Great Falls, Montana. "Because it was all theories up to that point we finally had a match and we had a name. All Rights Reserved. Discovery Company. Jon Kadner of the Cascade County Sheriffs Office in Montana was told in 2012 that he was being put in charge of the investigation into a long-unsolved double homicide, the case was already more than 50 years old. "I wasn't sure how they were going to react when I come to them saying, hey your dad's a suspect in this case, but they were great to work with," Kadner said. 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. In the following years, law enforcement compared the DNA sample to about 35 other men, including gangster James Joseph Whitey Bulger Jr. The ignition switch, radio and headlights on his car were on, and the car was in gear. After 65 years, a grisly double murder case of two teenagers in Great Falls, Montana, was solved with DNA evidence, according to investigators. Investigators found no criminal history for Gould or any other connection to Bogle or Kalitzke, other than he had lived near her family, Kadner said. Traci Rosenbaum/The Great Falls. Now, the sheriff's office is considering forming a cold case task force, as other law enforcement agencies have done. Authorities traveled to Missouri, where they spoke with Gould's children and told them about the Kalitzke/Bogle case and eventually identified their father as a suspect, Kadner said. A preserved vaginal. In 1960, Gould's 4-year-old daughter, born a month before the murders, died after a short illness. The two had even begun talking about marriage. It was the first time that Sergeant Kadner, who is 40 and grew up in small-town Iowa, had heard of Duane Bogle and Patricia Kalitzke, teenage sweethearts who had been fatally shot in January 1956, more than two decades before he was born, presumably after they drove to an area in Great Falls, Mont., known as a lovers lane. Her father, who died in 2013, had idolized Duane, as a boy, she said. Jon Kadner, who was assigned the case in 2012 his first cold case, he said during an interview with NPR. The lab found a sperm cell that did not belong to Bogle. Click here to subscribe. "A lot of different people hada turn at this, and we just weren't able to take it to conclusion," he said. The evidence was compared to DNA available in commercial databases. 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. The place where they were believed to have been killed was a known "lover's lane," according to a clipping from a local newspaper posted on a memorial page. Gould, born and raised in Great Falls, lived there with his wife and children in 1956, a little over a mile from Kalitzke. (Traci Rosenbaum/The Great Falls Tribune via AP), Connect with the definitive source for global and local news. In 1989, investigators removed bullets from a cottonwood tree near the spot Bogles body was found and hoped they could be matched to a firearm. The swab was standard procedure for autopsies in 1956. The arrests were made with assistance by the Great Falls Police Department, the Internet Crimes against Children Task Force and the Cascade County Attorneys Office. Kenneth H. Gould EXETER - Kenneth Hamilton Gould, a resident of Riverwoods in Exeter, died on Nov. 23, 2019, after a brief illness. GREAT FALLS After more than 65 years, the Cascade County Sheriffs Office has closed out what they believe may be the oldest "cold case" in the country. Mr. Goulds children, three of whom submitted DNA samples, were all surprised to be told that their father was being investigated in connection with a double homicide in 1956, Sergeant Kadner said. Kenneth Gould Montana; Kenneth Gould . But there was one big problem: Gould had died in 2007 and his remains had been cremated, according to the Tribune. They leave a little bit of themselves, from what Ive seen.. Kalitzkes body was found several miles away on Vinyard Road on Jan. 4. He would have been 29 years old when he committed the lover's lane murders. Investigators found no criminal history for Gould or any other connection to Bogle or Kalitzke, other than he had lived near her family, Kadner said. For decades, the Cascade County Sheriff's Office continued to work on it, with multiple detectives attempting to make progress over the years. Traci Rosenbaum/The Great Falls Tribune, via Associated Press. 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. During Kalitzke's autopsy in 1956, coroners had taken a vaginal swab, which had been preserved on a microscopic slide in the years since, according to the Great Falls Tribune report. Investigators with the Cascade County Sheriff's Office concluded Kenneth Gould who died in Oregon County, Missouri, in 2007 . 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. . 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. Criminal justice reporter Traci Rosenbaum reports on law enforcement issues for the Tribune. A day later, a county road worker found Kalitzkes body north of Great Falls. 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. Tracing thatfamily's tree led investigators to suspect Gould, a man born and raised in Great Falls. Bogle was a Malmstrom Air Force Base Airman from Waco, Texas. 