WEBVTT - 2. The Pink Bubble 0:00:14.996 --> 0:00:38.956 Pushkin. Malibu has layers. They're the hill people and the 0:00:39.036 --> 0:00:43.276 coast people, the super rich and the homesteaders. What they 0:00:43.276 --> 0:00:46.196 have in common, what's deep in the DNA of this place, 0:00:46.796 --> 0:00:51.916 is that they don't like outsiders. This is a private paradise. 0:00:52.836 --> 0:00:55.516 You can visit, but you can't stay, and you better 0:00:55.516 --> 0:00:59.356 not ask any questions or the walls go up. I 0:00:59.436 --> 0:01:01.596 find that out when I first start trying to report 0:01:01.636 --> 0:01:04.876 on the killing of Tristan Boudett. This is back in 0:01:04.916 --> 0:01:07.916 the summer of twenty eighteen, right after I heard about 0:01:07.956 --> 0:01:11.196 the murder and the near myth. I do what curious 0:01:11.196 --> 0:01:14.316 reporters do. I start making phone calls and coming out 0:01:14.356 --> 0:01:18.076 to Malibu every chance I get. The cops at Lost 0:01:18.116 --> 0:01:21.556 Hill Station want nothing to do with me, someone who's 0:01:21.636 --> 0:01:24.516 not from around here, looking into a series of shooting 0:01:24.556 --> 0:01:28.396 crimes around Malibu, trying to figure out who's responsible for 0:01:28.436 --> 0:01:33.556 Tristan Boudet's death. No thanks. Whenever I do reach someone 0:01:33.556 --> 0:01:36.876 at Lost Hills, they immediately redirect me to headquarters, where 0:01:36.876 --> 0:01:42.276 the outrageously misnamed Sheriff's Information Bureau either ignores me, buries 0:01:42.276 --> 0:01:44.836 me in press releases, or invites me to enter into 0:01:44.876 --> 0:01:49.156 a collaborative partnership, which gives them creative control over how 0:01:49.156 --> 0:01:57.396 I tell their stories. No thanks, but I keep coming 0:01:57.396 --> 0:02:01.436 out to Malibu anyway seeing what I can learn. What's 0:02:01.476 --> 0:02:06.756 going on with this What properties am I ingesting magic? 0:02:07.156 --> 0:02:10.876 That honey on top is rescue? Did you see my Instagram? 0:02:11.596 --> 0:02:13.596 And I keep ending up at this weird health food 0:02:13.596 --> 0:02:17.756 restaurant called Sunlife Organics. That bee pollen comes from a 0:02:17.836 --> 0:02:21.316 region in Spain that is just completely untouched by man. 0:02:21.516 --> 0:02:26.916 It's it's the purest. It's ridiculously overpriced, like seventeen dollars 0:02:26.916 --> 0:02:31.756 for a smoothie. It's just so Malibu. If we really 0:02:31.876 --> 0:02:35.436 could somehow get in some magic machine that would take 0:02:35.516 --> 0:02:38.556 us on the journey of the bees and what they 0:02:38.596 --> 0:02:41.156 went through to make that bee pollen, I mean that 0:02:41.396 --> 0:02:44.876 is like it's mind blowing and the nutrients. This is 0:02:44.956 --> 0:02:49.236 Khalil Rafadi, a co founder of Sunlight Organics. We're sitting 0:02:49.236 --> 0:02:52.476 in the sunshine outside one of his stores. When I 0:02:52.476 --> 0:02:55.036 asked him about the Boudette murder, he kind of shrugs 0:02:55.036 --> 0:02:58.556 it off. That happened in the hills, not his Malibu. 0:02:59.516 --> 0:03:05.076 It was an isolated event far from home. Malibu Creek 0:03:05.076 --> 0:03:09.076 State Park is mostly an unincorporated Malibu that rugged will 0:03:09.116 --> 0:03:12.636 Olderness north of the coastal city of Malibu, and the 0:03:12.676 --> 0:03:17.356 park's address is technically Calabasas. But even if Rafadi has 0:03:17.396 --> 0:03:22.316 no opinion about the killing, he really gets Malibu, the mystique, 0:03:22.356 --> 0:03:26.116 the image that's his bread and butter, or should I 0:03:26.156 --> 0:03:30.236 say his bee pollen and rescue honey. My experience with 0:03:30.636 --> 0:03:35.876 Malibu has been a very very magical, very multifaceted experience. 