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<\/a><\/p>\nI know that title sounds like a 48 Hour Mystery <\/i>headline, and it just might be one day, but it\u2019s the lead in to this week\u2019s blog subject.\u00a0 Two weeks ago Linda and I were on the island of Maui with three other couples, mostly to play golf, drink pina coladas and watch sunsets \u2013 I figured I needed a break from my hectic retirement schedule! \u00a0To add a little adventure to my relaxation, I decided to rent a Jeep and \u2018do\u2019 the road to Hana.\u00a0 I had attempted this once before about 20 years ago with Linda and three small children in tow, but after a dizzying ride through 25 miles of multiple twists and turns with Linda and the kids tuning green, we reached a shave ice stand with a sign that read, \u2018Halfway to Hana\u2019, \u201cHalfway!!\u201d, came the cries\u00a0from the back seat. \u00a0I got out to get some shave ice in hopes of buoying the troop\u2019s spirits, but by the time I got back, the Jeep had been commandeered and was facing the other way \u2013 the message was clear.<\/p>\n Halfway?!!!<\/p><\/div>\n When I told our group this year that I was going to finish that journey and asked for any passengers, I heard crickets.\u00a0 I was not going to just do the road to <\/i>Hana, I had planned to do a complete circumnavigation of the southern part of the island and ignore any signs past Hana that said, \u2018Dead End\u2019 or \u2018No Rental Cars Beyond This Point\u2019, so it was just as well that I had no volunteers to accompany me on my illicit and operose odyssey.<\/p>\n \u00a0\u00a0 Because of the early hour, there was very little traffic on the road, although surprisingly, I did pull over twice to allow police cars to go around me.\u00a0 When I stopped to observe the beautiful Keanae Peninsula I saw what I thought was a sightseeing helicopter, but tuned out to be a police helicopter.\u00a0 I wondered what was going on.\u00a0 I briefly wondered if Linda had called and asked them to keep an eye on me.\u00a0 I didn\u2019t think much more about it until I was about 6 miles from Hana when I came upon a young lady standing on the narrow roadside, flagging me down.\u00a0 I would normally not pick up a hitchhiker, especially in a strange place, but she seemed to be a damsel in distress, I had room and I was on an adventure, so I stopped.\u00a0 She jumped in and said \u201cThanks\u201d.\u00a0 I asked her where she was headed.\u00a0 She looked at me as if I was from a village that was missing its idiot and said, \u201cHana?\u201d \u00a0It hit me that there really was no other place to be going.\u00a0 Feeling Here is a link to an early news release on the story:<\/p>\n http:\/\/www.kitv.com\/news\/hawaii\/Search-continues-on-Maui-for-missing-pregnant-woman\/24498394<\/a><\/p>\n I asked Kristen if the boyfriend was a \u2018person of interest\u2019 and she indicated that she and her friends concluded that morning prior to setting out on the search that they thought he was the primary suspect.\u00a0 It was believed that she was carrying his child, he was the last one to see her under strange circumstances the night before her disappearance, and he failed a lie detector test given by the police.\u00a0 That\u2019s why I\u2019ve used the word \u2018Murder\u2019 in the headline; I don’t pretend to be judge, jury and executioner, but it\u2019s hard to go missing for a month on an island as small as Maui. \u00a0I check the Internet everyday for up-dates, but nothing new for the last two weeks.<\/p>\n Koki Beach<\/p><\/div>\n You can Google \u2018Missing Woman on the Road to Hana\u2019 to see new info as it becomes available.<\/p>\n Next time: I\u2019ll conclude my journey \u2018On the Road Passed<\/em> Hana\u2019 which includes the beautiful Koki and Hamoa Beaches.<\/p>\n Do you read our blog but don’t subscribe? \u00a0Subscribe, it will make us feel better; and if we feel better perhaps we will write better . . . it could happen.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" by Bob Sparrow I know that title sounds like a 48 Hour Mystery headline, and it just might be one day, but it\u2019s the lead in to this week\u2019s blog subject.\u00a0 Two weeks ago Linda and I were on the … read more<\/a><\/a>I set out at 7:00 a.m. and I have to admit, the road does have a few turns in it \u2013 617 so I am told, and although driving doesn\u2019t allow you to observe much scenery, there are plenty of places to pull over and enjoy the water falls, hiking trails, lava caves and spectacular shoreline \u2013 which I did.<\/p>\n<\/a> stupid, I wanted to show her that she was dealing with someone who could ask astute, insightful questions, so I continued with, \u201cWhat\u2019s your name?\u201d\u00a0 I knew I didn\u2019t know the answer to that one.\u00a0 \u201cKristen\u201d, she replied and I think she felt bad about her first response so she felt obliged to tell me \u2018her story\u2019. \u00a0She had just been out with her boyfriend and a couple of other guys, who were wild pig hunters, to search for a friend, Carly Scott, who had been missing for three days (At this writing she is still missing after nearly a month).\u00a0 I asked her why she left the search party.\u00a0 She said these pig hunters really knew the terrain well and she was afraid they were going to find Carly and it wouldn\u2019t be a pretty sight.\u00a0 So she decided to leave the group and head back to town.\u00a0 I asked about the circumstances around Carly\u2019s disappearance and she told me that Carly was 5-months pregnant and was last seen with her ex-boyfriend, Steven Capobianco, the night before she disappeared.\u00a0 She went on to tell me that Carly\u2019s car had been found torched and left in a ravine, parts of her clothing were also found along with her dog, Narla \u2013 Kristen said that Carly never went anywhere without her dog.<\/p>\n<\/a>