Erica collected her daughters from the playground, and we drove to dinner. As for Erica, wellshe and the girls were getting out of town. There is something so incongruent about violence striking an area this beautiful and celebrity-filled that many of these stories dont make it beyond the local papers. They dont want bad luck, randomness, institutional confusion, simple neglect. In late 2014, after noticing a void in local investigative journalism with the departure of Surfside News founder Ann Sobel, Woods started The Local. Since 1957, GQ has inspired men to look sharper and live smarter with its unparalleled coverage of style, culture, and beyond. They met a long time ago, in high school. Officials close the park where Tristan died. It was like the one thing I didnt want for my girls, you know? Then the Agoura Hills/Calabasas Community Center is broken into for the second time: The burglar shatters a glass window early in the morning and vandalizes a vending machine inside, presumably in search of food. It took hourshundreds of names were read off, and one by one students would come up to collect their diplomas. The campground area of Malibu Creek State Park was closed immediately after the homicide. I mean, if Rauda enters any plea but not guilty, he's a fool.. It was a hard-fought battle won by activists and community members in 2015. He was a scientist who was researching vaccines, that kind of thing. As we sat at the table and talked, her phone pulsed constantly with new notifications. The Guardian UK article Malibu Residents Fear Serial Attacker in Their Scenic Enclavequoted Cece as the editor of an online newsletter linking back to her reporting on the Malibu Creek State Park Shootings. There, he said, the first park employee he spoke with told him there was a lot of weird activity in the park and that the rangers had been told not to be there by themselves and to not go there at night. On the internet, there are outlandish theories about the death of the man in the tent: Why he was killed? He featured in a publication with a young Woods beside him. After Tristans death, his friends and family developed ritualslittle things they would do to remember him by or to keep him alive in their minds a little longer. About anything, really. We retrieved her dog, Milo, a small, slightly aloof ball of white fur, from the carpeted town house where she was living, and walked to pick up her daughters, who were in a day care center nearby. Tristan and Scott looked at each other like, That was fucking awesome. Someone was at fault. Deputies return to the area, but this time, after noticing fresh boot prints during their search, they track their suspect to a ravine north of Mulholland Highway and west of Las Virgenes Road, and finally arrest a 42-year-old man named Anthony Rauda, who is reportedly dressed in all black and carrying a rifle when he is apprehended. We live in a world where most actions go unaccounted for. That night, residents report again hearing gunfire. I know I'll be flying alone with the girls, but it won't be the end of the world, even if it's hard. Because there was no reason that that man had to get murdered there. Erica was coming to the end of her fellowship, and they were thinking that if they could, theyd move back up to San Francisco, where Erica had a lot of family and they both still had friends. As if shed become a character in someone elses story. As bailiffs drag him out, he attempts to fire his court-appointed attorney. In four short years, The Localhas become the most trusted voice in local media. Over the phone, Tristan would tell Erica about his Ultimate Frisbee team, the Air Squids, and how his teammates called him Morris, after Zack Morris from Saved by the Bell, because he was so clean-cut. In late 2014, after noticing a void in local investigative journalism with the departure of Surfside News founder Ann Sobel, Woods started The Local. Also if the police really had a ballistics match, wouldnt they have charged him with murder then and there? How are you going to put that in his hands two years ago, three years ago? He ends up in a traffic jam, his car next to what has become a crime scene, and so he spends 20 long minutes looking over the top of his steering wheel at the two little chairs that remain upright outside the victims tent. One day in early April, I visited her there. In 1892, Rhoda May Rindge, with her husband, a sickly, rich New Englander, bought Rancho Malibu, a former Spanish land grant that stretched from the. From my memory, they never took pictures. So what are we going to do about it?, At the scene of the crime, she said, they were walking all over everything. Three helicopters hover over the park for most of the day, before darkness falls and the manhunt is called off. At the door of their garage, he hugged and kissed Erica, wished her luck on her test, and promised to celebrate with her when they returned the next day. Its not going to bring us closure, she said. When she met Tristan, he seemed like the opposite of everything she was. Most of the other guests at the Malibu Creek State Park campsite dont wake up; those that do later report hearing three to four