Jan 22, 2025 · HONOLULU — A man was arrested at a Utah nursing home on suspicion of second-degree murder in connection to a decades-old case from Hawaii.Gideon Castro, 66, was taken into custody in Utah just before 11 a.m. MST on Tuesday, Jan. 21, 2025, and is awaiting extradition to Honolulu.

2 days ago · Nearly 50 years after the murder of 16-year-old Dawn Momohara, a breakthrough in DNA technology has led to the arrest of 66-year-old Gideon Castro, a former student at Honolulu's McKinley High School.

2 days ago · The suspect, former McKinley student Gideon Castro, was scheduled to make an initial court appearance Friday before a judge in Salt Lake County District Court. He remained in custody Thursday with the bond for his release set at $250,000, according to Salt Lake County Sheriff’s Office records.

5 days ago · The case ran cold for decades — until late Tuesday when one of her former classmates, Gideon Castro, now 66, was arrested in a nursing home in Utah, police said.

Jan 22, 2025 · The comparison excluded William Castro as a suspect, and Gideon Castro, now 66, was arrested at his nursing home in Utah on a second-degree murder charge. Gideon Castro will be extradited back to ...

6 days ago · Her former classmate, Gideon Castro, now 66, was living in a Utah nursing home when he was arrested Tuesday in the alleged homicide, according to the Honolulu Police Department. Decades after the ...

Jan 22, 2025 · Today at 7:40 a.m. Hawaii time, the Mill Creek Investigations Unit of the Unified Police Department of Greater Salt Lake arrested Gideon Castro, 66, on suspicion of second-degree murder, Honolulu ...

5 days ago · On Tuesday, Gideon Castro, 66, a McKinley High School graduate who previously told police he knew the victim, was arrested at the Utah nursing home where he lived, Honolulu Police Department Lt ...

Jan 23, 2025 · Gideon Castro told police then that he had met Momohara at a school dance in 1976. He said his last interaction with her was at a school carnival in February 1977, when he told her he was in the U ...

Jan 22, 2025 · Investigators concluded the DNA found at the scene was a match with Gideon Castro and identified him as the primary suspect in the cold case. Officers arrested Gideon Castro at a nursing home in Utah on a charge of second-degree murder.