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[Lori Davis]

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Parents and best friend of missing Maui woman point fingers at her ex

 

Posted: Jan 17, 2014 1:15 AM EST

Updated: Jan 17, 2014 3:17 PM EST

By Tannya Joaquin 

 

WAILUKU, MAUI (HawaiiNewsNow) - Police are circulating a new flyer in the disappearance of a missing Maui mother of three, Moreira Monsalve.

 

It says she was last seen at her ex boyfriend's place in Wailuku at 10 Sunday night. Monsalve's ex boyfriend, Bernard Brown has been questioned by police, but has not been named a suspect.

 

We called Brown. Brown told us he has been instructed not to answer any more questions, but he has been very vocal on facebook.

 

When Monsalve didn't show up for work Monday and Tuesday, her parents feared the worst.

 

Euclides Monsalve told us by phone from Maryland, "It really hurts me that she's gone and nobody knows where she is."

 

Brown has been active on Maui Now's facebook page.. posting

 

"I'm grateful for everyone's concern and effort to locate her!- With Moreira Monsalve."

 

But, her friends and family paint a picture of an abusive relationship that she was trying to end.

 

Melissa Taylor responded, "Mo was terrified of you so stop acting like you are concerned."

 

Taylor also posted texts exchanged with her missing friend.

 

They said "he threatened to pound me and not stop. I'm so done." 

 

and "Trying to stay hidden. I don't trust him. he's vindictive."

 

Brown answered "I have done nothing but try to find Moreira and I will not stop..My girlfriend is Missing!"

 

Mo's best friend Susan Manini fired back "stop calling her your girlfriend. She was not anymore."

 

Mo was Susan's maid of honor at her 2012 wedding, and says her friend was afraid of her ex. Manini said, "She just said he was abusive. I asked is he hitting you. She just shrugged her shoulders and said he's really mentally abusive."

 

Then, she broke down in tears and said, "I think he did something to her. I went to his house and said Bernard I'm looking for Mo and he jumped back and said I didn't do anything to her."

 

Mo's parents are flying from Maryland on Monday to be with their grandchildren. Her mother Helen said, 'It's a nightmare. We're so far away."

 

Mo's father Euclides chimed in, "I don't know this guy only seen in pictures but this is a no good guy."

 

Helen added, "Moreira had tried to break up with this man. She obviously went over to his house to try to pick up something and that was last anyone saw of her."

 

Friends and family spent the day searching from Kihei to Wailuku. They're trying to stay optimistic, but say it's unlike Moreira, a responsible single mom to take off and skip work.

 

Call Maui police with any tips that could help at (808) 244-6400.

 

Facebook page for Moreira Monsalve: https://www.facebook...moreiramonsalve

[Lori Davis]

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Missing woman’s children, parents attend vigil for her

January 23, 2014

By CHRIS SUGIDONO - Staff Writer (csugidono@mauinews.com) , The Maui News

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Nearly 250 friends and family members remembered missing Maui woman Moreira Monsalve on Wednesday night during a candlelight vigil at Kaahumanu Church.

 

The 46-year-old mother has been missing for a week and a half, and her three children, Alexis Felicilda, 27, Lono Felicilda, 23, and Tyson Felicilda, 18, thanked those in attendance and prayed for the finding of their mother.

 

"We're not going to let this go away," Alexis Felicilda said. "We're going to keep looking until more information is found and we find her. If there's one thing I was good at it was being driven and bulldozing my way through life. My mother always told me that I bulldoze through life and sometimes miss the good things that try to find me, but right now I think being a bulldozer is what I have to do."

 

Alongside Monsalve's children were the missing woman's parents, Euclides and Helen Monsalve. The couple joined the group after arriving from Arnold, Md., on Tuesday night.

 

"Moreira was our baby," Euclides Monsalve said to the crowd of supporters. "I still remember when she was a week old, she slept right here on my shoulder for two years. I can't tell you how close we were."

 

Before the vigil outside the Wailuku church, each person was given an LED candle and a pink ribbon with the words: "Moreira - We won't rest until you are found."

 

Alexis Felicilda and her brothers held traditional candles and embraced one another at the ceremony.

 

"We've been working hard as a family every day," she said. "I haven't seen the family together like this since I graduated high school - 10 years ago. So just the support has been tremendous, and it helps us with our loss."

 

While Alexis Felicilda lives on Maui, Lono Felicilda serves in the U.S. Air Force in Albuquerque, N.M. He said that he needed permission from the military to return to Maui. He arrived Saturday to help with search efforts for his mother.

 

Tyson Felicilda currently is living with his father.

 

Monsalve was last seen Jan. 12 around 10 p.m. at her ex-boyfriend's residence in Wailuku. Earlier that day, she attended a meeting with Tyson Felicilda at the University of Hawaii Maui College. The two left in separate vehicles.

 

Monsalve then picked up Alexis Felicilda and had a beer with her at the Hang Loose Lounge in Kahului before dropping her daughter off at Kahului Airport.

 

"We were just talking story," Alexis Felicilda said, adding that they did talk about the ex-boyfriend. "We have a very open relationship with each other so we know everything about each other's lives."

