WEBVTT - 3. Lost 0:00:14.996 --> 0:00:53.716 Pushkin. There has been a major development in the investigation 0:00:53.756 --> 0:00:55.716 into the murder of a father who was killed while 0:00:55.756 --> 0:00:58.876 camping with his two young daughters in California last June. 0:01:00.036 --> 0:01:03.356 On the first Monday in January twenty nineteen, while he's 0:01:03.356 --> 0:01:06.556 still finishing out his sentence for the probation and weapons violations, 0:01:07.156 --> 0:01:10.636 Anthony Rawda is charged with this series of crimes in Malibu. 0:01:10.836 --> 0:01:14.236 Anthony Rauda was charged yesterday with one count of murder. 0:01:14.436 --> 0:01:17.836 He also faces ten counts of attempted murder and five 0:01:17.916 --> 0:01:20.716 counts of burglary over string of shootings that date back 0:01:20.716 --> 0:01:25.356 to twenty sixteen. I expected this, you could see it 0:01:25.396 --> 0:01:30.156 coming a mile away, but it's still pretty shocking. For months, 0:01:30.156 --> 0:01:32.236 the cops have been saying that they can't connect the 0:01:32.316 --> 0:01:36.796 various crimes, all those near misses, the murder, the armed burglaries. 0:01:37.836 --> 0:01:40.556 Now they're saying not only that they're connected, but that 0:01:40.596 --> 0:01:44.356 they were all committed by the same person, Anthony Rowda. 0:01:45.676 --> 0:01:49.516 So that's one count of murder Tristan Bodett, ten counts 0:01:49.516 --> 0:01:53.116 of attempted murder, including Bodette's two young daughters, and all 0:01:53.156 --> 0:01:57.436 the victims of the near misses. The charges don't say 0:01:57.516 --> 0:02:00.116 much about the weapons or ammunition used in the crimes, 0:02:00.756 --> 0:02:03.916 but news reports confirm the rumor. I've been hearing that 0:02:03.996 --> 0:02:06.996 Bodette was killed with a nine millimeter round the same 0:02:07.076 --> 0:02:11.676 kind of ammunition that Rouda was arrested with. Rowdah pleads 0:02:11.716 --> 0:02:16.916 not guilty at the arrangement, and he's confident he wants 0:02:16.956 --> 0:02:20.996 to proceed to trial as quickly as possible. Every time 0:02:21.036 --> 0:02:24.876 I see Rowdah's father, Ozzie, he says, I hope he 0:02:24.916 --> 0:02:29.716 didn't do this, but he also repeats what Rowdah's telling him. 0:02:29.836 --> 0:02:33.036 He's saying he's innocent. Ozzie tells me he said I 0:02:33.036 --> 0:02:35.996 didn't even want to be around people. People cause problems, 0:02:36.196 --> 0:02:40.076 so how can they say I did this. I try 0:02:40.116 --> 0:02:43.436 to schedule a visit with Rowdah, but it's abruptly canceled. 0:02:44.196 --> 0:02:46.276 The only thing I can do is write him a letter. 0:02:47.036 --> 0:02:49.076 I tell him I'll leave money with the cashier at 0:02:49.076 --> 0:02:53.196 the Twin Towers Jail. It's for pencils, stationary and stamps 0:02:53.396 --> 0:02:59.156 so he can write me back. Finally, he does. I 0:02:59.196 --> 0:03:02.636 do appreciate your care and diligence in contacting me. I've 0:03:02.636 --> 0:03:04.356 wanted to talk to you but could not get your 0:03:04.356 --> 0:03:08.436 contact info. He writes, I feel wronged. I'm not someone 0:03:08.476 --> 0:03:14.276 who kills innocent people. In subsequent letters, he writes, I 0:03:14.356 --> 0:03:17.236 know people must feel I'm guilty, but I suffer every day. 0:03:17.796 --> 0:03:21.236 I suffered sometimes when I was free. I know I'm innocent, 0:03:21.316 --> 0:03:23.436 but I can't prove that because of the emotions that 0:03:23.476 --> 0:03:26.436 are involved. There's nothing I can say to clear my name. 0:03:26.836 --> 0:03:32.156 There's nothing I want to say. Okay, fine, But I 0:03:32.276 --> 0:03:35.116 notice something about his writing, a kind of parallel he's 0:03:35.116 --> 0:03:39.116 setting up between himself and, of all people, Tristan Boudette. 0:03:40.476 --> 0:03:43.956 He refers to Boudette as an innocent person, and he 0:03:43.996 --> 0:03:48.076 says that he Anthony Rowda, is also an innocent person. 