Francis Layne Labhart, 33, was serving in the U.S. Navy and stationed at Barbers Point when he was shot dead on the leeward side of Oahu on March 23, 1975. Honolulu Police were called to what was initially reported as a motor-vehicle accident on Old Farrington Highway between Fort Weaver Road and Makakilo Drive, but found two victims with gunshot wounds. Labhart’s yellow 1974 Pontiac Firebird with a black vinyl top was at the scene; the other victims had been returning to a 1972 Chevrolet Caprice that had broken down earlier.

The incident is recorded as a murder near NAS Barbers Point and Labhart is memorialized on military-community pages and buried at Arlington National Cemetery. A family notice on a Navy squadron site says there were never arrests or meaningful information provided to the family.

Does anyone have memories or information about that stretch of Old Farrington Highway or the events of March 23, 1975, that could help fill gaps in this case?