On September 17th, 2023, many will be honoring the 14th anniversary of the disappearance of Mitrice Richardson who was released from the Lost Hills Station shortly after midnight, with no car, no cell phone and no means to get her to safety. Ten months later, her mummified remains were discovered approximately six miles from the…
Fourteen years ago, Mitrice Richardson took the journey to Malibu, in the midst of what we now know to be a serious mental health episode, which wrongfully landed her behind bars and ultimately cost her her life. Was it murder? Dr. Ronda Hampton and I think so. Hampton, a clinical psychologist and mentor to Richardson,…
Today marks 13 years since the LA County Medical Examiner’s office confirmed the identification of Mitrice Richardson’s partially mummified remains, found just three days before on August 9th, 2010, in a remote area in Malibu Canyon known to locals as “Dark Canyon”. At the time of the discovery, Park Rangers were surveying an area previously…
For over two decades, the family of Gladys Arellano hoped for justice in the 17 year-old’s murder which took place on Super Bowl Sunday in 1996. Arellano’s body was found two days later in Topanga Canyon, 30 feet off a main road in a ravine. Authorities said she was partially clothed and appeared to be…
On Monday July 10th, Malibu City Council is set to review two important items that needs the community’s attention and participation. Poison Free Malibu, who has championed the fight to ban pesticides in Malibu since 2012, are appealing to residents to pressure council to push through policy to ban harmful pesticides in Malibu, which has…
After almost five years behind bars and multiple circus-like appearances before a judge, Anthony Rauda, accused of the murder of Tristan Beaudette and seven other shootings in the Malibu Creek State Park area between 2016-2018, was finally afforded his right to a trial. My sources at the DA’s office were shocked at the speediness of…
In a trial that took more than four years to be finally be heard in front of a judge and tried for only two and a half weeks (our sources at the DA’s office say the trial was expected last more than two months), a jury in the Malibu Creek State Park Shootings case found…
More than 13 years ago, Mitrice Richardson disappeared into the Malibu Hills never to be seen alive again. The high-profile case has continued to gain media attention consistently throughout the years and will continue the trend with the new children’s book series “The Skool Kids” inspired by Dr Ronda Hampton’s journey as an advocate for justice in…
On April 3rd, 2010, the Malibu community was devastated by the tragic death of 13 year old Emily Rose Shane who was struck and killed walking home along the right shoulder of PCH near Heathercliff Drive. Sina Khankhanian, 26, was driving a 2008 Mitsubishi Lancer erratically for several miles on PCH prompting numerous 911 calls…
Almost five years after the murder of Tristan Beaudette at Malibu Creek State Park, the trial for his accuser is about to begin next week. Anthony Rauda who is charged with Beaudette’s death and the attempted murder of nine others including Beaudette’s two children who were in the tent with him when he was shot…
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Malibu Daily News Editor in Chief Cece Woods founded The Local Malibu, an activism based platform, in 2014. The publication was instrumental in the success of two ballot measures, seating three Malibu City Councilmen in 2016 and the supporting the top two vote-getters again in 2020.
During the summer of 2018, Woods exposed the law enforcement cover-up in the Malibu Creek State Park Shootings and a few short months later, provided the most comprehensive local news coverage during the Woolsey Fire attracting over 1 million hits across her social media platforms.
