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 ...

Nearly a half-century after Dawn Momohara’s body was found, Gideon Castro, 66, was arrested in a Utah nursing home and ...

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 ...

1 /2 HPD Dawn Momohara : The 16-year-old McKinley High student was found dead on campus in 1977 HPD A composite drawing of a potential suspect in the March 21, 1977, killing of Dawn Momohara.

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 ...

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 ...

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