Thank you kindly for the words of welcome, RainyAlaska & HeartGoesOut!
MamaMerced: I’m not sure Matt McCormick’s intentional disappearance would have had anything to do with SC’s case/crime, as it seemed to me that Matt simply did not want to be arrested himself so he went into hiding. Matt lived in Makawao while Steven lived in Haiku, but they were both probably alumni of King Kekaulike High School and may have known each other or partied together.
That’s interesting to know that the N. shore area had a darkness to it back in the late 70s. I’d bet some bad things happened in the area back then which are now long forgotten by most since they occurred in the pre-internet age, before everything was memorialized online for all eternity. ;-)
So, regarding Steven Capobianco’s skull picture, I took the three art images that I found on his Instagram (the skull picture, the dark figure holding the skeleton key, and the picture of paint dripping down the canvas onto a man with an umbrella) and did a reverse Google image search. I thought perhaps SC had created all this art himself, however I discovered that that was not the case. The dark figure holding the key was created by an artist named J.R. Slattum; the paint dripping pic was created by an artist called Bansky. The skull picture we’re all talking about was the ONLY one of the lot that did not show any matching images on the internet. So this one may have been created by SC himself…or it could simply be a picture that he found somewhere locally, like a watercolor that some amateur painter had done and maybe he found it at a flea-market for $1. Who knows.
I'm very curious to find out if SC had any artistic ability and could have painted it himself, because obviously his display of a a skull image that’s missing its jaw, like poor Charli Scott, is a salient piece of information.
FWIW, I brightened the picture so the flames and colors are more visible as the photograph of the painting on his Instagram is very dark:
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RunDaSurf: Yes, definitely would be scary for a perp to draw attention through making a fire. But burning a body would, I’m guessing, eliminate decomposition smells if perp intended to bury the body (in Haiku or wherever).
The most obvious answer is that Charli’s body was thrown into the ocean, but it’s not a given that it would be wholly scavenged by sharks. It could always wash up the next day on a N. shore beach, or just pieces of it like a torso or her head. If SC shot Charli in the face with a gun, it seems like he would want to take no chance that someone would find her body and locate the bullet, because that could tie him to the crime, what with all the guns that he apparently possessed and posted pics of on his instagram (guns that were registered to him?). So it seems like simply dumping her corpse into the ocean would not be so smart idea if he was thinking strategically.
I would think she is buried somewhere, but that would have to be a deep hole to eliminate decomposition smells, as someone mentioned before in this thread, or the body would need to be burned prior to burial.
Thank you for reading, I welcome any thoughts.
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