There has been so much discussion about the two missing Maui women… that I wonder why all the missing people on the Big Island aren’t getting more attention?
I sympathize for the Maui families involved… but here on the Big Island… it seems to be an epidemic!
Philip Voelker
Missing since November of 2013
Jonathan Riveira
Missing since January 12, 2014
Robert Keawe Lopaka Ryder
Missing since Thanksgiving, 2013
Malia Pelekane
Missing since January 11, 2014
Addie Cragg
John Spillane aka Kevin Devlin
Kevin Anderson
Missing Since February 13, 2013
Chance Gorelangton-Kuanoni
Charlierose Rodrigues-Kihe
Missing Since December 7, 2012
Marlo Moku
John Eckert
Missing since January 13, 2012
John Hamrick
Pat Enos
Missing Since October 13, 2012
Sabrina Nakaima
Missing since October 24, 2012
Jonah Farmer
Missing since November 10, 2012
Benson Maddison
Chelsey Olival
Briane Castro-Ah Nee
Sean Ryan
Mary Evelyn Pung
Richard Dayle Ainslie
Tearon T. Pacheco-Fernandez
Abcidy Santos
Missing since February 8, 2012
Zachary Akima
Maria Akima
Charren Kaeo Ornellas
Missing Since Thursday 3/29/12
Tori Bowen
Kiana Kekahuna-Foster
Robert Manuel De Castro
Austin Imholt
Wayne Huihui
Missing Since January 31, 2012
Adam Yarbro
Fran Uilani Kaniho
Robert Dalpe
Naomi Sanders
Michelle Gloria Adam
Annad Arkangel
Samuel Wheaton Bower
Missing since December 2, 2009
Kimberly Ann Cardarella
Joshua Scott Curry
Missing since November 25, 1994
Leslie DeloSantos
Daniel Patrick DeSimone
Michaela Anthony Elenes
Willie Dennis Eriksson
Missing since November 7, 2007
Jason Roy Henderson
Jeffrey Allen Henderson
Twila Star Houston
Peter J. Kema Jr. (Aged timeline)
Missing since September 11, 1997
Patricia Alene Kenny
Timothy Joseph Lynch
Mia Yokohama McDonald
Missing since February 8, 2001
Sophie B. Moon
Francesca Anna-Marie O’brien
Roselyn Pawai
John Cameron Reece
Missing since November 25, 1999
Hank Roberts Sr.
Bob Sabaratnam
Missing since November 27, 1998
Masaki Sonomura
Missing since January 31, 2000
William Dwight West
Missing since November 23, 2004
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Joe – True. We are one of the “outer islands”… in the middle of the huge Pacific. Still, does seem a little creepy. And, lets not even start with all the “Chicken Skin Stories” you hear living on this island drenched in history and mystery.
A correction please. I didn’t get Joshua Scott Curry’s name correct and I apologize to his parents and loved ones for this mistake.
Sincerely
Bob Jacobson
Aloha
The police like missing people reports and hate investigating murders. Murders mess up their record and interferes with business as usual. Most of these cases probably are murders. Certainly the Jason Scott case is a murder. If you contact family members of any of these victims most will recognize these losses as murders not runaways.
As a nurse I also got to see that another cop-out for the police and prosecutors are the unattended death reports. Most of these that occur at homes are never properly investigated. A solid percentage of these are murders when looked at more closely by investigators. Of course most of these are illlnesses or suicides.
The Mathison murder of a wife by a cop was only going to be a traffic accident if Friends of Justice hadn’t intervened. Our true murder rate is probably several times what we currently report.
Another version of the same game is played by the Deptartment of Transportation is refusing to recognize traffic deaths as such on private subdivision roads.Poor people just don’t seem to rate as humans to some of our officials.
a hui hou
Councilmember Bob Jacobson Puna/Kau/Soutrh Kona 2002-2008
So many cases here are teenagers or young adults who go off for a few days. They are found and returned, show up at home or a relatives place later. The usual family dramas, messed up relationships, just life. These mundane cases happen constantly and cloud the more serious cases.
Who is really missing? Who just does not want to be found? How does the media, or the police, know what is going on without something like a burned out car to add drama?
Sympathy for the Maui people like you said. I think it might be that our part of the ocean takes people out to sea with no recovery…no conclusion. Mainstream media IMO has an image of Hawaii being Honolulu & Maui alone…Kauai? Molokai? Big Island? What are those?