Hawaii, McKinley High School
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.
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.
The morning before she was killed, Dawn reportedly received a phone call from an unknown male. Later, she told her mother ...
The suspect in a 1977 case, Giddeon Castro, was arrested for sexually assaulting and strangling 16-year-old Dawn Momohara at ...
HONOLULU (KHON2) — The murder of a Honolulu teen in 1977 was solved after an arrest was made thousands of miles away. The body of 16-year-old Dawn Momohara was found at McKinley High School in March ...
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