an investigative journalist and the author of the book "Chase Darkness With Me." . Advanced forensic testing showed the 2-to-4-year-old girl (since identified as Rasmussen's daughter) probably spent most of her childhood in either the upper Northeast or upper Midwest, perhaps Wisconsin. Other forensic information showed that the woman and children lived together in the Northeastern United States between two weeks and three months before their deaths. Want to make sure that NHPR continues creating projects like Bear Brook? Although the Allenstown barrels were discovered during his lifetime, Rasmussen was not named as the culprit until 2017, when DNA profiling connected him to the crime. Under his plea agreement, an additional charge of child abuse was dropped. Rebekah Heath, a librarian and true crime enthusiast from Connecticut, was ultimately the one who made the link between "Bob Evans," Rasmussen, and the missing women, leading to a round of DNA tests which ultimately confirmed the identityof the victims thus solving the crime. Salamon said he and his family call the girl Angel.. One of his sons from this marriage provided the DNA sample that confirmed Rasmussen as Evans in June 2017. [8], Honeychurch and Vaughn's funeral was held in November 2019 in Allenstown, during which they were given a new headstone bearing their names. Four bodies-one woman, and three little girls-found in two barrels years apart. It wasnt Rasmussens first time in prison, however hed just been using a different name. By Eric Shorey & Gina Tron Despite hundreds of leads, the bodies were not identified. New Hampshire authorities have referred to her as the middle child because of how her suspected age compares to the other two children found in the barrels, but DNA tests confirmed she is not related to Sarah and Marie, nor their mother. We do regrettably fear that his daughter's mother is probably another victim somewhere, Carol Schweitzer, of the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children, said. Four Bodies Are Discovered In Bear Brook State Park 15 Years Apart On Nov. 10, 1985, a hunter trekking through Bear Brook State Park in Allenstown, New Hampshire came across a large, industrial steel drum. 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The remains of a young girl, aged 2 to 4, was found in the second barrel with Sarahs remains in 2000. There were little fingerprint cards, with these little tiny little hands, and had their little footprints on the back of them and little tiny fingerprints, Gruenheid said. Get an all-access pass to never-before-seen content, free digital evidence kits, and much more! She had been placed in the refrigerator with a pillow, sleeping bag and what appeared to be several blankets, he said. DNA proved this child was fathered by Terry Peder Rasmussen. As the Los Angeles Times reported, Rasmussen had spent time in jail in the early 1990s for theft under the name Robert Evans. October 31, 2018 A child is abandoned. Lisa sent a sample of her DNA to an ancestry website and learned her mothers name: Denise Beaudin. Marie Vaughn was last seen with her mother and sister at a Thanksgiving gathering in 1978. The unidentified yo. An early morning drug deal in a hotel bathroom ends in tragedy. [32], Authorities said in 2018 that the Bear Brook woman was not Beaudin. They can rest in peace. She said that she did but "they died eating grass mushrooms when they were out camping". A True Crime Story is about what happens when the official narrative is challenged. Show 8 More Episodes. Through the years my mother always said, You know, something's not right. The man imprisoned for her murder maintains his innocence. [11], San Bernardino detective Peter Headley got Lisa's case in 2013 and genealogy website databases had grown since the case had started. A search leads authorities to his basement. To this day, she has yet to be identified. [9][17], The adult, later identified as Honeychurch, was determined to be Caucasian with possible Native American ancestry. Authorities were able to link him then, using his fingerprints, to the earlier child abandonment case. My father's real full name is Terry Peder Rasmussen, and he was born Dec. 23 of 1943, Diane Kloepfer told 20/20.. [18] However, DNA from Lamotte's relatives later proved that she was one of the victims in the Redhead murders, a series of unsolved homicides across the United States which are unrelated to Rasmussen. Additionally, Huber said the womans remains bore the hallmarks of Rasmussens other victims. Subsequent investigations led to Honeychurch and her daughters being identified as three of the four victims found in Allenstown; the identity of the fourth victim, his daughter, remains unknown. She was 2 to 4 years old at the time of her death, placing her birthdate between 1975-1977. We have his eyes. Well it is Wednesday! The Family in Barrels. Thanks for your support. [10][25] In 2015, the woman was identified as the mother of the two girls. They have so far been unable to identify who the mother of the child is and whether or not she may still be alive. The woman, the oldest child and the youngest child . Authorities