Found Deceased NY - Louise Pietrewicz, 38, Southold, 6 Oct 1966

SOUTHOLD, NY — After 51 years, a grim discovery shocked the community as the skeletal remains of a missing woman are believed to have been found buried 7-feet deep in the basement of a Southold home, police said.

According to Suffolk County Police, Suffolk County Police Homicide Squad detectives are investigating the circumstances surrounding the discovery of the remains at approximately 11:30 a.m. Monday.
During an investigation into the 1966 missing person case of Louise Pietrewicz, Southold Police detectives searched the basement of a home located on Lower Road, police said.

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Pietrewicz's boyfriend at the time of her disappearance, William Boken, the previous owner of the home, died in the early 1980s, police said. The basement had been searched and parts of it were dug up in 2013 with no results. The Suffolk Times reported that Boken's ex-wife Judith Terry directed police to the basement.

The remains were taken to the Office of the Suffolk County Medical Examiner to determine the identity and cause of death.

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Although the remains have not yet been positively identified, Gigante said indications lead police to believe that they belong to Pietrewicz.

At the time of her disappearance in 1966, he said, she had an "estranged relationship" with her husband and was involved with Boken, who, at the time, had been a Southold Town police officer for about six years.

After she went missing, although there was an investigation, police were "unable to locate her," Gigante said.

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Louise Pietrewicz was last seen alive on October 6, 1966. She had recently left her husband of 16 years, a prosperous farmer named Albin Pietrewicz, who was said to have been psychically and verbally abusive, and had relocated with her 11-year-old daughter, Sandy, to her family's farm in Sagaponack, New York.

At the time, Pietrewicz was romantically involved with William Boken, a Southold police officer who was married with a son and a second child on the way. Their respective spouses, Albin and Judith, both knew of the extramarital affair.

Shortly before she vanished, Pietrewicz had purchased two plane tickets for herself and her daughter so they could travel to Florida.
A day before her last sighting, on October 5, Pietrewicz emptied her bank account containing just over $1,770 and closed it.

Louise's sister Josephine last saw her riding away from Sagaponack in Boken's car, acting as if she did not want to be seen by anyone.
The next day, Boken resigned from the local police force after taking a three-day sick leave.

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Boken's wife divorced him before he died in the 1980s. News 12 couldn’t reach her for a comment about the discovery.

Pietrewicz’s surviving sibling, 93-year-old Leo Jasinski, got the news Monday night that his sister may have been found. He believes Boken's wife knew about the alleged murder, but didn't say anything about the dark secret until after she learned about her ex-husband’s death.

“Boken’s wife wouldn't give no information because she was afraid for her life,” said Jasinski.
Police did not confirm that Boken’s wife was the tipster.
Jasinski says he’s finally beginning to process the news of the discovery.
“It's a relief to find out that she's been found and that we can have a decent burial for her,” he says.
Authorities have taken DNA from Pietrewicz’s family and will soon determine the identity of the remains.

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The remains are believed to be those of Louise Pietrewicz, who was 38 in 1966 when she disappeared, leaving behind an 11-year-old daughter, The Suffolk Times reported.

Suffolk County homicide detectives on Monday dug up a burlap bag wrapped around the remains in the basement of a North Fork home that once belonged to Pietrewicz’s married boyfriend, the weekly paper reported. William Boken, a former Town of Southold cop, died in 1982. He was the prime suspect in Pietrewicz's disappearance.

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Sandy Blampied remembers the last time she saw her mom, Louise Pietrewicz. It was 51 years ago, in October 1966. Blampied was 12 and she was headed off to school in Bridgehampton, Long Island.

“I gave her a hug and a kiss, and she said, ‘I’ll see you later,’” Blampied recalls. But when nighttime came around, and her mom wasn’t there, Blampied knew something bad had happened to her. “She would have never left me,” Blampied said.

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On Monday, Suffolk County police called. They wanted a DNA sample from Blampied, 63, right away. Investigators, using ground-penetrating sonar, had dug up a woman’s remains in a burlap bag, buried seven feet deep under the basement floor of a house in Southold, on Long Island’s North Shore. Pietrewicz’s boyfriend at the time of her disappearance, William Boken, had lived in that house.

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Blampied called the Suffolk medical examiner Friday. The office said it’s going to be weeks before they know for sure. “My stomach is churning,” Blampied said. “Maybe it’s almost over. Then she can finally come home and find some peace.”

Blampied is convinced that Boken, now deceased, who was a cop in Southold, Long Island, killed her mother. “He (Boken) beat his ex-wife to a pulp and I’m sure he beat my mother to a pulp. He was probably the last person who saw her alive,” Blampied said.

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Southold detectives say it was the work of a local newspaper that prompted them to reopen the case of Louise Pietrewicz, who was raising an 11-year-old girl when she vanished without a trace in late 1966.
Investigators are now probing the circumstances surrounding the discovery of the remains and medical examiners will determine a cause of death. DNA testing is pending to confirm they are, in fact, Pietrewicz’s bones.
According to sources, detectives began digging up the soil basement of a home in Southold last week but found no evidence of human remains.
However, the Suffolk Times reports investigators spoke with “some people involved” and then dug deeper. After going down some seven feet, they unearthed a full female skeleton on Monday. The case is now being treated as a homicide.

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The Suffolk County Medical Examiner says the remains found buried in the basement of the home in Southold last month were that of 38-year-old Louise Pietrewicz.
SOUTHOLD — Skeletal remains found on Long Island have been positively identified as that of a woman who went missing in 1966.

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Remi_Aventura said:

I'm happy her daughter got to find out what her heart already knew: that her mother would never "just leave" her.

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Remi_Aventura said:

I'm happy her daughter got to find out what her heart already knew: that her mother would never "just leave" her.

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