She said, Im coming home. I said, Is everything alright? She said, No, Im coming home and Ill see you soon I cant talk right now. She told her brother she loved him and she had to go. [25], In 2017, Gerow's and Van Reeth's cases were featured on the second episode of Who Killed Jane Doe? Gerow had left New Hampshire with him when she was 20 years old, according to an Associated Press article. Someone knows more about Gerows disappearance than the police or her brother. * April 8, 1981: the body of an unidentified woman is found in Tuscon, Ariz., with obvious signs. Sentencing is based on a number of factors and to a lay jury the greater the sentence, the more serious the crime. [9] After a 2012 exhumation of the body, the victim's face was digitally reconstructed after her skull was examined via a CT scan. Kalhauser was accused of shooting Renk three times in the face and neck. It was nasty. And on August 10, 1995, she never showed up for work. Meanwhile, John Joseph Kalhauser, who was arrested here in September on fugitive and forgery charges, remains under suspicion in the Aug. 10 disappearance of his wife, Diane Van . He fled to avoid a trial and relocated to Arizona. Eventually, the investigation led the police to conclude that the defendant's story concerning his whereabouts was unsupported. He is sentenced to 26 years in prison. At the time, she was dating a twenty-six-year-old man by the name of John Kalhauser, known as Jack to his friends. A detective called him, acting cagey. But someone out there knows more. In 2020, a Special Investigations Unit was assigned to the case and in 2021, after DNA and genealogy tests, the remains were identified as Jones. 1. Please try again. Photo Courtesy of Patch.com . To see the dramatic recreation of the case, and how it was finally solved, tune into Who Killed Jane Doe? COMMONWEALTH vs. JOHN J. KALHAUSER. John Kalhauser refused to tell police who she was, leading investigators to realize that the photo had some significance. Join the New Times community and help support The death is considered a homicide. She had worked at a convenience store and as a bartender at an establishment in Dracut, Massachusetts, often frequented by bikers. There was significant corroborative evidence that the defendant possessed a .25 caliber-type weapon, the same type which was used to fire the shots at Renk. Impeachment by prior conviction. Source: The Suns archives, The Associated Press, The Tucson Citizen, court documents, and the Pima County Sheriffs Office. In 1971, he'd been found guilty of manslaughter after shooting a man named Paul Chapman to death. According to reports, she may have been stalked for some time prior to her disappearance. He has been in and out of trouble since he was a teen. He served only one before being released. John Kalhauser She had been well-kept. Anyone with any information about the disappearance of Jones is urged to call Mohave Countys Special Investigations Unit at 928-753-0753 ext. Among his possessions was a photo of a blonde woman. Or maybe he feared shed tell. Then, defense counsel requested an additional two minutes to confer with the defendant, because counsel had not realized that the question would include the mention of the length of the sentence. Brenda and Bill Gerow were foster children, Bill Gerow told the podcast Anatomy of Murder, but their favorite times were spent together. The photo was that of a woman in the possession of John Kalhauser. He also warned the petit jury not to read coverage of the case by the newspapers. So they began circulating that photo on social media in the Massachusetts area where Kalhauser had been living since everything in the Tucson area had long turned up a dead end. He was convicted of charges connected to that case in 1996, and sentenced to 26 years in prison. Kalhauser refused to identify her. When Jane Doe died in Arizona, John Kalhauser's pedigree as a homicidal psychopath had already been He was paroled after serving about a year of that sentence. The email address cannot be subscribed. John Kalhauser, Arizona Department of Corrections He also served time in an Arizona prison for the 1995 murder of his wife. The information was placed on social media. at 301, 490 N.E.2d 1166. The attacking vehicle broke off the pursuit when Renk got within one-half mile of his destination. Phoenix's independent source of Had matters ended there, there would be no problem. Kalhauser is sentenced to 7 years in prison, but ends up being paroled after about a year. The remains were positively identified as Eaton. He said he was from cold case and had a Jane Doe who might be Gerow. The use of records should be limited to establishing the identity of the witness with the person named in the record of