So far everything is plain as day. Car burnt and abandoned at JAWS. Yep that's where everybody does it. Doors left up by Old Maui High. Yep that's where I have found plenty parts. Stevens guilt. Yep obvious IMHO. The questions remain how and where Charli and Joshua were killed. We might never know. Perhaps only Steven knows, perhaps not. Maybe that OK that we dont know if we can convict him of the general crime of Murder and a life sentence is handed down.
So why does one go to Hana in the middle of the night? Well sure sex or drugs. Church or court. To visit friends. Also to be there for sunrise. Its not necessarily a great place for a night drive unless its full moon because there are not a lot of lights. Not a lot of reasons to be in Hana anyways. Sometimes you go to Hana because you have nothing else to do and your bored.
So if you are going to murder someone you are going to do it in a very isolated dark area where nobody can hear them scream or see you do it. Ok Paraquats. And if you are going to dump a body there are many ways but the most obvious is in the Sharky waters off Maui. Second would be a Cane field. Third would be to chop them up and dispose of them in many ways. Ocean,,bury...trash. The Hana Landfill perhaps. Certainly near where J Taylor saw him. It has hours of operation though. I suppose one can get in but there would be cameras. It would be easy to get lost in the other waste. Not the worst idea but not the most obvious either. It really is the ocean. And in that case I think we need to be satisfied with what we have,
fantastic helpful summary, PT.
Check on it all making sense with the arson and the tip to mechanic and the dumping. I assume the police got a tip on the burned doors.
As you said, nothing is open at night in Hana. It's a ghost village. Sex unlikely. Drugs maybe, for Taylor? Disposal sites in area so maybe. Nala dropped in Nahiku most probably. (Scratch my other theory). Driving there for no particular reason that night? Doubtful. He had things to do. I will just mention that it doesn't get much more isolated than Kaupo, if he wanted to go where searching was unlikely. But did he have time for the circle loop?
The question with the ocean is are the prevailing currents going to bring back what you threw in, or take it away? Bringing it back is very bad. And then what is smelling so rotten up by the highway on Wednesday? That is a real new clue. It's not something in the ocean, and at least two people driving by got a whiff that made them stop. These are not people beating the jungle; they are driving the main road.
Can you tell where the spot with guardrail and a need to rappel down would be? At the bridge area or on the higher parts of the valley? Stream side? (That is the Honomanu side, no?). Google Earth does give elevation, but I haven't checked there yet.
re the moon, it was less than a week from full, but does anyone know if it was a rainy night? I'm guessing not too rainy because the Hana witness was standing outside away from the house and also did not mention rain.
