GIRL ON KAUAI
MORE THAN 20 YEARS AGO SENT
SHOCKWAVES
THROUGH THE COMMUNITY. NOW IT'S
GETTING RENEWED ATTENTION.
GINA MANGIERI IS ALWAYS
INVESTIGATING...GINA?
I spoke with the father of the
not have acted alone.
The destruction of Hurricane
Iniki in 1992 put many families
TIMOTHY Right around this area,
had all campers, all
tents, mix of locals and
visitors?
Lacey's father, timothy Woolsey,
recalling a tragic
grows darker, so does the
panic. Authorities and
lost my air, I came up and I
told him she's down there. he
looked up passed her to me and
he went up get his air, I
just came up slowly, threw
everything away, walked in
this day.
TIMOTHY 01;10;41;28 hard for
describe, for your only
back to shore, the details
of her violent end were just
being uttered from the lips of a
confessing murderer Aaron
Schonlau, barely 20 years old,
police.
issues, that he'd been off
lithium and on drugs and
alcohol, partying with campers,
even Lacey's mom
that evening, that he'd taken a
walk down the road
"She
followed me over there," he
it."
"She was screaming and I had my
hand on her face and
that's when she stopped
breathing. Twisted her head. I
transcript shows the Q&A keeps
going. That confession
to a young cop Mel Rapozo, now
Kauai County Council
chairman.
MEL RAPOZO 01;51:00 and as he
was going through the
Schonlau pled no contest,
sentenced to life with the
possibility of parole.
AARON IN COURT ""I just would
like to say that I'm sorry
took the stand in court
proceedings.
TODD SCHONLAU " It's the hardest
thing I've ever had to
News of the crime spread, and a
mainland detective
wondered if there was a possible
connection to a cold
case child murder he was
assigned in Colorado where
WE ARE NOT NAMING THIS PERSON AS
HE HAS NOT
BEEN CHARGED IN CONNECTION WITH
THE
5:58
Fast forward 19 years to January
2012. Oregon police
respond to a domestic violence
call involving that
said
told her that he was there when
the murder happened.
JIM BENISH PHONER 10:51 He
describes taking her into
01;11;29;08 GINA now that you've
what way?
this animal in jail
confessions to police didn't
mention many of the injuries
the coroner found on the body.
The autopsy says the
cause of death was
drowning..despite shonlau's
01;18;01;33 The big question is
who got her from here to
here and what was the time
element for that? 18:08
We worked with Roger Strecker,
an
We pieced together all available
police, court,
autopsy, affadavit and witness
statements, recreated the
STRECKER 01;30;08;13 I found it
very fragmented and
cause concern on my
part if this person was under
the influence of narcotics and
alcohol
01;51;20;05 GINA for him to know
and recount to you the
extent and the details that he
did, would there have been
any question in your mind
whether he was really at the
question in my mind.
By '93 I had interviewed and
interrogated quite a few
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1;46;09;44 look at the intricate
detail in recollection -- he had
that much depth of knowledge,
what is his basis
starts to fill in the puzzle.
WITH THESE QUESTIONS
RAISED...WILL
AUTHORITIES TAKE A SECOND LOOK
AT THE
CASE?
WE'RE ASKING THE QUESTIONS AND
WILL
CONTINUE OUR ALWAYS
INVESTIGATING SERIES
TOMORROW.
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