conviction. Defense counsel never formally objected to the mention of the length of the sentence attached to the masked conviction. He thought that one day hed find her, that one day their children would play together. Kalhauser, who had been living in Arizona under an alias, was arrested about a month later when police learned his real identity and found out he was wanted in Massachusetts for allegedly shooting a man on the Lowell Connector in 1979. When Brenda Gerow left her home with John Kalhauser, she relocated to Tuscon, Arizona, with him. Meantime, Kalhauser has only been named a "person of interest" as the investigation continues. at 300, 490 N.E.2d 1166. A man named John Kalhauser was under investigation for the murder of his wife in 1995. The most recent tenant is Gladys Coughlin. Kalhauser has been named a person of interest in Gerow's case, but as of 2022 has not been charged. He was released in 2019, the Arizona Department of Corrections. After this occasion, she was never heard from again, although her family continued efforts to locate her. In December, Tyngsboro and Chelmsford police both posted the photograph on social media. He vanished before his next court appearance and spent 15 years on the run, living under the alias Donald J. Stecchi in Tucson, where he was arrested in 1995. He was then returned to Arizona, where he was convicted of his ex-wifes killing in 1999. Copyright 2023, Thomson Reuters. Kalhauser was serving four months in jail for beating up a nurse in Barnstable. * May 1999: Kalhauser is convicted of second-degree murder in Arizona in connection with his ex-wifes disappearance. [3] Body decomposition was not advanced enough to completely alter her fingerprints, which were eventually taken. May 18, 2001. Police said she was sexually. Renk took the Plain Street exit, determined to make it to the Lowell police station. If you know anything that can help detectives . Jane Does body appeared to be that of a woman between the ages of 18 and 20, and the skin was completely scorched. Police find a photograph of an unidentified woman among his possessions. As he drove past the Middlesex Community College lot, he noticed a car pull in behind him. That photograph remained in police custody until 2012, when Gerows then-unidentified body was exhumed so that police could use her skull to reconstruct an image of her face. 477, 480-481, 722 N.E.2d 984 (2000) (where counsel fails to state distinctly the matter to which he objects and the grounds of his objection, mere conversation with a judge does not constitute an objection). Last year, nearly 40 years after the northern Arizona discovery, an unidentified body that came to be known as "Valentine Sally" was identified as a 17-year-old girl but her killer remains unknown. While it has been repeatedly held that the statutory language of G.L. For 34 years, her crime was unsolved until DNA evidence and the latest technology helped crack the case. 349, 352-354, 680 N.E.2d 1166 (1997). But the judge permitted the sentence (seven years) to be included in the impeachment information. 4408. Brendas last phone call was from Arizona. And in May of 1979, when hed discovered that his former fiance was seeing Michael Renk, hed shot Renk three times, hitting him in the cheek, neck, and shoulder. . John Joseph Kalhauser However, we distinguish the fact of a conviction from its sentence. Suspected Serial Killer Kalhauser lived in Tyngsboro at the time. * May 1999: Kalhauser is convicted of second-degree murder in Arizona in connection with his ex-wifes disappearance. [9], The body of a white female was found in the desert on April 8, 1981, in Tucson, Pima County, Arizona, near Houghton Road and Interstate 10. [25], Kalhauser has past ties to Arizona and is believed to have murdered his wife, Diane Van Reeth, in 1995; he was living under an assumed name at the time of his wife's death. John Kalhauser, the victims former friend, is the man police believe committed the murder. at 300-301, 490 N.E.2d 1166. When the police investigated, Donald Stecchi was discovered to be John Joseph Kalhauser, wanted on an outstanding warrant pertaining to his indictment in Massachusetts for attempted murder. After his release, Kalhauser would tell a girlfriend that he'd killed Paul Chapman after Chapman made sexual advances toward him. For three decades, Pima County Investigators called a woman "Jane Doe", after she was found brutally murdered near the Pima County Fairgrounds in 1981. Get this Arizona Daily Star page for free from Thursday, September 21, 1995 s Star Tucson, Thursday, September 21, 1995 JVU u Money 4B . Through a recent grant, officials were able to complete a familial DNA search on the remains, matching members of a family in Missouri. Kalhauser was arrested