Police have initiated a coroner’s inquest case in connection with human remains found in Puna last month and a missing person case for a Canadian woman whose personal items were found nearby.
Police have initiated a coroner’s inquest case in connection with human remains found in Puna last month and a missing person case for a Canadian woman whose personal items were found nearby.
On July 18, Puna Patrol officers responded to a remote area of the Hawaiian Paradise Park subdivision for a report of partial human skeletal remains found by local hunters off Beach Road about half a mile on the PAhoa side of Makuu Drive.
Hilo Criminal Investigation section detectives recovered the remains, as well as personal items in the area belonging to a Canadian woman named Jessica Urbina.
Urbina, from Montreal, Quebec, had come to Hawaii on vacation in November 2000, when she was 21 years old, and that she had been reported missing to the Honolulu Police Department in 2001.
In addition to the coroner’s inquest investigation, Hawaii Island police have initiated a missing person case for Urbina, who was 21 when she was last seen. She was described as 5-foot-1, 100 pounds with long black hair, brown eyes and fair skin.
Police have not yet identified the remains and do not know if there is a link between the remains and Urbina, who would be 37 years old now.
Police ask anyone who has any information about the human remains or Jessica Urbina to contact Lt. Gregory Esteban at 961-2252 or gregory.esteban@hawaiicounty.gov or to call Crime Stoppers at 961-8300.