Oct 1, 2026 · 42 min · 14 segments
As the months pass with no sign of Mitrice, rumors abound. Law enforcement questions the artist behind a creepy mural. And deputies raid a fort in the wilderness looking for human remains. See…
Dana GoodyearHostHannah ParksGuestspeaker_5
During the time Mitrice was missing, a search party organized by Dr. Rhonda Hampton discovered a mural in a culvert high above Monte Nido.
On the cement around two large tunnels, someone had painted a series of naked Black women in various degrading and bizarre poses.
This is Dr. Hampton describing the scene in a video made by documentarian Chip Croft.
This culvert area here is where there was the images that were taken by the searchers of approximately 13 African American women with Afros who were nude in, um, in very graphic, uh, sexually, uh, provocative, um, positions.
At the center, there was a man's face with crazed eyes and a mop of curly red hair.
Along the concrete here were wordings indicating, uh, entering Afro Land, or something similar to that.
Over the side here it said Afro Hoes, H-O-E-S, so Afro Hoes.
There were some other writings on the-
One of the images was of a woman, uh, who was painted blue kneeling on all fours.
On her buttocks area she had a symbol, uh, uh, the, the letters L-A, and she had a marijuana joint out of her mouth.
That's what makes us think that it's possibly that the person is trying to, uh, dis- talk about Mitrice in terms of the fact that she was from LA, that she was accused of having marijuana.
To Mitrice's friends and family, this mural was tantamount to a confession, a narrative depiction of her abduction, rape, torture, and murder.
But the day after it was discovered, when Dr. Hampton went to see it for herself, it was already gone.
This image yesterday was painted, um, with the, with the mural, which is what we're calling it, and here today they've, the city has quickly, uh, come by and painted it over.
There was nothing to see but a swath of beige paint, the kind used by the Graffiti Task Force.
During the time Mitrice was missing, a search party organized by Dr. Rhonda Hampton discovered a mural in a culvert high above Monte Nido.
On the cement around two large tunnels, someone had painted a series of naked Black women in various degrading and bizarre poses.
This is Dr. Hampton describing the scene in a video made by documentarian Chip Croft.
This culvert area here is where there was the images that were taken by the searchers of approximately 13 African American women with Afros who were nude in, um, in very graphic, uh, sexually, uh, provocative, um, positions.
At the center, there was a man's face with crazed eyes and a mop of curly red hair.
Along the concrete here were wordings indicating, uh, entering Afro Land, or something similar to that.
Over the side here it said Afro Hoes, H-O-E-S, so Afro Hoes.
There were some other writings on the-
One of the images was of a woman, uh, who was painted blue kneeling on all fours.
On her buttocks area she had a symbol, uh, uh, the, the letters L-A, and she had a marijuana joint out of her mouth.
That's what makes us think that it's possibly that the person is trying to, uh, dis- talk about Mitrice in terms of the fact that she was from LA, that she was accused of having marijuana.
To Mitrice's friends and family, this mural was tantamount to a confession, a narrative depiction of her abduction, rape, torture, and murder.
But the day after it was discovered, when Dr. Hampton went to see it for herself, it was already gone.
This image yesterday was painted, um, with the, with the mural, which is what we're calling it, and here today they've, the city has quickly, uh, come by and painted it over.
There was nothing to see but a swath of beige paint, the kind used by the Graffiti Task Force.
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