Suspect held in 1997 Utah killing
A Utah man was arrested Monday in Ewa Beach in connection with a 1997 Utah murder after DNA linked him to the killing.
The Salt Lake County district attorney’s office says 59-year-old Alan Lee Marx was arrested Monday and also charged in the Salt Lake City murder.
Prosecutors say DNA found in 1997 on a bloody shirt near the body of Ward Woolverton was recently linked to Marx. Prosecutors say Marx and Woolverton were seen drinking together in the days before Woolverton was killed. Both men also were staying at a nearby Salt Lake City homeless shelter at the time.
An autopsy found Woolverton died from head wounds.
Motorist accused of attempted murder
A 27-year-old Mililani man was being held for investigation of attempted murder after he allegedly used his car to hit a man during an argument Sunday night in Mililani.
Police said the 28-year-old victim went to the hospital. His condition was not available.
Also injured in the 10:20 p.m. incident was the suspect’s 24-year-old wife, who was treated at the scene.
Speed suspected in fatal motorcycle crash
Police say speeding may have been a factor in a motorcycle crash that killed a 53-year-old Hilo woman Sunday afternoon in Puna.
Police identified the victim as Jill E. Peterson of Hilo.
Police said Peterson was traveling north on Kapoho-Pahoa Road near the 2-mile marker when she lost control of a 1999 Honda motorcycle, which ran off the right side of the road and hit a guardrail at about 2:55 p.m.
Police said Peterson died at the Hilo Medical Center from her injuries at 6:48 p.m.
She was not wearing a helmet, police said.
The death is the 18th traffic fatality on Hawaii island this year, compared with 23 at the same time last year.
Accident victim was Kailua-Kona woman
Hawaii County police identified the woman killed in a traffic accident Sunday in Milolii as Karen Alani-Powell, 44, of Kailua-Kona.
Firefighters said Alani-Powell was ejected from her sport utility vehicle when it crashed and overturned in a lava field about 20 yards off the end of Milolii Road just after midnight Sunday.
Her body was found about 25 feet from the vehicle. She was pronounced dead at the scene.
