W Manalo is a Township within the city of Honolulu on the island of aahu Hawaii in the native Hawaiian language why Manalo means potable water referring to all of the brackish ponds streams and springs that were used for irrigation notably there are no hotels or resorts in this small rural town of less than 6,000 people within the tight-knit community Ariel sers was born to Mother Melanie Joseph and father Adam sers on November 6 2014 Ariel was described as an extremely happy child with deep brown eyes always Dawning a big smile at the time of our story she was 6 years old now Melanie lost custody of Ariel in her older sister in 2018 when Child Protective Services stepped in as a result of her struggles with addiction specifically to Crystal Ariel and her older sister went to live with her grandmother after that but the long line of family trauma didn't end there the girl's grandmother had only recently lost her son to cancer earlier that same year to make matters worse the grandmother's boyfriend was injured in a serious motorcycle accident a few months after the girls were placed in her custody now as a result the girl's case worker eventually deemed the home to be unfit for the children as it became too much added responsibility for their grandmother before long the girls were relocated a second time to a home just down the street Isaac and laua Kalua began fostering Ariel and her older sister in 2019 due their ages the names of Ariel siblings remained confidential in court documents during the adoption process Ariel's name was changed to Isabella Kua however considering the horrible things that ultimately ended up happening to this young girl we will refer to her only as Ariel moving forward another one of Ariel's siblings was born to her biological parents Adam and Melanie in 2020 eventually C s intervened and they were subsequently handed over to the kuas aka the new Foster Family however Ariel's birth parents didn't stop there giving birth to yet another child later that February again the process repeated itself and in total four children of Adam and melanies were taken by the state and then handed over to the Kua family however this soon turned out to be a huge mistake on September 23rd 2021 aiel was reported missing by her adoptive mother and an officer responded to the home at 6:25 a. m. that same morning laua told the officer that Ariel was last seen at 900 p.
m. the night before she continued by stating that she had put Ariel and her older sister to bed in their separate rooms but when she went to check on Ariel in the middle of the night she was gone next laua woke up the older girl to ask her where Ariel was but given the fact that she was a heavy sleeper she had no idea according to loua statements to authorities it was at this point when she her husband Isaac and Ariel's older sister began frantically searching the property however there was no sign of the six-year-old laua went on to say that Ariel would often sneak off into the garage where she would sometimes fall asleep according to laua Ariel would frequently go outside and seemed to be talking to someone but no one was there she said that lately Ariel had been going outside of the house on almost a daily basis and would tell her that she was waiting for her mother to come and get her leua identified the girl's birth parents as Melanie Joseph and Adam sers who are currently homeless and living in the area leua stated that on the evening of September 12th 2021 she Ariel and the older sister ate dinner together and the girls played for a bit afterward they went riding in the Lexus to get out of the house without stopping anywhere while Isaac stayed at home with the other two children leua told police that Ariel seemed fine with no issues or Tantrums both laua and Ariel went to bed at around 900 p. m.
checked on the girls 20 minutes later and Ariel was supposedly asleep in her bed leua woke up between 5:50 and 6:00 a. m. and discovered the side door of the home was unlocked in a jar she also reported that the door sensor was activated at approximately 1:30 a.
m. Isaac reported to the police that he last Saw aerial at 7:00 p. m.
in the kitchen with laua and that he went to bed between the hours of 8: and 8:30 p. m. Isaac was woken up by his wife who was screaming that Ariel was missing Isaac and laua then drove around the area before contacting the police to report her missing Ariel was described as being 3' 3 in tall and was last seen wearing a black hoodie black leggings colorful socks and Nike Slides with pink Souls when the child's adoptive father Isaac was questioned by police told them that he had gone to the emergency room on August 21st 2021 and had taken vacation time between August 21st and September 7th as a result both Isaac and laua denied any involvement in Ariel's disappearance her birth mother Melanie also denied having any knowledge of her whereabouts and told police that Adam was in residential treatment at that time a search immediately followed the same day that Ariel was reported missing droves of volunteers biological family members and dozens of police officers combined their efforts looking for six-year-old Ariel search parties congregated at the W Manolo Park District and served as a post for police FBI the department of land and natural resources and other state and federal agencies food and water donations to the family and search party participants flooded in bolstering support for bringing aial home after over a week of tireless searching it was announced that organized search parties would no longer be coordinated by police in the park this was announced on September 19th during a candlelit vigil for Ariel a few hundred people gathered predominantly school-aged children in their families Ariel's biological father Adam held his youngest daughter on one knee during the vigil surrounded by a family and supporters from across the island a family spokesperson announced that although the family would continue to search for Ariel coordinated efforts would no longer be meeting in the park those that would continue to search were encouraged to stay safe another family member urged the group to leave a light on for Ariel despite reporting her missing several weeks prior neither laua or Isaac participated in any of the search parties the kis had been Cooperative with law enforcement and a week after reporting her missing they had totally stopped answering calls from the police the kuas were nowhere to be found at the vigil held shortly after Ariel went missing a family friend of the couple claimed that they had been receiving death threats and were laying low the kuoa behavior raised a lot of questions in their small community one resident who had participated in the search was suspicious of the details of Ariel's disappearance for example why would she be sleeping in sandals another biological cousin of Ariels also questioned why the kis failed to secure the locks properly girl's biological mother ALS also reported that Ariel was afraid of the dark and would never wander around alone at Night video surveillance of the Kua home was recovered the day after she was reported missing on September 13th 2021 that footage ultimately revealed that Ariel was last caught on camera on August 18th 2021 several weeks prior to her disappearance on November 5th police conducted an interview with Ariel's older sister during which she told detectives that laua and Isaac had asked her to keep a secret roughly 2 months prior to what actually happened to Ariel according to the older sister the night Ariel went missing she had been locked in a dog cage in the bathroom she said that Ariel had duct tape over her nose and mouth according to the older sister this was a common occurrence in the home it became routine for Ariel to suffer this brand of punishment she went on to explain that around 3:32 a.
m.
