This Day in History: The infamous Zerox Murders occurred on this day in 1999 in Honolulu, Hawaii. Service technician Byran Koji Uyesugi shot at eight people; wounding seven fatally (six co-workers and his supervisor). This was the worst mass murder in the history of Hawaii. "Uyegusi surrendered in the mountains around Honolulu five hours later, and pleaded not guilty by reason of insanity – claiming that he felt like an outcast at work, and that he was scared that his co-workers were conspiring to have him fired. He was sentenced to life in prison without parole, and is now held at a facility in Mississippi, due to inadequate accommodations for a prisoner in isolation at Halawa Correctional Facility. The Xerox building was abandoned after the shooting, and was not used until 2004, when producers of the television series Lost built a sound stage there to film indoor scenes."~Megan Shute
Hawaii also had a serial killer. The Kauai serial killer is an unidentified serial killer and rapist who murdered two women and injured another on the island of Kauai, Hawaii, between April and August of 2000. Despite a composite sketch of the perpetrator and the availability of his DNA, he was never caught, and the murders remain unsolved.
Then there was also the Morgan's Corner murder. This crime was committed by two escaped convicts James Majors and John Palakiko in Nuuanu Valley on the outskirts of Honolulu when they burglarized the home of Therese Wilder on March 11, 1948. They left her bound and gagged, which caused her to suffocate. The two were almost sentenced to death by the court, but were given a stay of execution and sentenced to prison instead. After the incident Morgan's Corner (a bend on Nuuanu Pali Drive) gained a reputation for being haunted.
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