Do you know who murdered Eleanor? Eleanor Brusenbach, 54, a White woman, died on February 24, 1971, in the Honolulu, Hawaii area, her last known hours later becoming the kind of grim timeline people revisit when a case never finds its ending. 
One later account places her out the night before, February 23, at the CPO Club on Naval Station Pearl Harbor, and suggests she may have gone on in the early morning hours to a place called The Dunes on Nimitz Highway. However her night truly unfolded, she did not make it home.

Later that same day, the same account says, her body was found in a cane field off West Loch Road in the Ewa area. She was reported to have been strangled, and the write-up describes investigators believing she had also been sexually assaulted—details that hardened the mystery into an unsolved homicide rather than a disappearance with hope still attached. 
Publicly available summaries that mention the case characterize it as an unsolved murder, and no suspect names, arrests, charges, trials, or convictions are presented in the accessible public references located for this synopsis. What remains, instead, is the outline: a night out, a lost stretch of hours, and a body left where sugarcane once grew—an absence of answers that has outlasted the era that produced the first detectives who worked her case. 
In the records of remembrance that persist online, her life is anchored to dates and a burial place: June 26, 1916 to February 24, 1971, with interment at the National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific in Honolulu, listed as Section K, Site 324.
