A classmate of a teenage girl found sexually assaulted and strangled in her Hawaii high school has been arrested nearly 50 ...

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.

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.

The last time Dawn Momohara’s mother heard from her daughter, she told her she was going to meet friends at a shopping center in Honolulu. Hours later, after Dawn, 16, didn’t return home that ...

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.

Nearly a half-century after Dawn Momohara’s body was found, Gideon Castro, 66, was arrested in a Utah nursing home and charged with her murder.

Police have finally arrested a suspect in a nearly 50-year-old cold case in which a Hawaii teenager was found dead at her high school.. Dawn Momohara was 16 years old when her body was found on ...

16-year-old Dawn Momohara’s death posed a mystery for nearly five decades until DNA finally cracked the Hawaii case, Honolulu police said.

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.

Dawn Momohara, 16, was found dead inside McKinley High School on Monday, March 21, 1977, according to Honolulu police. Photo from Honolulu Police Department ...