Hawaii Husband/Wife Stabbing
Georgina
http://the.honoluluadvertiser.com/2000/Apr/08/localnews4.html
Police yesterday said a Mililani woman would be interviewed as a
possible suspect in a double stabbing Thursday night that wounded her
and left her 44-year-old husband dead with a knife wound to his neck.
Cheryl Mosier, 45, was listed in good condition at the Queen’s Medical
Center yesterday, recovering from a stab wound to her neck, Homicide Lt.
Bill Kato said. Kato said the stabbings have been classified as a
domestic violence case. He said officers were looking into the
possibility that one of the victims intended it to be a murder-suicide.
Police went to the Mosiers’ home on Wekiu Street on Thursday night after
911 operators received a 11:36 p.m. call from a woman reporting that she
and her husband were injured. The woman then hung up. When police
entered the blue two-story house, they found Harbin and Cheryl Mosier
lying next to each other, each stabbed in the neck. A doctor pronounced
the man dead at the scene, police said.
Police recovered a large kitchen knife believed to be the weapon, Kato
said. He said there were signs of a struggle — a vase and chair were
knocked over — but no evidence of an intruder. He said six other
relatives, including the couple’s mothers, were home at the time. All
told police they were sleeping. “It wasn’t a bang-out fight,” Kato said.
“The neighbors said they didn’t hear anything. The family said they
didn’t hear anything.”
Harbin Mosier reportedly worked in the construction business, and his
wife worked at Wahiawa General Hospital, Kato said. A neighbor who lives
a few doors away said the Mosiers moved into the home in 1986. He
recalled seeing no tensions among the couple. “They’re a really nice
family,” said the neighbor, who asked not to be identified. “I don’t
remember hearing any fights before (Thursday).”
It was the fourth death on Oahu this year attributed to domestic
violence. On Feb. 2, Allan Dequito, 27, shot his wife, Andrea, 27, and
then shot himself in their Ewa home, police said. On Feb. 7, Sabrina
Fiaai, 36, was arrested on suspicion of second-degree murder after she
allegedly stabbed her husband, Abe, 36, at their Makakilo home. She was
released while prosecutors investigated the case. On March 18, Saturnino
Millon, 37, was charged with fatally stabbing his wife, Erlinda, 35, at
their Kalihi home.
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Police investigating husband-wife stabbing
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Police are continuing to investigate the death of a 44-year-old Mililani
man found slain on his living room floor. The medical examiner
identified the man as Harbin Richard Mosier Jr. He was found dead with a
stab wound to his neck late Thursday night, police said. Mosier was
lying next to his wife, 45, who also was stabbed in the neck. She was
taken to Queen's Hospital where she remains in fair condition today.
Mosier's wife called 911 at 11:30 p.m. to report she and her husband
were injured at their home at 95-1023 Wekiu St. Police found no signs of
an intruder and are investigating whether the stabbing was a
murder-suicide attempt. A large kitchen knife, believed to be the weapon
used, was recovered near Mosier's body, police said. There were two
other women and four children at home during the stabbing, including the
Mosiers' two teen-age sons. They reported hearing no argument or
struggle.
Georgina
including a possible motive. It may have been a murder/suicide attempt
but the woman is recovering and will be arrested as soon as she's
released from the hospital.
Aloha,
Georgina
Affair suspected in fatal stabbing
Cheryl Mosier, still in the hospital, is to be arrested in her husband's
death
http://starbulletin.com/2000/04/11/news/ (includes picture of Mosier, a
hula dancer/chanter)
An extramarital affair between a Mililani man and a California woman may
have been the motive behind his alleged murder, according to court
documents. Harbin Richard Mosier Jr., 44, was going to leave his wife to
be with a Sacramento woman with whom he had a child, his mother-in-law
Janice Sweigart told detectives. The affair had been going on for 3-1/2
years, according to Sweigart.
An arrest warrant has been issued charging Cheryl Mosier, 45, with the
slaying of her husband, who was found dead Thursday night at their Wekiu
Street home with a stab wound to the neck. Earlier that night, after the
couple had returned home from dinner, Cheryl Mosier had a conversation
with Sweigart, who resides at the home. "Cheryl told her mother that she
was upset because the victim told her at dinner that he was going to
leave her when the youngest child reached 18," a document filed by
police said. Sweigart said that her daughter, Cheryl Mosier, was most
afraid of being alone."
Mosier will be formally arrested and booked at Honolulu police
headquarters for second-degree murder as soon as she is released from
Queen's Hospital, said Homicide Lt. William Kato. She had also been
stabbed in the neck four times, in what police say may have been a
suicide attempt. She remains at Queen's Hospital under a suicide watch,
and was declared in good condition this morning. Mosier hasn't made a
statement to police but told her physician that "she and her husband
made a suicide pact," court documents said.