0:03:49.196 --> 0:03:54.116 They're both victims in his view. He writes, if you 0:03:54.156 --> 0:03:57.156 feel the family of mister Boudette needs some closure, I 0:03:57.196 --> 0:04:01.636 can try to help that. That's definitely a surprise, and 0:04:01.876 --> 0:04:06.036 so is this quote. The Baudette family and friends can 0:04:06.076 --> 0:04:09.796 blame the Sheriff's department for his death. That's where the 0:04:09.876 --> 0:04:19.956 justice is at. I'm Dana Goodyear and this is Lost Hills, 0:04:47.436 --> 0:04:56.156 episode three. Lost. Ever since her husband Tristan Boudette died, 0:04:57.036 --> 0:05:00.436 Erica Wu has felt like she's trapped inside a never 0:05:00.556 --> 0:05:04.356 ending dream. You know, the moment my sister told me 0:05:04.396 --> 0:05:07.516 what had happened, I feel like I was just watching 0:05:07.556 --> 0:05:09.356 myself for the rest of the day in a way, 0:05:09.436 --> 0:05:15.716 you know, live out this horrible sort of nightmare. And 0:05:15.756 --> 0:05:18.516 I still feel that way sometimes, like it's so unbelievable, 0:05:18.596 --> 0:05:23.836 this isn't real, that this is some sort of dream 0:05:23.956 --> 0:05:26.716 or nightmare or movie or something that I'm just watching 0:05:26.796 --> 0:05:30.356 happening to my family, to myself and to my family. 0:05:31.116 --> 0:05:33.996 She woke up alone that morning at home in Orange County, 0:05:34.316 --> 0:05:37.356 getting ready to take her medical exam, the whole reason 0:05:37.396 --> 0:05:40.476 why Tristan had taken the girls camping and she'd stayed back. 0:05:41.436 --> 0:05:44.596 Then somehow her oldest sister was at her door then 0:05:44.716 --> 0:05:48.356 driving her to Malibu. I mean it it's such a blur, 0:05:48.556 --> 0:05:53.196 but they told me what little they knew at the 0:05:53.276 --> 0:05:56.716 time was that Tristan had been shot and that he 0:05:56.796 --> 0:06:00.916 was dead, but that the girls were safe. And you know, 0:06:00.996 --> 0:06:02.636 in the hours that it took me to get there, 0:06:02.716 --> 0:06:06.196 I was not believing any of it, you know, I 0:06:06.236 --> 0:06:09.676 didn't believe that he was really you know, like it 0:06:09.756 --> 0:06:14.396 was just so unbelievable to me, and I remember arguing 0:06:14.396 --> 0:06:17.196 on the phone just how do you know that he's dead? 0:06:17.276 --> 0:06:21.956 Like why why isn't he at the hospital? Like who 0:06:22.116 --> 0:06:24.356 who said he was dead? Like how do they? How 0:06:24.396 --> 0:06:28.076 do they know? And then when they told me the 0:06:28.076 --> 0:06:30.116 girls were safe, I mean I just remember thinking like 0:06:30.796 --> 0:06:32.956 what if they're not? Are you just saying that? Are 0:06:32.956 --> 0:06:37.356 you just waiting until I get there to tell me? Um? 0:06:39.196 --> 0:06:41.516 It was just I mean, like it just gosh, it 0:06:41.636 --> 0:06:45.836 just really messes with your mind, you know, hearing that 0:06:45.836 --> 0:06:48.836 that information. So I think I was all over the place. 0:06:53.276 --> 0:06:55.436 I tried to go to the campground, and I think 0:06:55.436 --> 0:06:59.116 it was one of the rangers or somebody there that 0:06:59.196 --> 0:07:02.516 said something like that to me that this never happened, 0:07:02.516 --> 0:07:05.356 you know, this kind of stuff never happens here, which 0:07:05.396 --> 0:07:10.356 just you know, at the time, it was sort of like, Okay, 0:07:10.356 --> 0:07:11.956 well that's good to know that that kind of stuff 0:07:11.996 --> 0:07:15.836 never happens here, but also just happened, you know, we 0:07:15.956 --> 0:07:21.836 could just happened like yeah, and it would come out 0:07:21.876 --> 0:07:29.756 that in fact, many similar things without being anywhere near 0:07:30.996 --> 0:07:34.276 catastrophic in the way that it was with Tristan. But 0:07:34.716 --> 0:07:40.236 there's been a lot of near misses. People knew, yeah, 0:07:40.276 --> 0:07:42.196 and that was something that I didn't I didn't find 0:07:42.196 --> 0:07:50.436 out until much later on. Yeah, I'm at Erica's new 0:07:50.476 --> 0:07:54.236 house in the Bay Area. This is not the home 0:07:54.276 --> 0:07:56.716 she and Tristan were going to move into. It's a 0:07:56.756 --> 0:08:00.316 different place that he never saw, a townhouse in a 0:08:00.396 --> 0:08:04.076 row of identical townhouses near the medical center where she works. 