Louise Medeiros, 25, disappeared after returning to Oahu from Kauai where she had attended her mother’s funeral. She was last seen at Honolulu International Airport on March 26, 1986 and told family she would take a bus home to Waipahu; she never arrived. Her decomposing body was found April 2, 1986 near Waikele Stream by road workers.

Medeiros was found partially clothed with her hands bound behind her back, her lower body unclothed, and showed signs of sexual assault and strangulation. Her killing matched a pattern in a series of five murders between 1985 and 1986 later linked to an unidentified offender dubbed the Honolulu Strangler; the victims were often last seen near bus stops or traveling alone at night.

A 27-person task force and the FBI investigated. A man named Howard Gay volunteered information and led investigators to a site; he failed a polygraph but was never charged. No arrests have been announced and the killer remains unidentified. Did anyone know Louise’s movements after she left the airport that night or see her at a bus stop?