Dawn Momohara, 16, was partially clothed ... was arrested at the Utah nursing home where he lived, Honolulu Police Department Lt. Deena Thoemmes told reporters. Castro was charged with second-degree ...

There were no updates in the case until 2019 when cold case detectives asked a forensic biology unit to examine several items ...

By Sara Ruberg 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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Dawn Momohara, 16, was partially clothed ... was arrested at the Utah nursing home where he lived, Honolulu Police Department Lt. Deena Thoemmes told reporters. Castro was charged with second ...

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