Lost Hills: Dark Canyon
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Lost Hills investigates the dark side of Malibu, California. Beneath a seductive facade, this city of billionaires, celebrities, and surf bums is hiding something menacing. On September 16, 2009, 24-year-old Mitrice Richardson was arrested by the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department for failing to pay her bill at a restaurant in Malibu, CA. After being released from Lost Hills Station shortly after midnight, she disappeared. Eleven months later, her naked, skeletal remains were discovered in a canyon some six miles away. For nearly 15 years, the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department, Mitrice’s friends and family, and generations of internet sleuths have tried to crack the case. To this day, her death remains an unsolved mystery. The truth lies in the remote Malibu community where Mitrice was last seen. And now, finally, people are starting to talk. Hosted by Dana Goodyear (The New Yorker) and produced by Western Sound and Pushkin Industries. Show artwork copyright Francesca Gabbiani. Subscribe to Pushkin plus to hear the whole season early, and ad free. Find Pushkin plus on the Lost Hills show page in Apple Podcasts or at Pushkin.fm. Follow us @losthillspod on Twitter and Instagram for a deeper dive into the stories.
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Exposing surfing’s dark side
Aug 27
Thank you for your in depth reporting on Surf Culture icons of the past. I really enjoyed learning more about Kathy Kohner-Zuckerman. Surfing culture has some very dark sides by exposing the truths of some icons of the past we can hopefully move into a more inclusive culture.
A lot of this is kind of a reach
3 days ago
Listened to the Mitrice episode as this incident occurred only a few miles from my home. That also means I am familiar with Monte Nido, Calabassas and also any connection to Malibu. Of course, esp considering the race of Mitrice, race had to be injected into this podcast as if a South Central resident had wondered into some kind of Deliverance style environment. For those who have no knowledge of the region, Monte Nido is not Malibu. Malibu, and all that it entails is over a mountain range and a considerable distance away both literally and culturally. Also, the comment that “Will Smith is the only Black man who lives in Monte Nido,” is esp grating as Smith actually lives in a remote compound nowhere near central Monte Nido (as well as another home in Hidden Hills) and this indicates that everyone living in this small area is a movie star or prominent White person. Yes, there are very few black people living in Monte Nido. There are also very few Black people living in Westlake Village, Agoura, Calabassas, etc. Of course the narrative becomes that Mitrice died because nobody cares about black people in Monte Nido or anywhere in the vicinity. First of all, just about any LA police agency entity investigation of any prominence has routinely involved incompetence on an an amazing scale, the Manson Family, the Menendez case, and RFK’s assassination for openers and many others less famous routinely botched and mishandled. Secondly, Mitrice’s mother is conveniently let off the hook when she admits that on the night of her daughter’s disappearance she told the police to let her stay in jail and learn a lesson and later when she could have gone to the police station to pick up her daughter, she claims, oh, I had to take care of another child. Also, typically somebody like Mitrice would not have even been detained by the Sheriff’s, they would have been cut loose but it was actually out of concern that she was brought to the station. Eventually, when it was determined that there was no reason to hold her, they let her go, telling her that she could stay either sleep in a open cell or the main lobby. She chose to leave of her own volition, most likely as she was not rational. Did the cops impede the investigation. Of course. Because they knew they would get sued and they were. I could go on, but besides being way too long, much of the remainder of the show dealing with a potential killer was way too conjectural and only added more confusion and not clarity. It’s not like I disliked this show, I think it is worthwhile, it just has too many of the typical now cliche aspects of a certain True Crime podcast that insists on the “Cops are evil. Cops are dangerous. Every White, affluent person is racist to the point of fatal indifference and hate all people of color,” has become such a crashingly predictable and boring perspective. And cut back on the Malcolm Gladwell ads, couldn’t zip thru those fast enough.
Ads are almost 1/2 of ep
6 days ago
Ads make up 12-15min+ of every 30min episodes. Its almost worse than tv. To make it worse they are the same ads over and over. Its mind numbing
Seriously flawed
Dec 13
The presenter constantly makes claims unsupported by the evidence. She constantly makes claims that ignore the very real concerns presented by the friends and family of Mitrice. It seems like she’s in the pocket of local law enforcement. Very disappointing.
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