Kaua'i police say they have no reason to believe that the recent slaying of a 47-year-old man who was found dead shortly after being released from prison is connected to organized crime.

Daniel Bonanno was released from Hälawa Correctional Facility on O'ahu on Nov. 8 and found dead in a parked pickup truck the following morning on Kaua'i in the Wailua Homesteads area. He had served five years on a theft charge.

Marianne Trombley told The Garden Island newspaper that her ex-husband was the son of the late William Bonanno, an organized crime figure on the East Coast.

But Assistant Police Chief Roy Asher on Wednesday said he believed a "local culprit" was involved and that there was "no reason to believe that it's an outside entity."

Trombley also told the newspaper that she believed the killing could have been arranged by someone her husband angered in one of the three prisons he served time in.