COURTESY HONOLULU POLICE DEPARTMENT A composite drawing of the suspect in the murder of Dawn Momohara in March 1977. Castro was arrested Jan. 21 at a Utah nursing home, where he was living, on ...

Authorities arrested Gideon Castro at a Utah nursing home and charged him in the murder of 16-year-old Dawn Momohara on her high school campus in Honolulu in 1977.

Gideon Castro was arrested in Utah on a fugitive warrant for suspicion of second-degree murder in the death of 16-year-old Dawn Momohara.

A Utah judge has ordered the release of a 66-year-old suspect in the 1977 killing of a Hawaii teenager after prosecutors in Honolulu said they weren't ready to proceed with a murder charge against him ...

COURTESY HONOLULU POLICE DEPARTMENT A composite drawing of the suspect in the murder of Dawn Momohara in March 1977. Castro was arrested Jan. 21 at a Utah nursing home, where he was living, on ...

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 ...

But they were unable to conclusively link Castro to the killing until obtaining DNA samples in recent ... murder in the death of 16-year-old Dawn Momohara. He had waived the right to challenge ...