Malibu Daily News has learned that LASD investigators are inching closer to make an arrest into murder of a rapper found murdered in a barrel floating at the Malibu Lagoon on July 31st. Javonnta Murphy’s body was identified hours after a lifeguard found a barrel floating in the Malibu Lagoon the morning of July 31st….
On Monday the Malibu community was shocked when a barrel floating in the Malibu Lagoon contained the naked body of a dead man. The barrel was first discovered on Sunday night by a maintenance worker and dragged to shore by a lifeguard the next morning at approximately 10:10 A.M. Sources close to the case say…
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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.
