Another woman who knows the Haitis says that the violence in the family was reputed to be especially severe. Teua strongly denied to me that he ever beat Arihano. Teua was the model of the Marquesan patriarch—he had seven children and a coveted job as a truck driver for the municipal government—and Arihano had always felt pressured to fulfill traditional expectations as the first-born son. Judge Le Vaillant denied my request to interview Arihano in jail. But Ruahe, who has remained in contact with Arihano, agreed to take a list of questions to him.
When Heike and Stefan were on Nuku Hiva, they spent hours watching rows of thick, glowering men who shouted, pounded on drums, and pantomimed the decapitation of enemies. I asked Deane if his friend was bisexual.
But sexuality on Nuku Hiva, like anywhere else, is complicated. The island has a small community of rae rae, or men who live as women, and Deane took me to visit one of them, named Romeo. There were only about twenty-five openly gay people on the island, Romeo said, and many more closeted men and bisexuals.
But then Romeo cleared his throat. When Deane and I tracked him down, he said that he had indeed called Arihano. But outside of the rae rae, Arihano kept his apparent bisexuality a complete secret. Sex was likely connected to the crime, but exactly how was unclear. After returning to the United States, I wrote up the case facts and biographical information about Arihano as neutrally as possible and sent them to four prominent forensic psychologists who specialize in homicide.
One refused to speculate. For starters, none of them believed Arihano. They suggested that a man who had killed in self-defense would likely seek help from the police afterward, not flee. There were no indications of premeditation, as it might as part of a robbery. In these cases, the perpetrator is driven to kill by a sudden, intense rush of emotion. Arihano had said that he and Stefan stopped at the waterfall during the hunt. Heike, meanwhile, notes that Stefan rarely missed an opportunity to take a swim and typically did so in the nude.
In an ironic twist on the free-love utopia that Europeans thought they had stumbled upon in the s, some Marquesans today think that foreigners are the rapaciously promiscuous ones, an idea that is encouraged by the handfuls of sex tourists who show up each year. His unwanted attention made sense when Hedlesky thought about it. Island populations are small 2, people live on Nuku Hiva and weighted toward men, making it difficult to find romantic partners.
Overwhelmed by these emotions, the theory goes, Arihano killed Stefan. Murder might seem like a disproportionate response to being rejected, but the experts say that sex-linked shame is among the most potent triggers of violence. Shame explains what prompted the murderous rage itself. Shame also could help explain why Arihano introduced sex as a defense rather than something more plausible—fearful of having the truth revealed, he came up with the story that would sound the most opposite from it, Schlesinger says.
She had always been uncertain about what had triggered the crime, and when I shared the catathymic-homicide theory with her, she responded with a rush of words. The experts, meanwhile, cautioned that they were just offering a hypothesis—totally unproven, but far more likely than any other possibility.
The last time that Heike saw Arihano in person was in April When Le Vaillant offered her the opportunity, Heike addressed Arihano. Did Stefan say anything before you killed him? This intimacy chilled Heike; she knew that when Stefan was anxious, that tiny spot did indeed flutter.
This admission was probably as much as Heike would ever get. Arihano would never reveal if he made a pass that Stefan rejected, but he had essentially told her that pulling the trigger had been no accident.
Shame, the secret of hiding who you really are, is powerful enough to provoke murder—and to make you hide the reason why forever. Arihano did not directly apologize to Heike. Arihano stood up and was led out of the room by a gendarme, and Heike was left to stare at a closed door.
Travel, even for the most earnest seekers of cultural interaction, is a deceptive pursuit. Heike herself realized this, but only after she had lost Stefan and the way of life that the couple had hoped to share for decades. After the crime, Heike returned to Germany and wrote a book, Blauwasserleben , or Blue-Water Life, about her sailing trip and its tragic end; National Geographic is publishing a book of her photos from the trip.
Arihano Haiti was found guilty of murdering year-old Stefan Ramin, whose charred remains were found days after he went missing on the island of Nuku Hiva during a round-the-world sailing trip with his girlfriend, Heike Dorsch, The year-old was also convicted of sexually assaulting Dorsch, and ordered to serve 28 years in jail, with no possibility of parole for 18 years. He admitted shooting Ramin in the head, although his motive remained unclear throughout the trial.
She claimed she followed the guide, who tried to assault her after tying her to a tree, but she managed to escape. Mr Ramin had stopped on the island as part of a sailing expedition with his year-old girlfriend Heike Dorsch last month. He met a guide, Henri Haiti, who took him on a goat hunt — a popular tradition on Nuku Hiva, which is miles north east of Tahiti and close to the equator. But when the guide returned alone he told Ms Dorsch there had been an accident, before allegedly attacking her and tying her to a tree.
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