The defendant principally challenges the judge's ruling, made at the close of the prosecution's case, that in the event he testified on his own behalf, the prosecution could impeach him with the fact of his conviction in 1971 of a felony. He argues that the judge abused his discretion by ruling that a redacted version of the manslaughter conviction record, which included the fact that he received a seven-year State prison sentence, could be utilized on cross-examination. * 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. 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. But About That Photo Kalhauser Had Cold case deputies took a new look at that photo Kalhauser had. A total of five similar marks were found. Earlier this month, new DNA testing confirmed the body belonged to Sharon Lee Gallegos of New Mexico. He was then returned to Arizona, where he was convicted of his ex-wifes killing in 1999. He's currently serving time for murdering his wife. (b)The defendant was not entitled to required findings of not guilty on the four indictments of unlawfully carrying a firearm. The trial judge indicated that he saw the defendant nodding his head as he was reading the allowable question and interpreted this gesture to reflect an understanding of his ruling. denied, 528 U.S. 910, 120 S.Ct. See also Ford, 397 Mass. 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. He was arrested and extradited. Make a one-time donation today for as little as $1. Robert John Interval is charged with the murder of his missing girlfriend, Christine Mustafa. Kalhauser was arrested and released on bail. Its the 14th most populous state. Surely someone knew who she was. Both Janet (Richardson) Renk, Deborah Florence, and a former co-worker of the defendant's, Robert LaCourse, testified that the facsimile was similar in size to the gun the defendant carried in May 1979, and, according to Florence, was small, dark, and fit in the palm of his hand. Authorities say thats exactly what happened to Brenda Marie Gerow, who vanished without a trace in the early 1980s. Join the New Times community and help support The death is considered a homicide. Bill never saw his sister again. While the FBI had been successful in getting fingerprints from the victim, they were not a match to any missing persons on file or to anyone arrested for a crime. Welcome to the Serial Killer Database. He also warned the petit jury not to read coverage of the case by the newspapers. On IDs Who Killed Jane Doe?, detectives will describe the day in 1981 when they found the body of a woman in the Arizona desert. Following his indictment for the 1979 case, Kalhauser jumped bail and fled after being released from jail. In 1977, when Bill was 14, Brenda took him to see Led Zeppelin, his first concert. Gerow called him one time a few months later (Bill remains hazy on the timeline), this time from Arizona. The show examines cases of missing crime victims, whose bodies eventually turn up with no way of identifying the victim. John Kalhauser, a convicted murderer believed to have knowledge of the Arizona murder, had the photo in his possession but refused to tell . Kalhauser was arrested and released on bail. 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 . Sheriff's detectives in Tucson said Brenda Gerow was found dead in April 1981. In 1971, he'd been found guilty of manslaughter after shooting a man named Paul Chapman to death. It was also revealed that Kalhauser pled guilty to manslaughter at age 17 in the shooting death of a 52 . [3][11], The victim was a young adult, between 18 and 22 years of age. 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). They couldnt make out her eye color. He fled to avoid a trial and relocated to Arizona. * April 8, 1981: the body of an unidentified woman is found in Tuscon, Ariz., with obvious signs of trauma. * December 2014: Tyngsboro and Chelmsford post the photograph found on Kalhauser, and the reconstructed image of the unidentified womans face on social media, generating tips from local residents. 9:14AM, "We feel we have a very good case. Were hoping to speak to anyone with any information about the two of them, Suitt said. Had matters ended there, there would be no problem. * 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. 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. A Recap Of John Kalhausers Trail Of Terror. It wasnt a very long call, he said. 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. Male 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. 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. 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And then I got an envelope with turquoise in it from New Mexico. Shed mailed him a large choker and loose stones. at 300-301, 490 N.E.2d 1166. Then she jumped on Kalhausers motorcycle and road off into the sunset. * 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. at 301-302, 490 N.E.2d 1166. [11], The crime scene was photographed and law enforcement flew over the area to take further photographs and to find any additional clues. Renk took the Plain Street exit, determined to make it to the Lowell police station. The length of the sentence, the conditions under which served, and so on are not the defendant's conduct but an uncertain sequel. The case was compared to several missing person cases but all were ruled out. Release; Original network: Investigation Discovery: Original release: . Police realize that woman appears to be the same person in the photograph found on Kalhauser in 1995. The photograph is believed to have been taken between 1979 and 1981, also fitting the time frame in which Jane Doe was found. Then she went to the defendant's home. Brendas last phone call was from Arizona. 