On March 21, 1977, 16-year-old student Dawn Momohara was discovered on the second floor of a building at McKinley High School. Reports indicate that she had been sexually assaulted and strangled.

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.

Jan 28, 2025 · Dawn Momohara Is Found Murdered At Her Hawaii High School. On the morning of March 21, 1977, Dawn Momohara was found dead in her Honolulu high school. She was partially undressed and had an orange cloth wrapped tightly around her neck. Dawn had been reported missing the previous evening when she failed to return home from a shopping trip.

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.

Jan 31, 2025 · 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 McKinley High School when she learned a student named Dawn Momohara had been found dead on the second floor of a school building. “I don’t know how we got word of it, but everything spread ...

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.

Jan 26, 2025 · Nearly five decades after her partially clothed body was discovered on the second floor of her Honolulu high school, modern DNA testing has led to an arrest that could solve the cold case murder...

Jan 31, 2025 · This photo provided by the Honolulu Police Department shows 16-year-old student Dawn Momohara who was discovered dead on the second floor of a building at McKinley High School on March 21, 1977 ...

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...

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...