11/14/2025
Missing Tyler Reikofski-Ekle of Hilo, Hawaii
It was a quiet August morning on Hawaii Island, the kind where the ocean mist settles low and the jungle hums like it knows a secret.
Along the Kalapana-Kapoho Beach Road — near the lonely 15-mile marker — 26-year-old Tyler Reikofski-Ekle was last seen. 9:15 a.m., August 10, 2024. A moment that should have meant nothing… but instead became the last confirmed sighting of him.
No one knew then that this would be the final time Tyler’s shadow touched the coast.
The next day, strangers turned over a handful of his belongings to police — his phone, his medication, pieces of his life that should never have been abandoned.
Because anyone who knows Tyler knows one thing for certain: He never goes anywhere without his phone. And he never goes anywhere without his dog, O’hia.
But on that stretch of road, under clouds that seemed too heavy for the sky, Tyler was nowhere to be found.
No footprints.
No calls.
No sign that he’d wandered away willingly.
And whispers began to rise — not just of concern, but of danger. People who loved him quietly admitted what others feared to say aloud: There were people out there who might wish to harm him.
Days passed. Then weeks.
Without his needed medication, Tyler was considered endangered. Without his dog, without his phone, without a trace, the silence surrounding him grew heavier.
The island, usually alive with the chatter of birds and waves, seemed to swallow the sound of his name.
Tyler Reikofski-Ekle is still missing.
A 6’1”, 185-pound man with long blond hair and brown eyes — a familiar figure to those who knew him along the coastline and surf breaks.
But out there between the lava rock, the forest, and the sea, something happened to him. Something no one has yet understood.
Something that someone may still be hiding.
And so the question lingers on Highway 137 like a shadow that refuses to move:
Where did Tyler go?
And who was with him that morning?
Anyone who knows — anyone who saw anything — is asked to call the Hawaii Island Police at (808) 935-3311.
Because someone out there has the missing piece.