1971 - 1995 In 1980, 20-year-old Brenda Gerow leaves her family to travel to Arizona with boyfriend John "Jack" Kalhauser. [22][24] After the family received the remains, the body was cremated. He said he was from cold case and had a Jane Doe who might be Gerow. Kalhauser was found guilty in 1996 of attempted murder for the 1979 shooting and sentenced to 26 years in prison. Get this Arizona Daily Star page for free from Thursday, September 21, 1995 s Star Tucson, Thursday, September 21, 1995 JVU u Money 4B . [22] When he married Diane Van Reeth in Nevada, he used a false name to avoid being discovered. In late 2014, a photograph of a facial reconstruction of the victim was made public. Brenda's killer has not been brought to justice Billion Photos/Shutterstock The information was placed on social media. Kalhauser was accused of shooting Renk three times in the face and neck. The next morning, Janet Richardson, who shortly before, had ended a romantic relationship with the defendant, visited Renk in the hospital. We thought there was enough there to at least post it on social media in the hope it would jog someones memory.. That proof tended to show that it worked when he carried it on May 5 and on another occasion in the same month. Despite their few years difference in age, they loved the same music: that same good old rock and roll. 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. [10] A denim jacket was found hanging in brush near the body. See Commonwealth v. Maimoni, 41 Mass.App.Ct. NASHUA, N.H. (AP) A slaying victim discovered more than three decades ago in Arizona has been identified as a New Hampshire woman and police are investigating her connection to a man convict That helped a lot, because due to that people started saying she looked familiar, and this is who it may be and things of that nature, Suitt said. [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. The request for help comes just days after the Pima County Sheriffs Office identified a woman whose body was found in 1981 as Brenda Gerow, of Nashua, N.H. Deputy Tracy Suitt, a spokesman for the Pima County Sheriff, said a former Tyngsboro man and convicted killer, 61-year-old John Kalhauser, is a person of interest in Gerows killing. Brenda Gerow photograph in possession John Kalhauser . Who lives at 61 Lakeview Ave Tyngsboro MA 01879? Diane Van Reeth, Kalhauser's ex-wife Photo Courtesy of the . To see the dramatic recreation of the case, and how it was finally solved, tune into Who Killed Jane Doe? Gerow had left New Hampshire with him when she was 20 years old, according to an Associated Press article. When she was found back in 1981, the coroner noted that she had strange scratches all over her body. Become a member to support the independent voice of Phoenix They had been searching for Brenda Gerow. (a)The judge properly permitted the prosecutor to show the jury a handgun similar to the one witnesses saw the defendant carrying on several occasions prior to the assault on Renk. Kalhauser was accused of shooting Renk three times in the face and neck. He was released in 2019, the Arizona Department of Corrections. c. 265, 18); assault and battery by means of a dangerous weapon (G.L. The victim also had a noticeable white spot on one of her upper front teeth. She was like, Ive got some turquoise, Im going to mail it to you that was it for 5, 6, 7 weeks. Gallegos had reportedly been abducted from the alley behind her home in Alamogordo, New Mexico, on July 21, 1960, when she was 4 years old. Arizona authorities said Brenda Gerow had been living with John Kalhauser at the time. Timeline of Brenda. Cold case deputies took a new look at that photo Kalhauser had. According to the Arizona Department of Corrections, he was released for the van Reeth killing in 2019. [9], Her body was clothed in denim jeans, white socks with pink pom poms, a white bra, blue underwear, brown suede shoes and unique blouse that was a dark blue and had "puffy reddish-colored sleeves" with a flower design. White Sentencing is based on a number of factors and to a lay jury the greater the sentence, the more serious the crime. It blew the Nashua, New Hampshire teens mind. 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 1. Kalhauser was arrested and released on bail. [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. [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. One went through Renk's left shoulder and another went through his back. Brenda was a flower child, her brother says, smiling and outgoing. ABC15 is digging into the stories of some of these now-identified cold case murder victims whose killers have not been identified. Neither did Gerow know that Kalhauser was already a convicted murderer. The circumstantial evidence sufficed to show, on each of four occasions, that the weapon was functional-an element of the charge. Brenda and Bill Gerow were foster children, Bill Gerow told the podcast Anatomy of Murder, but their favorite times were spent together. They asked for DNA. Court of Appeals of Massachusetts, Middlesex. Police suspected the man, John Kalhauser, who pleaded guilty to her murder. It wasnt a joyful phone call. After the case of Jane Doe was reopened in 2012, new technology helped solve the mystery. He never heard from her again. [16][17], Different theories regarding the life and demise of the victim existed. Personal Information Stay up-to-date with how the law affects your life. Gerow was about 20 when she left Nashua with John Kalhauser, a former Massachusetts man who is imprisoned for the murder of his estranged wife. [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. The 56-year-old had reportedly been killed and buried. John Joseph Kalhauser, Bill would later find, was a womanizer. [20][21] The woman in the photo was stated to resemble the victim's reconstruction and her physical description. On Who Killed Jane Does episode, Girl Gone West, youll hear from Pima County, Arizona, police detectives and KVOA news reporter Lupita Murillo. . They lived together for only a few months before he killed her. Compare Commonwealth v. Stewart, 398 Mass. Photo: Hamilton County Sheriff's Dept. He married and fathered two kids in 1989 and 1991. [10] A DNA profile from another individual was extracted from her clothing in 2006, which allowed for a DNA profile of a potential suspect to be created after the sample analysis was completed in 2007. 