I don't know. I don't know, but you know, eventually 0:10:45.605 --> 0:10:51.085 he gets promoted. So for my Teresa's family, this marked 0:10:51.085 --> 0:10:55.605 a major turning point in the investigation. I believe that 0:10:55.605 --> 0:10:59.245 that's when their relationship with the police started to turn adversarial, 0:11:00.245 --> 0:11:04.005 and when certain members of My Teresa's family began to 0:11:04.005 --> 0:11:07.565 go from frustrated to furious. They never gave us the video. Oh, 0:11:07.605 --> 0:11:09.325 they let you watch the video, so we had to 0:11:09.365 --> 0:11:13.525 fight for that. So when they admit that they had 0:11:13.525 --> 0:11:15.845 the video, then we got to keep pressing. It took 0:11:15.885 --> 0:11:19.605 another couple of months for them to get us to 0:11:19.645 --> 0:11:25.365 show the video. In March twenty ten, Latis, Ronda, and 0:11:25.445 --> 0:11:30.685 others finally saw the video. Ronda was expecting several hours 0:11:30.685 --> 0:11:33.525 of footage, but she says that she was shown a 0:11:33.565 --> 0:11:37.325 much shorter, heavily edited version that was made up of 0:11:37.365 --> 0:11:42.925 footage compiled from several different cameras. Latissa said multiple times 0:11:43.325 --> 0:11:46.485 that on the footage that she saw, my Trees appeared 0:11:46.485 --> 0:11:50.085 to be behaving in a manner that she called infantile 0:11:50.245 --> 0:11:53.965 and childlike. She said that she could see her daughter 0:11:54.605 --> 0:11:57.645 lying in the fetal position in her cell. In a 0:11:57.725 --> 0:12:02.805 later deposition, she described my Trees as distressed and said 0:12:02.845 --> 0:12:05.365 that My Trees had been pulling at her hair and 0:12:06.045 --> 0:12:09.285 pulling at the mesh wiring that lined the holding cell area. 0:12:11.725 --> 0:12:14.565 At one point, she said my Trees picked up the 0:12:14.565 --> 0:12:18.805 phone and put it down. She looked, Latis said, as 0:12:18.805 --> 0:12:21.285 if she was trying to use the phone but couldn't 0:12:21.285 --> 0:12:24.605 get it to work. Latist said that his shadow was 0:12:24.685 --> 0:12:28.085 visible as if someone was passing by the door, and 0:12:28.165 --> 0:12:30.845 it seemed like My Trees was trying to get the 0:12:30.885 --> 0:12:35.765 person's attention, possibly to get assistance, but that there appeared 0:12:35.925 --> 0:12:39.885 to be no response. Both Ronda and Latise have spoken 0:12:39.925 --> 0:12:42.005 out in the past about the edits in the video. 0:12:42.765 --> 0:12:46.165 For example, Latis talked about seeing a piece of paper 0:12:46.205 --> 0:12:49.245 crumpled on the floor and wondering how it got there. 0:12:51.365 --> 0:12:54.085 And there's something else. At the end of the video, 0:12:54.765 --> 0:12:58.045 they saw My Trees walking out of the station into 0:12:58.085 --> 0:13:03.445 the darkness, and then right before they pressed stop, someone 0:13:03.685 --> 0:13:09.245 walked out behind her. They were shocked because initially, they say, 0:13:09.285 --> 0:13:11.245 they were told that there were no deputies in the 0:13:11.285 --> 0:13:15.125 station at the time. When my chase was released. The 0:13:15.205 --> 0:13:18.765 end of the video, the screen goes entirely black, and 0:13:19.645 --> 0:13:21.445 you think it's the end of the video. So we 0:13:21.525 --> 0:13:24.085 all turn and we're arguing at the detectives because we're kissed, right, 0:13:24.485 --> 0:13:28.125 and so then the guy, the the person who the 0:13:28.165 --> 0:13:31.325 tech now the tech guy he like, he goes like 0:13:31.405 --> 0:13:33.405 that to me. So the tech guy's in this middle 0:13:33.725 --> 0:13:36.485 and we're all around him, and then the screen is 0:13:36.565 --> 0:13:39.165 right there, so he's so everybody's arguing. So I'm like 0:13:39.565 --> 0:13:42.525 here like directly basing him. So then at some point 0:13:42.565 --> 0:13:44.045 he turns to me and he goes like that, like 0:13:44.085 --> 0:13:46.405 to make alert me to look up. So I believe 0:13:46.445 --> 0:13:48.685 that tech guy knew that that video was not over, 0:13:48.725 --> 0:13:51.045 but the detectives didn't. You could tell they were shocked. 