HI HI - Nancy Anderson, 19, Waikiki, stabbed to death, 7 January 1972 *case re-opened*

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Honolulu Police reopen a cold case from 1972: The murder of Nancy Anderson

"Nancy Anderson would have been 66-years-old this year.

Anderson comes from a family of twelve with nine siblings still wondering who killed her.

"She went to Hawaii to mainly experience a new place and she was always intrigued by the islands so she moved there and was only there for about two months," Nancy's brother Jack Anderson said.

Anderson lived in Waikiki in an apartment off of Aloha Drive.

According to police on January 7, 1972 her roommate found her dead, police say Anderson had been stabbed multiple times.

Not one suspect had been identified and no arrests were made."

 

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Feb 1 2019
47 years after Waikiki woman’s murder, HPD re-examines cold case files
"Honolulu Police did recover DNA evidence from her apartment, at 2222 Aloha Dr., and that evidence has been submitted into the database. But so far, there have been no hits.

“From my understanding once a good sample is inputted in the system it continuously scans," said detective Michael Ogawa.

The Honolulu Police Department’s Cold Case Unit is reviewing more than 205 cases dating back to the 1960s to see if any of them can be solved.

“Ultimately, we want to bring someone to prosecution but if not, at least bring some kind of closure to a family or at least remind them that somebody still cares," he said.

To submit an anonymous tip on the case, click here."

 

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Feb 2019

 

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rbbm.

Cold Cases - Honolulu Police Department (honolulupd.org)
''In 2018, the HPD launched the A’ole Poina (Never Forgotten) project to review all of its cold cases dating back to the 1960s. Anyone with information about a case is asked to contact the HPD’s Cold Case Unit. You can also contact Honolulu CrimeStoppers to remain anonymous.''

Nancy Anderson - Honolulu Police Department (honolulupd.org)
''On January 7, 1972, Nancy Anderson was found unresponsive in her apartment, located at 2222 Aloha Drive in Waikiki. Nancy had been stabbed multiple times and died at the scene.

HPD investigators have recently sought the services of Parabon NanoLabs, a DNA technology company in Virginia that specializes in advanced DNA analysis services. One of the services used in this case was DNA phenotyping, which is the process of predicting physical appearance and ancestry from unidentified DNA evidence.

Using DNA evidence from this investigation, Parabon produced trait predictions for a person of interest (POI) in this case. Individual predictions were made for the subject’s ancestry, eye color, hair color, skin color, freckling, and face shape. By combining these attributes of appearance, a Snapshot composite was produced depicting what the POI may have looked like at 25 years old and with an average body-mass index (BMI) of 22. These default values were used because age and BMI cannot be determined from DNA.

It is important to note that Snapshot composites are scientific approximations of appearance based on DNA, and are not likely to be exact replicas of appearance. Environmental factors such as smoking, drinking, diet, and other non-environmental factors — e.g., facial hair, hairstyle, scars, etc. — cannot be predicted by DNA analysis and may cause further variation between the subject’s predicted and actual appearances.

If you have any information about this case, please contact CrimeStoppers at (808) 955-8300 or click HERE to send an email.''

 

[Richard]

Nancy Anderson, age 19. Murdered in Waikiki, Hawaii on 7 January 1972

 

[imstilla.grandma]

A Reno man was arrested on Monday in connection with a 50-year-old cold case murder in Waikiki.

The original crime happened back in January 1971. According to Honolulu Police (HPD), 19-year-old Nancy Anderson was found dead by her roommate in their Waikiki apartment, located at 2222 Aloha Drive, on Jan. 7, 1972.

Investigators say Nancy had been stabbed multiple times and was pronounced dead at the scene.

At the time of the incident, HPD homicide detectives could not develop any viable leads and the case went cold. That is until September 2022, when a suspect was finally identified by DNA evidence using the services of Parabon Nanolabs, investigators said

Using DNA found during the investigation, Parabon created trait predictions for a person of interest in the case. Those predictions were used to make a snapshot composite of the suspect

On Sept. 12, a no-bail warrant was obtained and the suspect was arrested in Reno on a complaint of second-degree murder. That person has not yet been identified. They are awaiting extradition back to Honolulu.