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. Material from the Associated Press was used in this report. Neither did anyone else, not until 2015. One bullet was recovered from Renk's body and another from his car. She was buried under a headstone with the placeholder name of "Jane Doe" with the phrase "UNK - 1981" Gerow's body remained unidentified for . Gerow, then about 20 years old, left Nashua for Arizona with John Kalhauser, who had already been convicted of manslaughter nine years earlier in a man's shooting death, the Lowell Sun reports . Renk had survived, and Kalhauser had been charged with armed assault with intent to murder in August of 1979. 298, 300-301, 490 N.E.2d 1166 (1986) (error to admit certified records of prior convictions, including docket entries which showed defaults, warrants issued, arrests on warrants, and violation of probation); Commonwealth v. Millyan, 399 Mass. She had been severely beaten, in addition to being sexually assaulted. "Little Miss Nobody" (Sharon Lee Gallegos). Eventually, the investigation led the police to conclude that the defendant's story concerning his whereabouts was unsupported. Timeline of Brenda Gerow and John Kalhauser. 1. The most recent tenant is Gladys Coughlin. Race/Ethnicity He believed his sister was alive, but didnt want to contact him. Did anyone know her? Offender Type CLICK HERE TO TURN ON NOTIFICATIONS. The body was initially found by hunters, who happened upon the dead woman near the Pima County Fairgrounds. [19] She had reportedly met Kalhauser while at a nightclub. He is in prison serving a sentence for killing his wife. Both were .25 caliber and featured a copper zinc alloy around the lead core.. Offers may be subject to change without notice. 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. She had been beaten and sexually assaulted before she was finally dumped. At that time, close to the Route 495 exit, the operator of the other vehicle pulled beside the driver's side of Renk's car. Kalhauser has since been extradited to Massachusetts where he is in jail awaiting trial. The nature of the crime charged and conviction of it have a bearing on credibility, but the sentence imposed does not. 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. Her brother and father provided interviews.[9]. Gerow could not have officially been reported missing due to being over the age of 18 and that she had apparently left on her own accord. I thought it was the coolest thing [and] she kept saying, Im going to come back for you.. NASHUA, NH - A woman known to Pima County Sheriff's Department in Arizona for 34 years only as "Jane Doe" finally has an identity - Brenda Gerow, a Nashua native who was 20 years old the last time she was seen alive by her family.. See Composto v. Massachusetts Bay Transp. She didnt know him at all. [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. In 1981, John fled to Arizona with Brenda Gerow, who most likely knew nothing about his criminal past. Renk survived despite being shot in the chin, shoulder and back. Criminal Status He was a wannabe, Bill remembered, an outsider wanting to be in, wanting to be tough. My daughter was just gone and we have no idea why. at 301, 490 N.E.2d 1166. Hair in a ponytail, wearing a blue and white shirt, she told her little brother, I love you and Ill be back.. * November 1996: Kalhauser is convicted of armed assault with intent to murder in connection with the shooting in Lowell. She later calls her brother to announce plans to return, yet she never does. 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.. Most likely, they were lovers. GET BREAKING NEWS IN YOUR BROWSER. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed. 23+ Currently, John Kalhauser is serving time in prison. At FindLaw.com, we pride ourselves on being the number one source of free legal information and resources on the web. He is serving his Massachusetts sentence concurrently with his 20-year sentence in Arizona. 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. But her brother lived all these years believing his sister was alive out there. 90, 93-94, 703 N.E.2d 740 (1998). Kalhauser is sentenced to 7 years in prison, but ends up being paroled after about a year. Renk's body was never found. On September 28, 2015, information was released that the body of the unidentified victim had been formally identified as Gerow in April 2015, and that her body would be returned to family members. Jamie Jean Laiaddee The Charley Project A jury convicted Rick Wayne Valentini in the murder of his girlfriend Jamie. It was released to the public on television and in the newspapers, yet the victim was not recognized by anyone in the area. The case went cold for many years, but one. [25] Gerow hadn't been seen since 1980, when she was 20, after she left the state voluntarily with Kalhauser, whom she was in a relationship with. An Omaha, Nebraska, news station reported that the remains were identified in 2016 as Robert Bresson, last seen near Why, Arizona, earlier in 1995. The photo was taken from Kalhauser, who was imprisoned in 1999 for killing his wife in Arizona. Police told KVOA TV in Tucson that Gerows body had obvious signs of trauma. 