0:08:05.036 --> 0:08:07.796 She asked me to come here for a reason. She 0:08:07.796 --> 0:08:09.836 doesn't want to talk about the night of Tristan's death, 0:08:10.036 --> 0:08:13.916 the investigation, the charges against Anthony Rawda, or the impending 0:08:13.916 --> 0:08:18.556 criminal trial. The words Rauda and Malibu feel like they 0:08:18.556 --> 0:08:22.676 exist on some other planet, light years away from her grief. 0:08:23.556 --> 0:08:26.556 I want to tell tristan story, she says. I want 0:08:26.596 --> 0:08:31.796 to tell our story. This neighborhood is so friendly and nice. 0:08:31.836 --> 0:08:35.756 It's lovely. Are you guys settling? Ye? Yeah, we're settled, 0:08:36.116 --> 0:08:38.956 settled as it can be. I didn't know before we 0:08:38.996 --> 0:08:41.356 get started. She shows me around. Do you want to 0:08:41.476 --> 0:08:45.996 leave our shoes down here? That's fine. There's a tiny kitchen, 0:08:46.196 --> 0:08:49.676 a breakfast nook, a cozy living room. Every inch of 0:08:49.676 --> 0:08:52.836 the house down to the balcony is filled with kids toys. 0:08:53.716 --> 0:08:56.636 One wall is devoted to framed paintings that Clara made 0:08:57.036 --> 0:08:59.996 with Tristan, isn't this the best? My favorite? So she 0:08:59.996 --> 0:09:02.436 would do this thing where she would draw, just like 0:09:02.636 --> 0:09:04.916 do this like freehand draw, how she would fill in 0:09:04.916 --> 0:09:07.476 all the colors. Interesting, got her to do it on 0:09:07.516 --> 0:09:10.876 a canvas. So this was actually Mother's Day last year. 0:09:10.916 --> 0:09:14.516 They gave me this and that coffee machine and everywhere 0:09:14.796 --> 0:09:19.116 they're pictures of Tristan smiling on a hiking trail at 0:09:19.196 --> 0:09:23.756 Yosemite at Glacier National Park, carrying Clara in his arms 0:09:23.916 --> 0:09:26.916 and Ev and a frame pack on his shoulders. I'm 0:09:26.916 --> 0:09:34.076 really happy. Yeah, you guys went out into the wilderness 0:09:34.116 --> 0:09:37.636 a lot. Yeah, yeah, good, Yeah, I mean that was 0:09:37.636 --> 0:09:41.156 old Tristan. He loved to do that stuff. Took me 0:09:41.196 --> 0:09:43.076 a long time to be able to put up the 0:09:43.156 --> 0:09:46.516 pictures of him, but yeah, you know, obviously, sorry, it's 0:09:46.516 --> 0:09:52.356 a balance between still wanting to see pictures of him 0:09:52.476 --> 0:09:54.436 and wanting the girls to be able to see pictures 0:09:54.436 --> 0:09:58.396 of him. But balancing that was just still being really 0:09:58.396 --> 0:10:00.716 hard for me. Yeah. I mean we have a ton 0:10:00.756 --> 0:10:03.396 of like family pictures and stuff like that that I 0:10:03.396 --> 0:10:11.396 haven't been able to put up yet. Yeah. Sorry, Yeah, 0:10:11.636 --> 0:10:15.156 the pictures are painful, but she knows they're important and 0:10:15.316 --> 0:10:17.716 that pretty much captures her reason for talking to me. 0:10:18.516 --> 0:10:20.676 She wants to create a portrait of Tristan that is 0:10:20.716 --> 0:10:26.516 something other than his violent death. Erica and Tristan both 0:10:26.516 --> 0:10:30.036 grew up in Fresno, California, in the Central Valley, a 0:10:30.076 --> 0:10:32.956 midsize city in the middle of farm country where the 0:10:32.956 --> 0:10:37.596 credit card was invented and the modern landfill. Erica was 0:10:37.636 --> 0:10:41.596 the fourth of five girls, serious, a little bit reserved. 