A Lanikai son and husband of Pavla Stuchlichova are baffled by her disappearance Tuesday, along with her 3-year-old son, Benjamin Stuchlik.
Kamil Stuchlik Jr. last saw his mom outside a Hawaii Kai home at 4 a.m. Tuesday.
"She was smiling," he said. "Nothing was weird about the moment."
Stuchlik said he, his mother and younger brother had attended a dinner at the Hawaii Kai home Monday night, and the guests, all friends, stayed overnight.
About 4 a.m., Stuchlichova woke her older son and told him, "I am going to change the diaper, and I’ll come back."
She went to her car, where the diapers were, and the 15-year-old went back inside the house and went to sleep, he said. He awoke sometime between 7 and 8 a.m. and could not find his mother; he began searching with one of her friends for her at Sandy Beach.
Kamil Stuchlik Sr., who spent the evening at the family’s Lanikai home, said he reported his wife missing at about noon.
"We were still hoping they would come back," he said.
Initially, the father and son thought she might have been robbed or kidnapped.
The son called his mother, but no one answered. Her cellphone had been found a 10-minute walk away from the Hawaii Kai house.
But those thoughts changed when they saw surveillance photos police obtained, taken at 11 a.m. at the First Hawaiian Bank branch on Kapiolani Boulevard. They showed the 42-year-old woman withdrawing $500 with her debit card, then going to a waiting light-colored taxi van.
The family thought it odd she would leave her young son in the taxi.
"She never goes anywhere without him," Kamil Jr. said.
He and his father have been searching in Honolulu for her.
Then she was caught by surveillance cameras at a TJ Maxx store, where she used her credit card.
Kamil Sr. said the family was "like every family — regular problems, but nothing so extreme."
The couple has been married 24 years.
They called all her close friends, but no one knows her whereabouts, they said.
They have checked to see if she might have taken an international flight, but were unable to find whether she took a domestic flight since that would require the cooperation of the FBI.
The family, which moved to the United States from the Czech Republic in 2010, has lived in Hawaii roughly 31⁄2 years and half a year before that in Florida.
Kamil Sr. said he doesn’t understand what’s going on with his wife.
Stuchlichova is 5-foot-7, 120 pounds, with brown hair and brown eyes. Benjamin Stuchlik is 2 feet 6 inches tall, 35 pounds, with brown hair and brown eyes.
Anyone with any information about this incident is urged to call CrimeStoppers at 955-8300 or *CRIME on a cellphone.