and released on bail. Kalhauser has past ties to Arizona and is believed to have murdered his wife, Diane Van Reeth, in 1995; he was living under an assumed name at the time of his wife's death. Hed seemed nice when Bill had first met him. Serial Killer Database Wiki is a FANDOM Lifestyle Community. Following his indictment for the 1979 case, Kalhauser jumped bail and fled after being released from jail. They lived together for only a few months before he killed her. We decide that the trial judge was incorrect in ruling that the sentence imposed on the prior conviction could be read along with the conviction for impeachment purposes, but that the error did not result in a substantial risk of a miscarriage of justice. [4][24][27] The identification was made through comparison of the family's DNA compared to that of the victim. He tried filing missing persons reports, but was told she might not want to be found. Full Name He completed his sentence on May 8, 2019. According to reports, the car involved in her disappearance may have been a dark green early 1950s Dodge or Plymouth with a man, woman and two children inside. Kalhauser was arrested and released on bail. Investigators are still compiling as much information and proof in attempt to put Kalhauser away from Brenda's murder. As Renk looked to his left, with the vehicle three feet away, he saw an orange flash and heard a pop. He felt a bullet strike his chin that drew blood. TermsPrivacyDisclaimerCookiesDo Not Sell My Information, Begin typing to search, use arrow keys to navigate, use enter to select, Stay up-to-date with FindLaw's newsletter for legal professionals. [21] Kalhauser refused requests from the authorities to identify the woman in the photograph. Almost exactly 8 years after Paul Chapman was murdered, John Kalhauser tried to kill again. On Sept. 28, 2016, the remains of an unidentified young woman were found north of Dolan Springs near Highway 93. Other events in Kalhauser's criminal history includes being convicted for the 1974 murder of Paul Chapman and being indicted for the attempted murder of a man in 1979. IDs Who Killed Jane Doe recounts that the discovery of the body did nothing for a family who lived many miles away. His real name was John Joseph Kalhauser and he was wanted in Massachusetts on aggravated assault and attempted murder charges stemming from a 1979 incident; he had allegedly tried to kill his former girlfriend's new boyfriend. In 1986, under the name Donald Stecchi, Kalhauser married pretty 26-year-old Diane van Reeth, a native of Tucson. Jane Doe was buried without any identification being made. She most likely received the scratches as she was running through razor-sharp brush. Kalhauser was arrested and released on bail. The victim also had a noticeable white spot on one of her upper front teeth. Families of missing Christine Mustafa thank the volunteers searching for her at a landfill near Gila Bend. Acting upon Renk's report of the shooting, Lowell police found tire marks and broken window glass on the Lowell Connector, near where Renk claimed to have been shot. He claimed that he wouldn't own a .25 caliber pistol. A young woman's body is found in the Arizona desert, while over 2,500 miles away, a young man worries about his missing sister; an investigation into her death begins, and it will take decades to reveal her name and her killer. 617, 627, 255 N.E.2d 191, cert. . Kalhauser is serving a 20-year sentence in Arizona after being convicted of second-degree murder in connection with the death of his ex-wife. JOHN J. KALHAUSER No. She had been beaten and sexually assaulted before she was finally dumped. * December 1971: John Kalhauser, 17, of Tyngsboro, is convicted of manslaughter in connection with the shooting death of 52-year-old Ronald Chapman, of Nashua. Photo: Hamilton County Sheriff's Dept. The case went cold for many years, but one. [22] She had never explained the reason for her departure, although her family did believe she had "run off. This motion was, for the most part, denied. * August 1979: Kalhauser is indicted for armed assault with intent to murder in connection with the May 1979 shooting of Michael Renk on the Lowell Connector. Brenda's remains have been released to her family. Renk survived despite being shot in the chin, shoulder and back. [19] She had reportedly met Kalhauser while at a nightclub. In 1971, Kalhauser was charged with the shooting death of Paul Chapman, 52, of Nashua. He moved to Arizona under an assumed name and ID, becoming a supervisor in an electronics company. But shed say, Oh, you have to get to know him.'. There were no percipient witnesses to the assault on Renk, but the description of the white Monte Carlo from which the gunfire emanated corresponded to the vehicle that the defendant had rented on the evening in question. 