MEDIA RELEASE

Jessica Urbina

Hawaiʻi Island police are renewing their request for information about a Canadian woman who was reported missing in 2001.

Jessica Urbina from Montreal, Quebec, came to Hawaiʻi on vacation in November 2000, when she was 21 years old. She was reported missing to the Honolulu Police Department in 2001. She was described as 5-foot-1, 100 pounds with long black hair, brown eyes and fair skin. She would now be 37.

Personal items belonging to Urbina were found near human remains discovered in Hawaiian Paradise Park on July 18 of this year. Police are awaiting DNA analysis on the remains and have not established whether there is any connection between the two cases.

Police ask anyone with any information about Urbina to call the Police Department’s non-emergency line at 935-3311 or contact Detective Sandor Finkey at 961-2384 or sandor.finkey@hawaiicounty.gov.

Tipsters who prefer to remain anonymous may call the islandwide Crime Stoppers number at 961-8300.