But they have not determined whether there is a connection, or whether one of the deaths was a murder. He met Lum about seven months ago. The women were working together at an escort service named Petite Pleasures, he said in a telephone call from prison. Bensinger was running the service, and Lum was answering phone calls, King said. Bensinger's decomposed body was found off Kaukonahua Road in Waialua on Aug. 10.
Police believe it had been there at least two weeks.
Bensinger was 24, Lum 21. Allen Napoleon, head of the homicide detail. But we're not saying they are not connected. King, who was arrested Feb. 2, said he received a letter in prison from Bensinger postmarked July 23. He said the letter was about how distressed she was about people coming after her because of a love triangle she was involved in.