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Oct 2024
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The Murder of Dana Ireland: Searching fo...

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The 1991 murder of Dana Ireland on Hawaii's Big Island has been full of twists and turns. Last year, a man who had served 26 years for that crime was formally exonerated by DNA evidence. Earlier this year, DNA evidence implicated another man. Police confronted him- and then let him go. He soon died by suicide.

What's going on? How did all of this happen? To get answers, we spoke with Ken Lawson, the co director of Hawaii's Innocence Project.



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