Aracely Hoffman, 40, was a woman originally from El Salvador who had built a life on Hawaiʻi Island, where people who knew her remembered her as a churchgoing mother trying to make a better future in Pahoa. In the early hours of May 6, 2016, that life ended in a scene so brutal it stunned the Big Island: police responding to a report of violence in Leilani Estates arrived just as her husband, John Ali Hoffman, was driving away from the family home without headlights. Officers stopped the car an
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