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The Honolulu Advertiser
Posted on: Tuesday, July 7, 2009

Woman asks public to help find missing father


By David Waite
Advertiser Staff Writer

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A woman who grew up on Oahu and now lives in San Jose, Calif., issued a public appeal this morning at police headquarters for help in finding her father, who disappeared without a trace more than a month ago.

Eun Joo Lee, 31, has been in Honolulu for the past month trying to help find her father Daniel Lee, who was last seen by his wife going to bed at 6 p.m. June 6 at the couple’s Kukui Gardens apartment.
The police department has left flyers at hotels and bus stops across the islands and Korean-language television stations and newspapers have carried stories. None has generated a single lead or reported sighting, Lee said.
“Nothing, not a single thing — that’s the scary part,” said Lee, who is planning to head back to San Jose on Thursday.
She described her father, 59, as frail and in need of daily medication to treat unspecified medical problems.
He is a stable, responsible man who, until recently, worked as a cab driver driving a vehicle he rented from a cab company that Lee declined to name, his daughter said. He has no past history of disappearing and told his wife he was going hiking in Palolo just prior to his disappearance.
Lee said that strikes her as odd because her father was not a hiker and rarely ventured outside of his Kukui Gardens apartment.
“This whole thing has been like a nightmare for me,” Lee said.
Her stress level, on a scale of one to 10, “is at least a 10 right now.”
“I keep waking up every day thinking, ‘This will be the day, someone will say they have seen him, that they know where he is and we will get him back.’”
Lee said she decided to reach out to the public to help find her father because of the “ohana” aspect of culture in Hawaii.
“There’s a community here that really cares,” Lee said.
The one message she would like to convey to her father is a very straightforward one: “We love you, no matter what.”
Lee, who works a s a volunteer for a church in San Jose, said she hasn’t seen her father for more than a year. But the two kept in touch by telephone “all the time,” she said.
Lee is described as being Korean, about 5-foot-7, 170 pounds with light gray hair and brown eyes.
Anyone with information about this incident is asked to call CrimeStoppers at 955-8300, or *CRIME on cellular phones.