Seventeen years old. A red roadster. A boy who couldn’t take no for an answer.
In 1932, Margaret Enos of Hilo said no to a marriage proposal — and paid the price with her life at the edge of Halemau'mau' crater. What followed blurred the line between crime and myth: whispers of Pele’s fury, a tidal wave in Hilo Bay, and one of the strangest rescues ever attempted in Hawaii.

This is a story of youth and obsession, of violence carried to sacred ground, and of the quiet courage of a man who risked everything to bring two souls back from Pele’s fire.

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Sources for this episode include:

• The Chicago Tribune archives (1932)

• The Fresno Bee (1932)

• The Stanford Daily (1932)

• Peter T. Young’s Images of Old Hawaii

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