0:03:36.156 --> 0:03:39.236 When I was first brought to Malibu, I didn't even 0:03:39.236 --> 0:03:41.076 know Malibu is a real thing. I thought that was 0:03:41.156 --> 0:03:44.876 some sort of a Barbie Doll name or something like that. 0:03:45.436 --> 0:03:50.356 And Malibu's a tourist town. They're only thirteen thousand residents, 0:03:51.076 --> 0:03:55.156 but more than thirteen million people visit every year. Most 0:03:55.156 --> 0:03:57.356 of the people who come to Malibu in search of something, 0:03:57.716 --> 0:04:00.716 the day trippers, they're just not going to find it. 0:04:01.116 --> 0:04:03.596 The first thing tourist say. I mean, and I've had 0:04:03.636 --> 0:04:07.396 this question asked to me, no joke, a hundred times. 0:04:08.316 --> 0:04:12.276 Where's Malibu? And I'm like, this is it? Like, yes, 0:04:12.396 --> 0:04:17.036 Lady Gaga lives here, but she doesn't want you to 0:04:17.076 --> 0:04:20.036 know that, and you're never going to see her house 0:04:21.396 --> 0:04:24.076 the Malibu that we get to enjoy and get to 0:04:24.156 --> 0:04:29.236 experience is not available for the public. Have you ever 0:04:29.276 --> 0:04:33.036 heard the expression that Pink Bubble used to describe Malibu, 0:04:33.916 --> 0:04:39.516 pink bubble rose tinted glasses. Sure, this isn't reality. This 0:04:39.716 --> 0:04:45.076 is definitely not reality. I mean this is There's nothing 0:04:45.516 --> 0:04:54.116 on this planet that equals this. It is the most magical, healing, powerful, 0:04:54.956 --> 0:05:02.116 strange at times, pretentious and shallow at times highly highly spiritual. 0:05:03.876 --> 0:05:07.476 There's an energy here that you cannot put your finger on, 0:05:07.556 --> 0:05:10.956 and you cannot describe it. And it is something that 0:05:10.996 --> 0:05:14.556 will make you if you allow it and you accept it, 0:05:14.596 --> 0:05:18.156 and you honor and you respect it. And there's an 0:05:18.236 --> 0:05:21.116 energy out here that will fucking bury you if you don't, 0:05:22.756 --> 0:05:32.236 and you will lose your mind and you will go crazy. 0:05:35.756 --> 0:05:39.276 I'm starting to think Malibu actually has a lot to 0:05:39.316 --> 0:05:44.396 do with these crimes. I'm Dana Goodyear and this is 0:05:44.476 --> 0:06:18.436 Lost Hills, Episode two, the Pink Bubble. In the weeks 0:06:18.476 --> 0:06:21.756 after Boudette was killed, all through that summer of twenty eighteen, 0:06:22.276 --> 0:06:25.796 I kept hearing that everyone in Malibu was panicking. The 0:06:25.876 --> 0:06:29.876 situation seemed out of control. There was a murderer at large, 0:06:29.996 --> 0:06:33.196 and residents kept calling nine one one reporting the sounds 0:06:33.196 --> 0:06:38.116 of gunfire in the night. Tristan Boudette was dead? Who 0:06:38.156 --> 0:06:41.636 would be next? And no One? What's your emergency? How? Yes? 0:06:41.756 --> 0:06:45.356 I could folk up to a gun shot outside? Are 0:06:45.396 --> 0:06:49.956 you served one gun shot? No? Four? Or five? I 0:06:50.036 --> 0:06:52.036 just heard another one while you put me on hold. Okay, 0:06:52.116 --> 0:06:55.076 I'm going to be back on hold on't hang up. Yeah, 0:06:55.116 --> 0:07:02.436 there was a third one breath. Neighbors didn't think the 0:07:02.436 --> 0:07:06.276 authorities were taking their concerns seriously, and the victims of 0:07:06.316 --> 0:07:10.436 the near misses were starting to speak out. C. C. 0:07:10.636 --> 0:07:13.996 Woods is a self described Malibu bigmouth who writes an 0:07:14.036 --> 0:07:17.996 online tabloid called The Local. She posted on Facebook that 0:07:18.036 --> 0:07:20.716 there might be a sniper or sicko in the community. 0:07:21.596 --> 0:07:24.476 She included a screen grab about the Tesla shooting near 0:07:24.516 --> 0:07:28.236 miss number six, which caused another near miss victim to comment, 0:07:28.716 --> 0:07:31.636 I am one of those shootings. It was near miss 0:07:31.716 --> 0:07:35.036 number three. The victim had been sleeping in her car 0:07:35.036 --> 0:07:37.836 with her boyfriend in the campground at Malibu Creek State Park. 0:07:38.716 --> 0:07:41.036 They woke up to find a bullet lodged in the trunk. 