loud bangs, which they dont reliably identify at first as gunshots. In turn, the local TV stations noticed her work. The most random, terrible thing can happen to you. When they finally got to the top, they rode along the ridge of the Santa Monica Mountains, and on one side was the Valley, spread out below, and on the other was the ocean, and they were up there with the whole view to themselves. In 2018, Woods exposed the law enforcement cover-up in the Malibu Creek State Park Shooting case and provided the most comprehensive coverage during the Woolsey Fire with over a million hits across social media platforms during the most devastating wildfire in Malibus history. But its my way to remember him., Tristans brother Dylan was preoccupied with how people would tell Tristans story, now that he wasnt around to tell it himself. I know it doesnt make sense, but I always wonder, would wouldve happened if I just ignored it? In 2020, Cecebegan exposing the corruption at LA Metro which has lead to national news coverage including working with officials and watchdog organizations in DC. Malibu, California Current City and Hometown No places to show About Cece Activist, Investigative Reporter, Editor in Chief, Messaging Expert. She and Tristan began making plans for a move back north. It felt like a societal defect, or a trend, or I dont even know whatmaybe people have always been this way, like they dont care about their surroundings and their fellow humans and the people around them. Measure W was the second ballot measure Cece was involved in, and the firstmedia campaign spearheaded by her publicationThe Local Malibu,which included a special edition print publication, and proved to be part of a successful strategy winning the No on W ballot initiative in 2015 with 60% of the vote. And I married a few times after that. In four short years, The Local became the most trusted voice in local media and was the only publication to support two successful ballot measures, seat three City Council members, and behind multiple environmental victories for the Malibu Community. But while the tragedys aftermath publicly played out like a new season of, Sex Lives: A Guy Who Left Conservative Morocco for a Florida Blonde, Sex Lives: A Guy Who Draws the Line at Married Men. But, Erica noticed, he wasnt self-conscious. The 17-year-old and her mother were among the hundreds who spoke to the systemic issues of bullying being seen in the region Danielle saying that self-harm was her 'only escape.' Tales of bullying,. I dont know. Who may have done it? One journalist in Malibu, Cece Woods, begins writing on her website The Local Malibu, accusing the LASD of orchestrating a cover-up related to the rash of shootings in the area in order to. Like everyone else, she wonders who did it. The noise from the kitchen while she was still in bed would make her feel safe and taken care of. Rogers was referred to a few different people and ultimately made a formal report with a State Park Peace Officer. How to get the kids to school every day? Season 2 takes place in the late 70s and early '80s, as Malibu was changing from a low-profile beach town into a celebrity haven, full of new money and hard drugs. And the fact that we didn't know about itbecause if we had, we wouldn't have gone. Tristan and I had put off so many things that we had wanted to do that I regret now. She grew up in Malibu, California, where she still resides. She was wearing boots, jeans, and a sweater, and looked both very young and somehow years beyond 37, the age shed turned a few weeks earlier. And I recognized him. Like, You want to go on-camera and talk about this? I'm like, Yeah. Having spent time on the range, Woods noted, she could identify the sound of the gun based on the shot having a slight echo. Woods obtained what she claimed was an internal sheriffs department memo, issued the same day it was announced that the campground would re-open, asking deputies to drive through when time permits, in order to help calm any concerned residents. and messaging skills in her first high-profile environmental battle,the Malibu Lagoon Restoration Project and from there became instrumental in Malibu Politics with her involvement inthe success ofMeasure R, Measure W and backing the winning candidates in the 2016 and 2020 City Council races. There will be a trial; the states suspect has pleaded not guilty. They wanted to cover it up because Malibu is a perfect city. When the first State Parks guy looked at me and said, This doesn't happen hereright there, I was like, This is bullshit. In March, Monte Nido residents reported hearing gunfire just after 3 a.m. Want to kill off the sickmake sure hospitals do not have reliable electricitythis will stop the machines from working. I think deep down, too, I think I know that no matter what happens, that it's not going to change anything for us. Maybe theres always been a lack of respect. The hospital gave him a shot for rabies and sent him home. Being a parent made Tristan happy. They've got night vision goggles. This guy is not that guy. We were sitting at the dining room table in her town house after shed put her daughters to bed. Tristan found