Telma Boinville, 51, (pictured) was killed in a rental home that she had been cleaning Thursday in Honolulu, Hawaii
Two suspects arrested in the murder of a 51-year-old Hawaiian house cleaner have been identified as a local couple.
Stephen Brown, 23, and Hailey Kai Dandurand, 20, were taken into custody late Thursday after Telma Boinville was found beaten to death with a baseball bat inside a Honolulu holiday home.
The partners-in-crime were tracked down by police after they sped off in the dead woman’s vehicle.
Deputy Chief John McCarthy said Boinville had been brutally murdered in the rental home she was working in at the time.
It was only when the renters arrived that her body was found in one of the rooms Thursday afternoon.
The victim’s eight-year-old daughter, Makana, was found uninjured but tied up in a separate room with a bag placed over her head.
As Brown and Dandurand were hauled into police cruisers and driven away, more than 60 onlookers shouted angrily at the accused killers.
‘Good job, cops!’ one onlooker yelled, while others shouted obscenities at the pair.
Suspects Stephen Brown, 23, and Hailey Kai Dandurand, 20, (shown together) were taken into custody after they were located in the dead woman’s car
The victim was found along with her daughter (shown with mom in an older Facebook photo) uninjured but tied up in a different room with a bag placed over her head
The home that homocide happened in was a vacation property near Honolulu on the North Shore
The male suspect was arrested later in the day and bystanders yelled obscenities at him as he left
Officials said the female suspect was arrested for car theft, while the man was taken into custody for a warrant and criminal property damage after he kicked out the window of a police vehicle.
Kevin Emery, the victim’s husband, had confirmed to the Hawaii News Now he was banned from entering the home because the bloody scene was so horrific.
‘They tied up my daughter and they beat my wife to death with a baseball bat,’ he said at the time. ‘They won’t even let me in the house because it’s so bad.’
Telma Boinville’s eight-year-old daughter was tied up in another room with a bag on her head
Police found the two suspects in Boinville’s car at a Walmart parking lot in Mililiani, Hawaii
Locals in the North Shore neighborhood ended up jeering at the suspect who was arrested
Authorities didn’t immediately release a potential motive.
The victim’s family called on the public for further help in social media statements.
‘Pray for my family. Pray for my twin brother Kevin Emery, and his little Keiki,’ said the victim’s brother-in-law, Brian Emery.
The late Boinville moved from Brazil to Hawaii in the 1990s and had been employed part-time as a teacher Sunset Beach Elementary School in Pupukea.
Brian told the Associated Press his relative was a lover of surfing, running, yoga, martial arts and baking.
Hawaii Department of Education spokeswoman Donalyn Dela Cruz said the sudden loss has ‘deeply affected’ the community.
‘Sunset Beach Elementary has additional counselors and behavioral health specialists available to help students, staff and their families.’
A GoFundMe page was created for the victim’s eight-year-old daughter Makana (shown right in a current photo)