(Traci Rosenbaum/The Great Falls Tribune via AP), Connect with the definitive source for global and local news. Traci Rosenbaum/The Great Falls. After the murders, Gould sold his property in Tracy. "Because it was all theories up to that point we finally had a match and we had a name. Investigators with the Cascade County Sheriff's Office concluded Kenneth Gould who died in Oregon County, Missouri, in 2007 more than likely killed Patricia Kalitzke, 16, and Duane Bogle, 18, the Great Falls Tribune reports. But the next day, Jan. 4, 1956, a county road worker found her body off a gravel road about five miles north of Great Falls. For an optimal experience visit our site on another browser. Although Gould died in 2007 and his body was cremated, his children consented to submitting DNA samples resulting in a match. Clippings from the Great Falls Tribune were part of the Cascade County Sheriff's Office investigative file into the 1956 murders of Patricia Kalitzke and Lloyd Duane Bogle. Mr. Bogles family contended for years with crazy stories about what might have happened, including rumors that he might have been mixed up with the mob, said Caryn Bogle McCarthy, 54, whose father, James Bogle, was Duane Bogles younger brother. Jon Kadner] The next day brought another disturbing discovery: A county road worker found 16-year-old Patricia Kalitzke's body in an area north of Great Falls, the paper reports. But when you put everything together, theres no doubt in my mind that hes the suspect.. When Detective Sgt. "That was just the process, and luckily it was retained in evidence all these years," said Kadner. His date, 16-year-old Patricia Kalitzke was missing. "A lot of different people hada turn at this, and we just weren't able to take it to conclusion," he said. Investigators with the Cascade County Sheriff's Office concluded Kenneth Gould who died in Oregon County, Missouri, in 2007 more than likely killed Patricia Kalitzke, 16, and Duane Bogle, 18, the Great Falls Tribune reports. GREAT FALLS, Mont. Crime News is your destination for true crime stories from around the world, breaking crime news, and information about Oxygen's original true crime shows and documentaries. They lived in Hamilton from 1958 until 1967 when they moved to Alton, Missouri. Sixty-five years after Kalitzke and Bogle's death, authorities said Kenneth Gourd was likely their killer. "You had two young, vibrant individuals that were well-liked among their peer groupinvestigators poured their heart and soul into this case. The new method has led to the identification of dozens of suspects in cold cases. Stephen J. Investigators with the Cascade County Sheriff's Office concluded Kenneth Gould - who died in Oregon County, Missouri, in 2007 - more than likely killed Patricia Kalitzke, 16, and Duane Bogle,. Gould was born Aug. 23, 1927,and died May 31, 2007 before investigators connected him to the Kalitzke-Bogle homicide. Kadner said most of Kalitzke's and Bogle's family is no longer living, but those he was able to contact were relieved to have closure. Mr. Gould had no known criminal history, and detectives do not know if he had any relationship with Ms. Kalitzke or Mr. Bogle. The teenagers were last seen at Petes Drive-In restaurant in Great Falls, just after 9 p.m. on Jan. 2, 1956. He was known to ride horses through the area, officials said. They say Kenneth Gould is the likely suspect in the 1956. The lab found a sperm cell that did not belong to Bogle. He was found a week later working at a ranch atArrow Creek about 60 miles away. Investigators with the Cascade County Sheriffs Office concluded Kenneth Gould who died in Oregon County, Missouri, in 2007 more than likely killed Patricia Kalitzke, 16, and Duane Bogle, 18, the Great Falls Tribune reports. A day later, a county road worker found Kalitzke's body on Vineyard Road north of Great Falls. They did not return to Montana. During a walk near the Sun River, they found 18-year-old Lloyd Duane Bogle, dead from a gunshot wound to the head. The Kalitzke/Bogle case is one of the oldest criminal cases that has been solved using forensic genealogy, and authorities are hopeful that they'll be able to use this ever-advancing technology to solve cold cases dating back even further although new state legislation restricting forensic genealogy could complicate matters. Bogle's hands were bound behind his back with his own belt. Check out never-before-seen content, free digital evidence kits, and much more! Edwards, the subject of a book by former Great Falls Police Detective John Cameron, was linked to "Lover's Lane murders" in Ohio and Wisconsin. After the killings, he left the area and was seen living in two other Montana towns before moving to