Hawaii man committed suicide after police took DNA sample from Virginia woman in 1991, lawyers say

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HONOLULU (AP) — Attorneys for the Innocence Project say a man identified as a possible new suspect in the 1991 murder and sexual assault of a Virginia woman who was in Hawaii killed himself last week after police took a DNA swab from him. In a court document filed Sunday, the attorneys say authorities became aware of the man, whose name has not been released, in recent months through genetic genealogy and obtained a DNA sample from him from a discarded fork. They say he killed himself last week after police went to his home to compare the sample to a swab taken from him in person. Three other men have been convicted in connection with Dana Ireland’s death.