On the night of Jan. 2, 1956, a young couple from Great Falls never came home.
Initially, the parents of 16-year-old Patricia Kalitzke hoped that she had eloped with her boyfriend, Lloyd Bogle, an 18-year-old airman stationed at Malmstrom AFB.
The two young lovers weren’t expected to stay out late, the Tribune reported at the time. Kalitzke had high school classes to attend, and New Year’s celebrations had just come to a close.
They were last seen alive leaving a Great Falls drive-in around 9 p.m., heading west out Central Avenue to a well-known lover’s lane near Wadsworth Park.
Bogle, from Waco, Texas, was found the next morning by three young boys — his hands tied behind his back and two bullets through his skull.
Kalitzke’s body was located the following day, on a steep road embankment seven miles from the park. Fully clothed, she had also been shot execution-style in the head.
While a suspect was identified at the time, he was later cleared, and the case has never been solved.
Now, retired Great Falls police Detective John Cameron — famous for helping bring suspects to trial in several murder cases — claims to have an answer.
The killer, he writes in his new book, “It’s Me: Edward Wayne Edwards, the Serial Killer You Never Heard Of,” was the titular criminal, who died in prison in 2011 at age 77 after claiming responsibility for five homicides in Wisconsin and Ohio...
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Book probes 1956 killings