0:07:42.076 --> 0:07:45.236 She wrote. The shooter used a shotgun with a slug 0:07:45.436 --> 0:07:47.756 shot through my car from a point blank range and 0:07:47.796 --> 0:07:50.956 then took off. I came very very close to being hit, 0:07:51.236 --> 0:07:54.676 but luckily I wasn't. When the police came, which took 0:07:54.716 --> 0:07:57.716 over two hours to show up, they told me quote, 0:07:57.756 --> 0:08:00.876 things like this don't happen out here. I asked what 0:08:00.916 --> 0:08:02.396 they were going to do about it, and they told 0:08:02.396 --> 0:08:05.556 me they couldn't do anything. I asked if I'd been dead, 0:08:05.556 --> 0:08:09.036 if they would have shown up sooner. All the story 0:08:09.196 --> 0:08:12.516 has had something in common the fact that the authorities 0:08:12.556 --> 0:08:15.876 didn't seem to care. The driver of the Porsche hit 0:08:15.916 --> 0:08:19.596 on the Canyon Road near Miss number four later reported 0:08:19.596 --> 0:08:21.996 that after calling nine to one one, he waited thirty 0:08:21.996 --> 0:08:24.716 minutes for a patrol car to come. When one did, 0:08:25.076 --> 0:08:30.036 it passed him by without stopping. He finally drove himself 0:08:30.116 --> 0:08:32.876 to Lost Hill station and demanded deputies take a report. 0:08:33.596 --> 0:08:35.556 One of them dug metal pellets out of his car 0:08:35.596 --> 0:08:39.636 with a knife, but didn't book them into evidence. Did 0:08:39.676 --> 0:08:44.476 anyone even want to solve these crimes? Residents wanted answers, 0:08:44.756 --> 0:08:47.636 but the Sheriff's department kept putting out press releases saying 0:08:47.676 --> 0:08:51.956 things like, quote, homicide detectives are advising At this time, 0:08:51.956 --> 0:08:54.516 there is no evidence to suggest the past shootings are 0:08:54.556 --> 0:09:00.596 related to the June twenty second, twenty eighteen homicide. Finally, 0:09:00.796 --> 0:09:04.676 in August, State Senator Henry Stern called a public safety meeting, 0:09:05.036 --> 0:09:10.476 the first since all this started. We're here today because 0:09:11.436 --> 0:09:16.196 many of you, including myself, have serious concerns that Senator Stern, 0:09:16.716 --> 0:09:19.676 we need to take our land back and we can't 0:09:19.756 --> 0:09:23.276 see these mountains to any kind of violence or fear. 0:09:24.196 --> 0:09:26.756 We don't want to be known in this region for 0:09:26.916 --> 0:09:29.596 these kinds of incidents. We don't want to be defined 0:09:29.596 --> 0:09:32.316 by this, and we certainly don't want to live in fear. 0:09:33.116 --> 0:09:37.156 He asks a detective named Lieutenant James Royal to speak 0:09:37.196 --> 0:09:40.236 on behalf of Lost Hill Station. Good afternoon, can you 0:09:40.276 --> 0:09:44.276 hear me? Okay? He's been the community liaison to Malibu 0:09:44.316 --> 0:09:49.516 for years. People trust him. Our primary objective today is 0:09:49.556 --> 0:09:52.716 to share with you as much information as possible without 0:09:52.756 --> 0:09:56.636 jeopardizing our case. What I'd like to do first is 0:09:56.676 --> 0:10:02.236 discuss the exact dates of the actual shooting events. Confirmed 0:10:02.236 --> 0:10:05.756 shooting events that we've been dealing with since November third, 0:10:05.956 --> 0:10:10.516 twenty sixteen, and culminating on June twenty of twenty eighteen, 0:10:10.716 --> 0:10:14.236 with the tragic death of mister Bodatt. He states the 0:10:14.276 --> 0:10:19.196 department's official position detectives haven't established a connection between any 0:10:19.196 --> 0:10:21.716 of the near misses and the murder, and the newly 0:10:21.716 --> 0:10:23.956 reported shots may or may not be related to the 0:10:23.996 --> 0:10:27.636 near misses, the murder, or to each other. I really 0:10:27.676 --> 0:10:31.956 want to reassure you that this investigation did not start 0:10:32.356 --> 0:10:37.796 on June twenty second. However, we still cannot confirm that 0:10:37.836 --> 0:10:45.356 the series of events are related forensically. It just seems crazy. 0:10:46.356 --> 0:10:48.676 A specific area of the park and the Canyon Road 0:10:48.676 --> 0:10:53.876 are being targeted repeatedly. People keep hearing shots. What law 0:10:53.996 --> 0:10:59.316 enforcements saying isn't calming anybody down. It doesn't even seem true. 0:11:00.556 --> 0:11:03.356 And I just want to think everyone who came out 0:11:03.396 --> 0:11:06.076 from the community, especially to take time out of your 0:11:06.156 --> 0:11:22.076 day so hopefully get some answers and some clarity. A 0:11:22.116 --> 0:11:24.996 couple of weeks later, in September of twenty eighteen, I 0:11:25.036 --> 0:11:28.436 meet up with Cecy Woods of the local. When we 0:11:28.476 --> 0:11:32.756 get together, there's still no suspecting custody and Ceci is outraged. 