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. Officers kept working the case because of the circumstances, Kadner said. Kadner added that the detectives who worked the case for so many years shared the same feelings. While stationed at Malmstrom, he became "smitten" with Kalitzke, according to Kadner. Gould did not have a known criminal history and was never interviewed during the murder investigation. "My first impression was that the only way we're gonna ever solve this is through the use of DNA," Kadner said. 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. Now that the authorities have a suspect, it conclusively allows to us to stop wondering, she said. Some people just have secrets that they never told anybody, the sergeant recalled. Gould is accused in two deaths from 1956. They were all ruled out as suspects. Even without that complication, Singer explained to NPR, the success rate depends heavily on how well the evidence has been preserved over the years. Law enforcement did not connect Gould to any other cases or crimes. 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. 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. The petitioner was represented by Ms. Julia W. Swingley. In 2019, detectives coordinated with Bode Technology to perform additional testing on the DNA evidence found on Kalitzke's body. Gould's name did appear in the Great Falls Tribune a few times. After the murders, Gould sold his property in Tracy. He had married another 16-year-old girl in 1952 and eventually had five children. GREGORY M. GOULD and AIMEE V. HACHIGIAN-GOULD. Thats when we really started looking at what evidence we had, and if we could potentially do the same thing, Sergeant Kadner said. Want to keep up on crime news in Great Falls and northcentral Montana and get access to exclusive content? Jon Kadner, who took the case over in 2012, said it was the oldest case he could find nationwide to be solved using forensic genealogy. Did you encounter any technical issues? Mr. Bulger, who died in 2018, had lived in Great Falls in the 1950s and had been arrested in a rape there in 1951, Sergeant Kadner said. Investigators have determined that the killer was Kenneth Gould, a Great Falls native who grew up near one of the victims. It worked: DNA testing led investigators to a man named Kenneth Gould. The lab found a sperm cell that did not belong to Bogle, officers said. Give Light and the People Will Find Their Own Way. Mr. Gould died in 2007 at age 79 in Oregon County, Mo. Carol was born on March 2, 1940 in . According to the detective, police still do not have a motive in the case, but the victims families have expressed gratitude to at least have some answers 65 years later. Gould did not have a known criminal history and was never interviewed during the murder investigation. We're essentially going backwards. The case eventually went cold. All rights reserved. Investigators did not find any connections between Gould and the victims. The obituary was featured. A lot of different people had a turn at this, and we just werent able to take it to conclusion, he said. His family lived in Geraldine and Hamilton before moving to Missouri in 1967. In this case, "Our genealogists, what they're going to do is independently build a family tree from this cousin's profile," Andrew Singer, an executive with Bode Technology, told NPR. Montana. Det. "It felt great because for the first time in 65 years we finally had a direction and a place to take the investigation," Kadner told NPR. They leave a little bit of themselves, from what I've seen. Authorities say DNA evidence has tied the deaths to Kenneth Gould, a man who had lived in Alton, Missouri for several decades. While stationed at Malmstrom, he became "smitten" with Kalitzke, according to Kadner. He was found a week later working at a ranch atArrow Creek about 60 miles away. Kadner believes it is the oldest murder case to be solved with this kind of genetic review. "A lot of different people hada turn at this, and we just weren't able to take it to conclusion," he said. In 1960, Gould's 4-year-old daughter, born a month before the murders, died after a short illness. The investigation involved painstaking research into a long-ago crime that had once generated national media attention. The hope is that they'll be able to provide more families with the answers they deserve and, in many cases, have spent years waiting for. Two popular kids who were essentially gunned down in a Lovers Lane situation, said Kadner. The process tested and uploaded DNA from unknown sources. When they didnt come home that night, their families assumed they had eloped, Sergeant Kadner said. Ms. Kalitzkes sister has advanced dementia, Sergeant Kadner said. Law enforcement did not connect Gould to any other cases or crimes. Jon Kadner, who took over the case in 2012, said Tuesday it was the oldest case he could find nationwide that has been solved using forensic genealogy, which searches commercial DNA databases to find familial matches to the DNA of a crime suspect. Now, with the help of DNA evidence, the case has been solved. Officers kept working the case because of the circumstances, 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. (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. Cold Case Closed: the 1956 murder of two young people in Great Falls. On Jan.3, 1956,three boys hiking along Sun River near Wadsworth Park discovered Bogle, 18, dead near his car. The investigation revealed semen in her body, indicating she had been raped. "I think it opens a whole new door for working old cold cases, and also just goes to show how important the initial evidence gathering is in all these cases.". He was known to ride horses through the area, officials said. They did not return to Montana. His family lived in the Montana communities of Geraldine and Hamilton before moving to Missouri in 1967. https://www.nytimes.com/2021/06/11/us/great-falls-montana-2007-homicide-dna.html. 