Alton, Mo., in 1967. It was later determined that Gould and Kalitzke grew up near each other. Gould is accused in two deaths from 1956. The lab found a sperm cell that did not belong to Bogle. Both were shot in the head. https://www.nytimes.com/2021/06/11/us/great-falls-montana-2007-homicide-dna.html. Reach her at trosenbaum@greatfallstribune.com or 406-791-1490. A lot of different people had a turn at this, and we just werent able to take it to conclusion, he said. Kadner said Gould had been cremated, so he had to reach out to Gould's surviving children and ask for samples to verify the match. Even though he knew all along that the killer was likely to be dead by the time he was found, Kadner said he felt driven to solve the case after reviewing the decades of files pieced together by past detectives. The case broke when the 2018 arrest of Joseph James DeAngelo Jr., the Golden State Killer, was accomplished through the use of forensic genealogy. On June 8, 1943, when Gould was 15, he was reported missing after he left his grandmother's home in Buffalo and could not be located. Both were shot in the head. The law defines a prostitution chargeas: "A person commits the offense of prostitution if the person engages in or agrees or offers to engage in sexual intercourse with another person for compensation, whether the compensation is received or to be received or paid or to be paida patron who is convicted of prostitution shall for the first offense be fined an amount not to exceed $1,000 or be imprisoned for a term not to exceed 1 year, or both.". According to the Tribune, Gould would have been 29 years old when he killed Kalitzke and Bogle. As more time went by, about 35 suspects came and went. The case eventually went cold. Give Light and the People Will Find Their Own Way. "Our duty is to make sure that we solve these cases.". "A lot of different people hada turn at this, and we just weren't able to take it to conclusion," he said. His hands had been tied behind his back with his own belt. For decades, the Cascade County Sheriff's Office continued to work on it, with multiple detectives attempting to make progress over the years. But it definitely reopens old wounds that have had a chance to crust over.. Your effort and contribution in providing this feedback is much A DNA profile of a suspect in 2001 was developed using forensic evidence preserved from Kalitzkes 1956 autopsy, Kadner said. The Cascade County Sheriff's Office announced on Tuesday that it has closed the file onthe 1956 double homicide of Patricia Kalitzke and Lloyd Duane Bogle, resolving the 65-year-old cold case. Police were able to find two children of Goulds who submitted DNA samples, which matched the evidence collected in 1956. Sheriff Jesse Slaughter said that Gould is the most likely suspect but they cant say hes guilty since hes deceased as are many other people associated with the case at the time. John M. Butler, an expert on forensic genetics at the National Institute of Standards and Technology, said while he was not aware of any group that officially tracks cold cases, Certainly, 1956 is the oldest that I have heard about up to this point.. Sign up forOxygen Insiderfor all the best true crime content. 0:00. Because Mr. Gould had been cremated, investigators collected DNA from his children, which linked Mr. Gould to the sperm cell that had been found on Ms. Kalitzkes body, Sergeant Kadner said. Traci Rosenbaum/The Great Falls Tribune, via Associated Press. Kalitzke was a junior at Great Falls High School. Ms. Kalitzke was a junior at Great Falls High School. In the following years, law enforcement compared the DNA sample to about 35 other men, including gangster James Joseph Whitey Bulger Jr. He was lying face down beside his car with his hands tied behind his back and two gunshots to the head. Copyright 2021 Scripps Media, Inc. All rights reserved. I wasnt sure how they were going to react when I come to them saying, Hey your dads a suspect in this case, but they were great to work with, Kadner said. He continued to work on the Kalitzke/Bogle case even while handling the newer cases that were landing on his desk all the time, but he had a feeling that more was needed to get to the bottom of what had happened to the couple all those decades ago. Through DNA testing, he was able to eliminate several rape suspects, including notorious crime boss James Whitey Bulger who had actually been in the area and had been arrested for rape in 1951. Investigators with the Cascade County Sheriffs Office concluded Kenneth Gould who died in Oregon County, Missouri, in 2007 more than likely killed Patricia Kalitzke, 16, and Duane Bogle, 18, the Great Falls Tribune reports. They were all ruled out as suspects. [Image via Sgt. Bogle was a Malmstrom Air Force Base Airman from Waco, Texas. Leads surfaced and dried up throughout the immediate investigation, and law enforcement had multiple suspects including notorious gangster James Joseph "Whitey" Bulger, Jr. 