On March 21, 1977, shortly after 7:30 a.m., Honolulu police found the body of 16-year-old Dawn Momohara ... until obtaining DNA samples in recent years. The morning before Momohara was killed ...

Police interviewed his brother, who also met Momohara at the dance In November 2023, Honolulu police went to Chicago, where the brother was living. They "surreptitiously" obtained DNA from one of the ...

Authorities arrested Gideon Castro at a Utah nursing home and charged him in the murder of 16-year-old Dawn Momohara on her ...

The man suspected in a cold case in Hawaii will be released from a Utah jail after the prosecution found issues with its evidence.

A 66-year-old murder suspect, allegedly linked by DNA evidence to the 1977 strangulation death of a 16-year-old McKinley High ...

A 66-year-old suspect in the 1977 killing of a Hawaii teenager was released from a Utah jail on Thursday after prosecutors in Honolulu said they weren’t ready to ...

This photo provided by the Honolulu Police Department shows 16-year-old student Dawn Momohara who was discovered ... The case was reopened in 2019. In 2020 a DNA profile was extracted from Momohara’s ...

Castro was arrested by the Unified Police Department at a nursing home in Millcreek after Honolulu investigators found DNA evidence connecting Castro to the murder of 16-year-old Dawn Momohara.

Gideon Castro was arrested in January at a Utah nursing home on a fugitive warrant for suspicion of second-degree murder in ...

A composite drawing of the suspect in the murder of Dawn Momohara in March 1977 ... In May 2020 an HPD criminalist specializing in DNA obtained the profile of an unidentified male from sperm ...

on suspicion of second-­degree murder in the killing of McKinley sophomore Dawn Momohara, who was sexually assaulted and strangled to death. A 66-year-old murder suspect, allegedly linked by DNA ...

Gideon Castro was arrested in January at a Utah nursing home on a fugitive warrant for suspicion of second-degree murder in the death of 16-year-old Dawn Momohara. He had waived the right to ...