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                                      Myles Fukunaga

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                                      Myles Fukunaga was a 19-year old hotel employee in Honolulu.  On September 18, 1828, Myles Fukunaga kidnapped 10-year-old Gill Jamieson from school.  Fukunaga tricked administrators into thinking that the boy’s mother was in a car accident.  He and the boy took a cab to the hotel where he had worked and Myles Fukunaga beat Jamieson with a steel chisel and choked him to his death.  Fukunaga had no close friends and had shamed his family after a failed suicide attempt.  He saw the $10,000 ransom as a way to help his parents and to redeem his honor.  His own 12-year old sister helped the police find Fukunaga after the murder. Fukunaga did not deny that he murdered the boy.  During his trial two weeks later, Fukunaga’s soft-spoken admissions of guilt won the hearts of the jury, but he was still convicted. 

                                      After he was sentenced to death, Fukunaga thanked the court.  He was hanged on November 19, 1929 in O’ahu Prison.

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