ISLAND.
NOW HAWAII ISLAND POLICE NEED
YOUR HELP FINDING THE KILLER OF
THIS UNSOLVED MURDER.
OPEN: UNSOLVED MURDER TITLE
SLATE
BEATEN TO DEATH.
DUMPED IN A REMOTE AREA.
A GRUESOME MURDER FROM 2003.
ISLAND POLICE TODAY.
BRIGETTE, HILO: WE'RE ON SADDLE
ROAD IN SOUTH HILO NEAR THE 12
MILE MARKER. IT'S A QUICKER WAY
TO GET TO HILO FROM KONA, AND
VICE VERSA.
THE EARLY 2000S.
BRIGETTE, HILO: IT WAS LESS
DEVELOPED BACK THEN. THIS IS THE
AREA WHERE A HUNTER CAME ACROSS
THE BODY OF A BADLY BEATEN MAN.
HIS BODY WAS SO DECOMPOSED, FOR
YEARS HE WAS KNOWN ONLY AS JOHN
DOE.
POLICE RAN HIS FINGERPRINTS IN A
STATEWIDE DATABASE...NO LUCK.
HAWAII ISLAND POLICE LIEUTENANT
RIO AMON- WILKINS: NOT KNOWING
WHO THE VICTIM IS, OBVIOUSLY,
YOU DON'T KNOW WHO THE SUSPECT
IS. THERE'S MANY CHALLENGES. YOU
DON'T REALLY KNOW WHICH
DIRECTION TO GO IN. IF YOU DON'T
KNOW WHO YOUR VICTIM IS, YOU
DON'T
YOU DON'T KNOW WHERE HE LIVED,
WHO HE HUNG OUT WITH WHERE HE
HUNG OUT.
THE CASE WENT COLD...
NAT POP / BRIGETTE: NOBODY
REPORTED HIM MISSING? DETECTIVE
DEREK MORIMOTO: NOBODY REPORTED
HIM MISSING.
FAST FORWARD 13 YEARS TO 2016.
DETECTIVE DEREK MORIMOTO LEARNED
THE CRIMINAL JUSTICE CENTER IN
HONOLULU WAS USING NEW
EVEN IDENTIFY SOMEONE BY
SCANNING A
PERSON'S EYES.
MORIMOTO SENT THE FINGERPRINTS
TO HONOLULU.
FINALLY, A MATCH.
NAT?
HIS NAME IS BRADLEY BUSSEWITZ.
PAM EKLUND / BRADLEY BUSSEWITZ'S
SISTER: IT HAD BEEN 13 YEARS
THAT HE WENT UNIDENTIFIED THAT
NO ONE KNEW THAT
HE HAD PASSED. AND SO THAT JUST
MADE IT ALL THE MORE TRAGIC.
PAM EKLUND / BRADLEY BUSSEWITZ'S
SISTER: ALL OF A SUDDEN, ANY
HOPE OF REGAINING THAT TIME, OR
THAT RELATIONSHIP WAS WAS
WISCONSIN, DESCRIBES HER
BROTHER'S LIFESTYLE AS NOMADIC.
HE WOULD SEND LETTERS...
COULD STAY IN TOUCH WITH HIM. IT
WASN'T ALL THAT UNUSUAL FOR US
TO GO
SEVERAL YEARS WITHOUT HEARING
FROM HIM.
PAM EKLUND: THERE'S BEEN PERIODS
OF TIME WHERE WE'D TRY TO FIND
HIM. PAM EKLUND: AS RECENTLY AS
2014, WE ACTUALLY DID A SEARCH
OF DEATH RECORDS AND DID NOT
FIND ANY FOR HIM. AND SO TO US,
WE HADN'T
WAS ENCOURAGING. I THINK THERE
WAS A PART OF US THAT WE WERE
JUST HOPEFUL
THAT WE ACCEPTED HIS LIFESTYLE
AND WE'RE VERY HOPEFUL THAT THE
ENVIRONMENT THAT HE WAS IN JUST
REALLY FIT HIS UNIQUE
PERSONALITY.
BRADLEY GREW UP IN WISCONSIN.
LIVED IN CALIFORNIA BEFORE
MOVING TO THE BIG ISLAND.
PAM EKLUND: HE HAD A DIDGERIDOO
PACIFIST, A VEGETARIAN. HE
WAS REALLY A LOVER OF THE EARTH.
AND REALLY, HIS DREAM WAS TO OWN
A SMALL PIECE OF LAND IN HAWAII
AND BE ABLE TO GROW HIS OWN FOOD
AND BE SELF SUFFICIENT.
BUT HIS DREAMS CAME TO A TRAGIC
END.
NOW, NEARLY 20 YEARS AFTER HIS
DEATH, CAN YOU HELP AUTHORITIES
SOLVE THE MURDER OF BRADLEY
BUSSEWITZ?
DETECTIVE DEREK MORIMOTO: I'M
HOPING BY PUTTING THIS CASE OUT
THERE AND HIS PICTURE, SOMEONE
WOULD RECOGNIZE HIM OR REMEMBER
THERE ARE SO MANY UNANSWERED
QUESTIONS.
PAM EKLUND: WHO WAS HIS
COMMUNITY? WHAT WAS HE DOING?
WAS HE HAPPY?
PAM EKLUND: AND THEN, OF COURSE,
UNDERSTANDING. I MEAN, THERE'S,
WE
KNOW, WE KNOW NOTHING.
PAM EKLUND: IT'S JUST LIKE HE
AND HIS LIFE JUST DISAPPEARED?
WITHOUT A TRACE. IT'S SO HARD TO
IF YOU HAVE INFORMATION THAT CAN
HELP HAWAII ISLAND POLICE, EMAIL
"UNSOLVED HOMICIDES AT HAWAII
COUNTY DOT GOV."
BRADLEY BUSSEWITZ ALSO WENT BY
THE NAME BRADLEY ADAIR.
HE'S KNOWN TO HAVE LIVED IN
PUNA, SOUTH HILO, KA'U, NORTH
NEXT WEEK WE'LL FEATURE ANOTHER
UNSOLVED MURDER POLICE NEED YOUR
HELP SOLVING.