Detective Sgt. Jon Kadner, who took over the case in 2012, said it was the oldest case he could find nationwide that has been solved using forensic genea.
GREAT FALLS, Mont.
DNA evidence preserved after a 1956 double homicide and the use of forensic genealogy have helped a Montana sheriff’s office close the books on the 65-year-old cold case, officials said.
Investigators with the Cascade County Sheriff’s Office concluded that Kenneth Gould who died in Oregon County, Missouri, in 2007 more than likely killed Patricia Kalitzke, 16, and Duane Bogle, 18, the Great Falls (Mont.) Tribune reported. Both had been shot in the head.
Detective Sgt. Jon Kadner, who took over the case in 2012, said Tuesday that it was the oldest case he could find nationwide that had been solved using forensic genealogy, which searches commercial DNA databases to find familial matches to the DNA of a crime suspect.