'Pushed to the side': Cases of missing or murdered Indigenous people often go unsolved. DNA evidence preserved after a 1956 double homicide and the use of forensic genealogy has helped a Montana sheriffs office close the books on the 65-year-old cold case, officials said. When Matteson retired, he said he didnt believe the case would be solved. The direct to consumer databases such as 23andMe are not open source. 2023 Cable News Network. In 2001, as a detective, Matteson sent a microscope slide of a vaginal swab gathered from Kalitzke's body to the Montana State Crime Lab for analysis. After forensic genealogy was used to finally nab the Golden State Killer the year prior, law enforcement officials were becoming increasingly aware of the potential to use that technology to solve cold cases even decades-old cases like Kalitzke and Bogle's. The evidence was compared to DNA available in commercial databases. And it was not for lack of trying: Early on in the case, investigators followed numerous leads, but none of them panned out. His family lived in the Montana communities of Geraldine and Hamilton before moving to Missouri in 1967. Law enforcement compared the sample to other men, ruling them out one by one. Ms. Kalitzkes sister has advanced dementia, Sergeant Kadner said. But there was one big problem: Gould had died in 2007 and his remains had been cremated, according to the Tribune. They built a family tree backward and then forward to develop (the link to) Kenneth Gould, Kadner said. This is as good as were ever going to get on a case like this, Slaughter said. After the murders, Gould sold his property near the town of Tracy. Another suspect was Whitey Bulger, a prominent mob boss, who was in Great Falls around the time of the murders but DNA ruled him out. Kalitzke was a junior at Great Falls High School, and Bogle was an airman at Malmstrom Air Force Base from Waco, Texas. 3:59 AM EDT, Thu June 10, 2021. On the morning of Tuesday January 3, 1956, 18-year-old Airman Lloyd Bogle was found dead on a lover's lane half a mile Northwest of Wadsworth Park. He had no criminal record and was never interviewed in connection with the crime in fact, there's no known connection between him and the couple. "It's really fantastic technology and it's going to solve a lot of cold cases," Singer said. They found him on the ground near his car, and someone had used his belt to tie his hands behind his back, according to a report from the Great Falls Tribune. Gould's name did appear in the Great Falls Tribune a few times. Kadner said. Kadner said Gould had been cremated, so he had to reach out to Gould's surviving children and ask for samples to verify the match. Investigators with the Cascade County Sheriff's Office concluded Kenneth Gould who died in Oregon County, Missouri, in 2007 [] Mr. Bogle was an airman from Waco, Texas, stationed nearby at Malmstrom Air Force Base. Jon Kadner told CNN Wednesday night. Sgt. Officers kept working the case because of the circumstances, Kadner said. That sample was uploaded to a open-source database of DNA samples, which are most often used by people researching their family trees. Traci Rosenbaum/USA Today Network via Reuters Co. The only way to prove his guilt or his innocence was to test the DNA of his remaining relatives. Gould was a Great Falls native and was known to ride horses in the area of Vinyard Road where Kalitzke's body was found, Kadner said. They leave a little bit of themselves, from what Ive seen.. But I knew the key was going to be DNA.. "I think if you just look at the circumstances," said Kadner. Kenneth H. Gould EXETER - Kenneth Hamilton Gould, a resident of Riverwoods in Exeter, died on Nov. 23, 2019, after a brief illness. Kadner said the DNA was linked to Kenneth Gould, who died in 2007 and his body was cremated. GREAT FALLS The Cascade County Sheriff's Office recently announced that they had closed a 65-year-old "cold case" double-murder. She had been shot in the head and had injuries that were consistent with a struggle or a sexual assault, Sergeant Kadner said. Patty Kalitzke, a. You had two young, vibrant individuals that were well-liked among their peer group, he said. When Matteson left CCSO, he had resigned himself to the idea that the case would remain unsolved. Obviously, I cant put the gun in his hand, Sergeant Kadner said. After 65 years, a grisly double murder case of two teenagers in Great Falls, Montana, was solved with DNA