Michele Gloria Adam.

MUS-2026-256

Index entry. Case details compiled from public reporting; our researchers have not verified this file yet.

Michele Gloria Adam, 36, worked as a clerk at Kona Circuit Court. On June 13, 1998, she drove away from the home she shared with her husband at Milolii Beach Lots in South Kona, telling him she needed her space; her husband assumed she had gone to the couple's second home in Hawaiian Ocean View Estates, Kau. He reported her missing on June 17, and said he had found her 1997 Toyota Celica parked at the second home two days after she was last seen. In January 1999 detectives reclassified the disappearance as a murder case and conducted a two-day search for her remains at both properties; the search found no evidence. A suspicious fire destroyed the Milolii home in October 1998, four months after she vanished; whether it was connected was never determined. Her husband later left Hawaii. No one has been charged, and the case remains unsolved. Sources spell her first name both Michele and Michelle; police releases use Michele.

1. June 13, 1998

   Adam drives away from her Milolii Beach Lots home in her 1997 Toyota Celica; last seen.

2. June 17, 1998

   Husband reports her missing; he says he found her car at the couple's second home in Hawaiian Ocean View Estates.

3. October 1998

   Suspicious fire destroys the Milolii home; connection to the case never determined.

4. January 1999

   Detectives reclassify the case from missing person to murder and search both properties over two days; no evidence found.

5. June 3, 2002

   Hawaii County Police issue a renewed public appeal for information.

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• Charley Project: Michele Gloria Adam
• Hawaii Police: Kona detectives seek clues to 1998 disappearance