Why is Hana, Hawaii so murdery?

Hana sits on the east end of Maui, and the facts file tells a story of quiet shrinkage: sugar cane from 1849, the last plantation closed in 1946, residents moving west, a population of about 3,500 before 1950 and 657 by 2024. It ranks 470 overall and third in Hawaii, on two murders in two episodes. That is a lot of league table for a very small town.

The cases do not spread across decades; they sit two years and 22 miles apart. Episode 474 covers the one in Hana itself, a single victim, case dated 2016. Episode 56 goes to Haiku, 22 miles away, for a case dated 2014 and a single victim, a 27-year-old woman who was five months pregnant. No single episode carries this count on its own; two cases with one victim each add up to the whole total.

Worth saying plainly: this counts the show's cases, not the town's crime. James and Jimmie pick where to go, and a murder league table is a map of their interests rather than a police blotter.