0:13:51.525 --> 0:13:55.005 So I look up and then you see that you 0:13:55.045 --> 0:13:57.165 see a deputy coming out of the door, and that's 0:13:57.205 --> 0:13:59.485 significant because we were told that there was nobody at 0:13:59.485 --> 0:14:10.605 that station. Now, my Teresa's family and friends wanted to 0:14:10.645 --> 0:14:12.685 know the name of the deputy who was seen on 0:14:12.725 --> 0:14:16.605 the tape. They wanted to talk to him, not necessarily 0:14:16.685 --> 0:14:20.445 to accuse him of any wrongdoing, but because he may 0:14:20.485 --> 0:14:22.565 have been one of the last people to see my 0:14:22.685 --> 0:14:26.685 Teres alive. Journalist Mike Kessler attempted to track the deputy 0:14:26.725 --> 0:14:30.565 down for his Los Angeles Magazine article back in twenty eleven. 0:14:31.445 --> 0:14:34.645 At that time, he said that the department refused to 0:14:34.685 --> 0:14:38.685 give the family the deputy's name. Mike said that he 0:14:38.845 --> 0:14:40.965 was able to get the name of the deputy through 0:14:41.005 --> 0:14:45.045 a confidential source. He called him, and he wrote about 0:14:45.045 --> 0:14:49.165 that call in his article. He wrote, quote, he told me, 0:14:49.485 --> 0:14:52.845 Unfortunately for you, dude, I wasn't there and hung up. 0:14:53.445 --> 0:14:56.405 On our next call, he insisted that he couldn't remember 0:14:56.445 --> 0:14:58.645 if he'd been at the station the night my Terrese 0:14:58.725 --> 0:15:02.285 was arrested, and then went on to imply that he 0:15:02.325 --> 0:15:06.005 had been on site the night. This nonsense. What's happened? 0:15:06.045 --> 0:15:08.485 He said, I was one of the guys that kept 0:15:08.525 --> 0:15:14.045 away from this, minding my own business. End quote. Now 0:15:14.045 --> 0:15:17.765 this seems to be a bizarre statement. We tried to 0:15:17.805 --> 0:15:21.525 reach that deputy, but several of our calls went unreturned. 0:15:22.525 --> 0:15:26.085 But then Rhonda told us and another source confirmed that 0:15:26.125 --> 0:15:30.405 the deputy in the video was actually someone else, someone 0:15:30.445 --> 0:15:34.365 whose name had never been mentioned before. We're still working 0:15:34.405 --> 0:15:37.445 to figure out who the deputy was who exited the 0:15:37.445 --> 0:15:43.485 building right after my Trese. That's why we need that tape. 0:15:43.845 --> 0:15:47.525 Knowing what is on the unedited version of that tape 0:15:47.925 --> 0:15:52.725 is crucial to this case. Even before Black Lives Matter, 0:15:53.485 --> 0:15:58.005 a maud arbery and Breonna Taylor made national headlines, a 0:15:58.085 --> 0:16:03.325 journalist named Alexander Narzaian wrote in Newsweek, quote, my Terce 0:16:03.405 --> 0:16:06.485 Richardson was a young woman who became a case but 0:16:06.605 --> 0:16:10.485 also a cause to many in Los Angeles. She's a 0:16:10.565 --> 0:16:14.645 symbol too, as potent as Michael Brown and Ferguson Missouri, 0:16:15.165 --> 0:16:18.325 or Eric Garner in Staten Island, New York, of a 0:16:18.405 --> 0:16:22.405 law enforcement culture that has grown contemptuous of both laws 0:16:22.685 --> 0:16:27.765 and men. End quote. He also quotes La based journalist 0:16:27.965 --> 0:16:31.805 jas Mechanic as saying that she considers my Terse to 0:16:31.885 --> 0:16:42.365 be a victim of police brutality. Here's the thing. Even 0:16:42.405 --> 0:16:46.565 if the tape doesn't provide helpful leads, releasing it could 0:16:46.685 --> 0:16:50.525 help answer some very basic questions for my Teresa's family. 0:16:51.405 --> 0:16:54.805 Police have given several reasons for why they say the 0:16:54.885 --> 0:16:59.405 tape can't be released. First, they said that it didn't exist. 0:16:59.845 --> 0:17:03.045 The Malibu Serve Side News quoted Captain Tom Martin as 0:17:03.045 --> 0:17:06.045 stating in November two thousand and nine that there was 0:17:06.125 --> 0:17:09.365 no video or tape of any kind of my Trees 0:17:09.445 --> 0:17:12.085 at the Lost Hill station on the night she was arrested. 