At 12:38AM on September 17, 2009 Mitrice Richardson was released from The Malibu Lost Hills Sherrif's Department, where she was last seen. There were a few reports of random sightings that came through shortly after that, which led to theories about where Mitrice might be.
That is until the recent discovery of her body, which was found within 20 miles of the police station that released her without her car, money, or cell phone, in an unfamiliar area 50 miles from her home.
The discovery of Mitrice Richardson's body has finally put an end to speculations about her whereabouts, but there are still some really important questions that remain about the handling of this case, and ultimately about how and why she disappeared in the first place.
Read more about this story on autostraddle:
'This story is about a lot of things: it seems to be, at its core, about racism and city politics. It’s also about the inexcusable ignorance surrounding mental illness on the behalf of city employees entrusted with assessing the fitness of arrested citizens for public release. And it’s about the power and the limitations of community activism and, hopefully, how far that activism can go to enable lasting change.'
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