2 Charged in Horrific Murder of Hawaii Teacher

By Rob Quinn

December 11, 2017

Two suspects have been arrested in the horrific murder of a teacher in Hawaii who was cleaning vacation homes for extra income. 

Police say the body of 51-year-old Telma Boinville was found inside a vacation rental in Pupukea on Oahu's North Shore Thursday. She had been beaten to death, apparently with a baseball bat. 

Her uninjured 8-year-old daughter was found tied up in another room with duct tape over her mouth. Stephen Brown, 23, and girlfriend, Hailey Dandurand, 20, were charged on Saturday with offenses including second-degree murder, the Honolulu Star-Advertiser reports.

Boinville's body was found by visitors from Australia. "They tied up my daughter and they beat my wife to death with a baseball bat," Boinville's husband, Kevin Emery told reporters Thursday.

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