Dana Ireland Murder 3 wrongfully convicted DNA identifies new suspect.

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Bill Cannon Police off the Cuff/Real Crime Stories

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🗓️ 5 August 2024

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Dana Ireland Murder: 3 wrongfully convicted, DNA identifies new suspect. A Hawaii resident was found dead in his home days after being identified as a suspect in the 1991 murder, rape and kidnapping of a 23-year-old woman, police said. Dana Ireland was attacked on a fish trail in the Kapoho area of Hawaii Island on Dec. 24, 1991, the Hawaii Police Department said Monday in a news release. She died the next day at the Hilo Medical Center, police added. “For 33 years, our Department has been resolute in investigating the Dana Ireland case,” Hawaii Police Department Chief Benjamin Moszkowicz said in the release. Using "evolved" DNA technology, investigators were able to identify 57-year-old Albert Lauro Jr., who lived in the Kapoho area at the time of the murder, as a potential suspect in the case, according to the department. Before police had enough evidence to charge Lauro Jr. for Ireland's murder, he was found dead in his home on July 23 from an apparent suicide, Moszkowicz said, per ABC News and KITV. "This case is still under investigation. Albert Lauro Jr. has been linked to the victim by DNA; however, his exact involvement is still under investigation. And his death was ruled a suicide by the forensic pathologist," Hawaii Police Department Capt. Rio Amon-Wilkins told USA TODAY on Thursday. Albert "Ian" Schweitzer, who had spent more than 20 years in prison for Ireland's murder, was released a year ago based on new evidence. (USA Today)

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0:00.0	Hello everyone and welcome to police off the cuff, real crime stories.
0:15.5	I'm your host, retired NYPD Sergeant Bill Cannon, 27-year veteran of the NYPD.
0:22.4	Folks, we have a really interesting case tonight,
0:24.9	a case that perhaps got a lot of coverage when it first occurred,
0:29.3	but not as much now.
0:30.6	And I think what's happening in this case now is really super interesting.
0:44.7	Dana Ireland, she was murdered in 1991 and three were wrongfully convicted. And just recently, DNA identifies a new suspect after 32 years.
0:59.4	A suspect in a 1991 rape and murder of a young woman died by suicide.
1:06.4	After he was identified and questioned by investigators, police in Hawaii said on Monday.
1:11.9	Dana Ireland was 23 years old when she was kidnapped, raped, and killed in the Kappaho area.
1:16.1	She was found on Christmas Eve and died at a hospital.
1:17.6	Next day, this was in 1991.
1:22.8	Police said DNA found on her body and on a sheet used to take her to the hospital,
1:30.9	was recently tested and came back as a match for a man named Albert Loro Jr., who's now 57 years old.
1:33.8	At the time of the crime, he would have been 25.
1:42.6	Police questioned him on July 19th, but at the time, they didn't have probable cause to arrest him on suspicion of murder.
1:45.4	And by that time, charges related to the rape had lapsed because of the statute of limitations leaving only the murder charge, according to
1:51.8	Hawaii Police Chief Benjamin Moskowitz. We felt then and continued to feel that the presence
1:58.5	of Loro's DNA at the crime scene was in and of itself
2:02.0	not sufficient evidence to prove that Loro intentionally unknowingly caused her death,
2:06.8	Moskowitz said on a news conference Monday.
2:09.6	Police expected to get more evidence they needed in the case from Loro, Moskowitz said.
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