WAILUKU, Hawaii (AP) – Four days into the search for a missing pregnant woman in Maui, her half-sister and a group of volunteers got their first serious clues, finding a skirt, shirt and bra that appeared stained with blood. The sister recognized the items as belonging to 27-year-old Carly Scott and the searchers called police.
That led to a turning point in what started as a missing persons case – the discovery of a jawbone that would eventually help authorities file a murder charge against her ex-boyfriend, a person familiar with the case told The Associated Press.
Scott’s mother, Kimberlyn Scott, declined to discuss the details of the case but told The Associated Press she now believes the man charged with killing her daughter, 24-year-old Steven Capobianco, is responsible and the only one who knows where her body is.
“We wanted something else – we wanted a different answer than it was Steven,” Kimberlyn Scott said. “For me, personally, it took a while, and I have only recently come to the conclusion that it was Steven.”
After the discovery, police began investigating Scott’s disappearance as a homicide. Then last week, a grand jury indicted Steven Capobianco, 24, on charges of murder and arson.