The Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors reestablished a $20,000 reward Tuesday for data relating to the disappearance of Mitrice Richardson, a 24-year-old girl who disappeared in 2009 after she was launched from a Malibu sheriff’s station in the course of the evening and was discovered useless a 12 months later.
The episode started when Richardson didn’t pay an $89 tab on the restaurant Geoffrey’s in Malibu. The Sheriff’s Division was known as and Richardson was arrested and brought to the Misplaced Hills/Malibu Sheriff’s Station.
She was launched from custody early within the morning Sept. 17, 2009, with out her automotive. She additionally didn’t have her purse or cellphone on her. She was by no means seen once more.
“My hopes are that for the individuals who dwell in that group … perhaps they’ll discover it of their coronary heart to recollect one thing and produce closure to the household,” stated Michael Richardson, Richardson’s father.
Richardson’s mysterious disappearance, which lasted almost a 12 months, resulted in August 2010 when her skeletal stays have been found in Malibu Canyon. Whereas her dying has not been dominated a murder, her household has insisted previously that she was a sufferer of foul play.
Her household pinned blame on the Sheriff’s Division for releasing Richardson into the evening even if she was affected by a psychological well being episode, they stated.
She had acted bizarrely on the restaurant earlier than her arrest and LAPD investigators subsequently decided that she had in all probability been affected by extreme bipolar dysfunction.
One buddy stated that within the weeks earlier than she disappeared, Richardson had been going round saying she knew Michael Jackson, who was useless, and that she was going to Mars.
When she was at Geoffrey’s restaurant, she additionally spoke about being from Mars.
Regardless of her erratic habits, the sheriff’s deputies on the station had “no authorized justification to deprive her of her freedom,” in line with a report by the Workplace of Unbiased Overview.
