Mitrice Richardson’s Body Found: Family Wants Answers

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The tragic story of Mitrice Richardson has been spiraling out of Los Angeles for nearly a year, but is finally garnering national attention today when the 25-year-old’s substitute teacher’s remains were found in a Malibu Canyon park. The sad story took investigators everywhere from California to Las Vegas, where they had been searching for Richardson most recently based on tips from people in the area.

On September 17, 2009, Richardson was said to have stumbled into a restaurant off the Pacific Coast Highway, alone, and caused a disturbance. Witnesses claimed she was clearly intoxicated, and she even ended up sitting with a group of strangers, interrupting their meal. The final straw for managers at the restaurant was when Richardson was unable to pay her $89 dinner bill, and they called the police to come and get her.

What happened after she left with the cops remains a mystery, and her family is demanding answers.
After being arrested, Richardson was taken to the Malibu-Lost Hills police station and booked for not paying for her food and a small amount of marijuana found in her car, which was impounded upon her arrest. Though witnesses at the restaurant thought she was acting “out of the ordinary,” police officers at the station claimed Richardson was acting normally, even declining the offer to stay in jail overnight, despite not having anyone in the area to come to get her. Post-booking, she was released by police in the middle of the night, without her car or a cell phone on her. That was the last anyone saw her until her body was discovered early this morning.

Friends and family claimed that Mitrice was heading down a slippery slope, acting unlike her usual self shortly before her disappearance, but no one expected her tragic end. Now, her family is demanding answers, especially from the police station that released her into the night without any way to get home. Her parents have both filed lawsuits claiming police negligence, and her father insists that “someone will be held accountable.” The investigation into the police’s actions and Richardson’s death is ongoing.
What do you think? Do you think the police were wrong to release her in the middle of the night, even if Mitrice claimed she was fine?
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