
Chilling details emerge after schoolmate arrested in Hawaii girl's …
Jan 31, 2025 · 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...
Modern DNA testing leads to arrest in 1977 killing of Honolulu …
Jan 26, 2025 · 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.
Former classmate of teen sexually assaulted and strangled nearly …
Jan 27, 2025 · Sophomore Dawn Momohara, 16, was found on the second floor of Honolulu’s McKinley High School in March 1977 with an orange cloth tied around her neck, according to NBC News.
48 years after teen girl's murder in Hawaii, her former schoolmate …
Jan 22, 2025 · Dawn Momohara was found dead the morning of March 21, 1977, on the second floor of a building at McKinley High School, in Hawaii's capital, according to the Honolulu Police...
Suspect Arrested 47 Years After Hawaii Teen Was Sexually …
Jan 22, 2025 · Dawn Momohara, 16, was found dead on the second floor of McKinley High School in Honolulu on March 12, 1977. She had been sexually assaulted and strangled, with an orange cloth found tightly...
Dawn Momohara: One of Honolulu’s oldest unsolved murders
Dec 17, 2024 · Around the time of Dawn’s killing, 61-year-old Charlotte Paik Whang was found dead in her fourth-floor apartment at 1026 Kalo Place, Moililli, Honolulu, less than two miles from the Momohara home. She had been stabbed to death.
Suspect arrested in 1977 cold case murder of McKinley High student
Jan 22, 2025 · On March 21, 1977, at around 7:30 a.m., the body of Dawn Momohara was discovered on the second floor of a building at McKinley High School. Police said the 16-year-old sophomore was found...
Police Arrest A Man For The 1977 Murder Of A Hawaii Teen - All …
Jan 28, 2025 · Lying deceased and partially clothed on the floor was 16-year-old Dawn Momohara, a sophomore student. She had been strangled and sexually assaulted. The brutal murder sparked a community-wide panic, but investigators were never able to identify a suspect.
Honolulu Police Arrest Suspect in 1977 Murder of Dawn Momohara …
Jan 22, 2025 · 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.
1977 Honolulu murder solved with DNA, suspect arrested - My …
Jan 27, 2025 · 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.
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