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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.