She Disappeared 50 Years Ago, But Police Believe They May Have Just Found Her Body
She vanished from the face of the earth 51 years ago. But now the remains of then 38-year-old Louise Pietrewicz may have been found. A bag of bones buried under a house in a burlap sack has been found. And that house once belonged to her married cop boyfriend. Pietrewicz disappeared in 1966, and no one had any idea where she could have gone or where her body might have been hidden.
But suspect number one was her boyfriend, who was married to another woman, William Boken.
He was a local policeman who lived in Southold, Long Island, New York. While no one could figure out what he might have done with her body if it was his crime, recently the bag of bones was unearthed from underneath what used to be his home. And DNA from Pietrewicz’s brother and daughter helped produce a genetic match to the bones found under the Long Island house.
Because her remains were found after half a century of searching, the mystery can finally be put to rest. She disappeared without a trace on October 6, 1966, not long after she left her abusive husband.
Last month the detectives finally found the bones. They were seven feet below the ground in the basement of a 17th century home that once belonged to her married lover.
With the DNA obtained from her daughter and her brother, the match was confirmed. The skeletal remains in the burlap sack were Pietrewicz’s.
During the time of her disappearance, the home belonged to Southold policeman Boken, who lived there with his wife and children. He was sleeping with Pietrewicz, although both of their partners knew they were cheating.
Boken passed away in 1982 before he could face an inquiry as to why her remains were found under his house. And until last month, the case was unsolved. Her case went cold until it was opened again this year.
The Southold home had been examined previously. In 2013, inspectors dug up parts of the basement but didn’t find her remains. But this time investigators had a ground-penetrating sonar device and quickly found the bag of bones underneath the Long Island home.
The cause of death is still unknown. The Office of the Suffolk County Medical Examiner is working to figure out what happened to the lost woman.
After a local paper ran an eight-part investigation into Pietrewicz’s disappearance, Boken’s ex-wife Judith Terry came forward to reveal that a body was buried at her former home.
The lost woman’s daughter, 63-year-old Sandy Blampied and her brother, Leo Jasinski, were happy beyond belief to know what happened to her. Although they can’t believe she was murdered.
“I choked up. I have never forgotten Louise and I never will. She was my sister. It is over now,” Jasinski told the Suffolk Times.
Meanwhile, Blampied never gave up hope that her mother’s body would be found. And she always thought that Terry knew something and was complicit in the murder for not talking to authorities.
“I just broke down. I just broke down and cried. It is so hard to believe what has happened. I still can’t believe it. This was my mother,” her daughter said.