DNA evidence leads to arrest in 50-year-old Waikiki cold case murder

A Reno man was arrested on Monday in connection with a 50-year-old cold case murder in Waikiki.

www.kitv.com

 

[Richard]

At about 4 a.m. Hawaii time today, police in Reno, Nevada, arrested 77-year-old Tudor Chirila on suspicion of second-degree murder without incident. Chirila is pending extradition to Hawaii, according to HPD.

According to a Jan. 8, 1972, story in the Honolulu Star-Bulletin, Anderson’s body was found by her roommate, Jody Spooner, then 18.

Spooner told police she came home at 2:30 p.m. and found Anderson visiting with two male salesmen. Spooner took a nap and thought she heard a scream at about 4:15 p.m. but did not check on Anderson until about 5 p.m. when she found her body.

Anderson was lying on her back in a pool of blood on the floor of her room with “five or six” slash marks to her neck, chest and abdomen...

LINK:

DNA analysis leads to arrest in 1972 Waikiki fatal stabbing

Honolulu police have used DNA comparisons and evidence to make an arrest in connection with the Jan. 7, 1972, killing of Nancy Elaine Anderson, who was found stabbed and unresponsive in her Waikiki apartment.

www.staradvertiser.com

 

[mewmew]

WOW. Science/technology is AMAZING. I’m glad they tracked this guy down. After 50 years, I’m sure he thought he got away with it. If he is the killer, I hope he was haunted by this everyday. When DNA tracking became a thing, I hope he was terrified constantly just waiting for the police to show up. I hope he felt the fear that she felt in that moment of the killing, every day of his life. I have no sympathy for those who end an innocent life and then just go on living theirs like nothing happened. I am sure the roommate was traumatized as well. Hope they find the other “salesman”.

 

[mewmew]

The alleged killer, Tudor Chirila, is a retired attorney. Nancy was killed in 1972 and he sat for the Bar in Nevada and became licensed there in 1978. So basically, he murdered her then just went on about his life, went to law school, and worked as an attorney until he retired in 2015. Disgusting.

Tudor Chirila Nevada Attorney

 

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Gray Hughes discusses (7:05 on his clock upper right)

 

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50 years after teen’s fatal stabbing in Waikiki, her alleged killer is arrested

The suspect was a grad assistant at UH in the 1970s.

www.hawaiinewsnow.com

“She was an integral part of our family and when she was killed it just left a hole in our hearts and in our family,” said Jack Anderson, Nancy’s brother.

Court documents say Chirila attempted to kill himself last week, two days after police collected a sample.

But he is expected to survive.

Reno authorities say he’ll be in court sometime this week and HPD is working to bring him back to Hawaii.''

 

[Richard]

It begs the question of how many others he may have murdered over the past 50 years.

 

[Major Koslo]

I happen to live in Honolulu and I’m familiar with this cold case murder. The apartment bldg. she lived in is still there and hasn’t changed at all in appearance. The Ala Moana McDonald’s is now a food court, but I remember exactly where it was in 1972.

I’ll keep you all updated as info on the case comes in. I hope he’s convicted if he did it. Glad he’s still alive to face any and all consequences if found guilty. Apparently, he’s in hospital having attempted sulfide, but men the likes of him are the biggest cowards…always brutalizing those who are physically incapable of fighting back.

 

[Fede]

Case solved !!!!!!!
Ex-Nevada deputy attorney general arrested in 1972 murder of teen girl in Hawaii

 

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Case solved !!!!!!!
Ex-Nevada deputy attorney general arrested in 1972 murder of teen girl in Hawaii

''A former Nevada deputy attorney general who was tied to the infamous Mustang Ranch brothel has been arrested in the brutal murder of a teenage girl 50 years ago in Hawaii.''


No wonder the place seemed haunted, imo!

''Mustang Ranch | Ghost Adventures | Travel Channel''​

 

[Sonny Crockett]

Just heard about this case. Horrible. It's unfortunate that this scum-bag committed this heinous crime, got away with it, and then went on to live his life without consequence.

However, it's great that with DNA technology, they could track this criminal down after 50 years. It's also good that he's still alive - so that he can finally pay for this.

