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

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,

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.

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.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

The Honolulu Police Department Forensic officials have confirmed the remains found off Ke Iki Beach matched the DNA profile of missing teen Joseph Fujioka. Fujioka was