116, 127, 364 N.E.2d 1264 (1977). 1. Officials discovered the woman in the picture, later determined to be Gerow, looked similar to a facial reconstruction of Jane Doe that had been done with the victims skull. Ariz. cold case cracked with help of Chelmsford, Tyngsboro police; Kalhauser makes deal for 20-year sentence; New Technology And An Old Photograph Lead to Breakthrough In 33-Year-Old Jane Doe Cold . Give Light and the People Will Find Their Own Way, INTERACTIVE RADAR: Tracking winter storm in Arizona. on Investigation Discovery. But something went very wrong with their marriage, with his cover, with something. In any event, the defendant raised no objection, and there is no risk, let alone a substantial one, of a miscarriage of justice. [12] The autopsy determined she died one-and-a-half to two days before her body was discovered and cause of death was strangulation by ligature. We sketch what facts the jury could have found. [2][3][11][13] When found, her body was in an advanced state of decomposition rendering her facially unrecognizable and her eye color undetermined. Kalhauser, then 17, spent a year in prison for the slaying before he was released. She ended up in Arizona with John Kalhauser. He vanished before his next court appearance and spent 15 years on the. It wasnt a very long call, he said. [23] Kalhauser currently is serving twenty years in Brenda was identified in June 2015 after a photograph was discovered in the possession of John Kalhauser, a killer who had ties to Arizona at the time of the murder . [9] Kalhauser was sentenced to 20 years in prison in Arizona following his conviction for second-degree murder. [3][12] Additional evidence at the scene may have been blown away due to winds. #HotSpot: @DiscoveryID's promo for #WhoKilledJaneDoe. When the manufacturing firm where Kalhauser worked discovered van Reeths IDs wrapped in red cloth and hidden behind a cabinet, they called police. Her murderer, be it Kalhauser or someone else, needs to be found and punished. His sister deserves justice. He hunkered down, hoping to stay out of sight, as the operator of the other car-which Renk noted to be a new white 1978 Chevrolet Monte Carlo-continued to pursue him. Kalhauser is sentenced to 7 years in prison, but ends up being paroled after about a year. According to Suitt, the posts did jog some memories, and those memories eventually led his department to identify Gerow. Kalhauser was given twenty years in Arizona in 1999, no chance of an early release, to be served concurrently with his time in Massachusetts leaving him with a release date of 2025. And then I got an envelope with turquoise in it from New Mexico. Shed mailed him a large choker and loose stones. In relatively short order, the operator of the other vehicle squeezed off four more rounds. Released on bail, the defendant fled to Arizona but was rearrested more than fifteen years later and brought to trial on the assault charges and several others in November, 1996. . It was also revealed that Kalhauser pled guilty to manslaughter at age 17 in the shooting death of a 52 . In late 2014, a photograph of a facial reconstruction of the victim was made public that led to Gerow's identification the next year. Get the latest updates in news, food, music and culture, and receive special offers direct to your inbox. There are subsidiary appellate issues concerning sufficiency of proof, other evidentiary rulings, and adequate performance of defense counsel. [4][19][22] Other events in Kalhauser's criminal history includes being convicted for the 1974 murder of Paul Chapman and being indicted for the attempted murder of a man in 1979. Despite their few years difference in age, they loved the same music: that same good old rock and roll. [9], In 1995, while "building a case" against Kalhauser for assault charges, a photograph of a young woman with light hair holding a bouquet was found in his possession. . Brenda Marie Gerow (February 18, 1960 - April 6, 1981), previously nicknamed as "Flower Girl," was discovered on April 8, 1981. In an effort to obtain her fingerprints, the victim's hands were removed from the body and sent to the FBI. Currently, John Kalhauser is serving time in prison. Sign up for Scary Mommy's daily newsletter for more stories from the trenches. We turn to the circumstances of the judge's ruling to test whether defense counsel adequately preserved the question for appeal. Investigators learned that Brenda Gerow had some sort of relationship with John Kalhauser. Since then, law enforcement and groups across the country had been working to identify the little girl. Past residents include Elizabeth Coughlin, Kevin Coughlin and Elizabeth Kalhauser. 