Police ask for public’s help locating missing woman

The Hawaii Police Department is requesting the public’s assistance in locating 29-year-old Melissa E. Murdock who was reported as missing.

She is described as being approximately 5 feet, 7 inches tall, weighing about 120 pounds with medium-toned skin and wavy, shoulder-length hair, police said. She was last seen on Feb. 10 in Kona, and and is known to venture around the Big Island. She sometimes refers to herself as “Diah” or Melissa Molina.

Anyone with information on her whereabouts should call the department’s nonemergency number at (808) 935-3311 or contact Detective Aron Tomota at (808) 326-4646, ext. 262, or Aron.Tomota@hawaiicounty.gov.