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The views and opinions expressed in Cold and Missing are exclusively those of the hosts.
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All parties mentioned are considered innocent until proven guilty in a court of law.
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Cold and Missing also contains adult themes and languages.
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Listener discretion is advised.
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I'm your host, Ali McLaughlin-Sulkowski.
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And I'm your co-host, Eli Sulkowski.
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And this is Cold and Missing, where we cover cold cases and missing person cases.
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Hello everyone and welcome back to Cold and Missing.
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I'm Ali.
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And I'm Eli.
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Welcome back everyone.
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We are on episode 91 this week.
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Would you like to just get right into it?
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Yeah, we are doing a cold case this week.
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Alright, let's do it.
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Today we are talking about the cold case of Gregory Yamada.
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And this takes place in September of 1986 in Waipahu, Hawaii.
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But first, a little bit about Gregory.
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Gregory is 21 years old in 1986.
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He lives in Pearl City with his mother and four sisters.
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To be honest, I wasn't able to find a lot in my research about who Gregory was as a
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person.
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But his picture that I found is warm and inviting.
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He had a big smile that lit up his whole face.
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I truly wish I knew more about him to share with you all.
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But I hope that in talking about his story, those who knew him and loved him come forward
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with stories and just more information about who he is as a person.
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And now a timeline of events.
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On Monday, September 8th, 1986, in the early morning hours around 1 10 a.m., a driver for
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the Oahu Sugar Company is in the process of doing his rounds.
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He's driving on a private road under the Waikili H1 Highway.
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The driver had passed by this area earlier around 11 p.m. and nothing was out of the
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ordinary.
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But this time at 1 10 a.m., he finds the bloodied body of a young man, jeans, a pullover shirt,
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and a sweatshirt that had been loosely tied around his neck.
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His hands, however, had been bound along with his feet.
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He was also gagged.
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When police arrive on scene and start documenting the crime scene, they notice that while he
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is bloody, there are no visible wounds on his body.
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Police will need to wait for an autopsy in order to determine the cause of his death.
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Police get to work on trying to ID the victim.
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And by the next day, Tuesday, September 9th, police had positively IDed the man found beneath
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the overpass as Gregory Yamada.
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When Gregory was found, at that point he had not been reported missing by anyone, and police
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had no solid leads as to who would want to kill this young man.
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Police at this point seem unsure of how he even got to where he was found.
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Gregory's autopsy does offer a few clues.
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The autopsy showed that he had died as a result of injuries, likely caused by a blow to his
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head.
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There were no drugs found in his system.
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Police are trying to piece together where Gregory was on Sunday and what could have
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led him to being found early Monday morning, bound, gagged, and murdered.
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The next day, Wednesday, September 10th, desperate for leads, police set up a roadblock near
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where the body was found to stop vehicles on the highway.
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Police are trying to find someone who may have seen or noticed something, or if they
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saw any vehicles stopped along the road that night.
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Police spend all day and into the night stopping vehicles in both directions to see if anyone
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has seen anything.
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Police finally call it off at around 1am.
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They don't get any new information about Gregory's murder from this.
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Police do say that they believe that Gregory was thrown off of the overpass to the Sugar
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Cane Road below.
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The fall from the highway overpass to the road below was right around 100 feet.
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While Gregory died of head injuries, police refuse to comment on if they believe Gregory
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was alive when he was thrown from the road.
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Police don't have any suspects and they haven't been able to pin down a motive.
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The next week, on Tuesday, September 16th, services are held for Gregory and he is laid
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to rest.
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The case falls out of the media and it's not covered for years until police finally
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reach out to ask for the public's help.
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They ask in December of 1991, so it's been over five years since Gregory's murder.
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A new task force was created to address the unsolved homicides in Hawaii and Gregory's
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case was one police were taking an active look at.
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The police ask the public for help IDing a man who was photographed using Gregory's
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bank card the day that he was found murdered.
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The card was used at a Honolulu Federal Saving and Loan Association ATM.
