Kauai police say Lawai deaths are apparent murder-suicide
Advertiser Staff
Kauai police today identified the man whose body was found yesterday in a house in Lawai as 38-year-old Duane Bukoski of Lawai.
A woman whose body was found in the house and was an acquaintance of Bukoski's remains tentatively identified, police said.
The case has been classified as an apparent murder-suicide.
Autopsies have been scheduled.
The Garden Island reported yesterday that friends and members of the woman's family in Kapaa said she had been missing since Monday and that her truck had been recovered on the West Side.
The family members, including her father-in-law, said police told them they will call his son to positively identify his wife’s body.