0:10:42.396 --> 0:10:46.996 In her senior year, she met Tristan, this happy, exuberant guy, 0:10:46.996 --> 0:10:51.396 bursting with confidence. We met because we had a mutual 0:10:51.476 --> 0:10:54.356 friend who was trying to find him a date for 0:10:54.436 --> 0:10:58.836 a winter formal. So it was January of our senior 0:10:58.916 --> 0:11:01.036 year in high school that we met. And did you 0:11:01.876 --> 0:11:03.676 do you have an impression from that night or something 0:11:03.676 --> 0:11:11.956 you remember? He was yeah, I mean he was a 0:11:11.956 --> 0:11:17.516 happy guy, and he was very sort of just uncomplicated, 0:11:17.556 --> 0:11:19.596 you know, like he sort of just wore everything on 0:11:19.636 --> 0:11:26.516 his sleeve. I think it's a testament to both of 0:11:26.516 --> 0:11:29.996 you that that was not a super awkward I was 0:11:30.076 --> 0:11:35.236 probably awkward. I'm sure it was awkward, but he was 0:11:35.276 --> 0:11:43.196 definitely like first serious boyfriend. I mean, yeah, After high school, 0:11:43.356 --> 0:11:46.116 Erica went to Stanford, Tristan went abroad for a year 0:11:46.196 --> 0:11:50.316 and then do you see San Diego. At his graduation, 0:11:50.476 --> 0:11:54.756 he surprised everyone he had the highest GPA in his college. 0:11:56.636 --> 0:11:59.916 He was one of those it just like came very 0:11:59.956 --> 0:12:02.316 easily to him, kind of every you know what he 0:12:02.356 --> 0:12:04.076 was good at in terms of the chemistry, Like I 0:12:04.116 --> 0:12:07.236 feel like for me, like I've always you know, like 0:12:07.276 --> 0:12:09.676 I have to study a lot to know what I know. 0:12:09.756 --> 0:12:12.796 But he just like knew it and it would click 0:12:12.876 --> 0:12:22.316 and he was Yeah, he was the smartest person I knew. Then. 0:12:22.396 --> 0:12:24.876 He was at Berkeley for grad school and chemistry and 0:12:24.956 --> 0:12:27.796 she was in San Francisco for medical school. They moved 0:12:27.796 --> 0:12:30.196 in together and then got married in two thousand and 0:12:30.236 --> 0:12:32.956 eight when she was twenty six and he was twenty five. 0:12:33.836 --> 0:12:37.836 Right away, Tristan made himself an indispensable part of Erica's family. 0:12:38.756 --> 0:12:41.716 Tristan's personality was just you know, he got along with everybody. 0:12:41.916 --> 0:12:44.196 You know. He was one of those people where he 0:12:44.236 --> 0:12:47.996 had like zero social anxiety. With four sisters, Erica had 0:12:48.036 --> 0:12:51.156 a pack of brothers in law, and Tristan became their ringleader. 0:12:51.636 --> 0:12:54.716 He loved to plan a twenty person family dinner, a 0:12:54.756 --> 0:12:58.916 trip to Hawaii, and especially any kind of outdoor adventure, 0:12:59.836 --> 0:13:02.716 and once he became a father, his love of nature 0:13:02.836 --> 0:13:06.596 took on a whole new dimension. Clara or would ask 0:13:06.596 --> 0:13:09.076 a question like how you know where are the cloud 0:13:09.236 --> 0:13:10.956 come from? Or where is a rain coming from? And 0:13:10.996 --> 0:13:14.836 he would give like a scientifically accurate answer that she 0:13:14.916 --> 0:13:19.316 could understand, you know, at three or four. One of 0:13:19.356 --> 0:13:20.876 the things I loved was that he used to teach 0:13:20.916 --> 0:13:23.436 the girls stuff like that, you know, like he knew 0:13:23.476 --> 0:13:27.236 that kind of stuff. The days before Tristan died are 0:13:27.276 --> 0:13:33.076 bright in Erica's memory, super saturated. First there was Father's Day, 0:13:33.956 --> 0:13:35.836 so it was just a couple of days before he passed. 0:13:37.756 --> 0:13:40.116 We went to the beach because that's what he said 0:13:40.116 --> 0:13:44.036 he wanted to do, and I remember we It was 0:13:44.916 --> 0:13:46.836 like a really beautiful day and it was super sunny, 0:13:46.876 --> 0:13:52.236 and Tristan set up like a little sunshade, and the 0:13:52.316 --> 0:13:54.716 girls were playing in the waves. They were letting the 0:13:54.716 --> 0:13:56.996 waves chase them, and I remember running after them and 0:13:57.036 --> 0:14:02.356 Tristan running after them, and I remember sort of looking 0:14:02.396 --> 0:14:06.316 at them, the three of them, and just thinking how 0:14:06.396 --> 0:14:21.276 lucky I was to have them. After Father's Day, they 0:14:21.276 --> 0:14:23.516 started getting ready for their move up to the Bay Area. 0:14:24.596 --> 0:14:27.756 Erica was really busy. She had her big exam on 0:14:27.836 --> 