on Thursday revealed that they had identified three of the four victims in the chilling cold case known as the Bear Brook murders . Anyone with any information thought to be related to this case is encouraged to contact New Hampshire State Police. A family tree begins to take shape. A chameleon is revealed. A fox, a wolf and a spaceboy: Felix, Zo and Arlo Duff posed up a storm ahead of their school day in celebration of World Book Day. Crime News is your destination for true crime stories from around the world, breaking crime news, and information about Oxygen's original true crime shows and documentaries. First thing we need to do is find out who she is, because without knowing who she is, it's pretty hard to track back and find out where she stayed and who her relatives were and who she associated with, he said. I closed the blinds back up. After reading about the long journey to identify the Chameleon Killers victims, read about the Green River Killer, Gary Ridgway. 3, 2023 at 9:04 AM PST | Updated: 20 minutes ago. A dedicated detective refused to stop digging after she solved the brutal murder of a chemist in California. A paternity test comparing Rasmussens blood from prison and a sample police had from 5-year-old Lisa showed Rasmussen was not her father. By 1981, Evans was romantically linked to a woman namedDenise Beaudin who also went missing with her daughter shortly thereafter. Wikimedia CommonsFrom left: Marlyse Honeychurch, Marie Elizabeth Vaughn, a still unidentified victim, and Sarah McWaters. [6] Aided by genetic genealogist Barbara Rae-Venter in 2015, Beaudin's daughter discovered her mother's identity and that the man she once thought had been her father was her kidnapper. For more than 30 years, that story has profoundly shaped the lives of many people. October 31, 2018 This is part two of episode 5. Do groundbreaking techniques come at the cost of genetic privacy? [8] A second barrel was found about 100 yards from the first one in 2000 containing the body of McWaters and an unidentified child aged between two and four years old. True crime media like books, podcasts and TV shows continue to be a multimillion-dollar industry . This is the twisted story of the Bear Brook Murders. His own taped confession. Lisa was born Dawn Beaudin in 1981, Armand Beaudin said. By 2017, Bob Evans was dead, and investigators believed he had killed Denise Beaudin after they left New Hampshire. The bodies were eventually buried in a nearby cemetery with a tombstone that read: Here lies the mortal remains known only to God of a woman aged 23-33 and a girl child aged 8-10. This is the first in an unknown number of short updates to the story of the Bear Brook murders that we'll be producing to let listeners know about any breaking news in the case. This isn't the big news we're hoping to break - stay subscribed for another full episode of Bear Brook that we hope to bring you soon. And he brings a fresh examination of the evidence to a state that has never exonerated anyone for murder. In 1981, Denise Beaudin went missing shortly after Thanksgiving with her 6-month-old daughter and her boyfriend, Rasmussen, who she knew as Robert T. Evans, according to the New Hampshire Department of Justice. Investigators believe that the mother of the child was also killed by Rasmussen. It had previously been thought impossible to recover autosomal DNA from hair strands that were no longer attached to the root, but a forensic lab in California had been working on a new method to reassemble the broken autosomal DNA found in rootless hair. And for years, no one could put a name to them, instead referring to the Bear Brook murders.. When authorities traced all Rasmussens aliases back to his true name, they found that in the early 1970s, he had been married and fathered four children from that marriage. She was only 5 months old when they left Manchester, [New Hampshire], Armand Beaudin said. For more on the case and to see a timeline of Sharon's last day, visit bearbrookpodcast.com. Marlyse was excited to be a mom. He was 62 years old when he passed away in prison. [39] By October 1978, Sarah's father was seeing another woman and Sarah was presumably in the care of her mother. It was the first time, researchers claimed, that genetic genealogy had been successfully employed in a murder case. Heath continued researching, messaging some of the family members who had been around at the time when another name came up: Terry Rasmussen. In the early days of the investigation, authorities publicized the case in the United States and some parts of Canada. Inside The Horrifying Mystery Of The Bear Brook Murders And The Evidence That Points To The Chameleon Killer. [1] [2] The podcast is hosted by Jason Moon and was released through New Hampshire Public Radio. As of June2019[update], the third child remains unidentified, but authorities were able to confirm that Rasmussen was her biological father. If you have any information about these missing cases or others, please call the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children at 1-800-THE-LOST (1-800-843-5678) or visit its website at www.missingkids.org. He holds