For more than half a century the banker's box containing details of a young couple's heartbreaking final hours on this Earth gathered dust.
torontosun.com
Oct 1 2023
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''For more than half a century, the banker’s box containing details of a young couple’s heartbreaking final hours on this Earth gathered dust.''
'That box in Great Falls, Mont., had plenty of company in police department storage rooms across the U.S. and Canada.'
'Duane Bogle was discovered face down in his car on Jan. 3, 1956. He had been shot in the head. His girlfriend, Patty Kalitzke, was found the next day. She had been sexually assaulted, then shot to death.'
''The decades passed until 2001, when a small amount of sperm was located on a vaginal sample from Kalitzke. Serial killer Edward Wayne Edwards and Boston mob boss “Whitey” Bulger were ruled out.
Then using genetic genealogy, they made a link to the children of Kenneth Gould, who died in 2007. He was the killer.
Gould is the oldest case cleared using genetic genealogy — technology that rose to prominence with the arrest of the Golden State Killer. It uses DNA websites like Ancestry.com and 23andMe to find the killer’s family.''
Now, genealogist Marc McDermott has established a
database for cold cases cleared using information provided by the Forensic Genetic Genealogy Project led by Dr. Tracey Dowdeswell of Queen’s University.
“We had the data, but it was all one giant Excel sheet. I took it and made it a website and added categories like state or area, the earliest cases and the most recent,” McDermott said. “But all the real work was done by Tracey.
“These are all solved cases where law enforcement has acknowledged genetic genealogy has played a role in clearing them.”
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Using genetic genealogy, cops made a link to the children of Kenneth Gould, who died in 2007. He was the killer.
