True Crime DEADLINE Trailer

True Crime investigators sit back, buckle up and get ready to talk cold cases, murder, mystery and missing.

EMMY winning Crime & Justice Correspondent Matt Johnson dusts off his reporter notebooks and digs into the most disturbing cases he has covered, cases he has followed for years and those that continue to haunt him today.

Matt calls the podcast his true crime journal. Each crime-bite sized episode is around 30 min. packed with new details, exclusive interviews from family and friends of the victims and behind the scenes facts never reported on tv from the crime scene tape.

Transcript

Speaker 1 0:02

From the Hollywood hills to your ear holes. This is True Crime DEADLINE, a podcast discussing cold cases, murder mysteries and completely random thoughts. Now here's your host, a man who stands in front of crime scene tape and talks on the TV box for a living Mr mystery himself, Matt Johnson, so I'm calling this my true crime adventure. Welcome to it. My name is Matt Johnson as the announcer man said and I am a TV journalist and I have been a boots on the ground reporter and journalist for more than 20 years.

Speaker 2 0:42

We're going to be dusting off those reporter notebooks and we're going to be talking about cases that I have covered, followed, and those cases that still haunt me today. We're going to get you some new information on old cases and our fair share of murder mysteries. Some cases you may have never even heard of like this case that a Malibu about a missing woman 10 years ago that we're going to be covering later in the season. Take a listen.

Speaker 3 1:09

Mitrice Richardson was arrested in September for not paying an$89 tab at a swanky Malibu restaurant. Police released her from a remote substation in the middle of the night with no car, no purse, no money and no phone. She just disappeared

Speaker 4 1:27

A sad update to a Strange story that began nearly a year ago. Skeletal remains found in Malibu Canyon earlier this week have been identified as Mitrice Richardson. Mitrice's case in particular, it's already been adjudicated civilly on the lawsuit side, but there's still a lot of questions that are on the answer that people need to know the answers for.

Speaker 3 1:45

Even though it's been, gosh, almost 10 years now coming up on 10 years, it is still the most fascinating case for me and Los Angeles County,

Speaker 2 1:56

There are a lot of twists and turns in that case and actually new developments, so I can't wait to share that story in our investigation with you on that one. Every episode we're also going to have a case experts. We're going to bring in guests from the true crime community. They're going to help us investigate. This is going to be my cameraman there at the scene, producers, prosecutors, and also some of the victims that have to live with this crime that happened to them and their loved ones. And we're also going to be talking about what was happening during that true crime year. Can you guess the year at first, this is a little taste of our first podcasts,

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2011 Arizona Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords. How's it been shot like Oj before her Casey Anthony approved. You can get away with murder. Allegedly they are the 99% occupied Wall Street occupied everywhere. When you play the game of Thrones, you win or you die. The wedding, I don't know man. I was banging seven gram rocks and finishing them because that's how I roll. I have one speed, I have one gear go and then say say bye to the space shuttles and the fight will lift off of discovery. This year's best new artist, was it Drake Bieber? Nope. As Spaulding. Wait, when sexy and I know it.

Speaker 2 3:14

Okay, so don't judge me on those clips that we chose. That's what was available on the inner webs as the kids say, but we are going to be sharing with you a lot of details especially out of that first case that we are covering out of 2011 is the case of Rebecca Zahau who was found dead in Coronado California at a mansion that overlooks San Diego. She died in the backyard of this Spreckels mansion one day after the kid that she was babysitting, her boyfriend's son died[after falling] down the stairs and her family, they don't believe it was a suicide. They say that she was murdered and there is new information in the case. I have the backstory. I stood there on day one at the crime scene tape and I'm going to share with you that story. That's our first episode. Very exciting stuff, so head on over to our website. It is www.truecrimedeadline.com the podcast is going to be coming soon so please subscribe to that and please tell your friends buckle up. This is going to be a true crime ride.

Speaker 1 4:15

Thank you for investigating True Crime DEADLINE with Matt Johnson. For more information about the podcast visit www.truecrimedeadline.com and remember, all tips regarding a case should go to the police until next time.