COURTESY HONOLULU POLICE DEPARTMENT A composite drawing of the suspect in the murder of Dawn Momohara in March 1977. Castro was arrested Jan. 21 at a Utah nursing home, where he was living, on ...

Authorities arrested Gideon Castro at a Utah nursing home and charged him in the murder of 16-year-old Dawn Momohara on her ...

A Utah judge has ordered the release of a 66-year-old suspect in the 1977 killing of a Hawaii teenager after prosecutors in ...

Police interviewed his brother, who also met Momohara at the dance In November 2023, Honolulu police went to Chicago, where the brother was living. They "surreptitiously" obtained DNA from one of ...

On March 21, 1977, shortly after 7:30 a.m., Honolulu police found the body of 16-year-old Dawn Momohara ... until obtaining DNA samples in recent years. The morning before Momohara was killed ...

The man suspected in a cold case in Hawaii will be released from a Utah jail after the prosecution found issues with its evidence.

A 66-year-old suspect in the 1977 killing of a Hawaii teenager was released from a Utah jail on Thursday after prosecutors in Honolulu said they weren’t ready to ...

Castro was arrested by the Unified Police Department at a nursing home in Millcreek after Honolulu investigators found DNA evidence connecting Castro to the murder of 16-year-old Dawn Momohara.

But they were unable to conclusively link Castro to the killing until obtaining DNA samples in recent ... murder in the death of 16-year-old Dawn Momohara. He had waived the right to challenge ...