Cheryl Mosier was discovered by police and paramedics lying on the
living room floor next to her dead husband. A medical examiner found his
wound was not self-inflicted. In a 911 call, Cheryl Mosier stated she
and her husband were injured and didn't know what happened to them.
Police said a large kitchen knife, believed to be the murder weapon, was
placed near her husband's head.
Harbin Mosier's mother, Helen, who also resides at the home,
acknowledged her son's affair to police. Helen Mosier told police that
though her son told his wife they should get a divorce when their sons
completed school, everything seemed fine when she went to bed. Six
family members, including the two teen-age sons, were at home during the
time of the stabbing and reported hearing no arguing or fighting. Bail
for Cheryl Mosier was set at $100,000.
Georgina
> More details are now available in this husband/wife stabbing incident,
> including a possible motive. It may have been a murder/suicide attempt
> but the woman is recovering and will be arrested as soon as she's
> released from the hospital.
> Aloha,
> Georgina
Update: Family blames love affair in death
http://the.honoluluadvertiser.com/2000/Apr/12/localnews6.html
He was the star hula dancer who posed in award-winning photographs. She
was the green thumb of the family who nurtured their Mililani home
garden. Grieving friends described Harbin “Dickie” Mosier Jr. and his
wife, Cheryl, as “the perfect couple” and expressed shock that such an
outwardly caring relationship could degenerate into a homicide
investigation. But it appears that Dickie Mosier was having an affair.
“They struck me as a couple very much in love with each other,” said
longtime friend Dennis Imamura, who has known the Mosiers for about 13
years. “Dickie was a very classy-type person. Even as a close friend of
his, I didn’t have a clue of any possible problems between him and
Cheryl. Because he was a classy person, he did not want to bring his
problems onto anybody else.”
Cheryl Mosier, 45, remained at the Queen’s Medical Center yesterday
undergoing mental evaluations. She has been charged in connection with
the stabbing death of her 44-year-old husband Thursday at their Wekiu
Street home. Police say she will be arrested upon her release from the
hospital.
According to court records: The couple had been experiencing martial
problems. On the night Dickie Mosier was found dead, his wife talked
with her mother, Janice Sweigart, and told of her unhappiness. Cheryl
Mosier said she was upset because her husband told her at dinner that he
was going to leave her when the younger of their two teenage sons
reached age 18, Sweigart said. He had been having an affair for about 3
1/2 years and he and the other woman had a child together, Sweigart told
police. Sweigart said her daughter was most afraid of being alone.
Medical Examiner Kanthi Von Guenthner said Dickie Mosier had a single
large wound to his neck, which was not self-inflicted. Cheryl Mosier’s
doctor, Kristine Gebrowsky, said she had four wounds to her neck.
Gebrowsky said Cheryl Mosier had spoken with her husband about a suicide
pact.
The Mosiers both attended Pearl Harbor Kai Elementary School, a family
member said. Cheryl, who originally is from Portsmouth, Va., ran into
Dickie at a local disco in the late ’70s. A romance ensued and they
married in 1981, the family member said. In 1986, they started living in
their two-story home on Wekiu Street in Mililani. They shared the blue
house with both their mothers, sons and other relatives.
Friends described Dickie Mosier as an established hula dancer who was to
graduate next month as hula master for his halau, Ka Pa Hula Hawaii.
“Very few people are born to dance; he was,” said Kaha‘i Topolinski,
kumu hula of Ka Pa Hula Hawaii. “He had the desire and longing for hula.
He was eager and a good learner. He never kept written notes. Everything
was in his head and heart.” Topolinski is establishing a hula
scholarship in honor of Mosier. “We are grieving very hard,” he said.
Kim Taylor Reece, a popular Island photographer, remembered Harbin as
the photo subject of his award-winning photos. Reece said Mosier’s halau
was a winner in the Merrie Monarch festival twice in the early ’90s and
“I did a poster with him and it won a Pele Award for excellence.” “He
was real strong, real dynamic,” Reece said. “He’s probably one of the
best dancers I’ve worked with. I’ve been working 20 years.” Reece called
the Mosiers the “perfect couple” who were “always supportive of each
other.”
Dickie Mosier worked as a draftsman at contracting firm Dick Pacific,
and Cheryl Mosier worked in the Wahiawa General Hospital pharmacy,
friends said. “Cheryl’s pride and joy were her children and her yard,”
Imamura said. “She had plants and beautiful flowers. She had a beautiful
garden that was always so well taken care of.” Thursday’s death left
friends wishing there was something they could have done. “Geez, I wish
I had the opportunity to help in some way,” Imamura said. “Let’s not
judge Dickie or Cheryl. That’s not for us to decide. The main concern
should be the children.”