HAWAII COUNTY POLICE DEPARTMENT
KONA CRIMINAL INVESTIGATION SECTION
LIEUTENANT HENRY W. HICKMAN
PHONE: 326-4203
APRIL 3, 2001
F-64001

Kona Criminal Investigation Section detectives have renewed a request for information relating to the disappearance of a 36-year-old woman in 1998.

The woman, Michelle Gloria Adam, had been reported missing from her home in Milolii Beach Lots, South Kona, since June 13, 1998. Her husband, Richard Louis Adam, reported her missing four days later, on June 17, 1998.

The husband told police he last saw his wife drive away in her 1997 Toyota Celica from their Milolii home on June 13, 1998. He said that two days later, he found the car parked at the couple’s second home in the Hawaiian Ocean View Estates subdivision of Ka’u.

In January 1999, detectives reclassified the woman’s disappearance from a missing person to a murder case. They also conducted a two-day search for the woman’s remains in both Milolii and Hawaiian Ocean View Estates. The search failed to turn up any evidence relating to her disappearance, however.

The husband now resides in Lancaster, New Hampshire.

At the time of her disappearance, Michelle Adam was described as being 5-feet-1 in height, weighing 85 pounds with a slim build, having long straight brown hair and brown eyes.

Anyone with information about the woman’s disappearance is asked to call Kona police at 326-4646 or the police emergency number at 935-3311.

Those who wish to remain anonymous may call Crime Stoppers at 329-8181 in Kona or 961-8300 in Hilo. The numbers are answered 24 hours a day. Callers will be given a coded number and their identity will remain anonymous. Callers may be eligible for a reward of up to $1,000 if their call leads to an arrest, indictment or the recovery of property. Crime Stoppers neither subscribes to “Caller ID,” nor does it record phone calls.