Press release photo
Marianne Konnerup (left) and Anitta Winther have been missing
since Saturday when they apparently went for a hike on the
North Shore. Police are asking for the public's help in
locating the visitors from Denmark.

Police still searching
North Shore for pair of
missing Danish women

By Jaymes K. Song
Star-Bulletin

Authorities are searching for two young women from Denmark who didn't return from an excursion to the North Shore Saturday.

Marianne Konnerup and Anitta Winther, both 21, were believed to have left for a sightseeing and hiking trip to the North Shore Saturday morning. They were scheduled to return in the evening.

Their bicycles were discovered locked up and parked in front of the Hawaii Kai Foodland, police said. They might have taken a bus to the North Shore.

Konnerup and Winther, who recently graduated from college, are tourists from Denmark staying at Richard Melcher's Hawaii Kai home. "They're not back yet," said Melcher this morning.

Yesterday, fire rescue and air units searched the Waimea Bay and Sunset Beach areas. This morning, only police were searching.

The two have been in Hawaii since June 20 and planned to stay on the islands for three months, said detective Phillip Camero of the police Missing Persons Detail. They were planning on continuing their travels to Thailand, Fiji or Australia.

Camero said foul play is not suspected as of today.

Konnerup is Caucasian, 5 feet 7 inches tall, 120 pounds with blond-red hair and blue eyes.

Winther is Caucasian, 5 feet 7 inches tall, 115 pounds with blond hair and blue eyes.

Anyone with any information about the whereabouts of the women can call CrimeStoppers at 955-8300.