The Kauai Serial Killer

Unresolved

Unresolved Productions

True Crime, Society & Culture, History

4.5 • 2.6K Ratings

🗓️ 1 July 2024

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Summary

"We have now, since April, three violent crimes, all sexual in nature, and the victims seem to fit the same profile..."

Between April and August of 2000, three violent crimes shook the southwestern shores of Kauai. The fourth largest of the Hawaiian islands, this was a region that rarely saw violent crime on this scope. For it to happen three times in such a short amount of time was unheard of. In response, residents began fearing that they would be next.

As police struggled to ascertain who this strange attacker was, questions began to be raised about whether or not these three crimes were even related...

Research, writing, hosting, and production by Micheal Whelan

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0:00.0	This episode contains graphic content that may not be suitable for all ages.
0:08.0	Listen or discretion is advised.
0:10.0	If you or someone you know is struggling or in crisis, help is available.
0:15.0	Call or text 988 or chat with someone at 988 Lifeline.org.
0:21.0	Those outside of the US, reach out to someone at your local crisis center or hotline.
0:26.0	Please do not suffer in silence. I'm going to For many of us, Hawaii is a place we day dream about merely visiting, a place where we save up money and vacation time throughout the year in order to splurge and lap up the sun, the beaches, the amazing food, and the laid-back culture.
1:04.2	For some, even small vacations in Hawaii seem like an unobtainable luxury, and we envision
1:10.2	that living there must surely be akin to paradise.
1:14.3	The fourth largest of the Hawaiian Islands, Kauai lies 73 miles northwest of Oahu,
1:20.9	with a permanent population of just over 73,000.
1:24.9	Nicknamed the Garden Isle, Kauai is a place of immense natural beauty,
1:29.7	and is one of the islands visited most by tourists from not only the mainland U.S. but from other nations.
1:36.7	In addition to its beautiful scenery, Kauai is also home to incredibly fertile land, where a wide variety of crops are grown such as guava,
1:45.6	coffee, sugarcane, mango, bananas, avocato, pineapple, the list goes on.
1:51.6	Despite attempts by billionaires like Mark Zuckerberg to buy up land on the island for his own private use,
1:57.6	Kauai is still home to an incredibly rich culture that persevevers to this day.
2:03.0	Yet as I mentioned, while many of us dream about Kauai as a paradise where problems just melt
2:08.7	away in the surf and sand, the island is not a stranger to burdens such as violent crime.
2:15.0	As stated by Sue Canoho, the executive director of the Kauai Visitors Bureau
2:20.0	to the Los Angeles Times in 2001.
2:23.0	Kauai is such a sweet little place that people think it's immune to the kinds of problems that plague other destinations.
2:30.0	As we'll explore in this episode, that is not the case. This is the story of the Kauai serial killer. The Oh, At around 2 p.m. on Friday, April 7th, 2000, the body of a woman was discovered near
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