In 1999, She Was Found Without Clothes In A Trash Bag Behind A Florist’s Shop, And Someone Either Strangled Her Or Suffocated Her
In 1999, Jubilee Lum of Honolulu, Hawaii, was twenty-one years old and engaged to be married.
She and her fiancé, Ambrocio Lazaro, were also expecting their first child together. Then, in August of that year, everything changed.
According to Jubilee’s mother, Melva Matunding, Jubilee had gotten mixed up in the wrong crowd at the early age of just thirteen.
She was known to frequent Chinatown throughout her teenage and early adult years, possibly getting caught up in drugs.
“We tried to keep her home, but she kept on going,” Melva said. Ambrocio, too, explained how he would frequently pick up his fiancé from Chinatown and ask her to stay home.
But, on August 24, Jubilee visited the neighborhood again, and it was her last time. She was last seen being picked up by a white or light-colored Ford Econoline van made between 1987 and 1990.
Then, at four months pregnant, her body was found without clothes in a plastic garbage bag behind a florist shop called Beretania Florist.
According to Crime Stoppers Detective Kim Capllonch, one of the florist’s employees discovered the bag while taking out the trash.
Honolulu Police Department; pictured above is Jubilee
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And at the time of discovery, Lieutenant Allen Napoleon of the Honolulu Police Department said that Jubilee’s body showed no obvious signs of injury.
However, autopsy reports later revealed that the twenty-one-year-old either died of strangulation or suffocation, and the homicide took place between 11:30 a.m. and 12:30 p.m.
Jubilee’s fiancé had been in the hospital for heart trouble when the tragedy occurred. Then, after being discharged, he began looking for Jubilee before hearing the heartbreaking news from her mother.
“He was shocked. Everybody was shocked,” Melva recalled.
And even though Honolulu PD launched an investigation, Jubilee’s case has remained without answers for nearly twenty-three years now.
Nonetheless, Melva has still held onto hope that her daughter’s murderer will be brought to justice.
“This has been going on for too long. I just hope that whoever knows about what happened will come forward and try to solve this already so everybody can go in peace,” Melva pleaded.
If you have any information regarding Jubilee’s case, you are encouraged to contact the Honolulu Police Department Crime Stoppers at (808) 955-8300.
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