Episode 160: Dana Ireland | The Dark Side of Paradise

True Crime Couple

True Crime Couple Podcast

True Crime, Documentary, Society & Culture

4.7 • 2.4K Ratings

🗓️ 28 August 2023

⏱️ 120 minutes

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Summary

On Christmas Eve 1991 23 year old Dana Ireland went out for a ride using her sister’s bike while her family was in Hawaii for an extended vacation. But the picturesque life that the family had been enjoying would be ripped from under them when the bike Dana was riding was discovered mangled. The only trace of Dana left behind was her sneaker and a clump of her long blonde hair. Join me as I tell John about the murder of Dana Ireland, the convoluted search for the person who committed this heinous crime.

Trigger warnings:
Sexual assault

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Sources:

https://www.hawaiipublicradio.org/local-news/2023-01-25/man-imprisoned-for-dana-ireland-murder-rape-released
https://archives.starbulletin.com/specials/ireland/index
https://bigislandgazette.com/police-chief-issues-statement-on-dana-ireland-murder-investigation/
https://archives.starbulletin.com/1999/07/23/news/story4.html
https://law.justia.com/cases/hawaii/court-of-appeals/2021/caap-20-0000374.html
https://www.hawaiiinnocenceproject.org/albert-ian-schweitzer
https://innocenceproject.org/about/
Newspaper.com (archives from Honolulu Star Bulletin from 1991-2023)

Transcript

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0:00.0	Hey guys, welcome to episode 160 of A True Crime Couple.
0:03.8	I'm Kay.
0:04.8	And I'm John.
0:05.8	We hope that you're doing well and are all in the mood for some true crime today because
0:10.2	this case is truly wild.
0:13.0	But before we get started, we want to ask you all for help with our October episode.
0:18.6	Please send your listener stories to True Crime Couple at gmail.com.
0:23.3	And this is for any story, whether it's true crime related or paranormal.
0:27.7	We would love to hear it.
0:29.4	So we already have some submissions and I say this every year.
0:32.9	But what I do is I like collect them all in a Google folder.
0:36.8	And then one night I just listen to them all with a lot of wine and scare myself.
0:40.8	So if you've sent in your story, I have it saved.
0:44.5	And I'm excited to dig into all of them.
0:47.3	But if you could send your stories in, the more the merrier.
0:50.3	And don't worry.
0:51.4	If you think it doesn't matter how wild it is, we want to hear it.
0:55.9	Yes.
0:56.9	I want to sit here and have Kay tell me the story.
1:00.1	I want to know.
1:01.6	He does get scared.
1:02.6	He's a little baby.
	...

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