Do you know who murdered Carol Drake? Carol Drake was a 56-year-old woman who died on December 16, 1985, after she was found fatally stabbed inside her business in Wahiawa on Oahu. When the door to the connected shops wouldn’t open during the early afternoon, what first seemed like an odd lock-up in the middle of a workday turned into something far worse: Drake was discovered dead on the floor, with her employee, Terry Shimizu dead beside her. 
The day unraveled in small, uneasy steps. A visitor arrived around 1:50 p.m.
and found the video store locked, even though employees next door believed the building had been open since morning. After checking and finding no simple explanation, they forced the door open at about 2:25 p.m.—and walked into the back-office horror of two bodies on the floor. The police were called, and the storefront that had been part of the everyday rhythm of Wilikina Drive became a sealed-off crime scene. 
Investigators quickly zeroed in on what the scene suggested and what it didn’t. A bloody knife was found at the location, yet the store itself appeared undisturbed, with no obvious signs of forced entry and no loud commotion reported by nearby workers or neighboring businesses. Blood patterns and the concentration of blood close to the bodies led detectives to believe the attacks happened while the women were low to the ground—kneeling or lying down—rather than moving through the store in a struggle. Some money appeared to be missing, including the day’s receipts from the video side of the business, but an envelope containing cash was reportedly left behind on the floor, complicating any straightforward “robbery gone wrong” explanation. 
The fatal efficiency of the violence only deepened the mystery. The medical examiner’s findings described a single lethal stab wound to Drake’s heart and a single lethal stab wound to Shimizu’s neck. The placement of those wounds suggested different angles of attack—one victim apparently confronted, the other approached from behind—and there was no indication, from what was publicly described, that either woman had been sexually assaulted. The result was a case that felt both intimate and strangely controlled: two lives ended quickly, with little left behind except questions. 
In the weeks leading up to the killings, Drake had also been dealing with the attention that comes from legal trouble. Reports later summarized that she had recently received probation related to selling sexually explicit material to an undercover officer, and that earlier arrests had involved allegations tied to promoting pornography at the business. Whether that backdrop had anything to do with what happened that afternoon was never established publicly, but it lingered in the case narrative as a possible source of resentment, retaliation, or unwanted scrutiny. 
No arrests have been announced in connection with Drake’s death, and no suspect or suspects have been publicly identified as responsible. The case remains open as an unsolved double homicide, with only the starkest facts firmly anchored: a locked door in the middle of the day, two women found on the floor, and a killing that ended with terrifying brevity—then stretched into decades of silence. 
