Hawaii, McKinley High School and dead Momohara
Former classmate arrested nearly 50 years after teen was found dead on the second floor of her Hawaii 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.
16-year-old found dead inside high school in 1977, Hawaii police say. Now arrest made
Student Dawn Momohara, 16, was found dead inside McKinley High School on Monday, March 21, 1977, according to the Honolulu Police Department. “A teacher had found her and it was early in the morning, second floor of the English building,” Susie Chun Oakland, a former student, told KHON in 2019.
DNA evidence helped lead long-stymied detectives to a suspect in the murder of Dawn Momohara, 16, who was strangled and found ...
Dawn Momohara was found dead in a building on her high school's campus in Honolulu. A suspect was arrested in a Utah nursing ...
Experts say DNA testing is how most cold cases are now being solved. It helped identify a suspect in the murder of a McKinley High School student with evidence preserved from ...
After nearly 50 years, the Honolulu Police Department made an arrest at a Utah nursing home in connection to the 1977 killing ...
The 16-year-old McKinley High student was found dead on campus in 1977 HPD A composite drawing of a potential suspect in the March 21, 1977, killing of Dawn Momohara. 2 /2 HPD A composite drawing of a ...
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