Police are renewing their request for the public’s assistance in identifying a man whose partially decomposed body was found July 19 in a West Hawai`i park.
The middle-aged homeless Caucasian man discovered at Higashihara Park in Keauhou Mauka was between 5-foot-8 and 5-foot-11. He was believed to have frequented the nearby Honalo and Kainaliu areas as well as Kealakekua.
He was shoeless and wearing blue jeans and a blue T-shirt depicting a SpongeBob SquarePants character and the words “It’s Hip To Be Square.”
The cause of death has not been determined.
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Police have received numerous tips from the public but none of those have panned out.
Anyone who knows of a person fitting that description who is unaccounted for is asked to call Det. Walter Ah Mow at 326-4646, Ext. 238.
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