SEC=UGA Posted August 13, 2010 Share Posted August 13, 2010 (CNN) -- Skeletal remains found in a remote area of Malibu Canyon on Monday are those of Mitrice Richardson, a California woman who disappeared last year, Los Angeles County Sheriff Lee Baca said Thursday. Richardson, 24, was last seen leaving a sheriff's station in Malibu after being detained by sheriff's deputies on a citizen's arrest complaint made by a restaurant manager in September. "We have no indication of a homicide at this point," Baca said. "I don't believe that the remains are capable of telling us a story." The remains, which included a human skull, were found Monday by park rangers searching the area for Josh Gordon groves, said Los Angeles County Sheriff's spokesman Steve Whitmore. "It's incredibly treacherous terrain," Whitmore said of the remote site. "There is no road, no trail even if you know exactly where you are going." The woman's father reacted angrily after watching the sheriff's news conference from the rear of the room. "Now you guys are going to see the real Michael Richardson come out," Michael Richardson said. Richardson said he was holding sheriff's deputies responsible for his daughter's death, either because of negligence or criminal intent. "Why can't I speculate? Maybe the sheriff had something to do with it," Richardson told reporters. Mitrice Richardson was taken to the sheriff's station after she was unable to pay her $89.51 food and drink tab at a Malibu restaurant on the evening of September 16, 2009. A restaurant employee told the 911 dispatcher that she was "sounding crazy." After deputies determined she had no money to pay, the manager lodged a citizen's arrest complaint against Richardson. Her car was towed, and she was taken to the sheriff's station. Richardson was given a court date and released just after midnight, but her car was still impounded with her cell phone inside it, according to an investigation conducted by an independent commission. "Based on my daughter's mental condition that night, she wasn't able to fend for herself," Richardson said. "Mel Gibson gets driven to his car, and Charlie Sheen gets taken to his house." Her family has said the college honors graduate and former beauty queen suffered from mental health issues. "The deputies acted properly, but properly doesn't necessarily mean that we couldn't do something more," Baca said Thursday. One change may be in how deputies handle citizen's arrest complaints from businesses, he said. "Is an $89 bill enough to take someone into the jail? There is more than one way to handle a problem," Baca said. Her father wants more than a policy review by the county. Richardson called for a state law named after his daughter to prevent it happening again to someone else. "I guarantee you the Mitrice Richardson law will say no one -- man, woman or child -- will be released in Malibu for some predator that wears a five-star badge to attack or do whatever they want." he said. Richardson said he was suggesting it might have been the work of "someone in law enforcement." "It's clearly a set up by someone," he said. The independent review released Thursday said Richardson's mother, Latice Sutton, "was vacillating on whether to let Ms. Richardson spend the night in jail so that she could learn a lesson; however, she made it clear if Malibu/Lost Hills personnel were going to release Ms. Richardson that night, Ms. Sutton would travel there to pick her up." Her mother did not learn she was released until 5:30 a.m. the next day, it said. She then filed a missing persons report, which began the search for Richardson that did not end until this week. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
untateve Posted August 13, 2010 Share Posted August 13, 2010 I don't know enough about this story. However, having seen someone who is psychotic or in the midst of a manic episode, let's just say their judgment is poor and bad things can and do happen. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dmarc117 Posted August 13, 2010 Share Posted August 13, 2010 (edited) who are you saying is crazy? the sheriff? the dad? if its the dad, how can u say that? he just lost a daughter. Edited August 13, 2010 by dmarc117 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SEC=UGA Posted August 13, 2010 Author Share Posted August 13, 2010 who are you saying is crazy? the sheriff? the dad? if its the dad, how can u say that? he just lost a daughter. He lost his daughter a year ago and is stating that the police may have killed her after they released her from custody... Dude is crazy. The lady was an adult, if it was her time to get out of jail they can not hold her against her will. They had to release her. Secondly, he would be screaming just as loudly had they held his daughter in a cell at the police station for a longer period of time. And finally, crazy people are released from jail all the time. Drunk people are released from jail all the time. When and how would one determine at what point someone is lucid enough to be released from jail? Do we have to have a psychiatrist and M.D. at every jail to determine when it is appropriate for some one to be released. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alexgaddis Posted August 13, 2010 Share Posted August 13, 2010 He lost his daughter a year ago and is stating that the police may have killed her after they released her from custody... Dude is crazy. The lady was an adult, if it was her time to get out of jail they can not hold her against her will. They had to release her. Secondly, he would be screaming just as loudly had they held his daughter in a cell at the police station for a longer period of time. And finally, crazy people are released from jail all the time. Drunk people are released from jail all the time. When and how would one determine at what point someone is lucid enough to be released from jail? Do we have to have a psychiatrist and M.D. at every jail to determine when it is appropriate for some one to be released. Awfully defensive, where were YOU that night... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SEC=UGA Posted August 13, 2010 Author Share Posted August 13, 2010 Awfully defensive, where were YOU that night... It was a Wednesday, I was in church, of course. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Yukon Cornelius Posted August 13, 2010 Share Posted August 13, 2010 It was a Wednesday, I was in church, of course. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Clubfoothead Posted August 13, 2010 Share Posted August 13, 2010 Dad seems perfectly sane to me. In murder cases, isn't the last person to see the victim alive always an suspect? In this case that's the cops. She was most likely followed from the sheriff office by one of the unscrupulous lots malingering around those places late at night, raped and murdered. Walk around Lew Sterett in the day is dangerous even with all the cops there. Let alone late at night. It was a lotto ticket for some deranged psychopath to see some beauty queen obviously not mentally there wandering lost from the cop's office. I'd be f*cking pissed too if my daughter got raped, murdered and dumped in a schwag field to rot after the cops arrested her for a $90.00 bar tab. As an aside, maybe the LA Sheriff should be in charge of collecting the BP fines. That's about the only way those clowns will get what they deserve. Of course like Dad said, them rich dudes get rides home once released. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rattsass Posted August 13, 2010 Share Posted August 13, 2010 Wow, everybody defending a conspiracy theory. It's good we can all come together sometimes and agree that things may not be as they seem. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TimC Posted August 13, 2010 Share Posted August 13, 2010 She probably raped herself and commited suicide. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rattsass Posted August 13, 2010 Share Posted August 13, 2010 She probably raped herself and commited suicide. Sounds plausible. Was her name "America"? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TimC Posted August 13, 2010 Share Posted August 13, 2010 Sounds plausible. Was her name "America"? I was just giving the cops version....maybe I should've thrown in some public safety garbage too. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
westvirginia Posted August 13, 2010 Share Posted August 13, 2010 Awfully defensive, where were YOU that night... It was a Wednesday, I was in church, of course. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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