If I were writing a novel — purely fiction and one of the characters was faking their death iId make sure there was a dummy in a picture complete with wig and glasses and spirit the real alive person to a “hospital or other location.
It would take a lot of co operation to pull such a hoax off but would certainly keep them away from being an unwilling witness
If I were writing a novel,,,,,,synthetic wig would never appear stringy and wet
There are many small island where she could live or even stay in the mountains of their recent visit
Spent only a week in HI , the week of japanese earthquake and the tsanmi which followed on the big island One thing became very apparent : the close ties and familial relationship of the natives. They’d do anything to protect their own from outside sources. You know that coast guard medical etc would all have “family” available in a crisis
Good basis for a novel .....
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Nowhere would that be more true than on Kalaupapa. The DOH Administrator is in charge of literally EVERYTHING there. As close to a commune as we will hopefully ever get.
For instance, the Administrator does the contracts for all the repairs in Kalaupapa. I suppose part of that is because the DOH is in the process of figuring out how to hand over the whole property to the National Park Service when the last of the leprosy residents dies, and it may also have to do with one barge bringing in the heavy supplies for building, etc.
What that means, though, is that those who come into Kalaupapa to work are probably there because Mark Miller contracted them to work there. Mark Miller arranges for refrigerators and stoves to be put in the houses. He gives the food allowances. He makes sure the USPS still delivers mail there. Etc. Mark Miller is the papa providing for everybody.
Ferdinand Puentes was there repairing the roof of St Francis Catholic Church, the parish of the priest who “gave last rites” to Fuddy, because Mark Miller contracted him to be there. If Holstein was there to do something regarding his company, it’s because his company was contracted by Mark Miller to do something in Kalaupapa. Rosa Key was there to attend the community meeting because she works closely with the HDOH to engineer the transition of the property to National Park Service.
A person has to get a permit from the HDOH in order to even go into Kalaupapa. So even the tourists can be pre-screened by the HDOH.
There are no hostile witnesses there.