DNA evidence helped clear Albert Ian Schweitzer of involvement in the 1991 murder of Dana Ireland. KHNL's Lynn Kawano reports.
A suspect in the 1991 rape and murder of young woman killed himself after he was identified and questioned by investigators, police in Hawaii said Monday. Dana Ireland was 23 years old when she was kidnapped, raped and killed in the Kapoho area, police said. She was found on Christmas Eve and died at a hospital the next day. Police said DNA found on the woman’s body and on a sheet used to take her to the hospital was recently tested and came back as a match for Albert Lauro Jr., 57.
Schweitzer was sentenced to 130 years in prison and served 23 years before a judge ordered his release. Lauro’s death is the subject of a coroner’s inquest. Moszkowicz did not disclose the suspected manner, but said, “We do believe that he killed himself.” His body was found at his home, Moszkowicz said. Whether he left any note or anything else behind is still under investigation, but “there wasn’t anything obvious at the scene,” Moszkowicz said.
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