a bachelor's degree in screenwriting (widely considered to be a bad move) from Point Park University. [13], Police released a video of a police interview of Evans in June 2017 in hopes of finding his true identity. David Salamon, Honeychurchs brother, remembered the lengths to which their family went to find Honeychurch and her daughters. In 2000, 15 years after the first barrel was discovered, Sarahs body was found inside a separate barrel at Bear Brook State Park along with the body of an unknown child. Now we need to identify and try to find all of his victims.. On November 10, 1985, a barrel was found by hunters on private property close to Bear Brook State Park in Allenstown, New Hampshire. According to investigators, the reason that it took so long for the second drum to be recovered is that it was located outside the proximity of the initial crime scene. I stood there for just a few seconds There was no odor. [18], The middle child, currently unidentified,[9][19] also had a gap between her front teeth and died at an age between 2 and 4. He was linked to the 1981 disappearance of a woman in New Hampshire that he was thought to be dating and was serving time for the murder of his wife in California when he died of natural causes in . "[14] He has been dubbed "The Chameleon Killer" due to his use of various aliases and his crime spree which stretched across the country. I got a little crazy with it, she said. Replies were filled with other people who also believed they were related to Sarah one member of a family of three who had gone missing sometime in the late 1970s. Jessica Rinaldi/The Boston Globe via Getty ImagesRebekah Becky Heath, the researcher and libararian who obsessively worked to discover Rasmussens victims identities. Came to a dead end. Born in 1943, Rasmussen was a native of Denver, Colorado. The mother of the middle child, the unidentified girl in the second barrel found at Bear Brook in 2000, who was determined to be Rasmussens biological daughter, has also never been found nor identified. Their slain bodies were found on November 10th, 1985, in Bear Brook State Park. A family tree begins to take shape. In the early 1980s, a man who said his name was Gordon Jenson was living in a trailer park in California, with a little girl he called Lisa, who police say was about 4 or 5 years old at the time. In February 2020, it was announced that DNA analysis suggested the child was primarily Caucasian, with slight Asian, African, and Native American heritage. It just made me angry and curious.. [5], The guilty plea came as a surprise to the court; Contra Costa County homicide detective Roxane Gruenheid has stated that she thinks he pleaded guilty after overhearing her say that she was going to request a paternity test for Lisa. Curiously, the first drum was way back in 1985 and the second wasnt discovered until 2000. 1977),[38] all of whom went missing from La Puente, California, around Thanksgiving 1978, while she was dating Rasmussen. Marlyse Elizabeth Honeychurch (b. Click here to donate $20. The Bear Brook murders in Allenstown, New Hampshire. February 27, 2023 We begin with the story police told about Sharon Johnson's murder. She also may have suffered from anemia. [6] The two were married in an unofficial ceremony in 2001. [3] Moon began covering the cold case in 2015, and later started the podcast. Beaudin and Dawn, an infant at the time, had gone missing from their home in Manchester, New Hampshire just after Thanksgiving in 1983. Jun was in her mid-40s when she introduced her family to her new boyfriend Larry Vanner, whom authorities later identified as Rasmussen, according to the New Hampshire Department of Justice. This is the story of the Allenstown Four. In November 2002, he was arrested for Juns murder and in 2003, he was sentenced to prison for 15 years to life after he pled guilty to the crime. There could be a variety of women out there who could be potential victims.. The only evidence against him? On an online message board, she connected with a woman who was looking for her missing family members: a woman and her two daughters whose ages and locations matched that of Honeychurch, Sarah and Marie. [17] At that time, a tipster speculated that she could have been the "Elizabeth Evans" that had been listed as Rasmussen's wife during his time in Manchester. Renee Rose spoke to "20/20" about her friend Eunsoon Jun. Rebekah Becky Heath, the researcher and libararian who obsessively worked to discover Rasmussens victims identities. Investigators have concluded the woman and two of the children lived in the area where their bodies were found. Bear Brook is an American true crime podcast covering the Bear Brook murders. 1971) and Sarah Lynn McWaters (b. She had blunt force trauma to the head, and then she was put in a container and the container was tied off and he dumped it, he said. Rasmussen is the suspected perpetrator of the Bear Brook murders. Rasmussen killed at least six people in a series of crimes that spanned decades and stretched across the continental United States. [20], In January 2017, it was announced that Denise Beaudin, who had been missing since 1981, was connected to the murders. There's always that hope, but nothing's definite.. We had a sister that was gone. Inside The Horrifying Mystery Of The Bear Brook Murders. Maricopa County Sheriff's Office Known by a lengthy list of aliases, Terry Peder Rasmussen has been dubbed "The Chameleon Killer" for assuming so many different identities as he infiltrated families and destroyed lives in New Hampshire and California. 