As of 2018, there have been no arrests or formal charges for the death of Garrett Rodriguez, and as of January of 2018, there were 35 people on the California Attorney General's database of missing persons from Humboldt County, making it the county with the highest rate of missing persons reports in the state of California.
This alarming number of disappearances recently gained national attention when Bekah Martinez from Arie Luyendyk Jr.'s season of The Bachelor was reported missing in November of 2017 after Martinez told her mother that she was going to work on a marijuana farm in Humboldt County. News of her disappearance was included in a North Coast Journal article, titled "The Humboldt 35," and though it turned out that Martinez was fine, plenty of others still were not.
Lt. Steve Knight of the Humboldt County Sheriff's Department told CBS San Francisco that disappearances may be so prevalent in the area because local marijuana farmers don't feel comfortable working with law enforcement. For them, marijuana is their livelihood, and they fear what the introduction of a concentrated police presence in the area will do to their community and their farms. Humboldt County may have once been known best for their marijuana output, but as Netflix's Murder Mountain explores, the area has become known for something far more insidious, and the problem will only continue unless people are willing to talk.