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The suspect used the card at 6.13 p.m., 16 hours after Gregory was found murdered.
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Police don't say if the suspect withdrew money, but do confirm, quote, a transaction
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was completed, unquote, which means the killer likely had Gregory's pin.
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Police also reveal that Gregory ultimately died from the head injuries related to the
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fall, which leads me to believe that he was alive when he was thrown from the highway.
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At this time in 1991, Detective Diaz believes that robbery was the motive in Gregory's
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murder.
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Police released several stills from the bank surveillance video, and for 1986, these pictures
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are very good.
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I think they show a lot of details of the man and someone out there should be able to
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recognize him.
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In 2021, more than 35 years since the murder, police released additional photos from the
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surveillance footage hoping that someone will come forward.
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And to date, it does not appear that police have ever been able to ID the man who is using
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Gregory's bank card.
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But that is all we know about the murder of Gregory Yamada.
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If you know anything about the murder of Gregory Yamada in September of 1986, please call Crime
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Stoppers at 808-955-8300.
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So that is the cold case of Gregory Yamada.
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Something about this case that just hit me right in my heart was knowing that he had
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so many sisters.
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I'm one of a couple of sisters, as you know.
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And I guess this is me kind of tooting my own horn, but I think when you have a lot
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of sisters, you usually end up being a pretty good brother.
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I know that because I also have two amazing brothers.
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Being raised alongside sisters, especially a lot of them, is very special.
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And I imagine that with his sisters, he probably had a very special and beautiful life, especially
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because of where they were living, why such a beautiful place.
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Yeah, I really searched hard to try to find information about Gregory and just like who
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he was and what kind of relationship he had with the people around him.
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And unfortunately, I just couldn't find any stories about him.
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I looked through social media and newspaper reports and I just couldn't find anything.
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But you know, I think his picture is really telling as well.
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Like, he looks like such a welcoming and like warm person.
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That when I saw his photo, that's actually like one of the reasons I started researching
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his case was because of his photo.
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Yeah, I think again, knowing that even just your description of him, it just echoes the
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heartbreak of what happened to him.
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And I mean more specifically in that his death, his murder rang to me as he was just disposed
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of, which I know is a terrible way to describe someone's death.
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But because it was a murder, you know, like, I think gruesome descriptions are just naturally
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a part of it, which is so unfortunate.
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But that's like what happened to him.
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He was just disposed of.
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His murder was very violent.
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And police kind of believing that he was still alive when he was thrown off of the highway
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is horrifying to think of possibly being conscious, but like your hands are bound, like there's
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no breaking or there's nothing you can do.
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And that that's really horrifying and scary, just really scary.
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My first question is about the driver, not that I think you know, he had any involvement.
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I was more just curious as to why he drove by a second time.
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Was he just doing routine deliveries in the same spot where he would pass it over and
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over again?
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Because you know, you said the first time he drove by and there was nothing there.
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And then shortly after, Gregory was spotted.
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So from my understanding, the worker who found him, he was doing rounds.
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So at 11 p.m., he kind of drove past this area.
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And then about 1 10 a.m., I believe he drove past that same area again.
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And looking at the spot on Google Maps, the the road where Gregory was ultimately found
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kind of like leads up to what looks like a private facility, like it's a private road.
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So yeah, it would only kind of be people who worked for the company that would have access
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unless you were throwing something off the overpass which went over the road.
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While we're talking about more specificity in location, I'm not really familiar with
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Hawaii at all.
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But I do know that it's broken up into islands.
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Could you expand on that just a little bit as to I know I've heard people say the big
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island but in full transparency, I don't know what that means.
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Yeah, I'm just curious as just terrain wise.
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If this is an area of Hawaii that is frequented by tourists or if it is a mostly and primarily
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just a local spot in Hawaii where, you know, folks just live there.
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It's not a spot that people frequent while vacationing.
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Yes.
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So Waipahu is on the island of Honolulu, which is one of the smaller islands of Hawaii.
