They leave a little bit of themselves, from what Ive seen., Clippings from the Great Falls Tribune that are displayed on Tuesday, June 8, 2021, in Great Falls, Mont., were part of the Cascade County Sheriff's Office investigative file into the 1956 murders of Patricia Kalitzke, 16, and Duane Bogle, 18, northwest of Great Falls. It was a bittersweet revelation: They were grateful for answers, but for many of the older people in the family, it was a struggle to have those wounds reopened. Cold Case: 1956 murder of two people in Great Falls finally solved At the time of the murders, Gould lived about a mile from Patty and worked corralling horses just blocks from her residence on. For over six decades, the case of a double murder of two teenagers in Great Falls, Montana has been cold. Gould was born Aug. 23, 1927, and died May 31, 2007 before investigators connected him. As more time went by, about 35 suspects came and went. 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. 2023 Cable News Network. Beard, stephen.beard@indystar.com, A double homicide of two teens in Montana. 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. So if I was asked is this great modern technology a great thing, I would say, on balance, yes, for my generation, a generation once removed. Obviously, I cant put the gun in his hand, Sergeant Kadner said. 57 Indigenous people are missing in Montana alone. Kadner said. Kalitzkes body was found several miles away on Vinyard Road on Jan. 4. He was known to ride horses through the area, officials said. 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 lab found a sperm cell that did not belong to Bogle, officers said. Investigators with the Cascade County Sheriff's Office concluded Kenneth Gould who died in Oregon County, Missouri, in 2007 [] Although Gould died in 2007 and his body was cremated, his children consented to submitting DNA samples resulting in a match. Just over a month after the killings, Gould sold the family property and moved to Tracy southeast of Great Falls, and in July he and his family were living in Geraldine. The Cascade County Sheriffs Office concluded Kenneth Gould who died in 2007 more than likely killed Patricia Kalitzke, 16, and Duane Bogle, 18. This thread is archived On the evening of January 2nd, Kalitzke, who was a junior at Great Falls High School, and Bogle, a Malmstrom airman, ventured to a spot west of Great Falls near Wadsworth Park along the Sun River. While stationed at Malmstrom, he became "smitten" with Kalitzke, according to Kadner. GREAT FALLS The Cascade County Sheriff's Office recently announced that they had closed a 65-year-old "cold case" double-murder. After the murders, Gould sold his property in Tracy. Great Falls native Kenneth Gould has been linked to the Jan. 2, 1956, murder of Bogle, 18, and the rape and murder of Kalitzke, his 16-year-old girlfriend. They leave a little bit of themselves, from what I've seen. Kadner believes it is the oldest murder case to be solved with this kind of genetic review. A DNA profile of a suspect in 2001 was developed using forensic evidence preserved from Kalitzkes 1956 autopsy, Kadner said. It was uploaded to voluntary genealogical databases, where they discovered a possible family connection leading investigators to Gould. 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. 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. Tracing that family's tree led investigators to suspect Gould, a man born and raised in Great Falls. 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. Investigators poured their heart and soul into this case. Law enforcement compared the sample to other men, ruling them out one by one. He would have been about 29 when the murders occurred. Great Falls, Montana. Beginning in 2012, Sergeant Jon Kadner led the investigation to solve the murders. It was later determined that Gould and Kalitzke grew up near each other. Law enforcement did not connect Gould to any other cases or crimes. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed. Traci Rosenbaum/The Great Falls. 1 The trial in this matter was held in Great Falls, Montana, on September 14, 2004. They poured their heart and souls into that case, and it just made you realize how hard investigators had worked, he said. Investigators have determined that the killer was Kenneth Gould, a Great Falls native who grew up near one of the victims. 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. The Cascade County Sheriffs Office said it appeared to be the oldest homicide case in the United States to be solved with genetic genealogy. Discovery Company. The Case Was Just Solved. https://www.nytimes.com/2021/06/11/us/great-falls-montana-2007-homicide-dna.html. "Give them some closure.". The respondents were represented by Mr. L.D. Bogle, an airman hailing from Texas, and Kalitzke, a junior at Great Falls High School, had fallen for each other and were even considering marriage, the Tribune reports. 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. 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. 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. "My first impression was that the only way we're gonna ever solve this is through the use of DNA," Kadner said. Authorities say DNA evidence has tied the deaths to Kenneth Gould, a man who had lived in Alton, Missouri for several decades. After the killings, he left the area and was seen living in two other Montana towns before moving to Alton, Mo., in 1967. According to the Tribune, Gould would have been 29 years old when he killed Kalitzke and Bogle. Two Montana Sweethearts Were Fatally Shot in 1956. Criminal justice reporter Traci Rosenbaum reports on law enforcement issues for the Tribune. The case went cold for decades until 2001, when then-Detective Phil Matteson sent the slide of a vaginal swab gathered from Kalitzkes body to the Montana State Crime Lab for analysis. The investigation revealed semen in her body, indicating she had been raped. According to his death certificate, Goulddied in Oregon County, Mo. Give Light and the People Will Find Their Own Way. We're starting with a distant relative and trying to work back toward our unknown sample.". As more time went by, about 35 suspects came and went. Goulds family home at the time of the homicides was a little over a mile (1.6 kilometers) from where Kalitzke lived. In 2019, Cascade County detectives had Bode Technology perform additional DNA testing on the evidence found on Kalitzkes body. A Warner Bros. 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. According to the Great Falls Tribune, Gould was 24when he married 16-year-old Lulubelle Brown in 1952. 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.". His family lived in Geraldine and Hamilton before moving to Missouri in 1967. Ms. Kalitzke was a junior at Great Falls High School. 