This post is in reference to post #20 and the incident I witnessed at the Ilikai hotel where I was staying this last week. It was this last Saturday, May 18th, 2013, around sunset. I was exiting the hotel on the south side that faces the beach and marina. I was heading out across the courtyard to venture down their ramp, toward the boardwalk entrance, a boardwalk encircles the lagoon that sits between the Ilikai and Hilton Hawaiian Village.
As I was walking out of the hotel lobby onto the courtyard, I noticed a semi-casually dressed Caucasian man, wearing a light blue, short-sleeved shirt, off white dress pants, wearing a bluetooth device in his left ear. He was in his early-to-mid 40's, medium build, and had slightly wavy hair with a tinge of grey. Because of the wave, it seemed combed back from the forehead. As I walked further out into the courtyard, he got my attention because he was sitting on the last of the six lounge chairs that face the beach and marina. His head was turned to the west in the direction of the ramp that leads down to the lagoon and beach. I noticed he was looking at something very intently and very focused upon what caught his attention.
As he was doing so, I turned and as I proceeded to walk toward the ramp, I then saw what he was looking at. Opposite me, was a beautiful black woman with her Caucasian companion. They were a very attractive couple walking toward me and I knew instantly the peculiar man was watching her. She had red hair, layered to her shoulders, and wore a sleeveless, dark green dress with a rustic covered leaf print, and lower part of the dress was very, very short, and wore matching dark green high heels. Even though it was short, it was still tasteful and fashionable. She carried herself like a model.
It was at that time as they walked past me, I had known about Ivy's disappearance from the day before when Honolulu Crimestoppers placed her photo and details the day earlier in the local newspaper. And since I knew what Ivy looked liked, I studied the woman as she walked by and saw that there was no resemblance to Ivy. As I continued across the courtyard to the ramp, I turned around and saw them walk away as the man in the lounge chair had his head turned all the way around, now looking at her with intensity as she and her companion walked into the Ilikai hotel lobby.
I then kept walking and venture around the lagoon on south side of the boardwalk to get some ice cream at the Dairy Queen beach storefront on the other side near the Hilton. 15 minutes later, I returned to the Ilikai the same way. As I walked up and over the ramp, I suddenly saw the peculiar lounge chair man now sitting on one the blue Ilikai benches under a large tree... the exact spot where I first noticed the female with her companion. The benches are broad front to back and rest up against the partition of the hotel exterior and he sat with his heels atop the bench as he rested arms across his knees. At this time he was talking to someone on his bluetooth device, well hidden under the tree, unnoticed until you walked by. It was like he was waiting for the female to come back.
Anyway, after I went back to my hotel room, I thought that the man seemed out of place and I do not think he was a hotel resident. This man seemed like a skillful, intellectual prowler and it was quite obvious he was seeking out women. I'm glad I'm making note of this because the same kind of situation must have happened with Ivy. Hopefully police will find video recordings or statements from local patrons in or around Kelly's pub that recorded the man she was talking to.
Who knows, it could have been the man I saw at the Ilikai.
