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Speaker 1: Crime Alert i Nancy Grace breaking crime news Now Iowa

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Speaker 1: police called when Hamburg residents noticed a tiny boy covered

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Speaker 1: in filth wandering the streets all alone. This little boy,

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Speaker 1: a developmentally disabled four year old, is covered in both

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Speaker 1: human and animal feces.

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Speaker 2: The boy leads.

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Speaker 1: Police to his home. Inside, cops find a makeshift cage

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Speaker 1: in a walk in closet where this little boy was

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Speaker 1: allegedly kept twenty four to seven.

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Speaker 3: Nancy. The parents left the child in a sibling with

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Speaker 3: relatives with explicit instructions not to remove them from the caach.

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Speaker 3: The four year old managed to escape the cage and

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Speaker 3: leave the home without waking any adults. Both children were

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Speaker 3: taken to a hospital for.

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Speaker 1: You if you can call them that. Dustin Perry and

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Speaker 1: Lindsay Hamilton, both twenty six, now charged with child neglect.

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Speaker 1: A deputy has a career change for a day. When

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Speaker 1: a power line goes down and blocks the entrance to

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Speaker 1: a Lutz neighborhood, Healsborough County Sheriffs respond to control traffic.

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Speaker 1: Deputy Campbell notices a food delivery driver stopped on the

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Speaker 1: shoulder of the road for a pretty long time. He

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Speaker 1: asked if he can help with anything, and the driver

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Speaker 1: points out his customer walking down the street to meet him.

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Speaker 1: Campbell gallantly offers to deliver the food himself, and hilarious

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Speaker 1: video captures the exchange with the grateful customer, and that

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Speaker 1: gives a whole new meaning to protect and serve. More

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Speaker 1: crime and justice news after this. Now at the latest

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Speaker 1: crime and justice breaking news. Here's Crime on Lines John Linley.

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Speaker 2: We begin with a significant development in a decade's old

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Speaker 2: cold case involving the murder and sexual assault of Dana Ireland,

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Speaker 2: a Virginia woman visiting Hawaii in nineteen ninety one. Let's

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Speaker 2: bring in Sidney Sumner of Crime Online for more.

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Speaker 3: The Hawaii Police Department recently identified fifty seven year old

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Speaker 3: Albert Lauo, Junior of Hawaiian Paradise Park on the Big

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Speaker 3: Island as a potential suspect after DNA evidence linked him

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Speaker 3: to the crime scene. Laura then took his own life

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Speaker 3: shortly after police obtained a DNA sample from him. The

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Speaker 3: investigation intensified when police observing Laura during lunch discreetly collected

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Speaker 3: a discarded fork for DNA analysis. The subsequent test match

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Speaker 3: DNA found on Ireland's body. However, before authorities could pursue

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Speaker 3: further action. Laura died by suicide. This event followed a

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Speaker 3: visit by police to obtain a direct DNA sample, which

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Speaker 3: was confirmed by police Chief Ben Moskowitz. This revelation is

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Speaker 3: particularly significant as it coincides with the ongoing efforts to

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Speaker 3: exonerate albert Ian Schweitzer, who was released from prison last

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Speaker 3: year after serving over twenty years for Ireland's murder. Schweitzer,

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Speaker 3: along with two other men, had been convicted in connection

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Speaker 3: with the crime, though he has consistently maintained his innocence.

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Speaker 3: A judge is now set to rule on a motion

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Speaker 3: to officially clear Schweitzer's name. While the DNA evidence provided

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Speaker 3: probable cause to consider rate charges against Laura, the statute

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Speaker 3: of limitations for such charges had expired. However, the murder

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Speaker 3: charge remains viable, although police currently lack sufficient evidence to proceed.

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Speaker 3: Authorities are now examining Laura's cell phone and seeking information

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Speaker 3: from those who knew him in nineteen ninety one and

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Speaker 3: more recently to piece together the events surrounding Ireland's death.

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Speaker 3: Schweitzer's legal team has criticized the police handling of the case,

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Speaker 3: suggesting that they failed to prevent Laura from fleeing or

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Speaker 3: harming himself after the DNA collection. They argue that Laura's

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Speaker 3: death could hinder the discovery of the full truth about

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Speaker 3: Ireland's murder, and have called for a federal investigation into

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Speaker 3: the matter. Police Chief Moscowitz defended the department's action, stating

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Speaker 3: that any arrest of Laura without sufficient evidence would have

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Speaker 3: been legally untenable. He refuted claims of sabotaging the investigation.

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Speaker 3: Former prosecutor Mitch Wrath, who was involved in the case's reinvestigation,

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Speaker 3: supported the police's actions, noting that the DNA results can

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Speaker 3: confirming Laura's involvement arrived posthumously. This case has gained renewed

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Speaker 3: attention following Schweitzer's release in January twenty twenty three, which

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Speaker 3: came after Innocent's Project lawyers demonstrated that DNA evidence did

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Speaker 3: not implicate him.

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Speaker 2: While Schweitzer's release marked a pivotal moment, debates continue regarding

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Speaker 2: his complete exoneration and the possibility of compensation for his

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Speaker 2: wrongful imprisonment.

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Speaker 1: Thanks John Laurence Spear, just twenty, enjoys nights out with

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Speaker 1: their friends at Indiana University around twelve thirty a m. Lauren,

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Speaker 1: David Brown, Jay Rosenbaum, and Corey Rossman head to Kilroy

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Speaker 1: Sports Bar in Bloomington, Indiana. Two hours later, Laura is

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Speaker 1: heavily intoxicated and is missing her shoes and cell phone.

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Speaker 1: Corey Rossman walks her back to her apartment at the

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Speaker 1: Smallwood Plaza. A group of four other men notice Laurence

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Speaker 1: state and confront Rossman. A fight breaks out. Rossman is

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Speaker 1: beaten badly. Lauren then helps Rossman back to his apartment,

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Speaker 1: arriving at five North around three am. His roommate, Mike Beth,

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Speaker 1: tries to persuade Lauren to spend the night. She refuses.

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Speaker 1: He tries to find her a sober ride, but no

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Speaker 1: one answers his call. Four thirty a m. Laurence Spear

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Speaker 1: decides to walk home. She's last seen on College Avenue.

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Speaker 1: The next day, Lauren's boyfriend reports her missing. This after

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Speaker 1: an employee at Kilroy's bar picks up the boyfriend's call

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Speaker 1: to her cell phone. The only sign of Lauren are

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Speaker 1: her person keys, both found on the walk between five

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Speaker 1: North and Smallwood Plaza. Laurence Spear five eleven ninety pounds,

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Speaker 1: blonde hair, blue eyes, If you have info on Laurence Spearer,

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Speaker 1: now missing thirteen years, called Bloomington, Indiana PD eight one, two, three, three, nine, four,

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Speaker 1: four seven seven. For the latest crime in justice needs,

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Speaker 1: go to crimeonline dot com and please join us for

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Speaker 1: our daily pot cast crime stories with this crime alert.

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Speaker 1: I'm Nancy Grace.