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Which kind of famously around Honolulu is like Pearl Harbor memorials.
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So that's like where we are in Hawaii, if you're familiar with that.
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While Honolulu is in a tourist area and is visited by tourists, it seems like this particular
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part where he was found would be a little bit more residential.
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It was not like a tourist hotspot or anything.
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Thank you.
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That helps a lot.
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My curiosity around the specifics of the location kind of paves the way for me to speculate
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that this was a local person, perhaps even someone that knew him, especially knowing
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the information that maybe they had his ATM pin.
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Yeah, someone who knows the area, who knows the terrain, who knows the rounds of someone
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driving a truck that would pass by over and over again in the same place.
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They know the time to drop a body or at least the the window of time where they could get
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away with something as horrific as this.
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So I know we try not to speculate too much on this podcast and more discuss the information
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and facts that we have at hand.
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But I am curious as to what you think about the person who possibly committed this crime.
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I agree with you about it feels like a local person, like this person lived there year
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round and is maybe still living there.
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But one thing I did come across that I can't help but wonder, I realized that Gregory was
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not the first person that had been disposed of in this spot, kind of this exact spot actually.
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Her name is Luis Medeiros and she was 25 years old and was found, from my understanding,
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very close in the same spot that Gregory was found.
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They also believe she was thrown from the overpass overhead.
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Her hands were bound behind her back.
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She was wearing her shirt, but the rest of her body was nude.
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When I heard about Luis's murder as well, which has never been solved, her murder is
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attributed to the Honolulu Strangler, who was an active serial killer during this time.
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And I just can't help but see similarities between Gregory and Luis here.
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But Gregory has never been considered a victim of this serial killer because the rest of
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the victims are women.
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There was like a sexual assault component with all of their murders and that information
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doesn't seem to be the same for Gregory.
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But being bound, thrown off the overpass and in the same spot, to me that was just like
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a very odd coincidence happening.
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I also think when you factor in that he was, or that his hoodie was around his neck, that
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it seemed that maybe there was some sort of strangulation element.
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You had the bindings, like there are definitely a couple of things there that, you know, if
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I was in that kind of job at the time and investigating, that I certainly would look
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into.
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And I'm glad you brought up his sweater because I'm not sure if it is a strangulation thing
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or if it was just like a fashion moment of like the 1980s, you know, where you used to
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tie sweaters kind of like loosely around your shoulders and like neck.
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I'm not sure which one it is, honestly, but I thought it being around his neck was like
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an interesting fact.
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I have also seen, I guess this is more in when someone is being arrested, but even with
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like a hoodie versus a sweater, I've seen the arms come out the bottom of the sweater
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where the, you know, the fabric of the arms of the sweater are hanging at the sides, but
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the person is arrested and they're cuffed.
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So like that, it would make sense to me that maybe they told him to pull his arms out and
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that's when they were tied together, but the hoodie stayed on, almost like cloaked over
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the arms, if that, does that make sense?
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Yeah.
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And I truly don't know exactly how his sweater was found.
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They just said that it was like loosely tied around his neck.
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So I'm not sure if it was something that was done nefariously or something done for fashion.
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Moving more towards just the whys and how of everything.
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Having this information about another murder in the same spot, honestly sends my mind like
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kind of spiraling in a bunch of different directions, but the manner in which they found
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him and the way he was disposed, like he knew something.
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And even if it was just, he knew the identity of the person who was maybe just robbing him
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still, that's usually why someone is, someone's life is ended in those scenarios.
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It's because they know something.
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And I know it, we're still speculating that the person who used his bank card, we don't
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know who that person is, if he's the person who committed this crime.
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But if it is the same person, like you're really not doing that great of a job to make
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sure that no one sees who you are, but you ended someone's life and then showed your
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face on screen, not 24 hours later.
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So I don't know, I'm curious about the ATM card.
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I'm curious if maybe his card was just found afterwards and that's how it was used.
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And it just looks really bad for this person.
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But I think that's my mind trying to make sense of something that's nonsensical to me,
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which is murder.
