There were no updates in the case until 2019 when cold case detectives asked a forensic biology unit to examine several items of evidence from the scene, including Momohara's underwear ...

Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. This photo provided by the Honolulu Police Department shows 16-year-old student Dawn Momohara who was ...

Sophomore Dawn Momohara, 16, was found on the second floor of Honolulu’s McKinley High School in March 1977 with an orange cloth tied around her neck, according to NBC News. She was “lying on her back ...

DNA technology has led to the arrest of 66-year-old Gideon Castro, who attended the same high school as the victim, Dawn ...

Nearly five decades after her partially clothed body was discovered on the second floor of her Honolulu high school, modern ...

Dawn Momohara was found dead the morning of March 21, 1977, on the second floor of a building at McKinley High School, in Hawaii's capital, according to the Honolulu Police Department. She was 16 ...

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. In a close-knit community ...

DNA evidence helped lead long-stymied detectives to a suspect in the murder of Dawn Momohara, 16, who was strangled and found dead at her high school. By Sara Ruberg The last time Dawn Momohara ...

The 15-year-old had met up with girlfriends as usual before class at Honolulu's McKinley High School when she learned a student named Dawn Momohara had been found dead on the second floor of a ...

DNA testing connected Gideon Castro, a US Army veteran, to the long-unsolved murder of student Dawn Momohara, 16, on March 21, 1977. Momohara's body was found by a teacher on the second floor of ...