Randall Lee Adams was 62 years old when he was last seen on October 20, 2010, in Kaupo, Hawaii, a remote and rugged part of Maui County known for its coastal isolation and powerful ocean environment. He was a male, identified in public missing-person listings as White/Caucasian, approximately 6 feet 4 inches tall and 190 pounds, bald, with blue eyes. The available public accounts place Randall’s last known location in Kaupo, on the southeastern side of Maui, and identify his missing-person case through NamUs as MP85885.
On the day he disappeared, Randall reportedly went paddle boarding at a spot known as “Plenty Kiawe” and did not return. That simple sequence of events is the heart of the publicly available case information: a man set out near the ocean, expected to come back, and instead left behind unanswered questions that have endured for more than a decade. Public summaries do not provide a detailed timeline of his departure, what equipment may have been recovered, whether anyone saw him on the water, or the exact search conditions that followed. What is known is that his absence was serious enough to become a missing-person investigation handled by the Maui County Police Department.
The setting matters deeply in understanding why Randall’s disappearance has remained so difficult. Kaupo is not a densely populated resort area; it is a quieter, more remote coastal community on Maui, where terrain, ocean currents, wind, and limited visibility can complicate searches and delay answers. In a case like Randall’s, the lack of public detail does not lessen the significance of what happened. It means that the known facts are spare: he was last known in Kaupo, he went paddle boarding, and he never came back. For his loved ones, that absence would not be defined by how much information appears in a database, but by the painful uncertainty of a familiar person suddenly missing from daily life.
Randall’s case is listed among missing people connected to Maui, alongside other long-term cases in which families and communities continue to hope for information. Public missing-person listings identify his date missing as October 20, 2010, his last known location as Kaupo, and his physical description as a tall, bald man with blue eyes. The National Missing and Unidentified Persons System, known as NamUs, is described as a national clearinghouse and resource center for missing, unidentified, and unclaimed person cases in the United States, and Randall’s case is associated with that system under MP85885.
The Maui County Police Department is the investigating agency associated with Randall Lee Adams’s disappearance, and Maui County’s public resources direct missing-person matters through its police department and investigative services. Publicly available listings do not indicate that Randall has been found, nor do they provide a confirmed explanation for what happened after he went paddle boarding. What remains is the story of a 62-year-old man last seen in Kaupo, Hawaii, on October 20, 2010, who went out near the water at Plenty Kiawe and never returned; a case marked by a remote coastal location, limited public details, and a long search for answers that continues to represent both the uncertainty of ocean-related disappearances and the enduring hope that someone, somewhere, may still know something that can help explain what happened to Randall.
Last Seen: Oct 20, 2010
