David L. Walden, 51, was shot to death on April 16, 1994, in the waterfront parking lot at 711 North Nimitz Highway in Honolulu. Witnesses said a motorcycle arrived with two riders; the passenger dismounted, opened fire, then reboarded as the driver sped away. Both wore helmets, leaving no clear facial identification.

Walden was in town for business related to film- and television-production vehicles and was at Pier 24 to take delivery of trucks tied to a TV production while waiting for a meeting with Teamster movie drivers. Reporting linked his presence to the contentious logistics of the production-truck market, where control of vehicles and schedules had generated intense rivalries.

Investigators questioned George Cambra Sr. and Joseph Joe Boy Tavares about the killing; neither was charged in Walden’s murder. Federal prosecutions stemming from related arson attacks on competing companies produced convictions—Tavares received 15 years, Cambra pleaded guilty and later served two years—but those cases did not resolve the homicide. A cold-case review later tested a cigarette butt from the scene; the DNA matched the victim, not a shooter. The shooters remain unidentified and no one has been prosecuted for Walden’s killing.

Did anyone who worked in Honolulu’s production-truck industry in the early 1990s witness something that could finally move this case forward?