0:11:34.076 --> 0:11:36.996 She thinks law enforcement is engaged in a big cover up. 0:11:37.756 --> 0:11:40.036 We arranged to meet at a shopping mall on Pacific 0:11:40.036 --> 0:11:44.476 Coast Highway, and I spot her right away, Cecie. You 0:11:44.516 --> 0:11:47.796 can't miss her, bright blonde hair, low cut T shirt, 0:11:48.236 --> 0:11:52.636 homemade press pass sticking out from a Louis Vuittam purse. Okay, 0:11:52.716 --> 0:11:57.276 so what exactly are you gonna want to get? Like? Overall? 0:11:57.716 --> 0:12:01.196 She points to her hands, which are covered in little spots. 0:12:01.196 --> 0:12:03.076 By the way, I don't have chicken box, so I 0:12:03.116 --> 0:12:08.316 just got laser. That's cc. CC is new to reporting 0:12:08.516 --> 0:12:12.436 and she's definitely unconventional. Some of her best tips come 0:12:12.476 --> 0:12:16.716 from a tea leafreeder in Burbank named Monica Source. Source, 0:12:16.796 --> 0:12:19.236 she says, has given her a lot of information about 0:12:19.276 --> 0:12:22.396 the case. The killer was a hiker or he was hiking, 0:12:22.676 --> 0:12:26.196 who was wearing a mask, all alone, camping out crazy. 0:12:26.676 --> 0:12:30.876 His name started with the letter R. Wait until I 0:12:30.916 --> 0:12:34.076 tell you about that one, because that I did. You 0:12:34.076 --> 0:12:37.596 see my rant on Facebook. With little official information and 0:12:37.676 --> 0:12:41.556 no one in custody yet, Cecie's filling a vacuum. She's 0:12:41.556 --> 0:12:44.796 got sources in the community. They're telling her what's happening. 0:12:45.236 --> 0:12:48.276 Even if law enforcement won't problem missus. There's a lot 0:12:48.316 --> 0:12:51.316 of people who are out there already delivering information to 0:12:51.436 --> 0:12:53.916 me because they want to make sure somebody that they 0:12:53.956 --> 0:12:56.836 can trust, and you know it. Who knows. If these 0:12:57.196 --> 0:13:00.396 criminals out there know that this stuff is being blasted 0:13:00.476 --> 0:13:03.276 and they're more likely to get caught, maybe they'll maybe 0:13:03.316 --> 0:13:06.996 they'll slow it down a little. Just then, she spots 0:13:06.996 --> 0:13:10.076 a tall man coming out of a Starbucks carrying Ventti coffee. 0:13:10.396 --> 0:13:13.836 He's wearing a fireman's uniform. Mister Mullen, this is our mayor, 0:13:14.596 --> 0:13:17.716 the mayor of Malibu. Believe it or not, Dana Goodyear, 0:13:18.036 --> 0:13:22.076 It's Rick Mullen. He's the mayor of Malibu. He's also 0:13:22.116 --> 0:13:25.476 a fire captain and according to a big La Times expose, 0:13:25.996 --> 0:13:28.676 he made more than four hundred thousand dollars in pay 0:13:28.676 --> 0:13:33.836 and overtime in twenty seventeen. Running into the mayor coming 0:13:33.836 --> 0:13:38.676 out of Starbucks, that makes Malibu feel perfectly quaint, Like 0:13:38.956 --> 0:13:45.596 mister Rogers neighborhood with laser surgery. The Mayor, I sec warily. 0:13:46.316 --> 0:13:48.556 They clearly know each other. This could be a new 0:13:48.596 --> 0:13:53.276 Kumbayan moment. I'm trying here, I'm trying. Really, she's now 0:13:53.956 --> 0:13:56.036 a resident of the city of Malibu. I live in 0:13:56.076 --> 0:13:59.076 Point Doum right now. I do I live on Point Doum. 0:13:59.076 --> 0:14:01.876 I live in it. Yes, we're a resident, unincorporated. Lot 0:14:01.876 --> 0:14:04.756 of science of this account. That's a good story. I 0:14:04.876 --> 0:14:06.956 tell him that I'm looking into the cluster of shooting 0:14:06.996 --> 0:14:11.476 crimes in Malibu. Those are very new, dual events, kind 0:14:11.516 --> 0:14:16.596 of sleepy but sophisticated beach town in southern California, and 0:14:16.876 --> 0:14:18.916 all of a sudden there's this other facet of it 0:14:19.036 --> 0:14:21.756 that's being revealed or has emerged. Well, you're from