Mitrice Richardson; a few questions

Right: Mitrice Richardson

The Prairie Chicken
October 2, 2009
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1. What SHOES did Mitrice have on that night? It may sound like a weird question, but she looks like a stylish young woman who would probably wear heels with her jeans.
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2. How far could she get down the canyon on a narrow two lane road in the dark in high heels?
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3. Where were her purse, wallet, ID, cell phone, etc?
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4. In the impounded car? if so, why would they leave it in the car when they transported her to the sub-station?
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5. When arrested in Malibu, are people normally separated from their id and personal items?
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6. How did it come about that the Sheriff's deputies searched her car? There was Valet parking, so someone had made the call to the valet to bring it around. Was it the manager who was afraid for her safety behind the wheel or the deputy who was going to arrest her for non-payment?
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7. Why would she consent to a search if she knew there was pot in the car, and she was going to jail as it was? It would have been cheaper to leave her car there and pay for the parking when she came back to pay the bill. You'd think.
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8. How could she have claimed her car later with no ID?
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9. Who was working the Sheriffs office that night? Need a list of every person.
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10. Why hasn’t the Sheriff’s office investigated the two calls they allowed Mitrice to make at the station? Was she held to the two call rule?
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11. Did she want to make other calls but was refused? I ask because they make this two-phone-call point in several investigative updates.
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12. Why does the Sheriff’s office give conflicting stories?
A. They let her go because they had no room to keep her.
B. They had no reason to hold her and she was an adult.
C. She was offered an unlocked cell to sleep in.
D. She was offered the lobby couch to sleep on.
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13. When the call came in at 6:30am about the woman sleeping on the porch in Monte Nido, who was the responding officer?


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Left: a typical neighborhood in the Monte Nido area, where Mitrice tried to rest.
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14. Were there really "calls" from nearby "residents" who reported a woman stumbling around the neighborhood on Friday morning?
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15. What shift hours do the officers at the Sheriffs department work?

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16. Where is the video from inside or outside the Sheriff’s office that night? Why would the Sheriff’s Office camera’s not be functional?
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17. Why won't the sheriff's office give a copy of her arrest record to the family? They say its because she is an adult. But if she is missing and single, who else would they be open with?
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18. Adults report adult family members missing all the time--are Sheriff Office processes always inaccessible to any one except for the missing person? Would that even make sense?
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19. Why haven’t the Sheriff’s Office or LAPD retrieved the surveillance tape from the restaurant, which Jeff Peterson says IS available?
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20. Again, why would the Sheriff’s Office camera’s not be functional? That sounds like bullcrap.
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21. Why would the LACSO point out that there were convenience stores a mile away, when they are clearly (by Google Earth) in the opposite direction of where she supposedly walked, down the canyon?
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22. When did LAPD link the missing person report with the LACSO incident involving Richardson?
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23. Did they ever? Was it the family that put this together?
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Several possibilities come to mind. Since I am an admitted crime junkie, my first thought is foul play.
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Some psycho or sicko just crossed paths with an impaired victim. This doesn't seem likely because of the remoteness of the area. There are many more potential victims in the city.
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My next theory will not be popular with law enforcement. It's possible that a person who interacted or observed her at the Sheriff's office picked her up after their shift. She would probably accept a ride from someone from there who she had seen and was familiar with. That person would also know she had no id, money or cell phone on her.
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Check out the photo at above right. Imagine walking down road like that and worse, in the dark and in the middle of the night. Add to that the fact that in at least two areas the road cuts a tunnel through the mountain.
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The Monte Nido area, where Matrice is reported to have stopped to rest occupies its own valley off of Malibu Canyon Rd. There is a traffic light at the intersection of Malibu Canyon Rd and Piuma Road. By the time she got to the light, she would have walked through a section of Malibu State Park. At 6:30am, she would have been walking for five hours.
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Did, in fact, Janette Goeglein see Mitrice back on Malibu Canyon Rd at 7:30am?
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Could Mitrice have been hit by a car and knocked into the canyon? The sunrise could have caused a glare--someone did not see her in time? In some places along that road it would be impossible to see from the road. You certainly couldn't from the road just driving in a car.
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I'd like to see the Sheriff's office and Malibu PD walk that entire road slowly searching the drop-offs all the way down.
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Sorry to rant and ramble. Just have all these questions...