Media Releases

Leilani Kim (Castro) was a recently divorced mother of three who had just started a new job at the Kona Hilton Hotel, now Royal Kona Resort, when she was found murdered in Kailua-Kona on Aug. 1, 1978. She was last...

On April 6, 1973, some high school kids checking out the area near Kahikolu Trinity Church in the Nāpoʻopoʻo area (Kealakekua) discovered the partially decomposed body of a woman. Later identified as 21-year-old Gayle Hook, the pathologist said Gayle died of...

On January 31, 2001, at 5:17 p.m., a passerby discovered the body of Kallen Agliam, age 19, on the side of the roadway off of the old Hilo Coast Processing Plant Road in Pepe’ekeo. An autopsy determined that Agliam died...

When Sean Burgado, age 27, did not show up for work for a few days in May 1997, his employer asked a neighbor to check Burgado’s home in the upper Waiakea Uka area of Hilo. The neighbor discovered Burgado’s body...

A little after 9 a.m. on November 2, 2003, a hunter discovered the decomposed body of a man in a remote area off of Saddle Road (Route 200) near the 12 mile-marker in South Hilo. Suspicious injuries were observed and...

On May 1, 1987, at 9:15 p.m., Lynn Ebisuzaki, age 26, walked out of a residence she was visiting in the 500 block of Kanoelehua Avenue near the airport in Hilo. When people in the home realized she had not...

On August 12, 1996, around 3:45 p.m., the body of Glenn Guerrero, age 18, was discovered off a dirt road above the Shipman Ballpark, now known as the Buddy Perry Soccer Fields in Keaʻau. An autopsy determined that Guerrero died...

On June 1, 1999, at 2:47 p.m., police responded to Waipiʻo Valley after beachgoers reported finding a body buried in the sand near the beach. The body was found to be in an advanced state of decomposition and was transported...

Hawai`i Police DepartmentTraffic Services SectionTorey D. Keltner Program ManagerPhone: (808) 961-2305 Media Release During the week of August 19, 2024, through August 25, 2024, Hawai`i Island police arrested twenty-two (22) motorists for driving under the influence of an intoxicant.  Four...