The two had even begun talking about marriage. Obviously, I cant put the gun in his hand, Sergeant Kadner said. The Case Was Just Solved. 3:59 AM EDT, Thu June 10, 2021. [Image via Sgt. Create your free profile and get access to exclusive content. Link your TV provider to stream full episodes and live TV. Sergeant Kadner said the crucial piece of evidence was a DNA sample from a sperm cell that had been collected from Ms. Kalitzkes body during her autopsy. Kenneth Gould," Kadner . Gould, born and raised in Great Falls, lived there with his wife and children in 1956, a little over a mile from Kalitzke. The swab was standard procedure for autopsies in 1956. 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. The office identified Kenneth Gould, a horse trainer who died in 2007, as the likely suspect who had shot and killed Mr. Bogle, 18, and Ms. Kalitzke, 16, more than 65 years ago. Officers investigated for years, but they were unable to make an arrest. By searching public records (such as death certificates and newspaper clippings), forensic genealogists are then able to construct a family tree that can point them right to the suspect, even if that suspect has never provided their DNA to any public database. Kadner said. 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. The next day, Bogles body was found next to his car on what was a lovers lane then and is now Wadsworth Park, according to news reports at the time. They were all ruled out as suspects. All Rights Reserved. Still, he hopes that it can be used to help law enforcement improve public safety and "[prevent] tomorrow's victim.". She had been shot in the head and had injuries that were consistent with a struggle or a sexual assault, Sergeant Kadner said. Copyright 2021 Scripps Media, Inc. All rights reserved. Kadner said the DNA was linked to Kenneth Gould, who died in 2007 and his body was cremated. Officers investigated for years, but they were unable to make an arrest. "They're excited, but at the same time, it has brought up a lot of memories," Kadner said. Tribune Staff. They were all ruled out as suspects. Discovery Company. The lab found a sperm cell that did not belong to Bogle. After the killings, he left the area and was seen living in two other Montana towns before moving to Alton, Mo., in 1967. The Sheriff's Office believes Kenneth Gould is the most likely suspect in the murder of 18-year-old Duane Bogle and the murder and rape of 16-year-old Patricia Kalitzke. In 2019, with the help of Bode Technology, a Virginia company that specializes in DNA analysis, another DNA profile was extracted from the sample, which enabled investigators to build a family tree that led them to Mr. Gould, Sergeant Kadner said. Bogle's hands were bound behind his back with his own belt. 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. 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. After the murders, his family eventually moved to 1967 and did not return to Montana. Stephen J. The car was still running and the headlights were still on. "A lot of different people hada turn at this, and we just weren't able to take it to conclusion," he said. His family lived in the Montana communities of Geraldine and Hamilton before moving to Missouri in 1967. His expensive camera had not been taken. They did not return to Montana. Tracing thatfamily's tree led investigators to suspect Gould, a man born and raised in Great Falls. What they found was a family tree linking to a man from Great Falls, Montana. During a June 8 presentation, Kadner said that a sperm cell had been recovered from Kalitzkes body from a vaginal slide during autopsy and preserved. Jon Kadner] He would have been 29 years old when he committed the lover's lane murders. Gould was born Aug. 23, 1927, and died May 31, 2007 before investigators connected him. He told The Electric that the only reason the suspect wouldnt have killed both of the victims at the same time and place was to take Kalitzke and assault her, but that he couldnt definitively prove that theory. Gould did not have a known criminal history and was never interviewed during the murder investigation. Give Light and the People Will Find Their Own Way. Kalitzke was born in Great Falls and was a junior at Great Falls High School when she was killed. Three people were found to be genetically compatible, and included in that trio was a link to Gould. During a walk near the Sun River, they found 18-year-old Lloyd Duane Bogle, dead from a gunshot wound to the head. 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. A Warner Bros. Tracing that family's tree led investigators to suspect Gould, a man born and raised in Great Falls. Kadner said that its possible that at the time of the murders, investigators might not have recognized the sexual assault or that they didnt want that publicly disclosed. He was found a week later working at a ranch atArrow Creek about 60 miles away. Want to keep up on crime news in Great Falls and northcentral Montana and get access to exclusive content? 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. Investigators turned to genetic genealogy in 2018, after the authorities arrested Joseph James DeAngelo, known as the Golden State Killer, and accused him of committing 13 murders and nearly 50 rapes that terrorized California in the 1970s and 80s. The next day, three kids found Bogles dead body, with a gunshot wound to the head, face down next to his vehicle. 