Courtesy of John and Louise Ireland
Dana Ireland takes to the streets on her skates near her parents'
Springfield, Va., home. "She was "a tremendous athlete," said
Valerie Oliver, who grew up with Dana. "She was so
physically fit, very strong."

‘She’d run and run,
do exercises, skate, then
come home and start all over
again. I don’t know whether she
had some kind of premonition
that she wasn’t going to be
here very long, but she really
tried to get everything
she could out of life.’

Louise Ireland

Dana's mother

Courtesy of John and Louise Ireland
3-year-old Dana on the patio of the
Irelands' home in Springfield, Va.

Tuesday, June 8 Blurred through the years is the real Dana. She lives on, though -- beautiful, shy, kind -- in the memories of those who knew her. The innocent. The indicted. Anatomy of a murder. The what and where of the attack. Who's who in the Dana Ireland tragedy. Wednesday, June 9 Help came too late for Dana Ireland. From the moment she was hit by her attackers' car until the time an ambulance reached her, more than two hours passed. Here's how minutes -- and a life -- were lost. Thursday, June 10 Life has gone on since the Dec. 24, 1991, attack. Memories have faded. Witnesses have scattered. But each twist and turn in the seven-year bid to bring to justice those responsible means fresh injury, not only to Dana's family but to witnesses whose lives have been put on hold by this on-again, off-again case.

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