 

Alexis Felicilda said there was nothing out of the ordinary about her mother or the conversation.

 

"It's really difficult," she said. "The fact that not knowing and not having closure. I think some people are just hoping and praying that she's being held captive somewhere."

 

Maui police spokesman Lt. William Juan said that the case is still classified as a missing person's case and that detectives are following up on leads.

 

"There are no updates at this time," he said Wednesday.

 

Monsalve's parents said they will being staying on Maui until Tyson Felicilda, a Baldwin High School senior, graduates in June. Euclides Monsalve said they are staying to see whether he would like to come back with them to Maryland.

 

"I know my mother would really want him to focus on getting into college because it's his second semester," Alexis Felicilda said of her brother, whom she has tried to keep out of the media spotlight. "My mother and him were filling out his FASFA (federal financial aid form) that Sunday so I know he's hurting a lot because he was her baby. But I'm trying to keep him focused on getting him to college."

 

Alexis Felicilda said that volunteers will be holding a large search Saturday in the central and north central area of Maui "thanks to some leads by the Maui Police Department."

 

For information on the search and other developments, go to the "Mowatch missing person Moreira Monsalve" Facebook page at www.facebook.com/mowatch moreiramonsalve?ref=br_tf.

 

Monsalve is described as 5 feet 7 inches and about 170 pounds. She has brown hair and brown eyes.

 

Anyone with information about her whereabouts is asked to call police at 244-6400.

[Lori Davis]

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“MO” UPDATE: One-Month After Disappearance, Information Sparse

 

February 12th, 2014

By Wendy Osher

 

On the one-month anniversary of the disappearance of Moreira “Mo” Monsalve, Maui police have little new information to share with the public.

 

Today, police issued a press release touting the department’s efforts to disseminate information via social media and Facebook in the days after she went missing.

 

“We were able to pass along the information to the public much faster and more efficiently with the assistance of the media and social media,” said Lieutenant William Juan who noted that the department’s own post generated more than 4,400 views.

 

Monsalve was last seen a month ago on Sunday, Jan. 12, 2014, at her ex-boyfriend‘s residence in Wailuku.  She was reported missing on Tuesday, Jan. 14 by her daughter; and police issued a missing person report on the case at around 10 a.m. on Wednesday, Jan. 15, 2014, requesting the public’s assistance.

 

Yesterday, family and friends of Monsalve posted an update on their Facebook page saying Feb. 12, “marks a full month with little to go on that is concrete we all flip back and forth between sadness and anger.”

 

The update states that the FBI was contacted the day Monsalve was reported missing. “They have been helping where they can but this is in MPD’s jurisdiction,” the post stated.

 

The update also comes as the department faces yet another missing person case — this time involving 27-year-old Carly “Charli” Joann Scott who is five months pregnant, and who was last seen at around 8 p.m. on Sunday, Feb. 9, 2014, at her sister’s house in Haʻikū.

 

According family members, Scott then went to help her ex-boyfriend whose car had broken down and was stuck at around mile post 20 of the Hāna Highway on Sunday night.

 

Scott was reported missing on Monday, Feb. 10, and police issued a missing person crime bulletin seeking the public’s help shortly after 3 p.m. on Tuesday, Feb. 11.

 

Family members of Scott also set up a social media Facebook page to assist in organizing search efforts and disseminating information.

 

Anyone with information on either case is asked to call Maui police at (808) 244-6400.

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Scott's mother wants life term

She says her family’s ties with Capobianco turned sour early on

 

July 17, 2014

By CHRIS SUGIDONO - Staff Writer (csugidono@mauinews.com) , The Maui News

           

MAKAWAO - As Steven Capobianco awaits his Oct. 6 trial date for allegedly killing his pregnant ex-girlfriend in February, the woman's mother and a close friend called the man "emotionally and mentally" abusive.

 

Capobianco, 24, of Lahaina is facing charges of second-degree murder of Carly "Charli" Scott and third-degree arson of her vehicle to cover up the crime. He pleaded not guilty during his arraignment Tuesday and is being held in lieu of $2 million bail at the Maui Community Correctional Center.

 

Family members said Capobianco is the father of Scott's unborn child.

 

"I hope that he sits in a cell for the rest of his life, and I hope that he lives a long life," said Adam Gaines, a close friend of Scott, on Wednesday. "That's my opinion, but being in a cage for the rest of his life is what he deserves."

 

Kimberlyn Scott, Carly Scott's mother, expressed a similar sentiment, saying that nothing less than life in prison would satisfy her.

 

"There's just so many mixed emotions about it, but primarily I think it's very overridingly painful to see him like this," Kimberlyn Scott said of Capobianco. "It's not pleasant. It's not what any of us wanted. I think that's pretty hard to see, but I'm very glad the way things are moving in the way they are."

 

Sitting outside the Hui No'eau Visual Arts Center in Makawao, the mother reflected on her and other family members' relationships with Capobianco, who she believes is guilty.

