Jury agrees pregnant Maui woman’s murder was heinous
HONOLULU — Jurors whose deliberations spanned nearly a month before they found a Maui man guilty of murder in the death of his pregnant ex-girlfriend took much less time Tuesday to decide the killing was especially heinous — a determination that will allow a judge to sentence him to spend the rest of his life in prison.
The jury found Steven Capobianco guilty last week of second-degree murder and arson in the death of Carly “Charli” Scott, who was five months pregnant with Capobianco’s child when she disappeared in 2014.
The panel began deliberating on Dec. 1 after listening to about six months of testimony.
The second phase of deliberations involved an allegation that Capobianco killed Scott in an “especially heinous, atrocious, or cruel manner.” After briefly deliberating Tuesday, the jury agreed that it was such a case.