evidence, according to investigators. Want to keep up on crime news in Great Falls and northcentral Montana and get access to exclusive content? Investigators with the Cascade County Sheriff's Office concluded Kenneth Gould who died in Oregon County, Missouri, in 2007 more than likely killed Patricia Kalitzke, 16, and Duane Bogle,. Her father, who died in 2013, had idolized Duane, as a boy, she said. Nybo. Investigators have closed the case after using forensic genealogy to identify Kenneth Gould, who is now deceased, as having likely committed the murders. Investigators could not uncover any connection between him and the victims. Bogle, a Texas native, had been assigned to the 29th Fighter-Interceptor Squadron at Malmstrom Air Force Base. Newspaper clippings from the investigative file into the 1956 murders of Duane Bogle, 18, and Patricia Kalitzke, 16, in Great Falls, Mont. In 1960, Gould's 4-year-old daughter, born a month before the murders, died after a short illness. Det. Goulds family home at the time of the homicides was a little over a mile (1.6 kilometers) from where Kalitzke lived. Kalitzke was born in Great Falls and was a junior at Great Falls High School when she was killed. In 2001, as a detective, Matteson sent a microscope slide of a vaginal swab gathered from Kalitzke's body to the Montana State Crime Lab for analysis. Your California Privacy Rights / Privacy Policy. Get an all-access pass to never-before-seen content, free digital evidence kits, and much more! DNA evidence preserved after a 1956 double homicide and the use of forensic genealogy has helped a Montana sheriffs office close the books on the 65-year-old cold case, officials said. It was such a big case, Cascade County Sheriffs Office lead investigator Sgt. It worked: DNA testing led investigators to a man named Kenneth Gould. Now, with the help of DNA evidence, the case has been solved. The following day, a county road worker spotted what was identified as the body of Kalitzke about five miles away to the north on Vinyard Road near what is known as Hill 57. That sample had been preserved in an evidence vault for six decades. Tracing that family's tree led investigators to suspect Gould, a man born and raised in Great Falls. Still, he hopes that it can be used to help law enforcement improve public safety and "[prevent] tomorrow's victim.". It was only three days into 1956 when three boys from Montana, out for a hike on a normal January day, made a gruesome discovery they were unlikely to ever forget. He was known to ride horses through the area, officials said. In the following years, law enforcement compared the DNA sample to about 35 other men, including gangster James Joseph Whitey Bulger Jr. "Give them some closure.". Traci Rosenbaum/USA Today Network via Reuters Co. A lot of different people had a turn at this, and we just werent able to take it to conclusion, he said. They asked for the family's help in either proving or disproving that Gould was the man responsible and the family complied. All Rights Reserved. In most cases, those profiles can end up linking to distant relatives of the culprit say, a second or third cousin. In 2001, the sample was sent to the state crime lab and it didnt match Bolgers DNA and was entered into CODIS with no matches. A day later, a county road worker found Kalitzkes body north of Great Falls. 2. Great Falls - Carol Lou Gould, 80, of Great Falls, passed away peacefully on Sunday, September 13, 2020. (AP) DNA evidence preserved after a 1956 double homicide and the use of forensic genealogy has helped a Montana sheriff's office close the books on the 65-year-old cold case, officials said. Gould had no known criminal history before or after the killings. What keeps a case like this alive so long? He was face down, and had been shot in the back of the head. The ignition switch, radio and headlights on his car were on, and the car was in gear. He called it "a reverse family tree. Kadner said most of Kalitzke's and Bogle's family is no longer living, but those he was able to contact were relieved to have closure. He would have been 29 years old when he committed the lover's lane murders. Kalitzkes body was found several miles away on Vinyard Road on Jan. 4. Kenneth Suiste: Former Great Falls resident who was an active serial rapist in the late '70s and '80s and arrested for murder in California in 1989. The lab found a sperm cell that did not belong to Bogle, officers said. There was just years and years of documentation and numerous suspects that had been looked into, the sergeant said. This thread is archived Kadner had to reach out to Goulds children and ask for DNA samples to verify the match. 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