a 0:14:21.796 --> 0:14:24.716 New Yorker, so I'll leave the sophistication judgments up to you. Guys. 0:14:24.796 --> 0:14:30.116 So it is a quiet, small coastal town that isn't 0:14:30.756 --> 0:14:34.356 known for dramatic things like that. As she can tell you, 0:14:34.956 --> 0:14:37.516 it's difficult to figure out what's going on. Are they 0:14:37.596 --> 0:14:42.916 all independent things, not related to each other, or is 0:14:42.996 --> 0:14:46.996 it kind of odd that there's so many things that 0:14:47.196 --> 0:14:52.916 are shooting related in a fairly close proximity to each 0:14:52.916 --> 0:14:55.676 other relatively. We just want to make sure that people 0:14:55.756 --> 0:14:59.036 are locking their doors, are careful when they're on trails, 0:14:59.396 --> 0:15:03.196 are not caught by surprise, and are informed like this 0:15:03.476 --> 0:15:07.476 guy who went camping Tristan Boudet had state parks just 0:15:07.676 --> 0:15:09.596 put up a flyer and said, listen, we've had these 0:15:09.636 --> 0:15:14.516 incidents here. Let people make their own informed decisions. This 0:15:14.676 --> 0:15:19.036 guy had no warning and his girls were laying right 0:15:19.116 --> 0:15:24.516 next to him, and that to me, the way he died, 0:15:24.756 --> 0:15:26.956 and the fact that this guy didn't spray all the 0:15:27.036 --> 0:15:30.196 other tents around him, I mean, was it a lucky shot? 0:15:30.316 --> 0:15:33.156 Was it not a lucky shot? You know it? It 0:15:33.836 --> 0:15:35.356 could be a target. I don't know. I don't know. 0:15:35.436 --> 0:15:37.316 I don't pretend to know. I don't know if any 0:15:37.356 --> 0:15:39.276 of these other shootings are even the same guy. It 0:15:39.316 --> 0:15:42.676 could be other people. Who knows. But the fact of 0:15:42.716 --> 0:15:44.876 the matter is people need to be careful. And that's 0:15:44.916 --> 0:15:46.996 all I care about is I'm being careful. I don't 0:15:47.036 --> 0:15:48.636 want them to live in fear, which is why I'm 0:15:48.636 --> 0:15:51.956 trying to inform them and keep them safe, Okay, And 0:15:52.036 --> 0:15:55.196 I expect my city to do the same. I expect 0:15:55.356 --> 0:15:58.116 law enforcement to do the same. I expect state parks 0:15:58.196 --> 0:16:00.476 to do the same. I shouldn't be the one doing it, 0:16:00.916 --> 0:16:03.876 and I have been, unfortunately. So let me address what 0:16:03.956 --> 0:16:07.516 she just said. And by the way, I was the 0:16:07.556 --> 0:16:11.396 first fire department person to respond to Tristan Boudet's murder 0:16:11.516 --> 0:16:15.676 work and when a tragedy like that happens, everybody wants 0:16:15.716 --> 0:16:18.356 to know. How come I didn't know about that. I 0:16:18.396 --> 0:16:21.076 didn't want to be like the mayor from Jaws saying, hey, 0:16:21.316 --> 0:16:24.516 you know, you yell shark and we got a problem 0:16:24.556 --> 0:16:26.996 on our hands. It's not the city of Melibou where 0:16:26.996 --> 0:16:29.796 all these things happen, but nevertheless, it affects a lot 0:16:29.836 --> 0:16:31.676 of people who live in Malibou, and they should know 0:16:31.716 --> 0:16:34.996 about this policy Number thirty eight. Can we talk about 0:16:35.036 --> 0:16:38.476 Jaws for a second. Jaws takes place in high summer 0:16:38.676 --> 0:16:41.196 in a fictional beach town that's being terrorized by a 0:16:41.236 --> 0:16:45.116 great white shark. After a young tourist is killed, the 0:16:45.236 --> 0:16:48.676 mayor refuses to warn the public. He's worried about the 0:16:48.756 --> 0:16:52.996 town's reputation. The famous line Mayor Mullins referring to is 0:16:53.636 --> 0:16:55.676 you yell shark, and we've got a panic on our 0:16:55.716 --> 0:16:58.876 hands on the fourth of July. Maybe may Or Mullin 0:16:58.956 --> 0:17:01.436 doesn't want to be the mayor from Jaws, but he 0:17:01.516 --> 0:17:04.516 also doesn't seem particularly eager to get to the bottom 0:17:04.556 --> 0:17:10.116 of anything. I would defer the questions to the people 0:17:10.156 --> 0:17:13.396 actually doing the investigation. It's a big mystery it's a 0:17:13.476 --> 0:17:15.596 big mystery, and everybody wants to know the answers, and 0:17:15.756 --> 0:17:44.396 maybe there aren't answers. After saying goodbye to the Mayor, 0:17:44.796 --> 0:17:48.316 Cecie and I jump into her black Porsche Suv. I 0:17:48.396 --> 0:17:49.836 thought we were going for a tour of where the 0:17:49.876 --> 0:17:52.716 shooting has happened. But there's someone she wants me to meet, 0:17:53.436 --> 0:17:55.836 someone who was shot at a few days ago. So 0:17:56.036 --> 0:17:59.716 we're going up Malibu Canyon, which is also known as 0:17:59.796 --> 0:18:04.276 Las Virginus, which is where all these shootings are taking place. 