The 1956 Kalitzke-Bogle Double Murder Case
First, we would like to congratulate Sergeant Kadner and the Cascade County Sheriffs Department for solving one of the oldest cold cases in the country! Limitations in technology and information at the time it happened made it difficult to get suspects, but that didn’t deter the Sheriff’s Department. Over the last 65 years, the Cascade County Sheriff’s Department tracked every lead and reviewed the case periodically when new technology made it possible to find answers. With new information came the need for more research, and we at The History Museum/Cascade County Historical Society Archives were happy to have been of service. Below we share a brief overview of the case and what resources Sgt. Kadner accessed from the Archives.
Great Falls Tribune Thursday, January 5, 1956
1956
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. He was lying face down beside his car with his hands tied behind his back and two gunshots to the head. His date, 16-year-old Patricia Kalitzke was missing. Three boys had been hiking along the Sun River when they came across Bogle’s car and him. They alerted the police immediately.
The next afternoon, Patricia Kalitzke’s body was found at the bottom of a 20-foot embankment on a country road, currently known as Vineyard Road. She had been raped and shot in the head as well. Every possible lead was followed and every person that could be questioned was. Every lead fizzled out, no new evidence was found, and no motive made itself known. The case remained unsolved for 65 years.
First Image: Three young men who found Lloyd Bogle’s body interviewed. Second image: Patricia Kalitzke’s body found at the bottom of an embankment. Photographs by Tribune Photographer Ralph Pomnchowski. These and other detailed crime scene photographs by Pomnchowski are available within accession number 2020.062
2012
Sgt. Kadner was given the 1956 cold case in 2012. Kadner reviewed newspapers, aerial photos, area histories, and city directories from the Archives to gather information.
Aerial Photograph of Wadsworth Park, 1957. This photograph shows a difference in the roads near the Sun River, which have changed over time due to flooding. Compare this image with a present-day Google satellite image below, and note the roads above the third bend in the Sun River from the right side of the images:
We Called Them Back, a history of the “Old Wilson Post Office County” gave names to farms close to where Patricia was found. This copy of the book in the Archives was used Sgt. Kadner’s investigation.
Leads on names from the We Called Them Back were interrupted by a DNA breakthrough in 2019 that gave investigators their suspect: Kenneth Gould. Newspapers articles and city directories from the Archives proved that Kenneth Gould was in the area at the time of the murders.
Clipping from Great Falls Tribune May 25, 1952
Page from Great Falls City Directory, 1956
On June 8, 2021, KRTV reported that the cold case had finally been solved.
Here’s the announcement from his investigation:
https://www.krtv.com/news/cold-case-1956-murder-of-two-people-in-great-falls-finally-solved
-Megan Sanford, Archives Administrator
We are pleased to provide resources for a wide variety of researches. The Archives are a free resource to the public and available by appointment. Learn more about the Archives’ resources here: