Hawaii man charged with murder in deaths of three elderly men on Big Island

In the rural reaches of Hawaii's Big Island, three elderly men were found dead across two days, their lives ending in quiet places far from the world's attention. A 36-year-old local man, Jacob Baker, was discovered hiding in a cave after a coordinated manhunt and now faces charges of murder alongside a constellation of other felonies. The swiftness of the alleged violence and the absence of any known connection between the victims leave investigators — and the wider community — searching for meaning in what appears to be a sudden and devastating rupture in ordinary life.