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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 tr...
A sheriff's suicide finding meets a Punchbowl eyewitness; you get to ask how well the stories fit.
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A source who knew Jennifer Voorhees-Strosley, Lee Voorhees, and Rick Angles says the suicide story had problems from the start.
The episode turns a handful of phone calls and follow-up leads into a clearer question about Ajay's disappearance: why did the suicide story still need to be tested?
A corruption case widens into a look at deputy gangs operating under the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department.
The episode places the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department at the center of a corruption story, using Lee Baca's tenure as a case study in how institutional loyalty can overtake professional law enforcement.
A homicide case tightens as a safe house handoff and wiretap chatter pull the new detective into the middle of it.
Episode 6 pushes the case into homicide territory when Joe Holmes takes over and says plainly that the investigators are dealing with a murder.
Reported stories of responsibility and its consequences.
Elizabeth Plunkett's 1976 murder, told by the family she left
Investigation into the 2009 disappearance and death of Mitrice Richardson after her arrest in Malibu.
This episode introduces the case of Mitrice Richardson, a young woman who vanished after being released from a police station in Malibu.
This episode follows retired narcotics detective Darren Hager as he investigates police corruption and drug trafficking in Antelope Valley, linked to the disappearance of Deputy John Ajay.
Valley of Shadows: Outlaw Country follows Darren Hager and Larry Brandenburg as they investigate John Adjaye’s disappearance amid Antelope Valley meth trafficking and outlaw biker networks.
Valley of Shadows: Episode 2 examines the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department’s suicide ruling after Deputy John Ajay disappeared from Devil’s Punchbowl on June 11, 1998.
Lost Hills: Dark Canyon, Episode 3 follows Erica Wu's grief after Tristan Beaudet was killed while camping with their daughters in Malibu Creek State Park.