Murder Mountain True Story
The True Story Behind Netflix's Murder Mountain Is Horrifying
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Murder Mountain introduces the story of Garrett Rodriguez right at the start of the series and focuses on his disappearance throughout. Rodriguez was a young surfer and fishing enthusiast who — though his family begged him not to — decided to take two years off and move from San Diego to Humboldt County in December of 2012 to work on a marijuana farm. He began growing marijuana on a ranch in an area known as Rancho Sequoia, which first became a popular location for marijuana farming in the late '70s. However, he wasn't there for long before friends and family realised that they hadn't seen Rodriguez since sometime between Christmas 2012 and New Year's Eve, and Rodriquez's father officially reported him as missing in April 2013.
Rodriguez wasn't the first person to go missing from Rancho Sequoia, however. The area earned the nickname Murder Mountain after the 1982 murder of Clark Stevens, who had reportedly been murdered by the San Francisco Witch Killers, a serial killer duo composed of married couple Suzan and Michael "Bear" Carson. Rancho Sequoia was also allegedly the last place where Robert Tennison was spotted before he went missing in January of 2009, after he went to the area to get paid for a construction job.