0:14:31.796 June twenty second and was studying non stop in between 0:14:31.836 --> 0:14:35.716 shifts at the hospital. So he was he was like, oh, 0:14:35.756 --> 0:14:37.156 you know, it's perfect. I'll get them out of the 0:14:37.196 --> 0:14:39.396 house Thursday night. You'll have you know, you'll be able 0:14:39.436 --> 0:14:41.836 to focus on the test, do whatever you need to do. 0:14:42.156 --> 0:14:43.956 I'll be able to take. But Ivie was a little 0:14:43.956 --> 0:14:46.756 sick that week, and Erica was secretly hoping they would 0:14:46.796 --> 0:14:50.356 just stay home. She hated it when they left. She 0:14:50.516 --> 0:14:54.996 always worried they waffled into the last minute, but it 0:14:55.036 --> 0:14:58.796 was their last week in southern California, maybe their last chance. 0:15:00.356 --> 0:15:05.596 Tristan decided to go for it. We all woke up 0:15:05.636 --> 0:15:08.596 a little bit late and he made the girl's breakfast, 0:15:08.636 --> 0:15:11.756 and I remember were sort of helping them get out 0:15:11.796 --> 0:15:16.516 the door, getting the girls dressed and braiding their hair, 0:15:16.996 --> 0:15:19.276 you know, like I remember, the one thing Tristan couldn't 0:15:19.276 --> 0:15:21.636 do was anything with their hair. So we we braiding 0:15:21.636 --> 0:15:23.236 both of the girls hair and be like, okay, just 0:15:23.316 --> 0:15:24.836 leave it like this un till you guys get back. 0:15:25.476 --> 0:15:27.996 And you know, he was just in such a good mood. 0:15:28.036 --> 0:15:29.916 He you know, like I said, his The trip for 0:15:29.996 --> 0:15:32.036 him started as soon as he started planning it. So 0:15:32.076 --> 0:15:36.396 he was getting all the gear together and um pet 0:15:36.436 --> 0:15:39.956 loading up the car, and I remember he put the 0:15:39.956 --> 0:15:42.356 bikes on the roof, you know, and we both thought 0:15:42.396 --> 0:15:46.196 it was super cute that m that my daughter's bike 0:15:46.276 --> 0:15:51.476 was next to his. I remember girls putting their shoes on, 0:15:51.516 --> 0:15:54.796 and um, my older one helping the little one put 0:15:54.796 --> 0:15:56.476 her shoes on so that they could get out the door. 0:15:56.516 --> 0:15:58.836 And they were just so excited to, you know, to 0:15:58.876 --> 0:16:04.236 go on this trip with daddy. Yeah, and I know 0:16:04.276 --> 0:16:08.276 it's like in retrospect, but I think part of me 0:16:08.356 --> 0:16:11.596 that like had, was a little bit anxious saying bye 0:16:11.596 --> 0:16:13.436 to them. And I remember feeling that way as they 0:16:13.476 --> 0:16:17.796 were leaving. Um, when he loaded the girls first, and 0:16:17.836 --> 0:16:19.356 then he came back and sort of held open the 0:16:19.356 --> 0:16:21.756 garage door to say bye to me, and UM, I 0:16:21.836 --> 0:16:26.196 just remember saying telling him to be careful. Um. I 0:16:26.196 --> 0:16:27.996 was always worried about the girls. Again, I just thought 0:16:27.996 --> 0:16:31.516 he was so untouchable. UM, but I remember just saying, 0:16:31.556 --> 0:16:35.516 you know, be careful with them, drive safe. You've precious 0:16:35.556 --> 0:16:45.236 cargo in your back seat. Um, come back. I would 0:16:45.236 --> 0:16:47.316 always say stuff like that, you know, like I said, 0:16:47.316 --> 0:16:50.276 I was like worried. L right, did something like bring 0:16:50.316 --> 0:16:52.276 them back to me. You can all come back, you know, 0:16:52.316 --> 0:16:57.716 you come back together. Um. You know, he just you know, 0:16:57.796 --> 0:17:00.236 did what he always said to be, like Erica, don't worry, 0:17:00.316 --> 0:17:02.716 We're gonna be fine. You know, nothing can happen, you know, 0:17:04.276 --> 0:17:07.276 being out there, that was like his sanctuary, you know, 0:17:07.356 --> 0:17:09.476 like he didn't think something. He would never believe that 0:17:09.556 --> 0:17:14.036 something like that could have happened. And I just remember 0:17:14.116 --> 0:17:17.076 him saying, yeah, I just go study, take your test. 0:17:17.916 --> 0:17:26.276 By the time you're done, will be back. We'll celebrate. Um. 0:17:26.756 --> 0:17:28.876 Then he just you know kissed me on the chicken. 