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. A day later, a county road worker found Kalitzke's body on Vineyard Road north of Great Falls. Lloyd Duane Bogle,18, and Patricia Kalitzke,16, were last seen at Petes Drive-In on Jan. 2, 1956. When Matteson left CCSO, he had resigned himself to the idea that the case would remain unsolved. Her father, who died in 2013, had idolized Duane, as a boy, she said. The lab found a sperm cell that did not belong to Bogle, officers said. It was such a big case, Cascade County Sheriffs Office lead investigator Sgt. Gould was born Aug. 23, 1927,and died May 31, 2007 before investigators connected him to the Kalitzke-Bogle homicide. (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's family home was located a little over a mile from where Kalitzke lived, and he was known to ride horses throughout the area. Funeral Home Services for Chad are being provided by Schnider Funeral Home. GREAT FALLS, Mont. "Our duty is to make sure that we solve these cases.". "I think if you just look at the circumstances," Kadner said. Sergeant Kadner said he believed it was the oldest homicide case in the United States to be solved with genetic genealogy, which uses DNA from crime scenes to identify the relatives of potential suspects and eventually the suspects themselves. He was face down, and had been shot in the back of the head. Gould did not have a known criminal history and was not interviewed during the murder investigation. 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. Your effort and contribution in providing this feedback is much Both were shot in the head. Technology has led investigators to conclude thatKenneth Gould killed teens Patricia Kalitzke andDuane Bogle in 1956. Goulds family home at the time of the homicides was a little over a mile (1.6 kilometers) from where Kalitzke lived. Beard, stephen.beard@indystar.com, A double homicide of two teens in Montana. His hands had been tied behind his back with his own belt. Kenneth Gould, who has been identified as the suspect in the 1956 killings of two teenagers in Great Falls, Mont., died in 2007. Kadner had to reach out to Goulds children and ask for DNA samples to verify the match. 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 had no known criminal history before or after the killings. If you have reason to believe that any of the information contained on this site is inaccurate, please contact the Great Falls Municipal Court 406-771-1380 during normal Court hours. 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. Officers investigated for years, but they were unable to make an arrest. The investigation involved painstaking research into a long-ago crime that had once generated national media attention. When now-retired CCSO detective Phil Matteson started working in the evidence room in 1988, the Kalitzke-Bogle homicide evidence was there. 1 / 2 Patricia Kalitzke, 16, and Duane Bogle, 18. When they didnt come home that night, their families assumed they had eloped, Sergeant Kadner said. "Because it was all theories up to that point we finally had a match and we had a name. "A lot of different people hada turn at this, and we just weren't able to take it to conclusion," he said. While stationed at Malmstrom, he became "smitten" with Kalitzke, according to Kadner. 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. "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.". Bogle was a Malmstrom Air Force Base Airman from Waco, Texas. 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. Reach her at trosenbaum@greatfallstribune.com or 406-791-1490. 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. It was uploaded to voluntary genealogical databases, where they discovered a possible family connection leading investigators to Gould. 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. The case eventually went cold. Two popular kids who were essentially gunned down in a Lovers Lane situation, said Kadner. Investigators poured their heart and soul into this case. Kadner said when Gould was 25, he married a 16-year-old, which was the same age as Kalitzke when she was murdered. The petitioner was represented by Ms. Julia W. Swingley. According to his death certificate, Goulddied in Oregon County, Mo. The teenagers were last seen at Petes Drive-In restaurant in Great Falls, just after 9 p.m. on Jan. 2, 1956. 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,. The process tested and uploaded DNA from unknown sources. Before moving to Missouri in 1967, Gould had lived with his wife and children in the Great Falls area around the time of the murders, according to the Tribune. The two had even begun talking about marriage. 