Content warning, this episode contains descriptions of murder and violence against women.

We also preemptively apologize for any mispronunciations heard in the episode. In November, the night skies in Hawaii cloud

over then open up. It's not the rainiest month in the Aloha state, but it does mark the end of the hurricane season and the start of Ho-O-Wilo, or winter, on the islands.

So the rain was perhaps the least shocking part of Roger Rivera's story.

The story he told police about what he saw and did in the early hours of the morning of November 20, 2015.

A noontime drizzle the day before had swelled into an ongoing downpour.

By 3 a.m. on the 20th, the rain was

splashing down the windows of the home Rivera shared with his wife

and Kalihi, a neighborhood in Honolulu.

That's when Rivera's 25-year-old son, Jun Lee Ira Rarita, appeared.

June Lee had caused the family a lot of worry over the years. He was estranged from his parents at this point, a homeless addict hooked on crystal meth.

And he'd had problems with women too. He'd threatened a former girlfriend,

scaring her to the point where she took out a restraining order against him.

But then, on that night in November, Jun Lee revealed to his drowsy parents that he just

done something far, far worse.

The family rented an apartment in their basement to Helen Pristosa, a 39-year-old manager at a

jack-in-the-box on Capiolani Boulevard. June Lee told his father that he just killed her and needed

some help.

His father went downstairs with Junley and helped his son load the body of the murdered woman into the back of June Lee's pickup truck.

Then he watched his son drive off into the storm. When Rivera shared

this story with police a few months after Helen disappeared, we assume they

must have thought they had a slam dunk case against June Lee.

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