0:17:30.316 --> 0:17:42.036 He was gone, gosh, And I feel like I can 0:17:42.116 --> 0:17:46.796 still remember what what he felt like standing there. You know, 0:17:51.076 --> 0:17:55.276 he was just so there one minute and then so 0:17:55.596 --> 0:18:37.116 god the next. Tristan sent her texts and pictures throughout 0:18:37.156 --> 0:18:42.196 the day. The last one was late just before bed. Yeah. 0:18:42.276 --> 0:18:46.476 I think he's he said Evie was maybe halvy hard times. 0:18:46.556 --> 0:18:51.236 I mean she was too, but he would send me 0:18:51.276 --> 0:18:52.996 like thumbs up. You know. I think he sent me 0:18:53.036 --> 0:18:57.996 like a thumbs up, And he said, you know, study hard. 0:18:58.356 --> 0:19:04.156 You know what he would always say, losing Tristan. Erica 0:19:04.236 --> 0:19:08.676 feels she lost everything, not just her husband, but herself. 0:19:09.316 --> 0:19:13.076 That Erica, the Erica that was Tristan's wife, is gone, 0:19:13.836 --> 0:19:16.716 and the girls who they were when their father was alive, 0:19:17.516 --> 0:19:22.516 they're gone. To the family as it was, it disappeared forever. 0:19:23.956 --> 0:19:36.716 God losing him in front of them. How that what 0:19:36.836 --> 0:19:38.596 kind of impact that has on them? You know in 0:19:38.636 --> 0:19:44.716 a way, I feel like, uh, that sort of family 0:19:44.796 --> 0:19:48.236 that I had died too, you know, like part of me, 0:19:49.476 --> 0:19:58.396 part of them. Life with Tristan was in full color. 0:19:59.516 --> 0:20:02.476 Now the three of them are surviving in the grade 0:20:02.476 --> 0:20:15.036 out time after. From the minute Erica set foot in 0:20:15.156 --> 0:20:18.036 Lost Hills Station on the morning of Tristan's death, she 0:20:18.156 --> 0:20:21.396 says she struggled to get information about the case. The 0:20:21.476 --> 0:20:25.876 Sheriff's department keeps sighting the ongoing investigation, telling her only 0:20:26.076 --> 0:20:30.396 the bare minimum. There was only one way to get answers, 0:20:30.396 --> 0:20:33.476 she tells me. A few months before I met her, 0:20:33.596 --> 0:20:36.356 she filed a ninety million dollars claim with the county. 0:20:37.516 --> 0:20:40.876 She names Anthony Rowda as liable in her husband's death, 0:20:41.436 --> 0:20:46.676 but he's almost an afterthought. The Sheriff's department in California 0:20:46.716 --> 0:20:51.916 State parks. She alleges they acted with deliberate indifference and negligence. 0:20:52.476 --> 0:20:55.476 They willfully created the conditions for the shooting to occur. 0:20:56.956 --> 0:20:59.836 There was a danger, they knew about it, she claims, 0:21:00.116 --> 0:21:04.556 and they didn't tell anyone. It's their fault. She says 0:21:05.156 --> 0:21:19.836 that her husband is dead. History is made in the 0:21:19.956 --> 0:21:23.436 race for La County Sheriff. In winning, Vienneueva ousted the 0:21:23.476 --> 0:21:26.436 incumbent sheriff, Jim McDonald, a feat that has not been 0:21:26.476 --> 0:21:32.156 accomplished and more than one hundred years. The upstart, the outsider, 0:21:32.716 --> 0:21:36.716 Alex Viennueva retired at the rank of lieutenant. He never 0:21:36.756 --> 0:21:40.356 even ran a station, and in November of twenty eighteen, 0:21:41.156 --> 0:21:45.956 he's elected the new sheriff. Here are the basics about 0:21:45.956 --> 0:21:50.076 the La County Sheriff's Department. It's not the lap LAPD 0:21:50.156 --> 0:21:53.636 wears dark blue. Sheriff's deputies wear the khaki shirts and 0:21:53.676 --> 0:21:56.116 green pants and have a big star on their chests 0:21:56.396 --> 0:22:01.116 Old West style. The LAPD polices the city of La Well. 0:22:01.156 --> 0:22:03.836 The Sheriff's department patrols the dozens of cities in the 0:22:03.876 --> 0:22:07.076 county that don't have their own forces, like Malibu and 0:22:07.196 --> 0:22:11.196 Calabasas as well as the town. These unincorporated areas like 0:22:11.276 --> 0:22:14.756 where Malibu Creek State Park