Tonight on Dateline.

I have so many memories of him at the beach.

Hawaii was his home, you know.

He loved to surf.

I still ask, why would somebody do that?

John Tokohara's body was discovered, lying in a pool of his own blood.

Somebody had shot him, shot him to death like an assassination. It just

still doesn't make sense. There was a backpack found. A lot of cash in it. Was he in debt to someone?

Thousands of text messages. This is a love triangle here. There had been an affair going on.

When I first saw the video and saw the white hat, it looked like a person trying to disguise

themselves to go to a murder.

You can't see a face at all.

He had even disguised his truck.

His coding calculated, man.

How can you sleep at night?

Knowing what you did to John?

How could you?

You're in the dark. Yeah, we were all in the dark.

Even your best friends have secrets, right? Right.

High passions in Hawaii, a surfer murdered in a riptide of revenge. I'm Lester Holt, and this is Dateline.

Here's Keith Morrison with The Bucket Hat Mystery. Okay. Say Hawaii, and the first thing to pass to mind for many is this unmistakable place, this picture, Wikiki.

Of course it does.

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