 

Capobianco was the last to see Carly Scott, a 27-year-old Makawao resident who was five months pregnant, before she disappeared the night of Feb. 9. Family members said she received a call that night from him, asking if she would drive him to Keanae so he could fix his truck, which had broken down there.

 

Carly Scott had been with her three sisters at one of their residences in Haiku when she received the call and left, but told her sisters she was heading home.

 

"We all went to bed blissfully ignorant that night," Kimberlyn Scott said.

 

When Carly Scott failed to return any phone calls or texts from friends and family throughout the next day, her mother said she knew something was wrong.

 

"At that point, I was scared and thinking what if she passed out in the shower or something and nobody would know," Kimberlyn Scott said. "And she's pregnant. I got panicky."

 

Kimberlyn Scott's youngest daughter, Phaedra Wais, was closest to Carly Scott and accompanied her mother to their missing loved one's house. After not finding her or her sport utility vehicle, they called police and asked each other "who else would she be with that she wouldn't tell us."

 

"We both said his name at the same time: Steven," Kimberlyn Scott said. "We didn't like him particularly so Charli learned to keep that part of her world quiet."

 

Capobianco first met Carly Scott about six years ago, while the two were working at Mana Foods in Paia, Kimberlyn Scott said. She said they immediately "hit it off," but she only saw them as friends because he was already dating someone.

 

"But she made it clear that she liked him and when he and his girlfriend split up they got together," she said. "They were together for three years, living together. He tries to illegitamize it, but she was paying all the bills and he was living in the house. They were sleeping in the same room. They were together."

 

Kimberlyn Scott said the relationship seemed "very serious" to her and that Capobianco was invited to family dinners, though, he quickly fell out of favor.

 

"He tends to rub people the wrong way - if they're a parental figure, he's very disrespectful and just doesn't treat people well," she said.

 

While Capobianco showed no physical abuse of Carly, his "tone and words" were disrespectful, Gaines said.

 

"He treated her like his servant," he said. "He ordered her around and kind of used Charli. He used her."

 

When Capobianco began dating Carly, Gaines said he and his wife became close with the pair and invited them to their wedding. He said he considered him a "brother," lived with him at his residence for about a year, and that he was helping him with his rough personal life.

 

"His dad wasn't in the picture at all and his mom was abusive and a drug addict, and died a year and a half ago," he said. "I tried to help Steven. I didn't have the roughest upbringing but I had been through some stuff so I thought maybe I could give him some perspective and turn his life around."

 

Both Kimberlyn Scott and Gaines found it odd that Capobianco declined to be photographed with Carly Scott anywhere and regularly denounced their relationship.

 

Kimberlyn Scott said that at a luau with all of her daughters and their boyfriends, she took photos of every couple - except Carly Scott and Capobianco.

 

"I tell her he was a gigolo," she said.

 

Capobianco had a couple of conversations with Gaines about Carly Scott's baby and that he was "warming to the idea" of being a father, but it remained impersonal.

 

"I don't know if I believe a word that guy ever told me now," he said.

 

Since her disappearance, family members have continued to search for Carly Scott and even started the group Maui Search and Rescue to assist with other missing person cases in Maui County. Kimberlyn Scott, who helped start the approximately 50-member group, said it has received accreditation from the U.S. Coast Guard's National Search and Rescue School, and it is conducting regular searches for Carly Scott and nearly a dozen other people with missing person reports that trace back to 1995.

 

Among those people missing is Moreira "Mo" Monsalve, 46, a mother of three, who disappeared a month before Carly Scott. Extensive searches around the island have been conducted but have not turned up the woman.

 

"I have 15 mothers who are calling me regularly," Kimberlyn Scott said. "It's an exclusive club, which you pay a really high price to get into. I think the (murder charge) was a win for all of us, but there's still a lot of people missing.

 

"I will find my daughter; it's not a matter of hoping. I will find her or I will die trying."

[Lori Davis]

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Rally held for Maui mother on one-year anniversary of her disappearance

 

By Web Staff

Published: January 12, 2015, 9:59 pm  Updated: January 13, 2015, 12:13 am

 

Jan. 12, 2015 marked the one-year anniversary of the disappearance of Moreira “Mo” Monsalve on Maui.

 

Even though police are still searching for answers, family and friends are not giving up hope she’ll be found.

 

On Monday, dozens held a rally to draw attention to her unsolved case.

 

The 47-year-old and mother of three was last seen leaving her ex-boyfriend’s house in Wailuku. While some of her things were found, she otherwise went missing without a trace.

 

“I just want know where she is. Everything else is minuscule compared to finding closure and bringing my mom to rest to peace,” said Alicia Felicilda, Monsalve’s daughter. “Justice is something we want to happen, but I would rather find out where she is. Every day I always try to think of another possible explanation. I go through everything over and over again trying to see if I missed something, if there is something new that I could find out, and it’s hard. It is hard to imagine a future without her.”

 

Maui police have named Bernard Brown as a person of interest, but say they do not know where he is.

 

Anyone with any information is asked to call Maui police, or Detective Oran Satterfield from the Criminal Investigation Division, Crimes Against Persons Unit, at 244-6431.

 

Tipsters can remain anonymous and any information given will remain strictly confidential.