Honolulu police are investigating a connection between the killing of a woman found in a Young Street apartment Wednesday and a man who died in a fiery crash Monday on the North Shore.
Court documents show that a man received a speeding ticket last year while driving a vehicle with the same license plate of the SUV that crashed Monday. Police suspect the same man was behind the wheel Monday.
Police also suspect the 30-year-old woman found in the Young Street apartment was the wife of the man killed in the crash.
Neither victim has been positively identified by the Honolulu Medical Examiner’s Office.
Police reported conducting a welfare check on the woman’s apartment and discovering her body at about 3:30 p.m. Wednesday.
Officers opened an unattended-death case, but but the case was later reclassified to murder.
Autopsy results were not available Thursday.
On Monday a man died in a fiery crash in a pineapple field off Kamehameha Highway near Paalaa Uka Pupukea Road.
Police said witnesses saw a 2011 white Nissan Rogue SUV cutting in and out of traffic when its driver lost control of the vehicle and hit a utility pole at about 6:25 p.m. The SUV ended up in a pineapple field and burst into flames. Police said speed may have been a factor in the crash.
The driver of the SUV was burned beyond recognition and was pronounced dead at the scene at 7:04 p.m.
In 2013 the suspected driver, 37, divorced the woman who was found dead Wednesday, according to court records. In the divorce papers, the woman reported she was a Realtor, and the man reported he was unemployed. The papers cited irreconcilable differences for the separation.
"We can never agree on anything in our marriage," the couple said in the divorce papers. "We want to move on with our lives."
