On the afternoon of Christmas Eve 1991, 23-year-old Dana Ireland left her parents’ home in Puna for a bike ride and never returned.

Good Samaritans called 911 after finding her mangled bicycle, a shoe, and clumps of hair ― but no rider.

Thirty minutes later and five miles away, Ireland was found in the bushes of a fishing trail, nude from the waist down and barely conscious. She died at the hospital from blood loss and multiple traumatic injuries.

A decade later, three Hawaii Island men would be convicted for her murder, the shocking details of which reverberated around the entire state. But the story doesn’t end there: An exoneration based in large part on advances in DNA technology turned the Dana Ireland murder into a cold case rather than a solved one.

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Eloy, Arizona is in the middle of the desert ― about an hour from Phoenix.

It’s a sharp contrast from Hawaii. But it’s where 1,000 Hawaii inmates are currently housed at Saguaro Correctional Center, a facility the state pays millions to each year to relieve overcrowding at in-state facilities.

Hawaii News Now was the only television news crew allowed inside since it was built in 2007 to ease overcrowding in the islands.

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Newly unsealed court documents include disturbing new allegations in the murder case against Michael Miske, the businessman accused of running a criminal enterprise.

Miske is accused in the kidnapping and murder of 21-year old Johnathan Fraser.

The previously secret filings also link the murder case to the killing of another man, a confidential source who knew the information he provided law enforcement put him in danger.

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Russian spies in Hawaii? That's the allegations from the U.S. Attorney's office.  Prosecutors say a couple from Kapolei are accused of stealing the identities of dead babies from Texas in the 1980s, and living under those names for decades.  Alongside those accusations are photos of the couple in KGB uniforms. There are doubts though about the spy claims, as the government has retracted some of it's statement about the couple's aliases and reveals new details about the evidence.

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Can federal laws be the key to shutting down Hawaii's illegal game rooms? Homeland Security Investigations is working with police to attack crimes linked to game rooms and that are a constant source of problems for communities. 

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After 45 years of service, John McCarthy retired from the Honolulu Police Department last year as deputy chief.

In this episode of "The Other Side of Paradise," he explains the circumstances that pushed him out, his frustrations with the department, the public corruption scandal that rocked the department and how all that affects the rank and file.

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Juan Tejedor Baron has been extradited back to Hawaii to face charges that he murdered an elderly Hawaii Loa Ridge man and then encased his body in concrete in his own bathtub. The case has shocked the wealthy community, and experts say there are certain to be more twists and turns in the case.

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With the capture Wednesday of the two Hawaii Loa Ridge murder suspects, authorities are turning their attention to the investigation ― and a possible motive.Scott Hannon, 34, and Juan Tejedor Baron, 23, were nabbed in the Los Angeles area following an intense manhunt. They’re suspected in the grisly murder of an East Honolulu man, whose body was found encased in concrete in the bathtub of his multi-million-dollar home in a gated community.To better understand all the dizzying details of the case, HNN’s Digital Desk sat down with investigative reporter Lynn Kawano to piece together the timeline so far and understand what’s next.

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Three former city executives are preparing for trial after being indicted for conspiracy. The three all had a hand in the $250,000 payoff of ex-Police Chief Louis Kealoha, who is now serving time in federal prison. The only police commissioner who was against that payoff has a message: "This didn't have to happen."

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The first book is out about the largest public corruption scandal in state history. It's called "The Mailbox Conspiracy" and is written by the man who uncovered the Kealohas' crimes. In this episode of "The Other Side of Paradise," HNN's investigative reporter Lynn Kawano sits down with former federal public defender Alexander Silvert to talk about the Kealoha scandal and what he hopes Hawaii will learn from it.

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