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In the late summer of 1993, 16-year-old Sequoya Rebecca Vargas was preparing to start her junior year at Pahoa High School in Hawaii. She was a creative and gifted teenager with aspirations of attending art college. On August 22, 1993, she told her mother she would be spending the night with a friend. The two girls were hitchhiking when they were picked up by a man named Richard Damian Serrano. After dropping off Sequoya's friend, Serrano took Sequoya to a house in Nanawale Estates where his acq ...Read More
Last Seen: Aug 22, 1993

Victim Details

Mar 27, 2012

Nov 25, 2019

Sequoya

Vargas

47

16

63 inches

110 lbs

Hispanic / Latino

Female

Aug 22, 1993

Pahoa

Hawaii

Hawaii County

No

30477

Hawaii Police Department

Hilo

Hawaii

Hawaii County

96720

Derek Morimoto

Detective/Sergeant

349 Kapiolani Street, Hawaii

8089353311

County

Law Enforcement

Hawaii Police Department

Brown

Brown

Brown

05/27/2026


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