News That Matters Support us. The department operates the Hawaii State Hospital , where Randall Saito, 59, has been ordered to stay since โ two years after he was acquitted of a murder of a year-old woman by reason of insanity. But, according to the police, Saito was out of the islands by then โ taking a taxi to a chartered plane to Maui before boarding a second flight to San Jose, where some of his family members live.
The FBI and U. Marshals Service have reviewed security footage from the San Jose International Airport in connection with the manhunt, airport spokesman Jon Vaden said.
Saito was committed to the State Hospital 36 years ago โ after being found not guilty of killing Sandra Yamashiro, who was shot and repeatedly stabbed before her body was found in her car at the Ala Moana Center parking lot.
Saito filed for conditional release in , but the court denied his request, saying he suffered from necrophilia and sexual sadism. Across the country, dangerous patients have also escaped recently from other psychiatric facilities. Anthony Garver crawled out of a window of his ground-floor room at Western State Hospital, rode a bus miles to Spokane and was captured days later without incident. After the escape Washington Gov. In Hawaii, the State Hospital came under fire in for its high rates of patient assaults on employees.
The issue led to a legislative investigation, which also looked into overtime abuse , nepotism and threats of retaliation against whistleblowers. A Senate committee eventually produced a page report , whose wide-ranging recommendations called for, among other things, building a new state hospital to reduce overcrowding.
