Momohara, discovered with an orange cloth wound tightly around her neck, was found on the second floor of the English building at McKinley High School in Honolulu on March 21, 1977.

HONOLULU (AP) — Former Hawaii lawmaker Suzanne Chun Oakland remembers arriving at school one morning in 1977 to an eerie buzz. She had met up with girlfriends as usual before class at Honolulu's ...

The case was reopened in 2019. In 2020 a DNA profile was extracted from Momohara’s shorts. Investigators had one of Castro’s children submit DNA, which authorities say linked Castro to Momohara’s ...

In 2019, cold case detectives asked a forensic biology unit to examine several items of evidence from the scene, including Momohara's underwear. They were able to develop a DNA profile in 2020.

This image provided by the Honolulu Police Department shows a sketch of a person of interest in the killing of 16-year-old student Dawn Momohara in Honolulu. (Honolulu Police Department via AP) ...

In 2019, cold case detectives asked a forensic biology unit to examine several items of evidence from the scene, including Momohara’s underwear. They were able to develop a DNA profile in 2020.

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Chun Oakland didn’t know Momohara, who was 16, but the unsolved death has haunted her and other McKinley students and staff for nearly half a century. That was until last week, when police used ...