928, 929, 577 N.E.2d 1016 (1991) (factual circumstances behind conviction must be left unexplained). 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. Kalhauser, then 17, spent a year in prison for the slaying before he was released. * 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. Kalhauser was arrested and released on bail. and help keep the future of New Times, Use of this website constitutes acceptance of our. According to news reports out of Arizona, Pima County Sheriff's detectives say John Kalhauser, the man she left Nashua with for Arizona, is a "person . This post was originally published at coldpapers.blogspot.com. The pathologist who examined her was able to determine she had a light skin complexion as well as long, light brown to blond hair. Timeline of Brenda. Police discovered Stecchi had signed his and Van Reeth's marriage certificate in Nevada with his real name - John Kalhauser - and assumed the name of a high school friend. . 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. Edition of Arizona Daily Star. Source: The Suns archives, The Associated Press, The Tucson Citizen, court documents, and the Pima County Sheriffs Office. CLICK HERE TO TURN ON NOTIFICATIONS. He vanished before his next court appearance and spent 15 years on the. (b)The defendant was not entitled to required findings of not guilty on the four indictments of unlawfully carrying a firearm. Investigators in Arizona eventually realized the reconstructed facial image appeared to match the woman in the photograph that had been in Kalhausers possession. Bill would see benefits restored by Seth Moulton bill, Bill needs a kidney: Tyngsboro man searches for lifesaving donor, Seeing orbs in photos? Status He moved to Arizona under an assumed name and ID, becoming a supervisor in an electronics company. Having decided that the judge mistakenly ruled that the impeachment of the defendant could include the nature of his sentence for the felony conviction, the question remains under what standard should we review the trial judge's ruling. The death is considered a homicide. She spoke to Chelmsford police Lieutenant Raymond McCusker, who obtained a search warrant to inspect the vehicle. He was paroled after serving about a year of that sentence. Phoenixs Wannabe Tiger King Indicted for Trying to Sell Adorable Cub, Netflix and Chill? Born He is sentenced to 20 years in prison. 777, 781, 716 N.E.2d 659 (1999). When Brenda Gerow left her home with John Kalhauser, she relocated to Tuscon, Arizona, with him. Kalhauser has been named a person of interest in Gerow's case, but as of 2022 has not been charged. Arizona authorities said Brenda Gerow had been living with John Kalhauser at the time. Sexually Transmitted Infections Spike in Maricopa County, Glendale Man Who Stabbed Family Charged With Two Counts of First-Degree Murder, Arizonas Right-Wing Lawmakers Rally Against Evil of Abortion Rights, Its Called Genocide: Black Leaders Urge Tempe To Again Pursue Flavored Nicotine Ban, Arizona Senate Committees Pass Two Bills in GOP Push to Criminalize Drag. c. 269, 10(a), and G.L. 321, 331-332, 670 N.E.2d 189 (1996). 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. 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. See Commonwealth v. Paniaqua, 413 Mass. 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. In 1971, Kalhauser was charged with the shooting death of Paul Chapman, 52, of Nashua. As the foregoing cases indicate, we have moved away from the position that the impeaching party can mention anything in the record of conviction, toward recommending that the better practice is to avoid mentioning potentially prejudicial material in the criminal record, see Millyan, 399 Mass. c. 276, 82A). 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 . 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. Meantime, Kalhauser has only been named a "person of interest" as the investigation continues. The circumstantial evidence sufficed to show, on each of four occasions, that the weapon was functional-an element of the charge. 1. On Who Killed Jane Does episode, Girl Gone West, youll hear from Pima County, Arizona, police detectives and KVOA news reporter Lupita Murillo. The length of the sentence, the conditions under which served, and so on are not the defendant's conduct but an uncertain sequel. 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. 2. * 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. Speaking by telephone through an interpreter for people who are hearing impaired, William Gerow said Wednesday he was overwhelmed by the news of his daughters death and doesnt know why she was killed. "Little Miss Nobody" (Sharon Lee Gallegos). August 24, 2001. . In 1971, he'd been found guilty of manslaughter after shooting a man named Paul Chapman to death. Kalhauser is sentenced to 7 years in prison, but ends up being paroled after about a year. Meantime, Kalhauser has only been named a "person of interest" as the investigation continues. I dont know what happened. Her brother and father provided interviews.[9]. January 22, 1954 (1954-01-22) (age69)Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States Neither did Gerow know that Kalhauser was already a convicted murderer. 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. He was Kalhauser was accused of shooting Renk three times in the face and neck. Copyright 2023, Thomson Reuters. Id try to tell her, he said. Families of missing Christine Mustafa thank the volunteers searching for her at a landfill near Gila Bend. Little did Gerow know, she didnt know Jack Kalhauser. In 1995, John Kalhauser killed his estranged wife. 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. They also announce that Kalhauser is a person of interest in Gerows death. My daughter was just gone and we have no idea why. Detected Status 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. 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. Commonwealth v. Gagliardi, 29 Mass.App.Ct. 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. Stephen C. Kalhauserof Tyngsboro; 63 TYNGSBORO - Stephen C. Kalhauser, 63, passed away, Thursday, February 7th at his home, with his family by his side, after a hard fought battle with cancer. [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. The Inquisitr is a registered trademark. Join the New Times community and help support GET BREAKING NEWS IN YOUR BROWSER. The trial judge asked appropriate voir dire questions concerning the publicity issue during juror selection (one venire member was excluded who had read something about the case in a local paper). When Deborah Florence was located, she turned over several letters written by the defendant to her approximately three weeks after Renk's shooting. Chelmsford Police Assist In Solving Arizona Cold Case. Pima Jane Doe and the Flower Girl, Part 2 . Kalhauser was 17 years old. Serial Killer Database Wiki is a FANDOM Lifestyle Community. 