Ten months ago Mitrice Richardson walked out of a Los Angeles sheriff’s station and mysteriously vanished. Family and friends of the 25-year-old teacher who suffers from bipolar disorder have had no idea where she could have gone, until – potentially – now. Los Angeles County Sheriff’s spokesman Steve Whitmore says investigators have received numerous tips regarding her whereabouts and have reason to believe Richardson is alive and living in Las Vegas.
Investigators are heading to Las Vegas to look into the 80 possible sightings of Richardson that have been reported and are believed to be credible. Whitmore, who is headed to Las Vegas Thursday for a news conference, plans to plead with Richardson and the public in hopes locating the missing woman. His message to Richardson: “You’re not in trouble, you’re not subject to arrest. We just want to know you’re OK. Please contact police or a family member.” Richardson was arrested Sept. 16 after she was unable to pay an $89 bill at Geoffrey’s restaurant in Malibu. According to the Los Angeles Times, in addition to being unable to pay, Richardson was acting “bizarrely and speaking gibberish.” Her car was impounded after her arrest because she was believed to be intoxicated. However, police later released Richardson without a car, cell phone, and purse (which were inside the impounded vehicle) because she appeared rational. She walked away from the station and was never heard from again.
Richardson’s mother doesn’t believe the possibility:
But Richardson’s mother, who is suing the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s department over her daughter’s disappearance, cast doubt on the report. Latice Sutton told HLN’s “Issues with Jane Velez-Mitchell” that the man who reported the sighting hasn’t seen her daughter for a decade. But Sutton told HLN on Thursday, “I do not believe it was her.” She said hundreds of similar reports in Los Angeles have failed to pan out, while the man who reported seeing her in the casino hadn’t seen her daughter since high school. And she questioned why police considered that report believable after dismissing an earlier report by Michael Richardson, the missing woman’s father, that he had spotted his daughter in Las Vegas. Sutton asked. “I do not believe this is Mitrice. Mitrice was last seen at the sheriff’s department.”
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