0:18:04.796 --> 0:18:08.556 Malibu Canyon Road is treacherous, looming cliffs on one side, 0:18:09.156 --> 0:18:12.516 deep drop off on the other in every direction, acres 0:18:12.516 --> 0:18:15.356 of wilderness. It gives you a sense of what all 0:18:15.476 --> 0:18:19.036 of southern California must have looked like before Paradise got paved. 0:18:20.396 --> 0:18:23.116 Cars often go off the side into the ravine below, 0:18:24.276 --> 0:18:27.716 a scary thought because Ceci's constantly looking at her phone 0:18:27.716 --> 0:18:31.436 while she drives, and she never stops ranting about the 0:18:31.556 --> 0:18:34.236 lost Hills cops. See. The problem is it's been the 0:18:34.356 --> 0:18:38.316 good old boys forever, okay, Like these guys could get 0:18:38.356 --> 0:18:40.996 away with whatever they wanted to get away with because 0:18:41.116 --> 0:18:43.516 nobody would challenge them. Right now, there's a lot of 0:18:43.556 --> 0:18:47.036 people talking about their own personal experiences with law enforcement here, 0:18:47.276 --> 0:18:52.236 and you know what, it a pretty okay, it's not pretty. 0:18:53.116 --> 0:18:56.436 Cecy says that Lost Hill Station has had serious problems 0:18:56.516 --> 0:18:59.956 going back a decade or more. In her opinion, it 0:19:00.036 --> 0:19:03.516 needs a lot more supervision from Sheriff's Department headquarters downtown. 0:19:04.396 --> 0:19:06.596 We need to tear down to rebuild. Let's just put 0:19:06.636 --> 0:19:12.196 it that way. So my big mouth is now shining 0:19:12.236 --> 0:19:16.556 the light on what's going on here. Now, you know what, 0:19:16.676 --> 0:19:18.636 does the city of Malibu really like the fact that 0:19:18.716 --> 0:19:22.596 I'm shining the light on this? Nope? Oh, wait on on. 0:19:23.716 --> 0:19:27.636 She's fixated on the upcoming election for Sheriff of La County. 0:19:28.196 --> 0:19:32.676 A challenger, Alex Vienneueva, is running against the incumbent, Jim McDonnell. 0:19:33.676 --> 0:19:37.796 CC Woods is all in for Vienneueva. If anyone can 0:19:37.836 --> 0:19:41.436 get Lost Hills in line, it's him. And I pray 0:19:41.516 --> 0:19:47.116 that Alex Villeneueva becomes the sheriff because he will clean 0:19:47.556 --> 0:19:51.596 that department up, period and that includes Lost Hills. And 0:19:51.676 --> 0:19:54.596 I'm going to make sure that ship gets straightened up 0:19:54.716 --> 0:19:58.716 out here. It seems like a stretch. If her candidate 0:19:58.836 --> 0:20:01.516 does get elected, is he really going to care about 0:20:01.556 --> 0:20:04.476 a sleepy little beach town full of tourists and celebrities, 0:20:05.436 --> 0:20:08.036 Not to mention it's so far away from the Sheriff's 0:20:08.036 --> 0:20:11.396 department headquarters it might take two hours to get out 0:20:11.436 --> 0:20:17.556 here in La traffic high Hopefully we reach Malibu Creek 0:20:17.596 --> 0:20:20.916 State Park and the road changes names to Las virginas 0:20:23.876 --> 0:20:26.276 we turn off away from the park, heading up to 0:20:26.316 --> 0:20:29.556 a scenic overlook on the opposite ridge. That's where we're 0:20:29.556 --> 0:20:32.196 going to meet this guy who says someone shot at him. 0:20:33.036 --> 0:20:35.076 She hasn't met him in person yet, but a couple 0:20:35.196 --> 0:20:38.676 days earlier, he sent an email to the local hi Cecy. 0:20:38.956 --> 0:20:41.356 He wrote, I hike daily way in the back of 0:20:41.436 --> 0:20:45.116 Carbon Canyon, and yesterday someone fired a single shot at me. 0:20:45.796 --> 0:20:48.356 With the other things I know, I'm betting it's the killer. 