1 day ago · HONOLULU (AP) — Former Hawaii lawmaker Suzanne Chun Oakland remembers arriving at school one morning in 1977 to an eerie buzz. 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 school building. “I don’t know how we got word of it, but everything ...

12 hours ago · Dawn Momohara was discovered dead on the second floor of a building at McKinley High School. Last week police used advances in DNA technology to arrest a 66-year-old Utah man.

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.

6 days ago · 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.

5 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 ...

4 days ago · The body of Dawn Momohara was discovered on the second floor of the English building at McKinley High School in Honolulu on 21 March 1977. She had been sexually assaulted and strangled. She had ...

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 ...

Jan 22, 2025 · HONOLULU (HawaiiNewsNow) - Honolulu police have made an arrest in a nearly 50-year-old cold case murder investigation. On March 21, 1977, at around 7:30 a.m., the body of Dawn Momohara was ...

4 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 …

Jan 22, 2025 · Dawn Momohara, 16, was found dead on the second floor of McKinley High School in Honolulu on March 12, 1977. She had been sexually assaulted and strangled, with an orange cloth found tightly...