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. appreciated. Bogle's hands were bound behind his back with his own belt. 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. Sixty-five years after Kalitzke and Bogle's death, authorities said Kenneth Gourd was likely their killer. GREAT FALLS, Mont. 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. 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. The following day, three boys hiking along the Sun River in Great Falls found Mr. Bogles body in an area that was known as a rendezvous spot for teenagers. Officers investigated for years, but they were unable to make an arrest. In 2018, however, forensic genealogy, which was used to help adoptees find biological family members, was used to identify Joseph James DeAngelo Jr. as the Golden State Killer. That changed the whole dynamic of the case.". The new method has led to the identification of dozens of suspects in cold cases. Patricia Kalitzke, 16, and her boyfriend Lloyd Duane Bogle, 18, were found fatally shot in the head near Bogles car in 1956, in a case that baffled investigators for decades. Click here. Chad Gould passed away on September 18, 2019 at the age of 48 in Great Falls, Montana. His family lived in Geraldine and Hamilton before moving to Missouri in 1967. Kalitzke was a junior at Great Falls High School. The car was still running and the headlights were still on. Gould's family home was located a little over a mile from where Kalitzke lived, and he was known to ride horses throughout the area. 2023 www.greatfallstribune.com. 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. 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. By the time Gould was determined to be the prime suspect, investigators had no way to confirm it directly with DNA. Their killings went unsolved until this week when investigators announced they had cracked what is believed to be the oldest case solved with DNA and forensic genealogy. They were all ruled out as suspects. Patricia Kalitzke, 16, and her boyfriend Duane Bogle, 18, were both shot in the head and murdered in Great Falls, Montana back in 1956; . Anyone who uses information contained in this list to commit a criminal act against another person is subject to criminal prosecution. And it was not for lack of trying: Early on in the case, investigators followed numerous leads, but none of them panned out. We're starting with a distant relative and trying to work back toward our unknown sample.". Sgt. Joseph James DeAngelo Jr. as the Golden State Killer. DNA did not match. "I think if you just look at the circumstances," said Kadner. After the murders, Gould sold his property near the town of Tracy. Kadner said. Both were shot in the head. 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. They did not return to Montana. It was uploaded to voluntary genealogical databases, where they discovered a possible family connection leading investigators to Gould. Investigators have determined that the killer was Kenneth Gould, a Great Falls native who grew up near one of the victims. Investigators did not find any connections between Gould and the victims. There was just years and years of documentation and numerous suspects that had been looked into, the sergeant said. Gould did not have a criminal history and was not considered a suspect during the initial investigation, the Tribune report said. They leave a little bit of themselves, from what Ive seen.. Oxygen Insider is your all-access pass to never-before-seen content, free digital evidence kits, and much more. They built a family tree backward and then forward to develop (the link to) Kenneth Gould, Kadner said. "Give them some closure.". Gould was born Aug. 23, 1927,and died May 31, 2007 before investigators connected him to the Kalitzke-Bogle homicide. His daughter basically said: You never know. The new method has led to the identification of dozens of suspects in cold cases. Your California Privacy Rights/Privacy Policy. What keeps a case like this alive so long? 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. 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. Kadner said they believe this to be the oldest murder solved using forensic genetic genealogy, a method that was made famous in 2018 when Joseph James DeAngelo Jr. was charged with multiple crimes as the Golden State Killer.. 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. 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