Posted on 07/30/2024 7:09:44 AM PDT by TheDon
Hawaii island police Chief Ben Moszkowicz said police didn’t have probable cause to arrest a new suspect in the 1991 Dana Ireland murder case before he killed himself last week.
The suspect, 57-year-old Albert Lauro Jr., of Hawaiian Paradise Park, was recently confirmed to be the source of semen and other DNA retrieved from Ireland’s body and a T-shirt soaked with Ireland’s blood found near the crime scene.
Ireland, a 23-year-old visitor from Virginia, was hit on her bicycle, raped, beaten and left on a fishing trail in Puna on Christmas Eve 1991. She died the next day at Hilo Medical Center.
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Genetic genealogy is solving a lot of these old cases - and how the Golden State killer case was solved after 40 years - also the student murders in Idaho (the DNA left behind on the knife sheaf was from the murderer’s father).
Good. Let it be so. Glad the technology is there to solve these old cases.
Two brothers served 26 years for Ireland’s murder before their convictions were overturned, another man convicted was killed in prison.
This explains why the Innocence Project was involved.
I wonder if Lauro a.cted alone or there were others
As with the Central Park jogger case, a DNA sample does not prove the innocence of others accused and convicted. The rapist whose DNA was found, years later, claimed he acted alone, and that overturned the convictions of the others.
That’s what the Innocence Project hoped Lauro would do; instead he killed himself.
The police must be wondering if this guy was a one and done or are there other victims.
Thanks - the photo I posted showed both the victim and perp but it isn’t displaying correctly, unfortunately. It does if you click on it.
I didn’t realize this until I saw your post.
FReegards,
Bon
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