Honolulu police are investigating the death of a 72-year-old woman whose body was found early this morning in a dumpster after she had been reported missing in Kapahulu.
Police responded to a call just before midnight Monday from an 87-year-old man who reported his fiance missing. He reported that she had left their apartment on Kapahulu Avenue at about 8 p.m. and had not returned.
At that time, officers initiated a miscellaneous public report.
The man called police again after 2 a.m. to report that his fiance had not come home yet.
Responding officers thoroughly checked the area, and found her body wihtin a dumpster in the apartment building’s residential trash room.
Honolulu Emergency Medical Sevices responded and made a pronouncement of death.
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Police said an autopsy is scheduled for Wednesday.
At the moment, police have classified the case as an unattended death. The investigation is ongoing.