KANSAS CITY —The remains located on July 26 while serving an arrest warrant at a home in the 1500 Block of Eagle Drive in Pleasant Hill have been positively identified to be that of 78-year-old Bonnie Gooch, according to a media release from police.
Officers were at the home to serve a warrant on Gooch for failure to appear at a July 24, hearing in connection with an April robbery.
Officers knocked on the front door, at which time it came partially open. Officers entered the residence where they located the body of a deceased female in a rear bedroom of the home.
The scene was processed, and the body was taken by Frontier Forensics for further examination. Foul play is not suspected.
Gooch, who had two previous bank robbery convictions, was charged in April in a holdup in Pleasant Hill. In court documents, Cass County prosecutors allege that she passed a note to a teller demanding “13,000 small bills,” adding “thank you sorry I didn’t mean to scare you.” Surveillance video also captured her banging on the counter, asking the teller to hurry.
Gooch's earlier robbery convictions were in California in 1977 and in the Kansas City suburb of Lee's Summit in 2020. Her probation in the second heist ended in November 2021.