When Brian Smith made a call one night from a business in the Captain Cook area of Hawaii to turn himself in for a murder he had committed, police were confident that they would have him in court and behind bars without too much effort. When he was arrested but then released by mistake, police in Hawaii were left with some explaining to do. As soon as he was back in custody investigators began to get to the bottom of his motive for killing 42-year-old Thomas Ballesteros Jr.