is in all, it has 0:22:14.836 --> 0:22:17.836 something like ten thousand deputies who cover an area of 0:22:17.876 --> 0:22:21.476 nearly three thousand square miles. They also worked the jails 0:22:21.636 --> 0:22:26.156 and the courts. One more thing. For decades, the La 0:22:26.236 --> 0:22:30.516 Sheriff's Department has been mired in scandal. Maybe you heard 0:22:30.516 --> 0:22:33.956 of Lee Baca, two Sheriff's back. He's in prison now, 0:22:34.356 --> 0:22:37.876 as is his under sheriff, Paul Tanaka, for obstructing an 0:22:37.916 --> 0:22:42.356 FBI investigation into the treatment of inmates in the jail system. 0:22:42.476 --> 0:22:45.756 Alex Via Nueva says he's going to clean it all up. 0:22:46.876 --> 0:22:51.476 That sounds ambitious and frankly all consuming, and you wouldn't 0:22:51.516 --> 0:22:53.796 think it would have much to do with sleepy, old, 0:22:53.916 --> 0:22:59.076 fancy old Malibu. Please give a more round of applies. 0:23:03.436 --> 0:23:06.476 But here he is at Duke's, a surfer themed restaurant 0:23:06.476 --> 0:23:09.596 on the beach side of Pacific Coast Highway, talking about 0:23:09.636 --> 0:23:16.516 fixing Malibu's problems too. Everyone Cecie Woods and the mayor 0:23:16.796 --> 0:23:20.796 and everyone were coming for a tendency. It's all thanks 0:23:20.836 --> 0:23:24.116 to Cecie Woods, the Malibu activist who broke the story 0:23:24.116 --> 0:23:26.476 of the near misses and has been calling out the 0:23:26.516 --> 0:23:29.836 Lost Hills cops for as she sees it, lying to 0:23:29.876 --> 0:23:34.316 the community. She was a vocal cheerleader for Vienneueva during 0:23:34.316 --> 0:23:37.916 his outsider campaign. She used her social media feeds and 0:23:37.996 --> 0:23:41.156 her website, The Local, to celebrate him and run down 0:23:41.196 --> 0:23:44.116 his opponent, who she blamed for the problems at Lost Hills. 0:23:44.556 --> 0:23:46.836 And we had the occasion just a few weeks ago 0:23:47.356 --> 0:23:49.996 to do a town on the Lost Hills stationary for 0:23:50.156 --> 0:23:52.876 aolve all the cities. But now we're here specifically for 0:23:53.036 --> 0:23:56.756 the Malibu community and your particu Garne, which were slightly 0:23:56.796 --> 0:23:58.796 different from the ones that are sitar the other side 0:23:58.996 --> 0:24:02.996 of the hill range. And now it looks like Ceci's 0:24:02.996 --> 0:24:06.996 support is being rewarded. There she is in the front 0:24:07.076 --> 0:24:13.156 row in a leopard print dress, thing to Viennueva expert. 0:24:13.836 --> 0:24:16.316 He sits back down and I see she wasn't kidding. 0:24:17.116 --> 0:24:21.996 She has the sheriff's ear. Literally she's leaning over whispering 0:24:22.036 --> 0:24:26.716 into it. I wonder what this all means. Will Cecie, 0:24:26.836 --> 0:24:29.036 with her access to the new sheriff, be able to 0:24:29.036 --> 0:24:32.916 find out what no one seems to know what really 0:24:32.956 --> 0:24:36.836 happened in Malibu. How the shootings could go on for 0:24:36.876 --> 0:24:56.596 so long unchecked until finally someone got killed. Anthony Rowda's 0:24:56.596 --> 0:25:00.476 case is creeping through preliminary hearings, and the prosecutor says 0:25:00.516 --> 0:25:03.836 that the Sheriff's department is still working on ballistics. Also, 0:25:04.116 --> 0:25:08.476 they discovered seven electronic devices in Rowdas's camp. That's a 0:25:08.516 --> 0:25:11.476 lot of self and computers and kindles for hermit who 0:25:11.516 --> 0:25:14.436 doesn't want to talk to anyone. They all need to 0:25:14.436 --> 0:25:17.716 be analyzed, which is going to take even more time. 0:25:22.196 --> 0:25:25.516 But Cecie Woods doesn't need to wait. She's getting a 0:25:25.556 --> 0:25:29.796 constant stream of information about the investigation, not just from 0:25:29.836 --> 0:25:34.196 her new highly placed friends in law enforcement, but from 0:25:34.196 --> 0:25:37.436 her tea leaf reader. No no, no, I used to 0:25:37.436 --> 0:25:40.676 go like every six months, and then there was like 0:25:40.716 --> 0:25:44.156 a year and a half break maybe