Khiara came to Maui on vacation and was staying at a hotel in Kihei. On July 21st at 2pm, Khiara rented a car for one night to visit Hana's Waianapanapa State park. Khiara has not been heard from since that day.

Lynch lived in Newburgh, Indiana at the time of his disappearance and was visiting Hawaii. He went hiking and taking pictures in Hawaii Volcanoes National Park at the end of of Chain of Craters Road in Hawaii National Park, Hawaii on June 6, 2003, and never returned.

Reece was a vegetation research intern for the United States Geological Survey’s (USGS) Biological Resources Division in Hawaii’s Mauna Loa area. He resided in Hawaii Volcanoes National Park near Hilo and worked on the Palila restoration project in late 1999.