Episode 307: The (Technically) Unsolved Honolulu Strangler Case

Inhuman: A True Crime Podcast

Inhuman Podcast

True Crime

4.8 • 2.7K Ratings

🗓️ 20 May 2024

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Summary

In the mid 1980s, five women were murdered in Honolulu, Hawaii by a serial killer that became known as “The Honolulu Strangler”. While no one has ever been charged in the case, one suspect who directly lead police to the last victim’s body is believed to be the killer. But unfortunately, Vicki Purdy, Regina Sakamoto, Denise Hughes, Louise Medeiros and Linda Pesce have never gotten justice. Click here to join our Patreon. Connect with us on Instagram and join our Facebook group. To submit listener stories or case suggestions, and to see all sources for this episode: https://www.inhumanpodcast.com/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	What's up you guys? I'm Haley and I'm a and this is Inhuman a true crime podcast. Oh, Welcome back everybody. Happy new day, whenever you're listening to this, hope that something good happens to you today.
0:36.0	Yeah, hope everyone has a great week because last week was Rope.
0:41.0	I feel like that's just the every new week. This is going to be a good week.
0:48.0	This is the one. Yeah, no. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Stuff happens, but unfortunately, this case is not going to be the good thing that happens to you today
0:58.7	because this is not a fun one. It's very interesting though because it is, as you'll see from the title of this,
1:07.0	it is technically unsolved, but me and the whole police force that worked on this case it seems like
1:17.6	kind of don't believe that it's unsolved so I'll leave it at that for now, but it's an interesting one.
1:25.0	All right.
1:28.0	So I feel like a state that we don't hear about as much in the true crime world is Hawaii.
1:35.0	True. Very true. There are only three serial killers that have ever operated in the state or at least known serial killers.
1:44.9	So, you know, compared to other states in the United States, that's a lot lower. Right.
1:53.0	And you just don't hear about it as much.
1:55.8	That doesn't mean there's not crime happening there because there certainly is.
2:00.2	But I feel like I, I mean, I've listened to a lot of true crime podcasts and I feel like I personally just don't hear a lot of cases from Hawaii.
2:09.0	Yeah, I can't think of any off the top of my head. I mean I know they have crime like I know that they do but yeah we just don't maybe we just don't hear the news because it's like off you know a little further yeah yeah yeah
2:25.0	call us yeah but but like I said I said there's only three serial killers who have ever known
2:32.1	serial killers to have operated in the United or in Hawaii and only one has been identified.
2:40.0	Oh, okay. So Eugene Barrett murdered three women who he was romantically involved with in
2:47.1	Honolulu, Hawaii between 1959 and 1995 and he was eventually caught and convicted for his crimes, but there are two other serial
2:56.2	killers that operated in Hawaii that remain unidentified to this day. Known only as the Kauai serial killer and the Honolulu Strangler,
3:07.0	these perpetrators have never been caught for their crimes.
3:10.0	And while there is speculation about who of them, who both of them may be, they have never faced justice for their horrific crimes.
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