higher, and then 0:25:44.236 --> 0:25:48.596 all of a sudden, the last city council election and 0:25:48.756 --> 0:25:50.756 my marriage going down the tubes. I'm like time to 0:25:50.796 --> 0:25:54.956 call Monica, like everything was going to Monica source Ceci's 0:25:54.956 --> 0:25:58.876 psychic source. Ceci doesn't think Routa did it, and she 0:25:58.996 --> 0:26:02.796 wants to find out who did, and more important, what 0:26:02.836 --> 0:26:06.156 the cops did wrong. And I have literally had more 0:26:06.196 --> 0:26:10.916 than forty nine readings since, which is so not the norm. 0:26:11.396 --> 0:26:13.916 But now since she's seen that, every time I have 0:26:13.956 --> 0:26:17.556 a reading, new information comes up. Now she doesn't ignore me. 0:26:17.636 --> 0:26:21.556 She knows shit's going down, and so she better. It's 0:26:21.796 --> 0:26:26.276 tax Monica emergency, it's urgent. Shit's going down. So I've 0:26:26.396 --> 0:26:30.276 got to see this one day, Cecie lets me tag along. 0:26:30.636 --> 0:26:34.916 My psychicness started in through dreams. I do have a 0:26:34.956 --> 0:26:37.956 spirit guide that works with me. He's actually the one 0:26:37.956 --> 0:26:40.396 who does the reading and he speaks to me. He's 0:26:40.436 --> 0:26:43.396 a virgo. He's very you know, because he's kind of quirky. 0:26:43.596 --> 0:26:45.796 And sometimes it's like a riddle, you know, and you 0:26:45.836 --> 0:26:47.596 have to kind of figure it out, or it comes 0:26:47.636 --> 0:26:49.996 up in a quirky way. You know, it'll show up, like, 0:26:50.036 --> 0:26:51.956 for instance, one time I said to somebody, I see 0:26:51.956 --> 0:26:54.076 Howard Stern in your cup and they're like what, And 0:26:54.116 --> 0:26:56.036 then a couple of weeks, a couple of weeks later, 0:26:56.076 --> 0:26:57.636 she bumped into him in a seven to eleven. But 0:26:57.716 --> 0:27:02.756 I mean quirky, it's like, it's yeah. Monica Source lives 0:27:02.836 --> 0:27:05.356 with a roommate in a cookie cutter stucco house on 0:27:05.396 --> 0:27:08.636 a four lane road in Burbank She does her readings 0:27:08.636 --> 0:27:12.796 in a time knee paneled room. There are owls everywhere, 0:27:13.396 --> 0:27:18.596 big small, ceramic, stuffed, perched, peering, sharp beaked, like the 0:27:18.636 --> 0:27:24.036 world's creepiest bed and breakfast. Her two dogs, Wolfman and Bandit, 0:27:24.236 --> 0:27:27.876 suffer from anxiety, she says, so during readings she holds 0:27:27.876 --> 0:27:30.636 them in her lap. Cecie, pick your tea and put 0:27:30.676 --> 0:27:33.836 two tea spoons in your cup. The table is set 0:27:33.876 --> 0:27:36.916 with a red checked tablecloth, blue and white china, and 0:27:37.076 --> 0:27:40.316 glass jars filled with loose leaf tea. And then when 0:27:40.356 --> 0:27:42.836 she gets her tea in there and drinks it, she's 0:27:42.876 --> 0:27:45.516 gonna stir it three times. Three's a magic number. Three's 0:27:45.516 --> 0:27:48.956 a magical number. Cecie has two cell phones out, one 0:27:48.996 --> 0:27:52.276 for taping, one for taking notes. She's on the edge 0:27:52.316 --> 0:27:55.036 of her seat. Okay, you done, good man? Do you 0:27:55.036 --> 0:27:57.276 remember what to do? Cecie puts the saucer on the 0:27:57.316 --> 0:27:59.676 cup and inverts it like she's flipping a cake out 0:27:59.716 --> 0:28:02.396 of a pan. One hand on the cup, the other 0:28:02.476 --> 0:28:06.596 spinning the saucer. Am I at three, yeah, I embrace it, 0:28:06.636 --> 0:28:10.316 Embrace it. Monica. Source lifts the returned cop off the 0:28:10.396 --> 0:28:13.236 saucer and stares into the drags left on the plate. 0:28:14.676 --> 0:28:17.636 It looks like Tea leaves to me, but she starts 0:28:17.756 --> 0:28:23.796 channeling her spirit guide. The dogs get anxious. Gotcha, Okay, 0:28:23.876 --> 0:28:26.996 here we go. Um, I'm getting some initials around you. 0:28:27.076 --> 0:28:29.596 Of course, I'm getting the j's, I'm getting the s is. 0:28:30.516 --> 0:28:36.116 It is actually spelling out cops. Um, so you're definitely 0:28:36.116 --> 0:28:40.956