Ralph A. Stempf

Ralph A. Stempf, 48, a White man, died in Honolulu, Hawaii, on November 9, 1965, after being found in his Makiki apartment. The public account of his case begins at the moment he was discovered—already gone—inside his own home, where the ordinary privacy of an apartment was broken by violence. 

According to the Honolulu Police Department’s cold case listing, reports indicated Stempf had been assaulted with a blunt object. Beyond that stark description, the publicly posted case su ...

1965 Archives - Honolulu Police Department

Cold Cases - Honolulu Police Department