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 ...

New DNA technology led to Gideon Castro's arrest in January, however prosecutors said they weren’t ready to proceed with a ...

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

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 ...

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

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

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 ...

On March 21, 1977, shortly after 7:30 a.m., Honolulu police found the body of 16-year-old Dawn Momohara on the second ... Police used advances in DNA technology to connect Castro to the killing.

On March 21, 1977, the body of Dawn Momohara was discovered on the ... and there were signs she had been sexually assaulted. Police found DNA on Momohara’s clothes, but were unable to identify ...