0:20:49.316 --> 0:20:52.036 Who's the right cop to talk to if they give 0:20:52.076 --> 0:20:58.316 a shit? I called nine one one Nada. We get 0:20:58.396 --> 0:21:02.156 up to the overlook and it's really spectacular. The Pacific 0:21:02.276 --> 0:21:04.956 spreads out like a blanket on one side, and miles 0:21:04.996 --> 0:21:07.876 of mountainous wilderness and the entire San Fernando Valley are 0:21:07.956 --> 0:21:11.596 on the other. There's a middle aged man waiting beside 0:21:11.596 --> 0:21:14.676 a tricked out jeep with four labradors sticking their heads 0:21:14.676 --> 0:21:20.836 out the windows. Well, he doesn't his name. He's a local, 0:21:21.116 --> 0:21:22.796 let's just put it that way. Yeah, I live down 0:21:22.876 --> 0:21:27.836 on Ramdlet. He's a retired exploration geologist who helped mining 0:21:27.876 --> 0:21:32.996 companies find gold. Somebody shot at me, not to hit me, 0:21:33.156 --> 0:21:36.396 but to tell me to you know, fuck off. But 0:21:36.876 --> 0:21:39.036 you have to understand it's hard to describe without you 0:21:39.156 --> 0:21:43.276 seeing the geometry. How did that person get there? There's 0:21:43.316 --> 0:21:46.116 no tracks on the road I was walking on. It's 0:21:46.156 --> 0:21:52.236 almost inaccessible unless you're like a mountain guy. So who 0:21:52.476 --> 0:21:55.516 would be shooting at somebody literally in the middle of 0:21:55.676 --> 0:21:59.436 nowhere unless it's somehow related to all this other stuff 0:21:59.476 --> 0:22:02.436 that's going on? Bad daylight forty four in the morning. 0:22:02.796 --> 0:22:06.196 One shot was one shot, clearly, if you know, if 0:22:06.196 --> 0:22:07.716 it had been aimed at me, I would have been hit, 0:22:08.276 --> 0:22:10.396 or if it was me and I wasn't hit, there 0:22:10.436 --> 0:22:13.196 would have been follow up, which there was not. But 0:22:13.476 --> 0:22:16.676 one shot, just like so many of the other shootings. 0:22:17.596 --> 0:22:22.436 With everything else that's going on, it's definitely alarming to me. 0:22:22.556 --> 0:22:27.436 It was probably it's a small caliber rifle you can 0:22:27.516 --> 0:22:31.516 kill humans with him like that, but louder, of course, 0:22:32.236 --> 0:22:34.156 and it has a certain amount of base to it 0:22:34.276 --> 0:22:37.316 that I can't do in my hands. What would you 0:22:37.476 --> 0:22:41.236 use a twenty two four other than target shooting? Yeah, 0:22:41.276 --> 0:22:43.796 you shoot a cans. In the old days, we called 0:22:43.836 --> 0:22:46.556 it happy gunfire because people just shot for the hell 0:22:46.596 --> 0:22:49.036 of it. Sean Penn was very frequent. What do you mean. 0:22:49.356 --> 0:22:52.076 I used to hear automatic gunfire from across the canyon. 0:22:52.116 --> 0:22:59.676 You hear Sean Penn's house. It's a fact. But he's 0:22:59.716 --> 0:23:03.316 not harming anyone. He's just shooting. And that's plinking only 0:23:03.356 --> 0:23:06.636 in a sort of a grandiose way celebrity. If one 0:23:06.676 --> 0:23:08.156 of his neighbors called him an, he would have been 0:23:08.196 --> 0:23:11.116 in the poop poop. It's being who he is reporting 0:23:11.156 --> 0:23:13.996 in Malibu. Every story can lead you down a celebrity 0:23:14.036 --> 0:23:17.596 rabbit hole. For the record, although Sean Penn at one 0:23:17.676 --> 0:23:20.676 point had a large and well publicized gun collection, I 0:23:20.836 --> 0:23:24.116 haven't been able to confirm that he's engaged in celebrity plinking. 0:23:25.116 --> 0:23:26.516 But I want to get back to the part where 0:23:26.556 --> 0:23:29.076 the victim called nine one one, Oh. Yeah. I just 0:23:29.356 --> 0:23:32.196 stepped around the corner where I thought I was out 0:23:32.236 --> 0:23:37.196 of sight and dialed nine one one, and shot fired 0:23:37.316 --> 0:23:40.716 way back in the canyon. Can you guys triangulate my position, 0:23:41.116 --> 0:23:44.476 because we can find this guy if you sound up Chopper. Literally, 0:23:44.516 --> 0:23:45.996 the guy could have taken off and been over my 0:23:46.036 --> 0:23:50.076 head in less than two minutes, but nobody called back. 0:23:50.956 --> 0:23:53.876 