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.

DNA testing has been part of criminal investigation procedures since the 1980s, ... Kinship or genealogy testing is commonly used for decades-old cold cases like the murder of Dawn Momohara, ...

Before Dawn Momohara was killed, she got a call from an unknown male and told her mother she was going to a shopping center. That was the last time her mom saw her, police said.

By September 2023, the DNA tests led investigators to two possible suspects: brothers Gideon Castro and William Castro, who had both been interviewed in the immediate aftermath of Momohara's killing.

Nearly 50 years after 16-year-old Dawn Momohara was found brutally murdered at McKinley High School in Honolulu, a ...

Nearly a half-century after Dawn Momohara’s body was found, Gideon Castro, 66, ... Using DNA evidence found on her shorts in 1977 and the more-advanced technology, ...

DNA evidence helped lead long-stymied detectives to a suspect in the murder of Dawn Momohara, 16, who was strangled and found dead at her high school. By Sara Ruberg Natasha Alexenko, Who Exposed ...

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.

The body of Dawn Momohara, then 16, was discovered on the second floor of McKinley High School on March 21, ... DNA testing has led to the arrest of her ex-schoolmate for her brutal slaying.

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.