On January 14, 1986, 17-year-old Regina Sakamoto disappeared after missing her regular school bus in Waipahu, Hawaii. A Leilehua High School student planning to attend Hawaii Pacific University, she called her boyfriend at 7:15 a.m. to say she would be late and was last seen waiting at a bus stop. When she did not return home that evening, her family reported her missing.

Regina’s body was found the next day at Keehi Lagoon, less than a mile from where 25-year-old Vicki Gail Purdy had been discovered months earlier. Regina was partially clothed—wearing a blue tank top and white sweatshirt with her lower body unclothed—her hands were bound behind her back, and she had been sexually assaulted and strangled. Those similarities led investigators to link her death to a series attributed to the unidentified Honolulu Strangler, a suspect believed to have killed five women between 1985 and 1986; all victims were bound behind the back, sexually assaulted, strangled, and found near water.

Does anyone have memories or information about Regina’s last known movements or the bus stop area that might help reexamine the case?