A man had been killed. There'd been six near misses 0:23:54.316 --> 0:23:57.636 shots in the night all summer long. A potential suspect 0:23:57.796 --> 0:24:00.556 was pinned in the canyon, and no one came to 0:24:00.676 --> 0:24:03.756 check it out. You clearly felt that shot was for you. 0:24:03.996 --> 0:24:07.276 So there was one Lost Hills deputy who was interested 0:24:07.316 --> 0:24:11.556 in a single shot fired deep the canyon. Sergeant Towey Wright, 0:24:11.916 --> 0:24:14.396 the leader of the search and rescue team, the person 0:24:14.436 --> 0:24:18.196 who would later help find Rauda. He called the victim back. 0:24:18.476 --> 0:24:21.876 The sheriffs they're saying one thing, but I could tell 0:24:21.996 --> 0:24:25.956 from his incredibly avid interest in what had happened to 0:24:26.076 --> 0:24:29.276 me that there was something about it that he found 0:24:29.476 --> 0:24:34.196 extremely important. But all this stuff happening, it's people are 0:24:34.276 --> 0:24:37.276 starting to get hysterically. Is it overreacting? Well, I don't 0:24:37.316 --> 0:24:45.756 think so, not. Given a set of events. Two weeks 0:24:45.796 --> 0:24:48.436 after the meeting with CC's source, there are a couple 0:24:48.516 --> 0:24:52.956 of man hunts in Malibu Creek State Park bloodhounds helicopters 0:24:53.316 --> 0:24:57.756 the works. CC's cynical about the display. She thinks it's 0:24:57.796 --> 0:25:01.556 all a big dog and pony show. But then, after 0:25:01.636 --> 0:25:04.436 Sergeant Wright follows a trail of bootprints from a burglary 0:25:04.476 --> 0:25:08.836 behind the Sheriff's station, Anthony Rowda is captured, and somehow 0:25:09.516 --> 0:25:13.036 it doesn't settle anything. Seems like no one in Malibu 0:25:13.116 --> 0:25:18.436 believes the copse. They think it's a setup. That Route 0:25:18.556 --> 0:25:22.636 is taking the fall. The fever gripping Malibu doesn't break, 0:25:23.636 --> 0:25:29.516 it intensifies, and suddenly everyone in Malibu is running for 0:25:29.636 --> 0:25:40.396 their lives. Less than a month after Rout's arrest, the 0:25:40.516 --> 0:25:46.276 Woolsey Fire ravages Malibu. Ninety seven thousand acres burn. It's 0:25:46.316 --> 0:25:51.276 one of the most destructive fires in California history. Seventy 0:25:51.316 --> 0:25:54.716 mile an hour gusts. The devil winds propel the fire 0:25:54.836 --> 0:25:57.996 through the canyons, scorching the wilderness. In and around the 0:25:58.076 --> 0:26:01.716 park route is Camp, the area where the shooter lay 0:26:01.716 --> 0:26:04.636 in wait, shooting at cars, the Camp round where Tristan 0:26:04.676 --> 0:26:09.036 Bodett was killed, the entire killing zone up in smoke. 0:26:09.316 --> 0:26:11.676 We've got our press passes, so we're coming back in 0:26:12.436 --> 0:26:15.236 during the fire. I link up with Cecy Woods, who's 0:26:15.276 --> 0:26:19.956 out reporting for the local. We're press. We have her angle. 0:26:20.236 --> 0:26:24.156 The authorities have abandoned Malibu, left the residence to fend 0:26:24.196 --> 0:26:30.196 for themselves. Park you can't go that, We're press. Ceci 0:26:30.356 --> 0:26:33.516 is driving past burning palm trees and melted telephone poles. 0:26:34.116 --> 0:26:37.556 Her friend ride shotgun. I'm in the back backseat driving. 0:26:38.196 --> 0:26:42.916 I tell her to put on her brides telephone. We 0:26:43.116 --> 0:26:46.996 drive into Point Doom, one of Malibu's most exclusive neighborhoods. 0:26:47.716 --> 0:26:50.636 Point Doom sees some of the most intense destruction. Julia 0:26:50.716 --> 0:26:55.356 Roberts slips here, Geeze Crawford. The sky is filled with 0:26:55.516 --> 0:26:58.596 plumes of gray smoke, and the only other cars out 0:26:58.596 --> 0:27:03.316 on the roads are emergency vehicles going full tilt, sirens blaring, 0:27:03.876 --> 0:27:12.716 coming at us through a fog. I don't know how 0:27:12.756 --> 0:27:22.156 to do that. Jesus Christ. Trying to get out of here. Yeah, powerline, 0:27:22.396 --> 0:27:24.596 whoa whoa, whoa, whoa wa Okay, let's get out of here. 0:27:24.916 --> 0:27:33.196 Try to get out of here. The fire is terrifyingly random. 0:27:33.876 --> 0:27:38.316