4 days ago · Susie Chun Oakland arrived to a crime scene at McKinley High School in Honolulu that March morning nearly a half century ago. ... Dawn Momohara, 16, was partially clothed, with an orange cloth ...

On March 21, 1977, 16-year-old student Dawn Momohara was discovered on the second floor of a building at McKinley High School. Reports indicate that she had been sexually assaulted and strangled.

3 days ago · A 1977 Honolulu cold case is solved as DNA evidence leads to an arrest nearly 50 years after the murder of 16-year-old Dawn Momohara. Modern DNA testing identifies Gideon Castro as the suspect in the cold case murder of Dawn Momohara, solving a …

4 days ago · Dawn Momohara Honolulu Police Department. After her body was found, detectives interviewed multiple friends, family members and acquaintances about the case — including Castro — but had failed ...

Jan 22, 2025 · The last time Dawn Momohara’s mother heard from her daughter, she told her she was going to meet friends at a shopping center in Honolulu. Hours later, after Dawn, 16, didn’t return home that ...

Jan 22, 2025 · Dawn Momohara was found dead in a building on her high school's campus in Honolulu Honolulu Police Department A nearly 50-year-old Hawaii cold case murder might have finally been solved following ...

Jan 22, 2025 · 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 ...