0:17:12.645 --> 0:17:15.485 When Captain Martin revealed that he had the tape, he 0:17:15.565 --> 0:17:17.725 said that he hadn't told the family about it before 0:17:18.245 --> 0:17:21.085 because he thought that when they asked for footage, they 0:17:21.125 --> 0:17:25.845 were referring to footage from outside the building, not inside. Now, 0:17:25.885 --> 0:17:29.725 this infuriated my Teresa's family members because they believe that 0:17:29.765 --> 0:17:35.365 once again the police were not being forthcoming. Then they said, 0:17:35.725 --> 0:17:39.205 according to Ronda, that they would not publicly release it 0:17:39.565 --> 0:17:43.885 due to confidentiality issues. But we've talked to Schermaine Henderson, 0:17:44.165 --> 0:17:46.805 who was in the cell with my Trees, and she 0:17:46.965 --> 0:17:49.005 says she's on board to help in any way that 0:17:49.085 --> 0:17:53.405 she can. Ronda says she's also spoken to Chermaine several 0:17:53.405 --> 0:17:56.565 times over the years. She says that was always the case. 0:17:57.045 --> 0:18:03.245 Chermaine was never concerned about confidentiality. Finally, police said that 0:18:03.285 --> 0:18:05.845 they do not have the correct equipment to play the 0:18:05.885 --> 0:18:10.205 tape on. Now, it does seem absurd that police say 0:18:10.245 --> 0:18:12.645 that they don't have the technology to play the video, 0:18:13.245 --> 0:18:16.205 yet they were somehow able to edit it and cut 0:18:16.245 --> 0:18:18.845 it together. Supposedly, the reason why they're not going to 0:18:18.925 --> 0:18:22.525 release the video is because Alex told me that the 0:18:22.645 --> 0:18:28.885 sheriff told me that he said that the captain. I 0:18:28.885 --> 0:18:33.205 guess some homicide doesn't want to set a president president 0:18:33.245 --> 0:18:35.405 of what released on a ten year whole video is 0:18:35.445 --> 0:18:38.005 an open investigation. Okay, well that's the case, then no 0:18:38.125 --> 0:18:40.965 video should ever be released. That's right, until exposed. I've 0:18:41.005 --> 0:18:43.565 seen too many videos when something's going on in the middle. 0:18:43.885 --> 0:18:45.205 You know, it's like Ali sheet my fan, but I'm 0:18:45.205 --> 0:18:48.405 gonna bring your ass down. CC made a good point 0:18:48.445 --> 0:18:53.205 at the cemetery. This is Hollywood. There is no way 0:18:53.445 --> 0:18:57.445 in hell that they do not have a machine to 0:18:57.605 --> 0:19:02.845 play a VHS when you can buy original Nintendos from 0:19:03.045 --> 0:19:09.005 Love before my trace was even barn Okay, and that's bullshit. 0:19:09.365 --> 0:19:12.725 There are people who collect vhs, There are people who 0:19:12.725 --> 0:19:17.165 collect cassette, there are people who collect all different forms 0:19:17.565 --> 0:19:23.005 of media. So that's bullshit. Yes, hello, how much shit 0:19:23.165 --> 0:19:25.885 is on freaking video just at these studios. See, here's 0:19:25.925 --> 0:19:29.365 the thing is they get to they get to they 0:19:29.365 --> 0:19:31.845 get to play these little games, and then when you're 0:19:31.885 --> 0:19:34.045 a private citizen, you're not in any position to do 0:19:34.085 --> 0:19:38.325 anything about it, like other than continuing to complain. You know, 0:19:38.405 --> 0:19:41.445 it's and I'll continue to file every complaint that I 0:19:41.445 --> 0:19:44.685 possibly can. Maybe they are releasing the original footage because 0:19:44.685 --> 0:19:48.165 when I asked for in my pri our request, it 0:19:48.245 --> 0:19:51.405 was for the ration the unedited version so it was 0:19:51.525 --> 0:19:53.445 very clear. Now whether that's what they're going to release 0:19:53.525 --> 0:20:07.005 or not, we'll see Captain Martin not subjected to any 0:20:07.045 --> 0:20:12.845 type of disciplinary action for allegedly suppressing evidence. Instead, he 0:20:12.965 --> 0:20:17.285 was promoted, transferred to another department, and given a raise. 