The murder of Therese Wilder was committed by two escaped convicts James Majors and John Palakiko on March 11, 1948, in Nuuanu Valley on the outskirts of Honolulu, when they broke into her home.
Morgan's Corner is a bend on Nuuanu Pali Drive that connected Honolulu to Kāneʻohe before it was superseded by Hawaii Route 61.
Petty criminals James Majors (19) and John Palakiko (21) escaped a prison work crew on March 10, 1948.
[1] Five days later on March 16 Wilder's gardener Isabelo Escalante and maid Miya Matayoshi found her body.
On June 18 the jury found the men guilty of first-degree murder and sentenced them to death by hanging.
Majors moved to Maui where he spent the rest of his life, dying of natural causes in 2009.