Murder in Paradise A Christmas in Hawaii Turns to Tragedy

IT CAN'T HAPPEN HERE Hawaii is Heaven-on-Earth, with its soft, flower-scented breezes, clear turquoise ocean water, and gently swaying palms. But on Christmas Eve 1991, it became a place of darkest evil, when Dana Ireland was kidnapped by three strangers, raped, savagely beaten, and left to die in the early hours of Christmas morning. A vivacious, 23-year-old visitor to the "Big Island," her life ended prematurely thanks to a terrible, senseless assault and the failure of rescue workers to reach the crime scene on time. Then the local police seemed unable to catch her killers. But one man refused to let the bloody outrage go unpunished. From his Virginia home thousands of miles away, John Ireland, Dana's father, launched his own investigation-a determined hunt for his daughter's killers that would stretch out over nearly a decade... and spark one of the most intensive manhunts and one of the most sensational and shocking trials in the idyllic island's history.Loos, Chris is the author of 'Murder in Paradise A Christmas in Hawaii Turns to Tragedy' with ISBN 9780060093464 and ISBN 0060093463.