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But yeah, I'm interested to know more about what you think about that person, especially
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because the footage that they have captured of him is so clear.
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Yeah, I do think the person that used the debit card did have some involvement because
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he did have the PIN number, so he had to have known Gregory on some level or have interacted
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with him enough to get his PIN number before getting away from him, whatever that would
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mean in this case.
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But the pictures are, or they seem to be stills from a video, but they are very clear.
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And we covered another case in Hawaii that was from 1991, I believe, and those photos
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were also shockingly clear.
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So Hawaii really had great surveillance back in the day.
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I'm not sure, but these are very clear photos.
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And it's interesting to me that in 1991, almost five years after Gregory's murder, that was
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when the police released the first photo.
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And just because they are so clear, it's like if you had released this at the time, maybe
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somebody would have recognized it or recognized him, saw him the night before.
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But when you release the photo five years later, somebody who just saw this person casually
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has forgotten it by now.
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So it was just a really lost opportunity.
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And then more recently in 2021, they released more.
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So it's like, why didn't you just release them all then?
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But yeah, the pictures will be up on our Instagram, so make sure you check those out, but they're
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very clear.
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I am trying to make myself think or believe that the reason that information was withheld
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or not shared with the public was for a specific reason.
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Because I just, I can't understand why, other than they needed to keep it quiet.
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Because maybe they thought this person was on the run.
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Maybe they thought there's so many, there's so many things you can speculate as to why
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the job wasn't done.
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Unfortunately, all we're really left with is knowing that it wasn't.
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While it is very unfortunate that that information was kept at bay, I was just, I was surprised
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each time you said that after years had passed, there was still momentum in Gregory's case
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down to 2021, which was 35, it's 35 years later.
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I think it's always a great sign when money is being invested into cases like this to
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bring peace to the families who need answers and I think a sense of peace to the communities
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of where these crimes happen.
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I was happily surprised to hear that there was still a fire lit under this case.
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Definitely.
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I was really pleasantly surprised to see updates in 2021 and local news in Hawaii covering
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it as well.
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Those things matter in these cases, just keeping it alive and keeping pressure on police, all
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of those things matter.
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Yeah, really, really encouraging to see Gregory's case still getting attention, still being
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worked.
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Hopefully that means that police do have a little bit more that we're just unaware of
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that they're developing and trying to get this case buttoned up and bring justice for
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Gregory and for his family.
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Yeah, it's just it's heinous what happened to him and somebody should have to answer
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for that.
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Well, it's 38 years later now today and we're still talking about Gregory.
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So I think that even in a podcast setting for cases like this, it's really important
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to gain energy around this person around Gregory's name.
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And I'm hoping that this episode does exactly that and creates a ripple effect.
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And hopefully people start talking again.
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And I would be willing to bet that there is someone who still knows something out there
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about this case.
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Someone has spoken about this crime since then.
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I believe that in my bones.
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So I'm really hoping that our listeners start talking about him too.
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Yeah, and someone can recognize the person in this ATM footage to somebody knows who
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this is.
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Somebody would see this and recognize it even all these years later.
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It's that clear of photos.
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Like I said, those will be on our Instagram.
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Again, if you know anything about the murder of Gregory Yamada in September of 1986, please
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call Crime Stoppers at 808-955-8300.
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While you're listening to us in your podcast app, if you haven't yet, please rate and review
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us.
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And like I mentioned a few times already, we'll have those pictures from the ATM footage
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up on our Instagram, as well as the photo of Gregory that really spoke to me.
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So those will all be up there.
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We had somebody review us on our website this week.
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Thank you so much.
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Appreciate you.
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ahead and do it that way.
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And thank you to everyone who's reached out via email.
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It's always so fun to read your emails and just hear what you have to say.
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So thanks so much for writing to us.
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But that is all I have for this week.
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Thank you so much for listening to cold and missing.
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I'm your host, Ali.
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And I'm your cohost, Eli.
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Have a good week and stay safe, y'all.
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