Jan 26, 2025 · Dawn Momohara, 16, was partially clothed, with an orange cloth tightly wrapped around her neck, police said. She appeared to have been sexually assaulted and strangled.

Jan 27, 2025 · Modern DNA testing identifies Gideon Castro as the suspect in the cold case murder of Dawn Momohara, solving a nearly 50-year-old mystery.

6 days ago · This photo provided by the Honolulu Police Department shows 16-year-old student Dawn Momohara who was discovered dead on the second floor of a building at McKinley High School on March 21, 1977, in Honolulu.

DNA was apparently able to solve a cold case murder that has haunted Hawaii residents for almost five decades. In 1977 Dawn Momohara, 16, was found inside Honolulu's McKinley High School lying on ...

Jan 26, 2025 · A suspect was arrested in his nursing home last week for the unsolved murder of a 16-year-old student nearly half a century ago.

Jan 21, 2025 · After nearly 50 years, the Honolulu Police Department (HPD) made an arrest in the 1977 killing of Dawn Momohara. She was found sexually assaulted and strangled inside a Honolulu High school....

Jan 27, 2025 · Nearly five decades after a Honolulu teen’s body was discovered in her high school, DNA testing has led to the arrest of her ex-schoolmate for her brutal slaying. The body of Dawn Momohara, t…

Jan 28, 2025 · A man has been arrested on suspicion of the murder of his classmate almost 50 years on following advances in DNA testing. Dawn Momohara was 16 years old and a student at McKinley High School in ...

Jan 28, 2025 · A man living at a nursing home in Utah has been arrested and charged in connection with the unsolved murder of student Dawn Momohara in Honolulu in 1977.

Jan 27, 2025 · Modern DNA testing identifies Gideon Castro as the suspect in the cold case murder of Dawn Momohara, solving a nearly 50-year-old mystery.