The photo was that of a woman in the possession of John Kalhauser. He was escaping the cops. Following his indictment for the 1979 case, Kalhauser jumped bail and fled after being released from jail. [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 defendant was convicted of armed assault with intent to murder (G.L. In 1971, Kalhauser was charged with the shooting death of Paul Chapman, 52, of Nashua. He was convicted of manslaughter in that case and sentenced to 7 years in prison. Just before midnight on May 19, 1979, Michael Renk drove Janet Richardson, his future wife, to the Veteran's Administration Hospital in Bedford where she worked as a nursing assistant on the night shift. [23] Kalhauser currently is serving twenty years in They asked for DNA. [15] The victim had been walking or running through a wooded area before her death, as scratches on her body suggested. Through a recent grant, officials were able to complete a familial DNA search on the remains, matching members of a family in Missouri. Give Light and the People Will Find Their Own Way, INTERACTIVE RADAR: Tracking winter storm in Arizona. Full Name John Joseph Kalhauser Born January 22, 1954 (age 69) Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States Other Names Jack Kalhauser Gender Male Race/Ethnicity White Criminal Information Offender Type Suspected Serial Killer Victims 2-3+ Span of crimes 1971 - 1995 Country United States (Massachusetts, Arizona) Contents 1 Biography 2 Victims The photo was placed in an evidence drawer. Welcome to the Serial Killer Database. 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. [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. She had been well-kept. In 1980, when Gerow was twenty, she was working at local biker bar OJs. Her murderer, be it Kalhauser or someone else, needs to be found and punished. [26], 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. Criminal Information 904, 905-906, 668 N.E.2d 845 (1996), this court stated, Masking the nature of the prior offense is more likely to affect the defendant unfairly than receipt in evidence of the unvarnished conviction. Ibid. In late 2014, a photograph of a facial reconstruction of the victim was made public that led to Gerow's identification the next year. 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. 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. 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. He is sentenced to 26 years in prison. Among his possessions was a photo of a blonde woman. IDs Who Killed Jane Doe recounts that the discovery of the body did nothing for a family who lived many miles away. Gender 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). We sketch what facts the jury could have found. 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. They're spirits of loved ones, Lowell Catholic boys basketball team blows out Belchertown, Toddler safe, car theft suspects apprehended, No end in sight for case involving Dracut doc charged with patient's death, MVC girls basketball: Dracut's Ashlee Talbot named Div. and help keep the future of New Times, Use of this website constitutes acceptance of our. 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. CCSO says the case is still under investigation as a homicide, but there are still no identified suspects. Id try to tell her, he said. Brenda Gerow photograph in possession John Kalhauser . Families of missing Christine Mustafa thank the volunteers searching for her at a landfill near Gila Bend. Currently, John Kalhauser is serving time in prison. If you know anything that can help detectives . The body of Kalhausers ex-wife, Diane van Reeth, has never been found, according to reports in the Tucson Citizen. * 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. January 22, 1954 (1954-01-22) (age69)Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States Kalhauser was carrying a photograph of Gerow when he was arrested for Van Reeth's murder. The reading from certified records should hew to the convictions, and extraneous entries should not pass to the jury as part of the exhibits. Kalhauser lived in Tyngsboro at the time. * 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. Last year, officials said anyone with information about the case is asked to call Coconino County Sheriffs Office. Stars Kevin Conway (voice) Brenda Gerow (archive footage) Dianne Van Reeth (archive footage) But About That Photo Kalhauser Had Cold case deputies took a new look at that photo Kalhauser had. Brenda was a flower child, her brother says, smiling and outgoing. He tried filing missing persons reports, but was told she might not want to be found. Among Kalhausers possessions when he was arrested in 1995 was a photograph of Gerow. Court of Appeals of Massachusetts, Middlesex. The show examines cases of missing crime victims, whose bodies eventually turn up with no way of identifying the victim. In them, the defendant proposed that she confirm being with him on the night in question and keep their statements to the police consistent. c. 269, 10 [a]); and failure to appear in court (G.L. 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. Someone knows more about Gerows disappearance than the police or her brother. Other State and Federal courts addressing the issue of the admissibility of the length of the sentence when impeaching a witness by prior conviction have developed three different approaches. Following his indictment for the 1979 case, Kalhauser jumped bail and fled after being released from jail. [11], The crime scene was photographed and law enforcement flew over the area to take further photographs and to find any additional clues. There was no older unsolved Pima County homicide from which the victim had not been identified. 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. The remaining issues argued by the defendant are insufficient to warrant reversal of the various convictions. See id. at 88, 579 A.2d 564. Still unsure who the woman in the photograph was, investigators in Arizona contacted Tyngsboro and Chelmsford police regarding the photograph, since Kalhauser had ties this area. Police suspected the man, John Kalhauser, who pleaded guilty to her murder. An Omaha, Nebraska, news station reported that the remains were identified in 2016 as Robert Bresson, last seen near Why, Arizona, earlier in 1995. Meantime, Kalhauser has only been named a "person of interest" as the investigation continues. Kalhauser is sentenced to 7 years in prison, but ends up being paroled after about a year. He thought that one day hed find her, that one day their children would play together. The mention of the sentence has the potential to cause unfair prejudice to the witness by inviting the jury to speculate about the details and seriousness of the conviction and consider the conviction for reasons other than credibility. John Kalhauser was born on 22 January 1954. His sister deserves justice. [3][12] Additional evidence at the scene may have been blown away due to winds. 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. . Kalhauser skipped his court appearance, changed his name to 'Donald J. Stecchi', and was on the run for fifteen years. Learn more about FindLaws newsletters, including our terms of use and privacy policy. * May 1999: Kalhauser is convicted of second-degree murder in Arizona in connection with his ex-wifes disappearance. [2] She had been buried under a headstone with the placeholder name of "Jane Doe" with the phrase "UNK 1981". 1. [2] At the time the victim was found, authorities in Tucson were unable to obtain fingerprints. Her minivan was empty, two blocks from their home, without keys or signs of a struggle. * April 8, 1981: the body of an unidentified woman is found in Tuscon, Ariz., with obvious signs. Kalhauser was accused of shooting Renk in the face and neck. He vanished before his next court appearance and spent 15 years on the. 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. Commonwealth v. Ferguson, 425 Mass. * 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. (b)The defendant was not entitled to required findings of not guilty on the four indictments of unlawfully carrying a firearm. Copyright 2022 Scripps Media, Inc. All rights reserved. 9:14AM, "We feel we have a very good case. c. 233, 21, allows the use of the full record of the defendant's convictions to impeach the defendant, that rule has been progressively narrowed over the years. Neither did anyone else, not until 2015. 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