Anastasia Nicolazzi

In December of 2017, inside a vacation home on the north shore of Oahu, Hawaii, 51-year-old Telma Boyneville had been found viciously murdered.

In December of 2017, inside a vacation home on the north shore of Oahu, Hawaii, 51-year-old Telma Boyneville had been found viciously murdered.

And Scott, very different from drawers being turned over, areas that you expect someone to be rifling for personal possessions. Like this feels like people were staying put, right? The fridge, the laundry being done by the washing machine. I mean, that to me is just much more like squatters.

And Scott, very different from drawers being turned over, areas that you expect someone to be rifling for personal possessions. Like this feels like people were staying put, right? The fridge, the laundry being done by the washing machine. I mean, that to me is just much more like squatters.

But you know, that level of violence doesn't really even seem to square with the initial crime. You know, you take advantage of here, a rental property, you know, people are in or out, you don't see the car. So, Hey, we're going to go and do our laundry. We're going to make ourselves at home at this nice home on the beach and

But you know, that level of violence doesn't really even seem to square with the initial crime. You know, you take advantage of here, a rental property, you know, people are in or out, you don't see the car. So, Hey, we're going to go and do our laundry. We're going to make ourselves at home at this nice home on the beach and

To go from that to the most brutal of murder, there's just something else going on. And, you know, it's just incredible to think about what that might be.

To go from that to the most brutal of murder, there's just something else going on. And, you know, it's just incredible to think about what that might be.

And that really is the small miracle in this case was that Thelma's eight-year-old daughter was spared the physical violence and did not actually witness the attack on her mother or see her body as it lay on the ground as the two attackers brought this child into the home. But now it was this same child that also held the key to catching her mother's killers.

And that really is the small miracle in this case was that Thelma's eight-year-old daughter was spared the physical violence and did not actually witness the attack on her mother or see her body as it lay on the ground as the two attackers brought this child into the home. But now it was this same child that also held the key to catching her mother's killers.

Within hours of Telma's murder, her partner Kevin and his family made additional public pleas for more information, offering a substantial reward to anyone who could help track down the truck or the killers. And an emotional video was posted by Kevin's brother and then shared by many high-profile surfers in the North Shore community. And that video, it soon went viral.

Within hours of Telma's murder, her partner Kevin and his family made additional public pleas for more information, offering a substantial reward to anyone who could help track down the truck or the killers. And an emotional video was posted by Kevin's brother and then shared by many high-profile surfers in the North Shore community. And that video, it soon went viral.

The user who posted the video was someone calling himself, and I quote, Axel Hayes Hendricks. But he was quickly identified by his real name, 23-year-old Stephen Brown. And the girl giggling to him was 20-year-old Haley Dandurant. And by the time police had seen the video, the comment section was already filled with accusations of murder and demands for justice.

The user who posted the video was someone calling himself, and I quote, Axel Hayes Hendricks. But he was quickly identified by his real name, 23-year-old Stephen Brown. And the girl giggling to him was 20-year-old Haley Dandurant. And by the time police had seen the video, the comment section was already filled with accusations of murder and demands for justice.

From what police could gather, neither Brown nor Dandurand had criminal records.

From what police could gather, neither Brown nor Dandurand had criminal records.

I mean, the speed of which this social media, these posts like spread around the island, it was like wildfire, which is amazing, Scott, right? But then on the flip side, like you're saying, there can be misinformation there and what people are reading or hearing they're going to take as fact. And you just don't know how that's going to factor into the investigation.

I mean, the speed of which this social media, these posts like spread around the island, it was like wildfire, which is amazing, Scott, right? But then on the flip side, like you're saying, there can be misinformation there and what people are reading or hearing they're going to take as fact. And you just don't know how that's going to factor into the investigation.

And also you don't want vigilante justice for the primary reason you don't want additional people to be hurt in all this. So this really is a lot of back and forth when you're thinking about these cases. But on the positive note here, luckily in this case, the lead generated by the public was a strong one.

And also you don't want vigilante justice for the primary reason you don't want additional people to be hurt in all this. So this really is a lot of back and forth when you're thinking about these cases. But on the positive note here, luckily in this case, the lead generated by the public was a strong one.