Patricia Kalitzke, 16, and her boyfriend Lloyd Duane Bogle, 18,. After the murders, Gould sold his property near the town of Tracy. Mr. Gould, who was 29 in 1956, lived just over a mile from Ms. Kalitzkes house and kept horses about 600 yards from the house where she had grown up, Sergeant Kadner said. That sample had been preserved in an evidence vault for six decades. Gould was born Aug. 23, 1927, and died May 31, 2007 before investigators connected him. When they didnt come home that night, their families assumed they had eloped, Sergeant Kadner said. Bogle's hands were bound behind his back with his own belt. Montana woman who killed ex-husband after she said he attempted rape has charges cleared, Your California Privacy Rights/Privacy Policy. Investigators have closed the case after using forensic genealogy to identify Kenneth Gould, who is now deceased, as having likely committed the murders. 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. It worked: DNA testing led investigators to a man named Kenneth Gould. According to the Great Falls Tribune, Gould was 24when he married 16-year-old Lulubelle Brown in 1952. As more time went by, about 35 suspects came and went. Traci Rosenbaum/USA Today Network via Reuters Co. 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.. Both were shot in the head. Newspaper clippings from the investigative file into the 1956 murders of Duane Bogle, 18, and Patricia Kalitzke, 16, in Great Falls, Mont. 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. He was lying face down beside his car with his hands tied behind his back and two gunshots to the head. Kalitzke was born in Great Falls and was a junior at Great Falls High School when she was killed. 0:00. Want to keep up on crime news in Great Falls and northcentral Montana and get access to exclusive content? Officers kept working the case because of the circumstances, Kadner said. 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. Det. Kadner said that autopsy photos and reports indicated she had multiple blunt force trauma injuries, that the states medical examiner said were consistent with sexual assault or a struggle. Law enforcement compared the sample to other men, ruling them out one by one. The Cascade County Sheriffs Office concluded Kenneth Gould who died in 2007 more than likely killed Patricia Kalitzke, 16, and Duane Bogle, 18. Gould, born and raised in Great Falls, lived there with his wife and children in 1956, a little over a mile from Kalitzke. Tracing that family's tree led investigators to suspect Gould, a man born and raised in Great Falls. "Because it was all theories up to that point we finally had a match and we had a name. The sample was compatible to three people in the database and CCSO investigators contacted those family members for interviews and DNA samples. Now that the authorities have a suspect, it conclusively allows to us to stop wondering, she said. 3:59 AM EDT, Thu June 10, 2021. It was later determined that Gould and Kalitzke grew up near each other. Investigators did not find any connections between Gould and the victims. The office identified Kenneth Gould, a horse trainer who died in 2007 at age 79, as the "likely suspect" who had shot and killed Bogle, 18, and Kalitzke, 16, more than 65 years ago. Have a news tip for the Tribune? Ms. Kalitzkes sister has advanced dementia, Sergeant Kadner said. The petitioner was represented by Ms. Julia W. Swingley. Kadner had to reach out to Goulds children and ask for DNA samples to verify the match. Carol was born on March 2, 1940 in . We're essentially going backwards. 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. According to his death certificate, Goulddied in Oregon County, Mo. His family lived in the Montana communities of Geraldine and Hamilton before moving to Missouri in 1967. United States. All Rights Reserved. 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. Great Falls, Montana. Did you encounter any technical issues? James J. They were able to upload the sample to voluntary genealogical databases, where they discovered a possible familial connection. Gould did not have a known criminal history and was not interviewed during the murder investigation. Joseph James DeAngelo Jr. as the Golden State Killer. Law enforcement compared the sample to other men, ruling them out one by one. "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. He never returned to Montana, even to visit his family, Sergeant Kadner said. Kenneth H. Gould EXETER - Kenneth Hamilton Gould, a resident of Riverwoods in Exeter, died on Nov. 23, 2019, after a brief illness. Click here. 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. A lot of different people had a turn at this, and we just werent able to take it to conclusion, he said. The murders have gone unsolved until now. 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. Matteson said giving the surviving family answers was the most important part for him, and he expressed appreciation for every investigator's hard work going back to 1956. They both loved dancing and music, and he was instantly smitten with Patty when they met in December 1955, Sergeant Kadner said. 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. We're starting with a distant relative and trying to work back toward our unknown sample.". During a walk near the Sun River, they found 18-year-old Lloyd Duane Bogle, dead from a gunshot wound to the head. On Jan. 3, 1956, three boys hiking along the Sun River near Wadsworth Park northwest of Great Falls found Bogle dead near his car. He began working with BODE Technology to generate a new DNA sample from the original sample and in 2019, a sample was successfully created, he said. This thread is archived He would have been about 29 when the murders occurred. Investigators initially feared that Ms. Kalitzke had been kidnapped. In 1960, Gould's 4-year-old daughter, born a month before the murders, died after a short illness. 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. Create a free profile to get unlimited access to exclusive videos, breaking news, sweepstakes, and more! Kenneth Gould, who died in 2007, was determined to be . Kadner said. 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. The case eventually went cold. 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. He was known to ride horses through the area, officials said. The new method has led to the identification of dozens of suspects in cold cases. . Kalitzkes body was found several miles away on Vinyard Road on Jan. 4. He had married another 16-year-old girl in 1952 and eventually had five children. The car was still running and the headlights were still on. They say Kenneth Gould is the likely suspect in the 1956. Link your TV provider to stream full episodes and live TV. Phil Matteson, a now-retired detective with the sheriff's office, sent that sample to a local lab for testing in 2001, and the team there identified sperm that did not belong to Bogle, her boyfriend, the paper reports. 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. 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 a 65-year-old cold case. 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 did not find any connections between Gould and the victims. A double homicide of two teens in Montanahas been solved after more than 60 yearsthanks to forensic genealogy. Dropped with prejudice: Montana woman who killed ex-husband after she said he attempted rape has charges cleared. in 1956 two lovers (Duane Bogle, 18, and Patricia Kalitzke, 16) were fatally shot to death in Montana. Investigators did not find any connections between Gould and the victims. Three people were found to be genetically compatible, and included in that trio was a link to Gould. They poured their heart and souls into that case, and it just made you realize how hard investigators had worked, he said. Beginning in 2012, Sergeant Jon Kadner led the investigation to solve the murders. Newspaper headlines described the teenagers as lovers lane slaying victims and recalled a wide search for a brutal killer.. The only way to prove his guilt or his innocence was to test the DNA of his remaining relatives. Over the years, investigators had about 35 people of interest in the case, including another airman at Malmstrom Air Force Base, where Bogle was also stationed, according to Sgt. It had been theorized that the murders were committed byEdward Wayne Edwards, who was convicted of similar double murders in Ohio and Wisconsin, but DNA evidence has proved that Edwards was not the killer, according to the Cascade County Sheriffs Office. 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. Create your free profile and get access to exclusive content. 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. Goulds family home at the time of the homicides was a little over a mile (1.6 kilometers) from where Kalitzke lived. 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