On September two thousand, nine year old my Trees Richardson disappeared without a trace in the woods near Malibu, California. She had been arrested at a beachside restaurant for failing to pay a tab and taken too the Lost Hills Sheriff station. You know, I mean, she's not from that area, and I would hate to wake up to a morning report somewhere with her head chopped out. At least in the station here to will be separated, so nobody's going to be with her, certainly, you know the bus stances,
you don't have to worry about her safety. This is the same sheriff station where Mel Gibson was taken to sober up after his drunken rant and then safely driven back to his car. There was no courtesy ride from My Trees, the young African American non celebrity. They knew that she had been released with no car, no money, no cell phone, nothing, and in the dead of night.
Her mom calls the next morning to tell them that she never came home, and it's like, oh, well, she probably just you know, they were just very nonchalant and casual about it. She doesn't know the area. She's never been in your area. Well, I think she's suppressed. That's what happened. That more than just her Okay, the police released her just after midnight, and there was nothing right. They had my treats victimized from the moment. They knew that she was not in the right state of mind
she needed to be in, but she needed help. She should I went to a hospital. My Trees disappeared into the darkness and was never seen alive again. If they would put her clothing in the body bag to be buried, you know that they're trying to high So I'm like, if we tell them, we don't know what they're gonna do. I'm Catherine Townsend, a private investor, gator, investigative journalists and
host of the podcast Helen Gone. In the third season of Helen Gone, We're gonna try to find out what really happened to My Trees Richardson, the simple mistakes that are made at the beginning become these huge problems later downline, like because then then the family just doesn't trust the cops, and then you have just like every step of the way is a problem. From School of Humans and I
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