Daughter of White Victim Murdered by Black Claims Media Lying About Her

Hawaii Tribune
August 24, 2015

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The daughter of a 49-year-old woman stabbed to death last week in downtown Hilo said her mother was “an educated woman,” and media descriptions of her as a homeless person do her life and memory a disservice.

Chloe Caron said her mother, Danielle Caron, originally was from Pacific Palisades, an affluent Los Angeles neighborhood, but spent almost two decades in Santa Cruz., Calif., before moving to the Big Island a couple of years ago.

“She graduated from college with a master’s (degree) in teaching,” Chloe Caron said. “She’s talented. She’s artistic; she can draw. She has a genius IQ. She’s a loving woman with an addiction problem. She moved to the Big Island. I lived on Kauai for five years. I moved her out there myself to give her a new opportunity to change for the better. When I moved her out to Hawaii, I was with her for about a month, so I know that she was sober. For a while, she was working on an organic farm and she was trying to pretty much survive.”

Chloe Caron said she last talked to her mother about a month ago.

“She said she was going back to school, and she was medically healthy, and mentally, she had overcome a lot,” the 23-year-old woman said in a Tuesday phone call from the San Francisco Bay Area.

She said her mother, whose body was found early Friday morning in front of the Koehnen Building on Kamehameha Avenue, fell victim to “one of those ‘wrong place, wrong time’ kind of things.”

“When I read the news, it breaks my heart to read ‘homeless woman murdered.’ That’s not who she was,” Chloe Caron said. “She had a lot to give people. She was kind. She wasn’t a homeless addict who robbed people or anything like that.”

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Curtis Hodges is a registered sex offender with a criminal record.

Until recently, Danielle Caron had an address in Pahoa, records indicate.

“She was originally living in Pahoa when she first moved to Hawaii,” Chloe Caron said. “I’m not really too sure where she was recently. I know she had a boyfriend. His name was Brian (Trantham). She was staying with her boyfriend, and she was trying to go to Florida … because he had family there that was sick, and they were going to go there and take care of them. I don’t know if he knows (about the homicide), or where he is, anything like that.”

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