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Writer's death ruled inconclusive
The Honolulu medical examiner's office has ruled that Native Hawaiian writer and editor Darlaine Mahealani Dudoit died of undetermined causes.
Darlaine Mahealani Dudoit died of undetermined causes, police said.
At first, police classified the case as a double suicide after the 48-year-old was found hanging in a Kahalu'u vacation rental cottage Aug. 28 beside her estranged husband, 47-year-old Sanford Kapana. His cause of death is classified as asphyxia from suicidal hanging.
But Dudoit's autopsy was inconclusive, the medical examiner's office ruled, leading the deputy medical examiner to list the cause of death as as "other unknown and unspecified cause," and the manner of death as "undetermined."
No evidence of foul play was found at the scene, the report said.
Dudoit, a recipient of the Hawai'i Literary Arts Council's Cades Award for Literature, was best known as editor of 'Oiwi, A Native Hawaiian Journal, which she founded in 1998.
Man arrested in three bank robberies
Police arrested a man yesterday suspected of robbing three banks last week.
They said the man, arrested at a Hanalulu Street residence in Waimanalo at 9:10 a.m., robbed the Hawai'i National Bank's Kaimuki branch on Wednesday, the American Savings Bank's Kapi'olani Boulevard Kaheka branch on Thursday, and Bank of Hawai'i's Kailua branch on Friday.
Police said bank photos in all three robberies show a man weighing about 300 pounds demanding money from tellers.
There have been five bank robberies on O'ahu this month, compared with a monthly average of three.
Man killed by car on Friday identified
The medical examiner's office yesterday identified the pedestrian killed Friday night in Waipahu as 66-year-old Vincente Cabuloy Sr.
He was struck by a car while crossing Farrington Highway near Awanui Street.
The pedestrian fatality was one of two traffic deaths on O'ahu during the weekend.
The identity of a 24-year-old soldier killed Saturday in Wahiawa is being withheld until his family is notified. The soldier was riding a motorcycle that collided with a truck on California Avenue.
His death is O'ahu's 51st traffic fatality of the year.
