Police recently arrested a 66-year-old man in a nursing home in Utah on suspicion that he had killed a girl who had studied at his high school in Hawaii almost five decades ago-D. NA technology affected it.
Geodon Castro was arrested in connection with the murder of 16 -year -old Don Mamohara, who was found dead on the campus on the morning of March 21, 1977. McKenali High School in Honolloo.
According to the Honollo Police Department, Mamohara had a sophomore at the school.
She went missing one night before she was found dead, not returning home after telling her mother when she was going to visit friends at the shopping center.
The next morning, Mamohara’s body was discovered. He was declared dead at the scene, and a post -mortem decided that he died due to esophagus due to a stranger.
He suffered injuries to his neck, and a medical examiner also decided that he was injured in sexual abuse. The inspector ranked Mamohara as a massacre.
a News Conference On Tuesday, about 48 48 years after his body was discovered, Lieutenant Dina Themes of the Honollo Police Department announced that with the help of authorities in Utah – Castro was charged and arrested in the murder of Mamohara. It was
Authorities said Castro graduated from Mac Canali High School in 1976 and knew Mamohara.
In the days after the murder, Castro and his brother, William, many classmates, friends, family members and acquaintances of Mamohara were interviewed by police. At that time, neither the siblings were considered suspected.
Jadon Castro told authorities that he met Mamohara in a school dance in 1976 and spoke to him for the last time in a school carnival in February 1977. He said he spoke for 15 minutes, and told him that he was in the US Army Reserve. .
His brother, William Castro, told police that he had met Mamohara through his brother.
On the day that Mamohara went missing, officials said she received an unidentified man’s phone before telling her mother that she was going to a shopping center with friends.
At that time, two witnesses also informed the authorities that they saw a man and a car near the school building a night before they were found dead.
Authorities released a Sketch The man and the car, but “failed to provide any superiority” and the authorities were unable to identify a suspect at the time.
In 2019, spies in Hawaii began analyzing various items and samples from the murder scene using modern DNA testing technology. In 2020, using advanced DNA technology, the police obtained a partial genetic profile of an unknown man from the sample taken from his shorts.
In 2023, the police then said they had received information, saying that William Castro or Gedon Castro could be potential suspects – but they did not have details.
With the help of FBI and Homeland Security Investigation, spies locked the Castro Brothers and their biological children.
They traveled to adult children to collect DNA samples – and, according to police, the DNA profile obtained from William’s child cleared it.
Further tests and analysis have revealed that Gedon Castro’s son was a biological child of an unknown man whose DNA was found at the scene.
And earlier, in January, the spies traveled to Utah and obtained a DNA sample from Jodone, which they say is similar to the DNA profile.
Investigators received a warrant to arrest Castro. And on Tuesday morning, he was arrested in a nursing home in Utah for a second -class murder.
Authorities later reported that Castro was waiting for extradition to Honollo.
“I want to thank all the individuals and agencies who made today’s arrest possible,” Thomas said at a news conference on Tuesday. “Thank you all for your dedication and the tireless attainment of justice for Dawn and Mamohara family.”