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 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. 230, 249, 668 N.E.2d 300 (1996). at 301, 490 N.E.2d 1166. Sheriff's detectives in Tucson said Brenda Gerow was found dead in April 1981. . He allegedly killed Brenda Gerow and left her in the desert. The photo was placed in an evidence drawer. If you know anything that can help detectives . 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. the defendant was indicted for the assault on Renk. May 18, 2001. . See Commonwealth v. Ortiz, 47 Mass.App.Ct. [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. * 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. 116, 127, 364 N.E.2d 1264 (1977). 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. Source: The Suns archives, The Associated Press, The Tucson Citizen, court documents, and the Pima County Sheriffs Office. He was released in 2019, the Arizona Department of Corrections. Kalhauser also was convicted of manslaughter in 1971 for killing a 52-year-old man. It wasnt a joyful phone call. Her husband, John Kalhauser, was convicted of second-degree murder in her case, but her body has never been found. The sentence will run concurrently with a 26-year sentence he's serving in Massachusetts for attempted murder in another case. 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. For three decades, Pima County Investigators called a woman "Jane Doe", after she was found brutally murdered near the Pima County Fairgrounds in 1981. 1534, 36 L.Ed.2d 196 (1973); Latham v. State, 152 Neb. [4][5][6][7][8], Gerow, the oldest of her siblings, disappeared in July 1980 after leaving with John "Jack" Kalhauser, her boyfriend at the time. [22][23], The then-unidentified woman's photograph was circulated to the public in late 2014 after authorities made the connection between it and the reconstruction. There were marks comprised of copper and zinc on the headliner above the passenger's side window consistent with having been made by a hot brass shell casing ejected from a handgun fired by a driver extending his right arm toward the passenger's window. He is in prison serving a sentence for killing his wife. In relatively short order, the operator of the other vehicle squeezed off four more rounds. Van Reeth's remains have . Material from the Associated Press was used in this report. Kalhauser, who was convicted of murdering his wife, Diane Van Reeth, in 1999, is still a suspect in the Gerow case but has never been charged with the crime, according to Life Daily. Brenda's killer has not been brought to justice Billion Photos/Shutterstock Kalhauser was arrested and released on bail. He is in prison serving a sentence for killing his wife. Robert John Interval is charged with the murder of his missing girlfriend, Christine Mustafa. January 6, 2018 Coming up at 5/6 on http://t.co/Hfx7LxKLC5 via @Jenna_AbateNH1, The Pulse of NH News Talk Radio Network (@thepulseofnh) September 30, 2015. He's currently serving time for murdering his wife. 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. 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. He is sentenced to 20 years in prison. Suspected Serial Killer He had ties to Lincoln, Nebraska, and Independence, Iowa, and another Nebraska news site reported that Bresson traveled a lot on his motorcycle. They had two sons together. It was nasty. And on August 10, 1995, she never showed up for work. Her body was . Bill pleas with them to reach out to Pima County law enforcement. [22] Authorities noted that the background scenery appeared to be from somewhere in the Eastern part of the country, most notably at a former camping area in Tyngsboro, Massachusetts. In 1980, 20-year-old Brenda Gerow leaves her family to travel to Arizona with boyfriend John "Jack" Kalhauser. 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. She had been buried under a headstone with the placeholder . The body of Kalhausers ex-wife, Diane van Reeth, has never been found, according to reports in the Tucson Citizen. with some kind of ligature and likely sexually assaulted. But Gerow said to Bill she was headed to the Southwest with her boyfriend Jack. A Recap Of John Kalhausers Trail Of Terror. He thought that one day hed find her, that one day their children would play together. But, it was one of his photographs taken by Tucson Police while they investigated his wife's murder that led to the big break in the "Jane Doe" mystery. He completed his sentence on May 8, 2019. Kalhauser was convicted in the 1979 shooting an ex-girlfriends boyfriend, AP reported. In short, this was not a classic duel of credibility. See Commonwealth v. Ferreira, 373 Mass. 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. * April 8, 1981: the body of an unidentified woman is found in Tuscon, Ariz., with obvious signs. 2. See id. 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. Joseph F. Kalhauser of Tyngsboro, decorated WWII vet TYNGSBORO - Joseph F. Kalhauser, a Tyngsboro resident and decorated World War II veteran, died Monday, May 17, at Lowell General Hospital. White Investigators learned that Brenda Gerow had some sort of relationship with John Kalhauser. And they knew, suddenly, that she looked an awful lot like that photo Kalhauser had been carrying. No. IDs Who Killed Jane Doe recounts that the discovery of the body did nothing for a family who lived many miles away. The remains were positively identified as Eaton. Incarcerated Kalhauser was arrested and released on bail. 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 After the case of Jane Doe was reopened in 2012, new technology helped solve the mystery. A detective matched the photo to evidence collected four years ago, when they dug up her body. * Sept. 28, 2015: The Pima County Sheriffs Office announces it has identified the woman whose body was found in 1981 as Brenda Gerow, of Nashua. 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. * May 1999: Kalhauser is convicted of second-degree murder in Arizona in connection with his ex-wifes disappearance. The photograph is believed to have been taken between 1979 and 1981, also fitting the time frame in which Jane Doe was found. The body was initially found by hunters, who happened upon the dead woman near the Pima County Fairgrounds. 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