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Albert Lauro Jr.
Case # :423
Gender : Male
Age : 57
Race : Indigenous Hawaiian
Date : 07/19/2024
Location : Kapoho
City : Hilo
County : Hawaii
State : Hawaii
Agency : Hawaii Police Department
Officer(s) :Not Disclosed
Cause of death : Gunshot
Event : Suicide under police duress
Open records summary :
Believed to have committed a 1991 murder of teenager Dana Ireland on Big Island, three men were wrongly convicted. One of them served 20 years until DNA testing of old evidence resulted in him being exonerated. Police then had the original DNA match and tested an object Albert Lauro Jr. discarded and had a match. When police arrived to formally interview and arrest him, he committed suicide under police duress.
Source links :
https://www.whio.com/news/national/suspect-cold-case/ZXZ5OF5MX5QHGDFXCXJXSNSAXA/
