Hawaii’s Most Brazen Hitman: The Crimes of Ronnie Ching
He buried a federal informant alive on a beach… then joked he’d hit him with the hammer one more time “just for the fun.” He machine-gunned a rival in a crowded Honolulu bar and simply walked home while police were still on the scene. He helped assassinate a state senator and murdered the son of the city prosecutor.
Ronald “Ronnie” Ching was Hawaii’s most feared hitman of the 1970s and 80s—a heroin-addicted enforcer who killed close to home, talked openly about his methods, and may have taken far more lives than the four he ultimately confessed to.
Host Alexander Lawson unpacks the…
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