Hawaii Man Found Guilty in Dana Ireland Murder Case

[Georgina]

A Hilo jury finds Frank Pauline Jr. guilty of the murder, kidnapping and
rape of Dana Ireland
By Dana Williams
Honolulu Star-Bulletin
http://starbulletin.com/1999/08/27/news/index.html

HILO -- Frank Pauline Jr. is guilty of the Christmas Eve 1991 murder,
rape and kidnapping of Dana Ireland, a Circuit Court
jury found today. After 5 weeks of testimony, the jury of six men and
six women deliberated for about 14 hours over 2 days
before returning the verdict before Circuit Judge Riki May Amano. The
jury found him guilty of second-degree murder, kidnapping and
first-degree sexual assault.

Present in the courtroom was Ireland's family: her father, John, mother
Louise, sister Sandy Ingham, and brother-in-law Jim. After the verdict
was read, John Ireland let out a sigh of relief and Louise Ireland put
her hand on her husband's shoulder.
Dorothy Martins, the mother of 1992 murder victim Yvonne Mathison,
another high-publicity case in Hilo, hugged John Ireland at the end of
the hearing.

Pauline, 26, will be sentenced on Oct. 14. He faces life in prison with
the possibility of parole for the second-degree murder charge. Dana
Ireland, 23, was on her bicycle heading to Vacationland subdivision in
Puna when she was struck by a car, kidnapped, raped and then left for
dead five miles away in the remote subdivision of Waawaa.

Pauline took the stand in his own defense during the trial and denied
that he had any involvement in the case although he had previously
confessed. He later recanted that confession. Two brothers, Shawn and
Albert Ian Schweitzer, implicated in the attack by Pauline, are
scheduled for trial in connection with Ireland's death. They will have
separate trials: The first in November, the other in March.

For those who are interested in learning more details, an archive of
news about the Dana Ireland case can be accessed through the following
URL: http://starbulletin.com/specials/ireland/index.html

~Georgina

[chery...@gmail.com]

this case is questionable at best.

Was there not a rape kit? The only sperm sample was on a hospital sheet. That could easily be from someone else. There are sick folks in medicine. By the time she reached the hospital, the sperm would not have flowed that easy. And if there was sperm on a sheet belonging to her body, then it should be on her body as well. It is impossible for anything else.

They didn't match ANY of the DNA or even the tire tracks. The only thing they had was a confession from a questionable character.

Don't get me wrong, if they did it they are where they belong, but this case would never have even gone to court on the Mainland USA. The folks of Hilo were mortified and wanted this over.