0:20:37.485 --> 0:20:39.765 I know that a lot of people will think that 0:20:39.885 --> 0:20:43.805 multiple cops being involved in large scale conspiracies and secret 0:20:43.845 --> 0:20:48.085 societies sounds like something out of the detective noir novel, 0:20:49.325 --> 0:20:52.245 But it's important to understand the backdrop that my Teresa's 0:20:52.365 --> 0:20:57.725 case played out against. Consider this. Lee Baca, who was 0:20:57.805 --> 0:21:00.645 sheriff of Los Angeles County when my Terse went missing, 0:21:01.645 --> 0:21:05.965 is now a federal prisoner. He's incarcerated at the Federal 0:21:06.005 --> 0:21:11.845 Correctional Institution Latuna, just north of El Paso, Texas. Baca 0:21:12.205 --> 0:21:16.445 was convicted of charges of conspiracy to obstruct justice, obstruction 0:21:16.525 --> 0:21:22.845 of justice, and making false statements. Prosecutors accused Baca of 0:21:22.845 --> 0:21:26.205 being at the head of a massive conspiracy, which also 0:21:26.285 --> 0:21:30.365 involved his under sheriff, Paul Tanaka, and eight other deputies. 0:21:31.365 --> 0:21:35.525 This all started after the FBI began looking into allegations 0:21:35.525 --> 0:21:40.445 of police brutality against inmates at La County jails. The 0:21:40.525 --> 0:21:44.245 FBI had an informant inside one of those jails, but 0:21:44.325 --> 0:21:47.645 when jail staff figured out what was going on, Baca 0:21:47.685 --> 0:21:50.925 and his deputies hid the informant from the federal prosecutors, 0:21:51.405 --> 0:21:54.245 who had issued a summons for a grand jury appearance. 0:21:55.045 --> 0:21:59.085 Bacca's trial became a media circus, and it also brought 0:21:59.125 --> 0:22:03.205 out allegations of white supremacist gangs, which some in law 0:22:03.285 --> 0:22:07.765 enforcement insisted were merely social clubs hidden in plain sight, 0:22:08.405 --> 0:22:14.845 operating inside the LASD. This included the infamous Lynnwood Vikings, 0:22:15.085 --> 0:22:18.445 who were based in the now defunct Lynwood Station. Its 0:22:18.445 --> 0:22:24.085 members were LASD deputy sheriffs and included Baka and Tanaka. 0:22:25.045 --> 0:22:28.045 They were described by a judge as a neo Nazi, 0:22:28.125 --> 0:22:34.045 white supremacist gang who engaged in racially motivated hostility. The 0:22:34.085 --> 0:22:39.285 ACLU compiled a report it read, in part, the long 0:22:39.365 --> 0:22:43.565 standing and pervasive culture of deputy hyper violence in Los 0:22:43.565 --> 0:22:48.405 Angeles County jails, a culture apparently condoned at the highest levels. 0:22:49.205 --> 0:22:54.045 Cries out for swift and thorough investigation and intervention by 0:22:54.085 --> 0:22:59.165 the federal government end this abuse allegedly included rape of 0:22:59.245 --> 0:23:04.525 inmates by deputy sheriffs. In May twenty seventeen, Baca was 0:23:04.525 --> 0:23:08.045 sentenced to three years in federal prison for his role 0:23:08.365 --> 0:23:13.285 in the scheme to obstruct the FBI investigation. Now not 0:23:13.365 --> 0:23:16.445 suggesting that former Sheriff Baca had anything to do with 0:23:16.525 --> 0:23:20.325 abuses in my Teresa's case, but I am saying that 0:23:20.365 --> 0:23:23.765 when the police aren't releasing video footage of what went 0:23:23.885 --> 0:23:27.365 down at the station that night, I can certainly understand 0:23:27.645 --> 0:23:32.125 why the family would have questions. And it was shortly 0:23:32.205 --> 0:23:36.245 after Baca pleaded guilty to obstruction of justice that the 0:23:36.285 --> 0:23:41.445 Attorney General agreed to reopen the investigation into my Teresa's case. 0:23:43.805 --> 0:23:48.565 In late twenty fifteen, Ronda submitted a complaint containing over 0:23:48.605 --> 0:23:51.645 five hundred pages of exhibits to the Office of the 0:23:51.685 --> 0:23:55.245 Attorney General. They sent a response a few weeks later 0:23:55.965 --> 0:23:58.445 saying that they had reviewed the evidence and made the 0:23:58.485 --> 0:24:07.965 determination that the lasd deputies had not broken