Richards spent the first 12 years of her career at newspapers such as Los Angeles Daily News and San Gabriel Valley Tribune, where she was nominated for a Pulitzer Prize for an investigation into prisoners who mysteriously died in jail. She also won numerous journalism awards, including the coveted Associated Press Best of the West and two from the California Newspapers Publishers Association. Richards is an old-school reporter who likes to dig for information at crime scenes, track down witnesses and attend criminal trials. During her career, she has written thousands of crime stories and covered more than 100 trials at various stages including those involving OJ Simpson, Michael Jackson, Anna Nicole Smith, the Aryan Brotherhood, Rodney Alcala, and the Night Stalker. Comments