A 62-year-old Naalehu woman was sentenced Tuesday to life in prison, plus 20 years, for the 2009 shooting death of Kaycee Smith, a 21-year-old rodeo champion.

Smith’s murder isn’t the only cold case being reopened on Hawaii Island. In April, the parents of Peter Boy Kema were indicted for his murder. The six-year-old went missing nearly 20 years ago.

By offering money to people to murder Kaycee Smith. ... Peter Fuerte, he refused to testify in this case, until this year, 2023. “Miss Smith was found deceased in her home in 2009.

Fourteen years after the shooting death of 21-year-old rodeo standout Kaycee Smith, a 61-year-old Naalehu woman who called herself Smith’s “hanai auntie” was finally tried and convicted of ...

The victim, Kaycee Smith, was found with a single gunshot wound to her head on June 30, 2009. ... Meanwhile, Wong’s attorney Aaron Wills claims there’s insufficient evidence in the case.

Patricia Wong, also known as Patricia Hanoa, was indicted by a grand jury for second-degree murder in the death of Kaycee Smith. Smith was found in her Orchidland residence with a fatal gunshot wound.

Two friends of Kaycee Smith, a 21-year-old Hawaii Island woman who was murdered seven years ago in Puna are speaking out. Police finally named a suspect in her death on Friday, but that suspect is ...

HILO, BIG ISLAND (HawaiiNewsNow) - Big Island police are looking for a woman wanted for the 2009 murder of Kaycee Smith, 21, in Puna. Police suspect 54-year-old Patricia Wong killed Smith, who was ...