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That was until last week when police used advances in DNA technology to arrest a 66-year-old resident ... sketch of a person ...

Dawn Momohara, 16, was partially clothed ... Castro was charged with second-degree murder after DNA testing not available in the 1970s helped identify him nearly 50 years later, Thoemmes said.

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's underwear. They were able to develop a DNA ...

Nearly 50 years after 16-year-old Dawn Momohara was found brutally murdered at McKinley High School in Honolulu, a breakthrough in DNA testing has led to the arrest of a former schoolmate.

Experts say DNA testing is how most cold cases are now being solved. It helped identify a suspect in the murder of a McKinley High School student with evidence preserved from ...

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 The last time Dawn Momohara ...

Former Hawaii lawmaker Suzanne Chun Oakland remembers arriving at school one morning in 1977 to an eerie buzz. She had met up ...

thanks to modern DNA testing. The Honolulu Police Department arrested Gideon Castro in connection with the 1977 murder of Dawn Momohara, who was 16 years old at the time. She was found dead on the ...