a new job at a pharmaceutical company in the area. thorough and meticulous reporting strategy has resulted in criminal investigations at the local and federal level and continues to develop a solid network of sources, many of whom are stepping forward to fight public corruption and the injustices perpetrated by elected officials whose decision making during these unprecedented times has resulted in economic collapse. And this is what happens when consequences dont matter. We ended up getting together not long after that. People who had lived in Malibu for a while remember that this isnt the first time something terrible and inexplicable has happened out in the remote hills that loom beside their city. The suspect, he says, was just crazy, shooting people. He thought it was suspicious that Rauda had been apprehended so close to the original crime scene: If he knew he killed someone, why didnt he get rid of the rifle and go to a different campground? And some residents reported hearing gunshots long after the suspect was captured, right? The warrants includedformer LA Metro CEO and FAA nominee Philip Washington. To Erica, there was no mystery to this mystery: Her husband was gone. She went to the woman's gated apartment complex. What happened remained unfathomable, even to her. He and Scott and their kids drove north to Malibu Creek State Park. In January 1981, Verna Johnson-Roehler and her young son, Doug, drowned while boating thirty miles off the coast of Malibu. The 2020 pandemic inspired Cece to develop two new publications, The Current Report and Cali Mag. Thats what some residents in the area begin to theorize. Tristan wanted two. So it was easy for people to start putting together these stories, and, you know, if you're the first one that's what people believe. She just misses him. Shed just decided this, she told me. The Local Malibu was behind the fight to save a1oo+ year old Sycamore tree in front of the Malibu Lagoon from being torn down for a development project. And also I think, obviously, I'm trying to get as far away as possible from lots of things. Could you just die from being in the wrong place at the wrong time? They didnt see each other as often as they wouldve liked. They were kids, with no real sense of what was going to come next, except that they were both going to leave Fresno for good. He didnt overthink things or worry too much. And the reports that I got were definitely not Rauda's description. Maybe theyre making him a scapegoat, he says. It took both of them time to adapt to Orange County, where everything was a drive away from everything else. One couple, living in a particularly remote house in the hills above the ocean, arm themselves with two shotguns for the purpose of home protection; they join their neighbors at the local gun range one weekend, practicing for what may yet come. Look at most politicians. The man in the tent had been a scientist at a pharmaceutical company; had he been targeted for assassination due to something valuable he was working on? It'll still be an adventure. Woods was the only local Malibu media on the ground during the Woolsey Fire and provided the most comprehensive coverage generating over a million hits across social media platforms during the most devastating wildfire in Malibu's history. In 2012, Cece became involved in local environmental and political activism at the urging of former husband Steve Woods, a resident for more than 4o years. June 22 will mark the one- year anniversary of Tristans death. Speculation, too, was that Beaudette was a professional hit, she said. That had to have been done with a scope. Later, at his memorial, shed recount this storyit showed something fundamental about him, she thought, that peculiar mix of modesty, accomplishment, quiet pride. But they were finding a way to stay together. A Facebook post by Cece Woods, whose bio says she is a co-host & news radio producer at TNT Radio as well as an investigative journalist, claimed that Claudia was found safe and was o her way. Cece was active with local environmentalists by participating in protests and putting added pressure on local government officials to pass the ban. We asked them if they wanted to take pictures. For the first couple of months, Nolan said, Id make two and then dump the second one out. Even last year, when Tristan and I were trying to decide what to do in July, we had thought about it, but we were like, We can't fly with our kids. Even with the two of us. Erica was ready for it to end, but at the very end of a long ceremony, the school handed out an award for the highest GPA in the entire college. So maybe there was a dangerous man with a gun on the loose? She exposed the counterfeit mask scandal LA Metro and the two-year law enforcement cover-up in the Malibu Creek State Park Shootings. But Scott and Dylan and Erica and her family: They had the actual, tangible reality of it. This isn't how it's supposed to be. The effect, she said, was a feeling of standing outside herself. Her name is Erica Wu. Cece spent part of her life outside of her hometown, at least in Oregon where her kids grew up. 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