The unsolved death of a teenager in 1977 haunted students and staff at Honolulu's McKinley High School for nearly half a century

DNA technology has led to the arrest of 66-year-old Gideon Castro, who attended the same high school as the victim, Dawn Momohara.

Susie Chun Oakland arrived to a crime scene at McKinley High School in Honolulu that March morning nearly a half century ago.

Nearly five decades after her partially clothed body was discovered on the second floor of her Honolulu high school, modern DNA testing has led to an arrest that could solve the cold case murder of 16-year-old Dawn Momohara.

Nearly five decades after a Honolulu teen’s body was discovered in her high school, DNA testing has led to the arrest of her ex-schoolmate for her brutal slaying. The body of Dawn Momohara,

Dawn Momohara was found dead in a building on her high school's campus in Honolulu. A suspect was arrested in a Utah nursing home.

Honolulu Police say modern forensic tests allowed them to identify and arrest a suspect in Dawn Momohara's 1977 murder.

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.

Honolulu Police Department Lt. Deena Thoemmes told reporters.Castro was charged with second-degree murder after DNA testing not available in the 1970s helped identify him nearly 50 years later ...

Her former classmate, Gideon Castro, now 66, was living in a Utah nursing home when he was arrested Tuesday in the alleged homicide, according to the Honolulu Police Department. Decades after the ...

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.

Police released sketches of a person of interest and a possible vehicle described by witnesses as a 1974 or 1975 Pontiac Lemans. A witness reported seeing the car when he and his girlfriend drove through campus the night before Momohara died. The witness saw a man and the car on the grass near the school’s English building, Thoemmes said.