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In the height of the whaling era over 400 ships visited in one season, with up to 100 anchored at once in Lahaina Roads.
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FILE 262 / 10 February 2022 / 167 MIN / full
This is Kihei, Hawaii; it's on the south side of the island of Maui, in Maui County about 0:05:02
In the height of the whaling era over 400 ships visited in one season, with up to 100 anchored at once in Lahaina Roads.
about 0:08:19Whaling ended once petroleum replaced whale oil as fuel.
about 0:09:05Hawaii was annexed in 1898, made a territory in 1900 and became the 50th state in 1959.
about 0:09:18At the peak in 1943 and 1944 more than 100,000 soldiers were based in Hawaii.
about 0:09:50In the height of the whaling era over 400 ships visited in one season, with up to 100 anchored at once in Lahaina Roads.
about 0:08:19Whaling ended once petroleum replaced whale oil as fuel.
about 0:09:05Hawaii was annexed in 1898, made a territory in 1900 and became the 50th state in 1959.
about 0:09:18At the peak in 1943 and 1944 more than 100,000 soldiers were based in Hawaii.
about 0:09:50Hawaii's beaches were used as practice landings for marines, demolition and sabotage training.
about 0:09:59White 44% · Black 1% · Asian 21%
Ethnicity can overlap race.Property crime
about average
Violent crime
▼ a little under half
Four-bedroom family house price
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"50-50"
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"about 37"
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"about 50-50"
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"19%"
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"44%"
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"1%"
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"21%"
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"2.8%"
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"19%"
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"mostly Catholic"
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"66.6%"
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"31%"
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"2.3%"
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"12%"
Comparison: "almost three percent in the rest of the country". No direction stated.
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"$71,423"
Comparison: "pretty high". Direction: above.
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"24%"
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"164"
Comparison: "100 is average". Direction: above.
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"$807,800"
Comparison: "almost three times the national average". Direction: above.
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"$1,929"
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"$349,000"
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"$1.2 million"
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"$1,549,000"
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"$29,500,000"
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"about average"
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"a little under half"
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3.8 / 5 · average of 4
“Everybody who visits says how beautiful it is; a blessing to have grown up on the island, which radiates the aloha spirit”about 0:10:58
“Most people are good spirited and help each other and there are no huge crimes, but the cost of living is almost unaffordable”about 0:12:10
“Absolute paradise with no place to compare, but homelessness, drugs and littering are problems”about 0:13:29
“Roads are poorly maintained and wash away, the county has poor relations with its people, county workers stand around and the cost of living has skyrocketed”about 0:13:56
Laura was an alcoholic and was prescribed Valium in 1972, the same year she was run over by a car while intoxicated. The couple divorced in 1975, and William told the children they were out of his life and he had never been so happy.
He stayed sober for seven or eight months, worked for the roofing contractor Craig Fertado after returning his lost briefcase, met William Farmer at an NA dance, helped the wheelchair user Geraldine Jakeway in and out of the sea, and was interviewed by Linda Lauer for a Hawaii Department of Health study on IV drug use.
In the spring of 1986, in Long Beach, he had met Catherine Valentine while selling fake LSD at a bus stop; she offered the man with the cast on his leg a ride and they began dating. She introduced him to her mother, Marjorie Elaine Deebel, a 55-year-old real estate agent and former home economics teacher, and he was welcomed into her home. On Monday, May 12th, 1986, Deebel told her boss she was leaving for an appointment at about five and never arrived. She was found on Thursday, May 15th, after friends asked police for a welfare check: the front door was ajar, the window screen had been removed, loud music was playing, and she lay face down between the bed and the dresser, her nightgown cut and pushed up, her hands tied behind her back with the gown and a torn telephone cord, her neck in a noose of thin belt tied to a dresser drawer so that she hung eight inches above the floor. A hair mousse can was in the bedclothes and its cap on the floor. The autopsy found she had been beaten, strangled and sexually assaulted with the can, and that the injuries were inflicted before death.
He began dating Janice Hunt in the summer of 1992 and moved into her house that December. He came home about five the next morning. That night Muriel Hart Delbeck, known as Stevie, a 67-year-old real estate agent from Anchorage, Alaska, who spent her winters on Maui, was bound, beaten, strangled and sexually assaulted in her first-floor condominium on Kanot Street in Kihei. Her daughter Peggy Ventura found her on the morning of January 26th after seeing blood on the carpet.
The evidence was overwhelming. Judge Boyd Mossman called him a raving maniacal animal and gave him five consecutive life terms, $29,600 restitution to the family and a $275,000 fine, saying the fine was just in case he lived long enough to make that much money.
Los Angeles investigators then noticed the similarities with the Deebel murder: both victims were real estate agents, both had the initials MED, both were tied with telephone cords and both were sexually assaulted with cans of hair mousse. The FBI profiler Jim McNamara, who joined the profiling unit at Quantico in 1995, said the Delbeck case had drawn him into the work.
January 25, 1993 / her first-floor condominium on Kanot Street, Kihei, Maui
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Accused
May 12, 1986 / her apartment in Los Alamitos, California
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Accused
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