 

[Major Koslo]

I’m waiting for this piece of s**t to be transported into Hawaii jurisdiction. However, the most confounding aspect in my mind is HOW a degenerate like Chirila ever could have crossed paths with Nancy? She was only 19, worked at McDonald’s and had recently moved to Hawaii. How he could even be connected to her is mind boggling. It’s not clear if Chirila was one of the salesmen who returned to the apartment or not. Plus, if he was one of the two, he must have seen her roommate return to the apartment…and he still went back to attack Nancy? Doesn’t make sense.

 

[Sonny Crockett]

The perp. doesn't appear to be one of the two salesmen that Nancy's roommate saw interacting with her before her death. One of the linked articles said that both salesmen were cleared re: this crime. Going along with this, it's also not clear what the perp.'s profession was when he lived in Hawaii.

 

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rbbm Sept 16 2022

Former Nevada deputy AG arrested in 1972 Hawaii homicide

Tudor Chirila Jr., 77, was being held Thursday in the Washoe County Jail without bail on a charge of being a fugitive from another state.

www.reviewjournal.com

''RENO — A former deputy Nevada attorney general who ran for the state Supreme Court and was later affiliated with the infamous Mustang Ranch brothel has been arrested in Reno as a suspect in a 1972 homicide in Hawaii.

Tudor Chirila Jr., 77, was being held Thursday in the Washoe County Jail without bail on a charge of being a fugitive from another state.''

"The Honolulu Star-Advertiser first reported that Chirila was arrested Wednesday — five decades after police say he stabbed the teen more than 60 times and left her body in her Waikiki apartment on Jan. 7, 1972. Anderson had moved to Hawaii in October 1971 and was working at a McDonald’s restaurant after graduating from high school the year before in Bay City, Michigan, the newspaper said.
It wasn’t immediately clear if Chirila had an attorney or will be appointed one. Jail records don’t indicate when he’s scheduled to make his initial court appearance.''


''The criminal complaint filed this week in district court in Hawaii said police had reopened the cold case multiple times since the killing and received a tip in December that Chirila could be a suspect.
In March, police obtained a DNA sample from Chirila’s son, John Chirila of Newport Beach, California, that identified him as the biological child of a DNA sample found at the crime scene, according to the criminal complaint.''

Homicide Tracker
''On Sept. 6, Reno police served a search warrant and collected a DNA sample from Tudor Chirila at his Reno apartment. Two days later he tried to commit suicide, and on Wednesday was booked into the county jail in Reno, the Reno Gazette Journal reported Thursday.''


''Chirila, a longtime attorney in Reno, Carson City and the Lake Tahoe area, served as a deputy attorney general in the late 1970s and ran unsuccessfully for the Nevada Supreme Court in 1994.
In a 1998 federal indictment, U.S. prosecutors in Reno identified him as the former president of a company, A.G.E. Corp., that served a front for Nevada brothel boss Joe Conforte.

The indictment accused Conforte and others of being part of an elaborate conspiracy to defraud the government in bankruptcy proceedings when the Mustang Ranch east of Reno was seized by the IRS, sold for back taxes in 1990 and illegally repurchased by Conforte and his cohorts.
The government claimed Conforte hid his assets during bankruptcy proceedings to cheat the government and buy back the legal brothel under hidden ownership, The Associated Press reported at the time.
Testifying as a government witness, Chirila acknowledged he knew the corporation was owned and controlled by Conforte, who had disappeared and was believed to be a fugitive in South America when the case went to trial in 1999.
Chirila filed suit against Conforte in 1998 seeking $14 million in damages, alleging Conforte wrongly fired him for cooperating with federal prosecutors.''

 

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Waikiki cold case murder suspect appears in Nevada court for extradition proceedings

Officials said 77-year-old Tudor Chirila was arrested after his DNA was linked to a 1972 murder.

www.hawaiinewsnow.com

''When asked if he would waive a hearing to fight extradition back to Hawaii, Chirila told the court he wished to remain in the Reno area for a social services appointment he has scheduled for next week.
The court has given Chirila a deadline to make a decision.

Another hearing is set for Wednesday at 10:30 a.m. Hawaii time.''