16-year-old found dead inside high school in 1977, Hawaii police say. Now arrest made
Student Dawn Momohara, 16, was found dead inside McKinley High School on Monday, March 21, 1977, according to the Honolulu Police Department. “A teacher had found her and it was early in the morning, second floor of the English building,” Susie Chun Oakland, a former student, told KHON in 2019.
Former classmate arrested nearly 50 years after teen was found dead on the second floor of her Hawaii school
Dawn Momohara was 16 years old when her body was found on the second floor of McKinley High School in Honolulu in 1977. For decades, detectives had failed to identify a suspect in the murder case but now, thanks to a breakthrough in DNA technology, they have arrested a former classmate, police confirmed.
48 years after teen girl's murder in Hawaii, her former schoolmate is arrested in Utah
Honolulu Police say modern forensic tests allowed them to identify and arrest a suspect in Dawn Momohara's 1977 murder.
Man arrested at Utah nursing home decades after Hawaii murder
A man was arrested at a Utah nursing home on suspicion of second-degree murder in connection to a decades-old case from Hawaii.
Man, 66, arrested in Utah for alleged 1977 murder of McKinley student
COURTESY HONOLULU POLICE DEPARTMENT Victim Dawn Momohara in 1977. 1 /2 COURTESY HONOLULU POLICE DEPARTMENT Victim Dawn Momohara in 1977. COURTESY HONOLULU POLICE DEPARTMENT A composite drawing of the suspect in the 1977 murder of Dawn Momohara.
Suspect arrested in Utah almost 48 years after 1977 murder at Hawaii high school
A suspect in a 1977 murder at a high school in Hawaii was arrested in Utah almost 48 years later. The arrest happened 7:40 a.m. Tuesday by Unified Police Department in Millcreek, Honolulu Police Department's Lt.
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