This Is The Oldest Cold Case Solved From DNA

Despite numerous leads in the extensive investigation that followed, nothing substantial turned up and the case went cold. KIRO 7 reported that after the killings three dozen suspects were questioned, including infamous gangster James "Whitey" Bulger, but Gould was never questioned nor named a suspect. 

Local authorities continued working the case on and off over the decades, and in 2012 it was assigned to Detective Jon Kadner, according to NPR. Kadner modernized the investigation, including the painstaking digitization of all the case files. He focused on a swab of sperm taken from Kalitzke's body which was not Bogle's. Kadner set out to find who the sperm came from. 

The growing field of forensic genealogy allows for a DNA profile to be created and compared within public databases to find relatives of a culprit, even if they never provided a DNA sample to the authorities. The testing of the sperm pointed officials toward Gould, and then officials had the unenviable task of contacting Gould's family to see if they would help possibly prove his guilt in a rape and double murder case. 

They complied, and Gould was deemed the rapist and killer more than six decades after his crime and 14 years after his death. Too late for justice, but another step in technology that can help solve long-standing mysteries.

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