2 Player of the Year, Lowell boys basketball team tops Malden in Division 1 prelim, High school roundup: Vinny D'Urso, Lowell Catholic blank Haverhill, 1-0, MVC boys basketball: Tewksbury's Ryan Cuvier named Div. I feel like I lost her three times, he said: once when she left, once when she died, and once when he found that Kalhauser (he believes) killed her. The Commonwealth's case against the defendant can be characterized as one in which the evidence pointed overwhelmingly to guilt. See Commonwealth v. Miranda, 22 Mass.App.Ct. Ultimately, the judge acquiesced to defense counsel's request, ruling that if the defendant testified, the prosecutor could impeach him with his prior conviction for a felony.. Human remains were found near Forest Service Road 418 near Flagstaff in 1995. He is in prison serving a sentence for killing his wife. Criminal Information Released on bail, the defendant fled to Arizona but was rearrested more than fifteen years later and brought to trial on the assault charges and several others in November, 1996. When a party uses a prior conviction to impeach a witness, that party is limited to establishing the identity of the witness as the person named in the record.1 If the witness answers in the negative or equivocates on the answer then the questioner can use the facts contained in the record of conviction to establish the identity of the witness as the person named in the record of conviction.2 Those facts, however, do not include the details of the conviction, e.g., the victim's name or circumstances surrounding the event. We thought there was enough there to at least post it on social media in the hope it would jog someones memory.. From there, all leads went cold. Source: The Suns archives, The Associated Press, The Tucson Citizen, court documents, and the Pima County Sheriffs Office. Become a member to support the independent voice of Phoenix * April 8, 1981: the body of an unidentified woman is found in Tuscon, Ariz., with obvious signs of trauma. The case went cold for many years, but one. See Commonwealth v. Luna, 46 Mass.App.Ct. 1. We deal with them summarily. Renk's body was never found. Additionally, it defies the imagination to believe that a jury could conclude, in light of all the other evidence, that there was a reasonable explanation for the defendant's fifteen-year absence from the Commonwealth, other than consciousness of guilt. Stars Kevin Conway (voice) Brenda Gerow (archive footage) Dianne Van Reeth (archive footage) [18][24] On December 23, 2014, her brother, Bill Gerow Jr., received a notification from police that the female in the picture could be his sister. [15] The victim had been walking or running through a wooded area before her death, as scratches on her body suggested. 171, 184-185, 503 N.E.2d 934 (1987) (not error to allow the prosecutor, while reading from the record of conviction, to mention a charge of which the witness was not ultimately convicted, but the better practice is not to mention it). He married and fathered two kids in 1989 and 1991. When she was found back in 1981, the coroner noted that she had strange scratches all over her body. [16][17], Different theories regarding the life and demise of the victim existed. 561, 563, 279 S.W.2d 354 (1955); State v. Sayward, 66 Wash.2d 698, 699, 404 P.2d 783 (1965).Other State and Federal courts have held by case decision that evidence of the sentence for a prior conviction may not be included as part of the impeachment process. Copyright 2023 The Inquisitr. The defendant could have asked the trial judge to exclude the mention of the length of the sentence, but instead defense counsel elected simply to inform the judge of his client's decision not to testify. In September 1979, he failed to appear for his trial. Two months later, she called her angry little brother collect from New Mexico. He has said nothing about the woman holding the flowers. In late 2014, a photograph of a facial reconstruction of the victim was made public that led to Gerow's identification the next year. 1971 - 1995 Detectives flew to the St. Louis-area family and interviewed them, learning that they had a sibling, 17-year-old Carolyn Eaton, who had run away from home around Christmas in 1981. GET BREAKING NEWS IN YOUR BROWSER. Public records show about 4 people have taken residence at 61 Lakeview Ave Tyngsboro MA 01879. https://t.co/GGQmX0tavD pic.twitter.com/KzyFydtc8d, Promax (@Promax_Global) February 23, 2017. [10] A denim jacket was found hanging in brush near the body. c. 140, 121. And Bill, her lost younger brother, deserves more than memories and a jar of older sisters ashes. