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Peter Kema Sr. and Jaylin Kema
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/11/15/peter-boy-kema-murder_n_6161914.html?utm_hp_ref=crimeThe 1997 disappearance of 6-year-old Peter "Peter Boy" Kema, Jr., is one of Hawaii's most notorious, unsolved crimes. Peter Boy disappeared on the Big Island 17 years ago.
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case was classified as a homicide in 2000 and has remained open since.
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police claim they have uncovered promising, though unspecified, new evidence.
“The police are actively investigating and we’re still following leads," Hawaii County Prosecutor Mitch Roth told
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"There is some new information, but I cannot tell you what that stuff is."
Peter Boy's parents, Peter Kema Sr. and Jaylin Kema, are the only suspects in the case and were known to be physically abusive. His parents told police that the last time saw their son was when they dropped Peter Boy off on Oahu in August 1997 with a family friend, "Auntie Rose Makuakane." Police have yet to find evidence of her existence.
Documents released in 2005 detailed the abuse that Peter Boy and his siblings were subjected to, including fractured ribs on Peter Boy when he was less than four months old. According to his older brother, Peter Boy received the brunt of the abuse. "I couldn't tell you why. It was just the way it was,
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younger sister said that their parents would often put Peter Boy in the trunk of the family car when they went out in public. “Our dad said he was being punished for doing something bad,”
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“We'd go to the beach, and he'd be in the trunk; we'd go to the store, and he'd be in the trunk."
Peter Boy and his siblings were placed in temporary foster care in 1991, after doctors discovered his injuries. They weren't returned to their parents until 1994.
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disappeared in 1997. A year later, during a psychological evaluation, one of Peter Boy's sisters said that she had seen the boy's lifeless body in a box in her parents' closet.
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state removed the children from the home after Peter Boy's disappearance. Peter Boy's step-siblings went to live with their father, William Collier, while his sister went to live with grandparents. Peter Boy's grandfather, James Acol, still has hope that his grandson may be alive. "Until proven otherwise, he's around,"
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"Unless somebody can show me evidence where he's truly dead."
'Peter Boy' Kema
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the question that has haunted Hawaii Island for years: Where is Peter Boy Kema Jr.?
"I wish I knew. I wish I knew, I don't,” says Allan Acol, Peter Boy's older brother.
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6-year old Hilo boy was murdered in 1997.
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Peter Kema, Senior and Jaylin Kema, have always been the only suspects.
Thousands of pages of
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files show a pattern of abuse that Peter Boy and his siblings suffered at the hands of their parents. The state took away the kids at one point, but returned them to the Kemas. And Acol says the abuse resumed.
“I know Peter has something to do with it,”
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of his step-father, “My mom, probably knows something, in fact, I guarantee she knows something."
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year after Peter Boy went missing, the couple called a press conference and told a tale of what happened to their son. Peter Kema says he flew to Oahu and gave his son to an auntie. But no one believed that story and there were no plane tickets to prove it.
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the parents were never arrested and the case stalled.
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police continued to revisit the case and earlier this year, Prosecuting Attorney Mitch Roth assigned a Deputy Prosecutor to take another look too and the combination appears to be paying off.
“The police are out there, they're reinvestigating, there are some new leads that are coming out,”
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He would not detail the new leads but says they are promising.
“I'm very excited about it. It's been a long time,”
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“We're tying up some loose ends,” says Lieutenant Gregory Esteban of the Hawaii Police Department's Criminal Investigation Section, ”We're working closely with the prosecutor's office, we're exchanging communication… there were additional follow-ups that were recently completed."
Allan Acol is happy that investigators didn't give up on the case.
“I want something to be done about it,”
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Timeline up until 2005“Try… Just try."
Even if his parents are never arrested, Acol says he will be satisfied knowing that his playful little brother, was not forgotten.
http://archives.starbulletin.com/2005/06/01/news/story3a.htmlAug. 15 and Aug. 16, 1998:
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U.S. Department of Justice child interviews Peter Boy's siblings and finds that "the children witnessed violent events that created a level of fear that they did not feel safe to disclose while they were in contact with both their biological mother and their step/biological father."
» Dec. 17, 1998:
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report says that the children, now removed from the Kema home, described sexual abuse at an undisclosed time, by Peter Sr. and Jaylin and another man.
» March 1999: Police submit case to prosecutor for review.
»Jan. 31- Feb. 2, 2001: Detectives and U.S. Army personnel who help identify the remains of missing military personnel dig up the back yard of residence in Keaau, where Peter Kema Sr. lived
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» April 30, 2005: Lillian Koller, head of the Department of Human Services, releases 23 pages of
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documents.
» May 31, 2005:
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2,000 pages of previously secret documents in the Peter Boy case are made public.
» June 1, 2005: Big Island prosecutors review the Peter Boy case, something they have done periodically since 1999.