5 days ago · A 1977 Honolulu cold case is solved as DNA evidence leads to an arrest nearly 50 years after the murder of 16-year-old Dawn Momohara.

5 days ago · 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.

5 days 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 ...

3 days ago · The body of Dawn Momohara was discovered on the second floor of the English building at McKinley High School in Honolulu on 21 March 1977. She had been sexually assaulted and strangled. She had ...

3 days ago · A man has been arrested on suspicion of the murder of his classmate almost 50 years on following advances in DNA testing. Dawn Momohara was 16 years old and a student at McKinley High School in ...

4 days ago · Dawn Momohara (L) A 66-year-old man has been arrested and charged with second-degree murder in connection with a nearly five-decade-old cold case, thanks to modern DNA testing.

4 days ago · A 1977 Honolulu cold case is solved as DNA evidence leads to an arrest nearly 50 years after the murder of 16-year-old Dawn Momohara.

3 days ago · DNA advances have led to an arrest which could solve the cold case murder of a 16-year-old girl at a school in Hawaii, nearly five decades ago. The body of Dawn Momohara was discovered on the second floor of the English building at McKinley High School in Honolulu on 21 March 1977. Lieutenant Deena Thoemmes, from the department's homicide department, said the arrest was the result of advances ...

4 days ago · 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. Gideon ...

3 days ago · The brutal murder sparked a community-wide panic, but investigators were never able to identify a suspect. The case went cold for nearly 50 years — but now DNA technology has led to an arrest. Dawn Momohara Is Found Murdered At Her Hawaii High School. On the morning of March 21, 1977, Dawn Momohara was found dead in her Honolulu high school.