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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