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. at 184-185, 503 N.E.2d 934, and declaring that it is error as a matter of law to allow the mention of certain information in the record of conviction, see Ford, 397 Mass. For Immediate Release. Kalhauser refused to identify her. We deal with them summarily. * 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. Country Where did she go?. [15] The victim had been walking or running through a wooded area before her death, as scratches on her body suggested. He bonded out on $1,200 in 1980. Copyright 2023 The Inquisitr. Victims Id try to tell her, he said. 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. But Gerow said to Bill she was headed to the Southwest with her boyfriend Jack. A detective matched the photo to evidence collected four years ago, when they dug up her body. He also served time in an Arizona prison for the 1995 murder of his wife. COMMONWEALTH vs. JOHN J. KALHAUSER. He claimed that he wouldn't own a .25 caliber pistol. There were other admissions by him to LaCourse and McCusker concerning his possession of a working firearm that the jury reasonably could conclude related to the .25 caliber gun. Self - Suspect (archive footage) TV Series 2017 1 episode Personal details Born January 22 Contribute to this page When the manufacturing firm where Kalhauser worked discovered van Reeths IDs wrapped in red cloth and hidden behind a cabinet, they called police. 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. * 1980: Kalhauser is released on $1,200 bail and moves to Arizona with Brenda Gerow, of Nashua. Authy., 48 Mass.App.Ct. Here we cannot assume that the matter to which the defendant now objects or the grounds therefore were apparent from the exchange between the judge and defense counsel. Based on these circumstances it is not clear that the trial judge was on notice of the defendant's objection to the mention of the sentence. But her brother lived all these years believing his sister was alive out there. * April 8, 1981: the body of an unidentified woman is found in Tuscon, Ariz., with obvious signs of trauma. 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. Eighteen-year-old Kimberly Rena Jones was reported missing from San Bernardino, California, in 2017, but she hadnt been seen since mid-2016, according to the non-profit organization, The Charley Project. Pima County Sheriff's officials have said Kalhauser is only a person of interest in Gerow's murder. 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. Her murderer, be it Kalhauser or someone else, needs to be found and punished. He served only one before being released. April 6, 1981), previously known as Pima County Jane Doe, was a formerly unidentified American murder victim who was found on April 8, 1981. See id. He vanished before his next court appearance and spent 15 years on the run, living under . Give Light and the People Will Find Their Own Way, INTERACTIVE RADAR: Tracking winter storm in Arizona. At some time in July of 1980, Brenda told her family that she and Jack were either moving away together or going away on a trip, though it is unclear if she told them where they were going specifically, or when they would be returning. United States (Massachusetts, Arizona). On Sept. 28, 2016, the remains of an unidentified young woman were found north of Dolan Springs near Highway 93. at 88, 579 A.2d 564. 113, 115-116, 40 N.W.2d 522 (1949).A third group prohibits the admission of a defendant's sentence for a prior conviction if the defendant has admitted the fact of that conviction, but allows the mention if the defendant denies the conviction or equivocates on questions regarding a prior conviction. [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. He is sentenced to 26 years in prison. He is in prison serving a sentence for killing his wife. And they knew, suddenly, that she looked an awful lot like that photo Kalhauser had been carrying. We think she ran off, we dont know, he said. . He pled no contest, which translates to acknowledging that he might be found guilty if the case went to trial. One said that they hoped they didnt find a body but they spotted Jane Doe soon after. Police exhumed the body and released a sketch of the woman. Someone knows more about Gerows disappearance than the police or her brother. In 1995, John Kalhauser killed his estranged wife. * December 2014: Tyngsboro and Chelmsford post the photograph found on Kalhauser, and the reconstructed image of the unidentified womans face on social media, generating tips from local residents. William Gerow said Arizona detectives visited him about three months ago. He tried sending a letter through the Social Security Administration; they claimed it had been delivered and she simply didnt want to contact him. John Joseph Kalhauser will be sentenced Thursday to 20 years for killing his wife - and for Arizona, 20 years means 20 years. NASHUA, N.H. (AP) A slaying victim discovered more than three decades ago in Arizona. She had been buried under a headstone with the placeholder . In July 1994, his wife, Diane Van Reeth, filed for divorce. It followed him along Route 3 to the Lowell Connector. Massachusetts investigators released on Friday the photograph of a woman believed to be the victim of a 33-year-old unsolved murder in the hopes that someone from the pubic can identify her. Jane Does body appeared to be that of a woman between the ages of 18 and 20, and the skin was completely scorched. Brenda Marie Gerow was found dead in Pima County in 1981, however, it wasnt until decades later that the remains were identified as someone other than Jane Doe.. 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. #HotSpot: @DiscoveryID's promo for #WhoKilledJaneDoe. 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. Jane Doe was buried without any identification being made. See Commonwealth v. Luna, 46 Mass.App.Ct. 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. with some kind of ligature and likely sexually assaulted. Gerow was never seen or heard from again. 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