DNA testing has been part of criminal investigation procedures since the 1980s, ... Kinship or genealogy testing is commonly used for decades-old cold cases like the murder of Dawn Momohara, ...

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.

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. By Sara Ruberg Natasha Alexenko, Who Exposed ...

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. She was a ...

Nearly 50 years after 16-year-old Dawn Momohara was found brutally murdered at McKinley High School in Honolulu, a ...

Before Dawn Momohara was killed, she got a call from an unknown male and told her mother she was going to a shopping center. That was the last time her mom saw her, police said.

A classmate of a teenage girl found sexually assaulted and strangled in her Hawaii high school has been arrested nearly 50 ...

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 Department. She was 16 ...

Dawn Momohara, 16, was found sexually assaulted and fatally strangled at her high school on March 21, 1977, with her murder going unsolved for almost five decades until cops made an arrest this week.

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.