DNA analysis leads to murder charge in 1977 killing of Hawaii teenager
by Anna Betts from US news | The Guardian on (#6TW0V)
Utah nursing home resident Gideon Castro, 66, arrested and charged over death of Dawn Momohara, 16, in Honolulu
Police recently arrested a 66-year-old man at a nursing home in Utah on suspicion that he murdered a girl who attended his high school in Hawaii nearly five decades earlier - with modern DNA technology implicating him.
Gideon Castro's arrest came in connection with the killing of Dawn Momohara, 16, who was found dead the morning of 21 March 1977 at the campus of McKinley high school in Honolulu.
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