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. Sixty-five years after Kalitzke and Bogle's death, authorities said Kenneth Gourd was likely their killer. The lab found a sperm cell that did not belong to Bogle. The same thing happens to you, essentially.. A lot of different people had a turn at this, and we just werent able to take it to conclusion, he said. Dropped with prejudice: Montana woman who killed ex-husband after she said he attempted rape has charges cleared. Have a news tip for the Tribune? Det. "I think if you just look at 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. 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,. A lot of different people had a turn at this, and we just werent able to take it to conclusion, he said. "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. Cremation has been entrusted to Croxford Funeral Home. They were all ruled out as suspects. In 1960, Gould's 4-year-old daughter, born a month before the murders, died after a short illness. 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. Bogle was a Malmstrom Air Force Base Airman from Waco, Texas. Jon Kadner, who was assigned the case in 2012 his first cold case, he said during an interview with NPR. 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. GREAT FALLS, Mont. They asked for the family's help in either proving or disproving that Gould was the man responsible and the family complied. Investigators have closed the case after using forensic genealogy to identify Kenneth Gould, who is now deceased, as having likely committed the murders. (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. Tracing thatfamily's tree led investigators to suspect Gould, a man born and raised in Great Falls. On Tuesday, the Cascade County Sheriffs Office announced that it had cracked the case. Oxygen Insider is your all-access pass to never-before-seen content, free digital evidence kits, and much more. 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. 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. Police were able to find two children of Goulds who submitted DNA samples, which matched the evidence collected in 1956. 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. Search the Largest Online Newspaper Archive. 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. He would have been about 29 when the murders occurred. They built a family tree backward and then forward to develop (the link to) Kenneth Gould, Kadner said. His family lived in the Montana communities of Geraldine and Hamilton before moving to Missouri in 1967. According to his death certificate, Goulddied in Oregon County, Mo. 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. IE 11 is not supported. 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,. "That was just the process, and luckily it was retained in evidence all these years," said Kadner. The obituary was featured. His daughter basically said: You never know. 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. Kadner said when Gould was 25, he married a 16-year-old, which was the same age as Kalitzke when she was murdered. Her father, who died in 2013, had idolized Duane, as a boy, she said. The direct to consumer databases such as 23andMe are not open source. appreciated. And it was not for lack of trying: Early on in the case, investigators followed numerous leads, but none of them panned out. He was known to ride horses through the area, officials said. You had two young, vibrant individuals that were well-liked among their peer group, he said. Cascade County Sheriff's Office. That changed the whole dynamic of the case.". Officers kept working the case because of the circumstances, Kadner said. A day later, a county road worker found Kalitzkes body north of Great Falls. 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. "It felt great because for. His family lived in Geraldine and Hamilton before moving to Missouri in 1967. After the murders, Gould sold his property near the town of Tracy. She had also been shot in the head. You had two young, vibrant individuals that were well-liked among their peer group, he said. Follow Traci Rosenbaumon Twitter:@GFTrib_TRosenba. After the murders, his family eventually moved to 1967 and did not return to Montana. 2023 www.greatfallstribune.com. A lot of different people had a turn at this, and we just werent able to take it to conclusion, he said. Law enforcement compared the sample to other men, ruling them out one by one. Nybo. "I think if you just look at the circumstances," said Kadner. 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. Kalitzke was a junior at Great Falls High School, and Bogle was an airman at Malmstrom Air Force Base from Waco, Texas. Reach her at trosenbaum@greatfallstribune.com or 406-791-1490. 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. Kadner had to reach out to Goulds children and ask for DNA samples to verify the match. Investigators have closed the case after using forensic genealogy to identify Kenneth Gould, who is now deceased, as having likely committed the murders. Want to keep up on crime news in Great Falls and northcentral Montana and get access to exclusive content? His family lived in the Montana communities of Geraldine and Hamilton before moving to Missouri in 1967. 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. The new method has led to the identification of dozens of suspects in cold cases. In 2012, Kadner was assigned to the case. ", "Quite frankly, that's our duty," said Sheriff Jesse Slaughter. For an optimal experience visit our site on another browser. Newspaper headlines described the teenagers as lovers lane slaying victims and recalled a wide search for a brutal killer.. Patty Kalitzke, a. Gould did not have a known criminal history and was not interviewed during the murder investigation. 0:32. 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. 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.. Investigators have determined that the killer was Kenneth Gould, a Great Falls native who grew up near one of the victims. . The ignition switch, radio and headlights on his car were on, and the car was in gear. 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. We're essentially going backwards. Gould did not have a known criminal history and was never interviewed during the murder investigation. (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. Bogle's hands were bound behind his back with his own belt. The new method has led to the identification of dozens of suspects in cold cases. Traci Rosenbaum/USA Today Network via Reuters Co. Money and a camera were found in the car and the emergency brake was engaged, according to the Cascade County Sheriffs Office. 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