A woman who was arrested and released in 2018 for the murder of a 66 year-old nurse, was arrested again today for that same murder. Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department investigators told Malibu Daily News that after a five-year long investigation, they have gathered the necessary probable cause to issue a warrant for Cherie Townsend’s…
Last week, bestselling crime author and Calabasas resident Lee Goldberg, shared footage media outlets of intruders on his property in what looked like an attempt at a home invasion until the suspects saw Goldberg on the phone – that phone call turned out to be law enforcement. Goldberg’s neighbor had just been burglarized before Thursday’s…
CC UNIT, a child activist organization that catches online predators preying on minors, caught Scott Woeckel, a Senior Analyst-Instructional Systems at Pepperdine School of Law, who was attempting to meet up with what he thought was a 13 year old girl, for sex. CC Unit lured Woeckel into meeting in person after communicating on an…
A disturbing burglary trend in Malibu continues as another home on the Point is hit this week stripping the home of everything of value – including their cars. An email alerting neighbors was sent out by a local resident: “Just wanted to give a heads up that our friends, house got robbed … at around…
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…
Last week, the body of aspiring rapper Javonnta Murphy was discovered by lifeguards at the Malibu Lagoon sending the community into a panic. This wasn’t the first time a body was found at the Malibu Lagoon bringing the last incident to mind for local when model Beldina Nyadwe’s nude body was discovered just after noon on…
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…
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…
UPDATE 7/20/23 8:57 a.m.: The Lost Hills Station notified local security at businesses that were harassed by Conor Pilch that he was released from custody as of Wednesday July 19th. The community should be on alert. UPDATE 7/18/23 8:57 a.m.: The suspect arrested yesterday is identified as Conor Arthur Pilch who was arrested on May…
Two homes on the 380o block of Malibu Country Dr. were burglarized on July 10th, between the hours of 3-4 p.m. according to one of the residents involved in the incident who contacted Malibu Daily News. Last year, two burglaries took place on June 22nd and another on July 2nd. The suspects took jewelry, cash…
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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.
