Who is Hailey Dandurand? Hawaiian woman gets lengthy prison sentence for brutally killing substitute teacher in 2017
PUPUKEA, HAWAII: A Hawaiian woman was sentenced to prison for several years for the brutal slaying of a woman killed while her daughter was nearby. Hailey Dandurand, 26, will be formally sentenced by a judge who will decide how many years she is going to spend in prison before she becomes eligible for parole on November 15.
Under Aloha State law, prosecutors requested the maximum punishment for the killing of substitute teacher Telma Boinville, 51, at a vacation home in Pupukea where she worked as a house cleaner for extra money to support her eight-year-old daughter.
Who is Hailey Dandurand?
Hailey Dandurand was convicted of murder, kidnapping, and burglary by Honolulu jurors on Tuesday, August 1. On Friday, the jury decided she will be punished with life in prison with the possibility of parole. Dandurand and her then-boyfriend, Stephen Brown, 29, abducted and tied up the victim’s daughter after the slaying and left her inside the home where the killers shamelessly provoked the child with her mother’s death.
“Near the body was a bloodied hammer, knife, and mallet,” officials wrote in a criminal complaint. According to Hawaii News Now, the duo fled in Boinville’s truck and were arrested some seven hours later in Mililani after an intense and quick social media campaign. Brown was also recently convicted of murder, kidnapping, and burglary for the crime. He is slated to be sentenced on August 30.
Both Dandurand and Brown wanted to die
“He spontaneously uttered, ‘Just shoot me, I deserve this,’” officers said of Brown. Dandurand echoed the same, “Can you just pull your gun out and shoot me in the head, my life is over after today.” Jurors decided this week that the woman’s life was not over. “Please give her a chance, even if it’s 30 years from now, or 40 years from now — she is a human being with morals and values,” Sunshine Dandurand, Hailey Dandurand’s mother pleaded, according to Hawaii News Now, arguing against the state’s request for no possibility of parole. “This is a life sentence. This is the death penalty.”
Defense attorney, Barry Sooalo tried a similar argument according to the TV station, "This is the young lady, you’re being asked to decide whether or not she has no redeeming qualities whatsoever.” The defendant's grandmother also spoke about Dandurand. “I’m pleading that you offer more memories,” Laree Purdy, Dandurand’s grandmother, told jurors. “Let her be an asset to Hawaii. She can do much good in the future. As a citizen, she had no record she never got in trouble. This was not in Hailey’s nature.”
The state spoke on the brutality of Boinville’s death and what the defendant did to the victim’s child following the heinous crime. “Where was the empathy on December 7, 2017, when Makana was bound and gagged and left in that bedroom?” Deputy Prosecutor Scott Bell asked. Then he answered. “There was no empathy, no selflessness, no caring, nor was there compassion.”
