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. 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. Kadner had to reach out to Goulds children and ask for DNA samples to verify the match. And it was not for lack of trying: Early on in the case, investigators followed numerous leads, but none of them panned out. In most cases, those profiles can end up linking to distant relatives of the culprit say, a second or third cousin. After the murders, his family eventually moved to 1967 and did not return to Montana. All Rights Reserved. Kenneth Gould," Kadner . Both were shot in the head. Investigators could not uncover any connection between him and the victims. Sgt. One such investigator was Detective Sgt. Bogle's hands were bound behind his back with his own belt. "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.". After the murders, Gould sold his property in Tracy. The case eventually went cold. As a subscriber, you have 10 gift articles to give each month. Now, the sheriff's office is considering forming a cold case task force, as other law enforcement agencies have done. They poured their heart and souls into that case, and it just made you realize how hard investigators had worked, he said. She had been shot in the head and had injuries that were consistent with a struggle or a sexual assault, Sergeant Kadner said. 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. Officers kept working the case because of the circumstances, Kadner said. Gould did not have a known criminal history and was not interviewed during the murder investigation. Both were shot in the head. Kenneth Gould Montana; Kenneth Gould . GREAT FALLS, Mont. Did you encounter any technical issues? 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. "My first impression was that the only way we're gonna ever solve this is through the use of DNA," Kadner said. Gould's name did appear in the Great Falls Tribune a few times. Detective Sgt. Born on Oct. 18, 1938, he was a lifelong resident of New. After the murders, Gould sold his property near the town of Tracy. 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,. Thats when we really started looking at what evidence we had, and if we could potentially do the same thing, Sergeant Kadner said. Gould was born Aug. 23, 1927, and died May 31, 2007 before investigators connected him. 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. A DNA profile of a suspect in 2001 was developed using forensic evidence preserved from Kalitzkes 1956 autopsy, Kadner said. The two had even begun talking about marriage. The sample was compatible to three people in the database and CCSO investigators contacted those family members for interviews and DNA samples. 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. He would have been 29 years old when he committed the lover's lane murders. It was uploaded to voluntary genealogical databases, where they discovered a possible family connection leading investigators to Gould. 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. He died in 2007 and was cremated, Sgt. He never returned to Montana, even to visit his family, Sergeant Kadner said. ", "Quite frankly, that's our duty," said Sheriff Jesse Slaughter. It was uploaded to voluntary genealogical databases, where they discovered a possible family connection leading investigators to Gould. Detective Sgt. GREGORY M. GOULD and AIMEE V. HACHIGIAN-GOULD. It was the first high-profile case to be cracked with genetic genealogy. 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. 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. On Jan. 3, 1956, three boys hiking along the Sun River near Wadsworth Park northwest of Great Falls found Bogle dead near his car. "That was just the process, and luckily it was retained in evidence all these years," said Kadner. Although Gould died in 2007 and his body was cremated, his children consented to submitting DNA samples resulting in a match. Copyright 2021 Scripps Media, Inc. All rights reserved. "Whitey". They leave a little bit of themselves, from what I've seen. James J. Two Montana Sweethearts Were Fatally Shot in 1956. 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. Tracing thatfamily's tree led investigators to suspect Gould, a man born and raised in Great Falls. In the following years, law enforcement compared the DNA sample to about 35 other men, including gangster James Joseph Whitey Bulger Jr. This is as good as were ever going to get on a case like this, Slaughter said. How 'genetic genealogy' uncovered an Indiana killer. A day later, a county road worker found Kalitzkes body north of Great Falls. 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. 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. That case sped the CCSO effort to use the same method in an attempt to solve the Bogle and Kalitzke murders, Kadner said. 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 lived in Hamilton from 1958 until 1967 when they moved to Alton, Missouri. Tracing thatfamily's tree led investigators to suspect Gould, a man born and raised in Great Falls. 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. 2023 Cable News Network. 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. 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. Traci Rosenbaum/The Great Falls Tribune, via Associated Press. According to his death certificate, Goulddied in Oregon County, Mo. Great Falls - Carol Lou Gould, 80, of Great Falls, passed away peacefully on Sunday, September 13, 2020. At. All rights reserved. The new method has led to the identification of dozens of suspects in cold cases. CNN Sans & 2016 Cable News Network. Kadner said the DNA was linked to Kenneth Gould, who died in 2007 and his body was cremated. Gould did not have a criminal history and was not considered a suspect during the initial investigation, the Tribune report said. Cold Case Closed: the 1956 murder of two young people in Great Falls. In 2019, Cascade County detectives had Bode Technology perform additional DNA testing on the evidence found on Kalitzkes body. His family lived in Geraldine and Hamilton before moving to Missouri in 1967. Goulds family home at the time of the homicides was a little over a mile (1.6 kilometers) from where Kalitzke lived. Gould is accused in two deaths from 1956. 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. "Give them some closure.". Law enforcement compared the sample to other men, ruling them out one by one. The office identified Kenneth Gould, a horse trainer who died in 2007, as the "likely suspect" who had. The murders have gone unsolved until now. Traci Rosenbaum/USA Today Network via Reuters Co. The swab was standard procedure for autopsies in 1956. As more time went by, about 35 suspects came and went. Three people were found to be genetically compatible, and included in that trio was a link to Gould. 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. "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," said Kadner. "A lot of different people hada turn at this, and we just weren't able to take it to conclusion," he said. Joseph James DeAngelo Jr. as the Golden State Killer. 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. 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. 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