any laws. 0:24:11.685 --> 0:24:16.485 My Teresa's father, Michael Richardson, asked the California Attorney General's Office, 0:24:16.965 --> 0:24:20.005 led by Kamala Harris at the time, to review my 0:24:20.125 --> 0:24:25.765 Teresa's case, and in twenty sixteen they agreed. But the 0:24:25.805 --> 0:24:31.085 next year, the family received more heartbreaking news. The Attorney 0:24:31.085 --> 0:24:33.925 General's office wrote in a letter to Michael that they 0:24:33.965 --> 0:24:39.445 had found insufficient evidence to support criminal prosecution against sheriff's 0:24:39.445 --> 0:24:42.725 deputies who were with my Trees on the night she disappeared. 0:24:43.965 --> 0:24:48.685 The LASD was cleared of any wrongdoing, So once again 0:24:49.245 --> 0:24:52.405 my Teresa's loved ones had gotten their hopes up, and 0:24:52.485 --> 0:24:56.685 once again the case was closed. After receiving the letter, 0:24:57.445 --> 0:25:02.045 Michael told newsstation Box eleven that he believed Harris had 0:25:02.125 --> 0:25:07.605 used my terse as a political pawn. Kamala Harris used 0:25:07.645 --> 0:25:10.885 my daughter's case as a platform to not only seek 0:25:10.925 --> 0:25:13.845 the support of the people in her district, but use 0:25:13.925 --> 0:25:21.325 them to elevate her career to senator, he said. Ronda 0:25:21.485 --> 0:25:24.565 was allowed to see the video a few more times. 0:25:25.285 --> 0:25:29.085 She said that she keeps seeing different versions. Okay, so 0:25:29.125 --> 0:25:31.525 we never saw the original. We only ever saw what 0:25:31.525 --> 0:25:33.805 they comply, right. I saw the first CD, which by 0:25:33.805 --> 0:25:36.965 the way, was different than what I saw recently. So 0:25:37.725 --> 0:25:41.085 on the first CD it was a little clear as 0:25:41.165 --> 0:25:43.805 brainy because it's old anyways, but it's a little bit 0:25:43.885 --> 0:25:46.085 clearer than the first one that we saw. And in 0:25:46.125 --> 0:25:49.605 the first video that we saw, like we didn't see Chermaine. 0:25:49.645 --> 0:25:52.165 We saw her leaving, like really quickly, so they like 0:25:52.325 --> 0:25:54.485 cut that out so you couldn't and by the way, 0:25:55.005 --> 0:25:57.165 you can't see her anyway, like we wouldn't know. I 0:25:57.165 --> 0:26:00.245 couldn't pick her out of it. Yeah, so that's how 0:26:00.285 --> 0:26:03.965 brainy was, and so so we didn't see her. We 0:26:04.005 --> 0:26:06.725 saw in a shell selper like that Theresa, I mean, 0:26:06.765 --> 0:26:09.245 like so short. But in the video that I saw, 0:26:09.845 --> 0:26:12.845 you know recently, I saw her the entire time. So 0:26:12.965 --> 0:26:15.445 I from the time that Latiss walked in, my tree's 0:26:15.445 --> 0:26:17.125 walked in there, so you can have they had a 0:26:17.165 --> 0:26:19.725 little bit of interaction and but you could see them, 0:26:19.765 --> 0:26:22.365 you know, kind of talking to each other or sometimes 0:26:22.405 --> 0:26:25.965 not talking to each other. And then eventually she did leave. 0:26:26.645 --> 0:26:29.445 But the Attorney General's office said that they had viewed 0:26:29.445 --> 0:26:33.445 the video. Ronda has a lot of questions about this, 0:26:34.445 --> 0:26:37.765 she said. She specifically asked if the Attorney General's office 0:26:37.805 --> 0:26:43.205 had viewed the unedited video. If they had, she's wondering 0:26:43.245 --> 0:26:46.005 why the Sheriff's office said that they can't make that 0:26:46.125 --> 0:27:01.645 video available to her and the public. For Ronda and Ceci, 0:27:02.445 --> 0:27:05.965 there has been a beacon of hope and they're in bedstigation. 0:27:06.325 --> 0:27:12.565 In recent years, Sheriff Alex Villanueva. They both campaigned on 0:27:12.645 --> 0:27:16.845 his behalf, and CEC says Ronda is partially responsible for 0:27:16.885 --> 0:27:21.925 his election. They say that under Villanueva's administration, they believe 0:27:22.005 --> 0:27:26.965 that the Sheriff's Department has instituted reforms and moved toward transparency, 0:27:27.965 --> 0:27:30.165