MURDERED: Mitrice Richardson

When the staff at Geoffrey’s restaurant in Malibu encountered a patron who was acting strangely on the evening of Wednesday, September 16, 2009, they called authorities in hopes they would get the woman some help. Authorities later released the woman, 24 year old Mitrice Richardson, in the middle of the night with no car, phone, or wallet. Nearly a year later Mitrice’s remains were found in a remote area of Malibu Canyon, but authorities have yet to determine what happened to her. Listen in as Maggie is joined by “Truer Crime’s” Celisia Stanton as they seek to determine where the fault lies in one of L.A.’s most prolific unsolved cases.

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