New info is shedding a number of mild on a 34-year-old Arizona cold case involving a woman recognized for many years exclusively as “Jane Doe”.
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Authorities in Tucson say Brenda Gerow, of Nashua, was the woman found brutally murdered near the Pima County Fairgrounds in 1981.
Kalhauser, who has been identified as a person of interest in the murder of Brenda Gerow, is serving time in prison for the murder of his wife.
Police said they recently got a break in the case when they found a photo of Gerow in Kalhauser’s possession.
Authorities say Gerow left Nashua with Kalhauser, when she was about 20 years old, and the two ended up in Arizona.
William Gerow said Arizona detectives visited him about three months ago.
If you know anything that can help detectives, call the Pima County Sheriff’s Department.
“We think she ran off, we don’t know”, he said.
Kalhauser’s wife Diane Van Reeth went missing in 1995, and four years later he was sent to prison after pleading no contest to second degree murder.
Kalhauser also has an extensive history with Massachusetts police.
Several years later, in 1979, Kalhauser shot Michael Renk, his ex-girlfriend’s new boyfriend.
Although he was convicted for the crime, Kalhauser was released on parole a year later, according to the Tucson Citizen.
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He used a name belonging to a former high school classmate, a deception that was discovered after Arizona police began investigating the disappearance of Kalhauser’s wife, who had filed for divorce.
