Before Dawn Momohara was killed, she got a call from an unknown male and told her mother she was going to a shopping center.

An arrest has been made 48 years after a 16-year-old Hawaii girl’s body was found ... the partially clothed body of sophomore student Dawn Momohara. She had been reported missing the previous ...

The suspect in a 1977 case, Giddeon Castro, was arrested for sexually assaulting and strangling 16-year-old Dawn Momohara at McKinley High School.

Dawn Momohara was found dead the morning of March 21, 1977, on the second floor of a building at McKinley High School, in Hawaii's capital, according to the Honolulu Police Department. She was 16 ...

In a close-knit community in Hawaii’s capital and most populous city, nerves were frayed long after the discovery of Dawn’s body on March 21, 1977. “It was our first experience with a crime ...

Former Hawaii lawmaker Suzanne Chun Oakland remembers ... Honolulu’s McKinley High School when she learned a student named Dawn Momohara had been found dead on the second floor of a school ...

The case went cold for decades until 2019, when detectives in Hawaii re-investigated Dawn’s murder with the help of modern D.N.A. testing technology. Using D.N.A. evidence found on her shorts in ...

Dawn Momohara Sketch of suspect Sketch of suspect ... Professor of Molecular Biology at the University of Hawaii. “But, it’s also very powerful for excluding individuals as potential ...

The eruption of Kilauea volcano on Hawaii's Big Island has stayed within the mountain's summit caldera ... began shooting from the volcano before dawn on Monday when fissures opened in the caldera ...