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed. Thursday, Oct. 1, 2015. See United States v. Robinson, 8 F.3d 398, 409 (7th Cir.1993); State v. Bloomer, 156 Ariz. 276, 280, 751 P.2d 592 (Ariz.Ct.App.1987); People v. Rappuhn, 390 Mich. 266, 273-274, 212 N.W.2d 205 (1973); Murray v. State, 266 So.2d 139, 142 (Miss.1972), cert. After the judge allowed the required finding motion on the charge, he told the jury, I tell you now that that indictment has been withdrawn from further consideration by you, the jury. 258, 145 L.Ed.2d 216 (1999); State v. Washington, 383 S.W.2d 518, 523 (Mo.1964); State v. Finch, 293 N.C. 132, 141, 235 S.E.2d 819 (1977); State v. Sinclair, 57 N.J. 56, 63, 269 A.2d 161 (1970); State v. Baldridge, 144 N.E.2d 656 (Ohio Ct.App.1956); Webb v. State, 445 P.2d 531, 532-533 (Okla.Crim.App.1968); Jackson v. State, 161 Tex.Crim. Authorities say thats exactly what happened to Brenda Marie Gerow, who vanished without a trace in the early 1980s. [22] When he married Diane Van Reeth in Nevada, he used a false name to avoid being discovered. See Commonwealth v. Ortiz, 47 Mass.App.Ct. [18][19][24] Arizona prison records show that he completed his sentence on May 8, 2019. Our decision today makes explicit what has been alluded to in the Millyan, Ford, and Ortiz cases. A longstanding mystery surrounding the identity of a woman whose body was found in Arizona more than 30 years ago has been solved thanks in part to the Chelmsford Police Department and social media. [3][13] Images of the victim's clothing have been featured on websites, National Center for Missing and Exploited Children posters, and in various news reports, in an effort to identify her. His real name was John Joseph Kalhauser and he was wanted in Massachusetts on aggravated assault and attempted murder charges stemming from a 1979 incident; he had allegedly tried to kill his former girlfriend's new boyfriend. In July 1994, his wife, Diane Van Reeth, filed for divorce. Investigators theorized she was a runaway as a child before she became an adult, had possibly been estranged from family, had been murdered elsewhere and dumped at a new scene, or had hitchhiked to Tucson from another location. Contact us. Both were .25 caliber and featured a copper zinc alloy around the lead core.. Anyone who has information on Kalhauser and Gerow, or what their relationship was, should either contact local police, or call Pima County Detective Mark O'Dell at 520-351-6428. Brenda was a flower child, her brother says, smiling and outgoing. After her disappearance Van Reeth's mother obtained legal custody of the couple's two young sons. Since the defendant's counsel never objected to the mention of the sentence and never gave the trial judge an opportunity to cure the error, the proper standard of review is whether the trial judge's error resulted in a substantial risk of a miscarriage of justice. On the morning of trial, defense counsel, by motion in limine, moved to exclude the defendant's prior conviction for manslaughter to clear the way for the defendant's testimony. [3][13] Early in the investigation, it was theorized she could have been a victim of the then-unidentified Golden State Killer, who had moved south since his criminal career began in the mid 1970s. 2 Player of the Year, Lowell boys basketball team tops Malden in Division 1 prelim, High school roundup: Vinny D'Urso, Lowell Catholic blank Haverhill, 1-0, MVC boys basketball: Tewksbury's Ryan Cuvier named Div. Given the strong forensic and circumstantial evidence recounted above, there is no substantial risk of a miscarriage of justice. Cf. Brenda's remains have been released to her family. See Connecticut v. McClain, 23 Conn.App. She had a lot of friends, and a lot of people who wanted to be her friend. I thought it was the coolest thing [and] she kept saying, Im going to come back for you.. Stay up-to-date with how the law affects your life. Phoenixs Wannabe Tiger King Indicted for Trying to Sell Adorable Cub, Netflix and Chill? John Kalhauser was born on 22 January 1954. Residue removed from the front passenger's seat, later analyzed by an FBI forensic expert, showed that the firearm was closer to the passenger side than the driver's when discharged. Detected Status Did anyone know her? * Aug. 10, 1995: Kalhausers ex-wife disappears from Tuscon, Ariz. * September 1995: Kalhauser, who had been living in Tuscon under an alias, is identified by police in Arizona, and arrested on an outstanding warrant in connection with his 1979 attempted murder indictment in Lowell. Commonwealth v. Ferguson, 425 Mass. CHELMSFORD An Arizona sheriffs department is crediting local police for helping officials identify a woman whose body was found in Pima County, Ariz., in 1981, and investigators are now asking for local residents help with solving that womans slaying. 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