A young man was murdered in Hanalei late Friday night or early Saturday morning. His girlfriend, 20 year old Nancy Ellen Baugh is missing and it is believed she may have been kidnapped by the killer. The dead man was
A young man was murdered in Hanalei late Friday night or early Saturday morning. His girlfriend, 20 year old Nancy Ellen Baugh is missing and it is believed she may have been kidnapped by the killer.
The dead man was 27 year old Paul “Sonny” Wayne Featherman.
His unclothed body was found in a small green house on Weke Rd., which he and his girlfriend rented.
It is next to two big, new, pole houses.
The body was discovered at about 9 a.m. Saturday when his coworker at Hanalei Bay Resorts, Dennis Deasy, came to check on his friend because he hadn’t shown up for work and he was usually so punctual.
Deasy found the car at home and nothing looked awry but he asked a neighbor, Gary Renstrom, to go into the house with him, and together they found the body.
With Deasy’s call, a patrolman was dispatched and was asked to determine if the case was one of suicide or homicide. The patrolman reported back he had to preserve the scene so until photographers arrived and took many pictures, the body could not be turned over.
When all the pictures had been taken, Detective Bernard Naea who had been assigned to the case, turned the body over and discovered Featherman had been shot through the mouth with a shot gun. He appeared to have been dead about eight hours, and no weapon was found.
Naea said the neighbors were questioned and some of them said they heard what sounded like gun shots and screaming, but no one called police.
Renstrom said he had been watching TV when he heard some noise but it sounded as though it came from some distance away.
He said he went outside to check, all was silent, so he went back into the house and went to bed.
Neighbors told police they thought Featherman and Baugh were not into drugs or anything, and that they had been saving their money to go into the nursery business.
Police had a problem having the body removed as both morticians were tied up with funerals so they were not able to pick up the body until Saturday afternoon.
An additional problem was that there is no more room in the morgue for it already contains the bodies of the two men killed in an auto accident Saturday morning, and the remains of the two hikers found dead in Hanakoa several months ago, who have yet to be identified. As a result, an autopsy was performed immediately.
Police have a few clues and have worked night and day since the discovery of the murder, in part, out of concern for the welfare of the missing girl.
