Speaker 1: On September two thousand, nine year old my Trees Richardson
Speaker 1: disappeared without a trace in the woods near Malibu, California.
Speaker 1: She had been arrested at a beachside restaurant for failing
Speaker 1: to pay a tab and taken too the Lost Hills
Speaker 1: Sheriff station. You know, I mean, she's not from that area,
Speaker 1: and I would hate to wake up to a morning
Speaker 1: report somewhere with her head chopped out. At least in
Speaker 1: the station here to will be separated, so nobody's going
Speaker 1: to be with her, certainly, you know the bus stances,
Speaker 1: you don't have to worry about her safety. This is
Speaker 1: the same sheriff station where Mel Gibson was taken to
Speaker 1: sober up after his drunken rant and then safely driven
Speaker 1: back to his car. There was no courtesy ride from
Speaker 1: My Trees, the young African American non celebrity. They knew
Speaker 1: that she had been released with no car, no money,
Speaker 1: no cell phone, nothing, and in the dead of night.
Speaker 1: Her mom calls the next morning to tell them that
Speaker 1: she never came home, and it's like, oh, well, she
Speaker 1: probably just you know, they were just very nonchalant and
Speaker 1: casual about it. She doesn't know the area. She's never
Speaker 1: been in your area. Well, I think she's suppressed. That's
Speaker 1: what happened. That more than just her Okay, the police
Speaker 1: released her just after midnight, and there was nothing right.
Speaker 1: They had my treats victimized from the moment. They knew
Speaker 1: that she was not in the right state of mind
Speaker 1: she needed to be in, but she needed help. She
Speaker 1: should I went to a hospital. My Trees disappeared into
Speaker 1: the darkness and was never seen alive again. If they
Speaker 1: would put her clothing in the body bag to be buried,
Speaker 1: you know that they're trying to high So I'm like,
Speaker 1: if we tell them, we don't know what they're gonna do.
Speaker 1: I'm Catherine Townsend, a private investor, gator, investigative journalists and
Speaker 1: host of the podcast Helen Gone. In the third season
Speaker 1: of Helen Gone, We're gonna try to find out what
Speaker 1: really happened to My Trees Richardson, the simple mistakes that
Speaker 1: are made at the beginning become these huge problems later downline,
Speaker 1: like because then then the family just doesn't trust the cops,
Speaker 1: and then you have just like every step of the
Speaker 1: way is a problem. From School of Humans and I
Speaker 1: heart Radio, Helen Gone Season three is out October. Listen
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