LIHUE – Kaua’i Police will get some help from the FBI in their search for who killed two women on the island’s west side and attempted to kill a third. FBI agents are expected to arrive on the island Tuesday.
LIHUE – Kaua’i Police will get some help from the FBI in their search for who
killed two women on the island’s west side and attempted to kill a
third.
FBI agents are expected to arrive on the island
Tuesday.
Meanwhile, the CrimeStoppers program of the Honolulu Police
Department, which was asked by Kaua’i Police to help in the investigation, has
received calls from people who saw a police sketch of a man who stabbed a
52-year-old Kekaha woman in May and may be linked to the murders. Callers from
Kaua’i said they know the man, while callers from Oahu said they recognized
him.
The body of Maui resident Daren Singer was found at Pakala Beach last
Wednesday. Police say the 43-year-old woman died of a knife wound after she was
severely beaten and sexually assaulted at her campsite.
Police say Lisa
Bissell, 38, also was beaten, stabbed and sexually assaulted before her body
was found in ditch at Polihale State Park on April 7.
Police on foot and
horseback swept through Westside neighborhoods and along coastlines over the
weekend, looking for information that might help solve the case.
“We have a
number of leads we want to follow up,” said police inspector Mel
Morris.
The attacks bear some similarities to the rapes and murders of five
women on Oahu in the mid-1980s. But police say the killer in the Oahu cases is
almost certainly not the same person.
Five women, ages 17 to 36, were
killed in 1985 and 1986 before Oahu police arrested a suspect and the murders
stopped.
The suspect eventually was released and moved to the
mainland.
Police investigators on both islands say the two sets of cases
are the only “classic” serial murder cases they are aware of in
Hawaii.
The Associated Press contributed to this report.