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. After 65 years, a grisly double murder case of two teenagers in Great Falls, Montana, was solved with DNA evidence, according to investigators. Beginning in 2012, Sergeant Jon Kadner led the investigation to solve the murders. Kalitzke was a junior at Great Falls High School, and Bogle was an airman at Malmstrom Air Force Base 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. Through the use of DNA testing unavailable at the time of the killings and decades ofinvestigation, CCSO has concluded that Great Falls native Kenneth Gould, now deceased, more than likely committed the murders. The case broke when the 2018 arrest of Joseph James DeAngelo Jr., the Golden State Killer, was accomplished through the use of forensic genealogy. In 1960, Gould's 4-year-old daughter, born a month before the murders, died after a short illness. Investigators have closed the case after using forensic genealogy to identify Kenneth Gould, who is now deceased, as having likely committed the murders. Patricia Kalitzke, 16, and her boyfriend Duane Bogle, 18, were both shot in the head and murdered in Great Falls, Montana back in 1956; . Respondents. 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. The new method has led to the identification of dozens of suspects in cold cases. Kalitzke was a junior at Great Falls High School. Cascade County Sheriff's Office. Law enforcement did not connect Gould to any other cases or crimes. They did not return to Montana. With the help of partnering labs, forensic genealogists are able to use preserved samples to create a DNA profile of the culprit and then use that profile to search public databases for any potential matches. hide caption. That sample was uploaded to a open-source database of DNA samples, which are most often used by people researching their family trees. Detective Sgt. Detective Sgt. Investigators did not find any connections between Gould and the victims. Jon Kadner, head of detectives for CCSO. Investigators could not uncover any connection between him and the victims. Law enforcement compared the sample to other men, ruling them out one by one. When Matteson retired, he said he didnt believe the case would be solved. The case broke when the 2018 arrest of Joseph James DeAngelo Jr., the Golden State Killer, was accomplished through the use of forensic genealogy. As more time went by, about 35 suspects came and went. 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. They did not return to Montana. Kalitzke was a junior at Great Falls High School, and Bogle was an airman at Malmstrom Air Force Base from Waco, Texas. One such investigator was Detective Sgt. Kenneth Gould, who died in 2007, was determined to be . According to the Great Falls Tribune, Gould was 24when he married 16-year-old Lulubelle Brown in 1952. Criminal justice reporter Traci Rosenbaum reports on law enforcement issues for the Tribune. (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. It worked: DNA testing led investigators to a man named Kenneth Gould. The investigations were a follow-up to a sting operation during the Montana State Fair this summer. Investigators at the Cascade County Sheriffs Office continued working the case and using forensic genetic genealogy have identified the man they believe was the likely perpetrator, though he too is now deceased. d/b/a SEVEN BAR HEART & CATTLE COMPANY. Over the next half century, detectives investigated about 35 potential suspects, including James (Whitey) Bulger, the notorious South Boston mobster who was convicted in 2013 of participating in 11 murders. He had married another 16-year-old girl in 1952 and eventually had five children. About a month after the murder, he and his family left the area and moved to Tracy, then Geraldine, then Hamilton and eventually out of state, never to return to Montana. And it was not for lack of trying: Early on in the case, investigators followed numerous leads, but none of them panned out. For decades, the Cascade County Sheriff's Office continued to work on it, with multiple detectives attempting to make progress over the years. 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. They asked for the family's help in either proving or disproving that Gould was the man responsible and the family complied. But no one was ever charged, and the case went cold. Sgt. "You had two young, vibrant individuals that were well-liked among their peer groupinvestigators poured their heart and soul into this case. 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. Great Falls. A lot of different people had a turn at this, and we just werent able to take it to conclusion, he said. 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. Create a free profile to get unlimited access to exclusive videos, breaking news, sweepstakes, and more! Anyone who uses information contained in this list to commit a criminal act against another person is subject to criminal prosecution. Kalitzke was born in Great Falls and was a junior at Great Falls High School when she was killed. 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. 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. Both were shot in the head. Did you encounter any technical issues? With the killer finally identified, Kadner was able to reach out to the victims' surviving relatives and deliver the closure that had taken more than 60 years to procure. 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. In 2019, through a company called Bode Technology, detectives began coordinating to have more testing done on the semen collected from Pattys body. 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