9 min. In her free time, Heath began scouring the internet for any clues she could find. [2] He often worked as an electrician for oil and gas companies. Two investigators work parallel leads, and authorities call a press conference. After Jenson disappeared, the Deckers were unable to complete the adoption and Lisa was taken into protective custody. according to a timeline released by the attorney general's office. MORE: Suspected Potomac River Rapist, who 'terrorized' women in '90s, caught with genetic genealogy July 2017 Rasmussen is believed to be responsible for several other murders, including that of Denise Beaudin, his known girlfriend,[5] who disappeared in 1981. It can conquer death." +4. [12][16] The cause of death for these children was also blunt force trauma. [12][6], Rasmussen died, aged 67, while imprisoned at High Desert State Prison[5] on December 28, 2010. The veteran detective on the case develops a theory involving her husband and a teenager. Jenson arranged for Lisa to be taken to Southern California for two weeks with another family, Katherine and Richard Decker. Two brothers were hunting in Bear Brook State Park on the 10th of November 1985. The abandonment of five-year-old Lisa in Scotts Valley, California. To make a donation in support of Bear Brook, click here. Rasmussen's identity was confirmed via DNA from a son from his first marriage. "[15], On May 9, 2000, the remains of two young girls were found near the first discovery site. The murder of Eunsoon Jun in Richmond, California. The identities of Honeychurch and her two children were not known until they were confirmed by DNA profiling in 2019. [31], The National Center for Missing & Exploited Children subsequently announced that an unidentified man, known by the alias "Robert Evans," was found through DNA to be the father of the middle child (who was not related to the three other victims). [8] Authorities believe that Rasmussen killed Beaudin somewhere in California, although her body has never been found. [15], Rasmussen lived a mile and a half away from 14-year-old Laureen Rahn when she disappeared from Manchester, New Hampshire, in April 1980. [3][4] Rasmussen enlisted in the United States Navy in 1961 and served until he was discharged in 1967. The focus from this day forward should be to find the family of that little girl, he said. It was determined that they had been killed sometime between 1977 and 1985. Their hard work, along with that of a dogged researcher, ultimately unraveled a long trail of missing and murdered women and children all leading back, police say, to a serial killer. He settled in New Hampshire sometime in the late 1970s. There is one girl who we don't know who she is. But it was a real-life murder mystery that had the 33-year-old amateur sleuth hooked a case as gruesome as it was shocking. My father's been outta my life since I was, like, 6 or 7, she said. And he wasnt being cooperative with that at all.. [21], The youngest girl, later identified as McWaters, was estimated to be 1 to 3 years old,[9][19] had long blond or light brown hair, was between 2ft 1in (0.64m) and 2ft 6in (0.76m) tall, and also had a gap between her front teeth.[22][23]. [8], On November 10, 1985, a hunter found a metal 55-gallon drum near the site of a burned-down store at Bear Brook State Park in Allenstown, New Hampshire. Ultimately, the body was identified as Jun, who police determined had died of blunt force trauma to the head. For Bear Brook listeners, a full episode preview of Jason Moon's latest reporting project, Death Resulting. Investigators said they finally got a break in 2017, when a new forensic technique known as genetic genealogy pinpointed Rasmussen as the likely culprit. I would go to work and Id come home and I would just research and research and research.. Want to make sure that NHPR continues creating projects like Bear Brook? Police question a man with multiple identities. In 2016, this child was determined to be Rasmussens biological daughter. Lamotte had been found in Tennessee in 1985, killed about four months after her disappearance. He was polite and soft spoken and very smart, and with his twinkly blue eyes he could get somebody to maybe trust him, Gruenheid told 20/20. All we were really trying to do was to determine where Eunsoon was and if she was okay. He pleaded guilty to the death of his partnerEunsoon Jun, landing him a 15 year prison sentence, according to The Los Angeles Times. [26][27] In 2019, however, it is stated that the nonrelated child most likely originated from Arizona, Texas, California or Oregon, although additional locations cannot be excluded. February 20, 2023 Sharon Johnson's family and friends have spent the last 35 years coping with her brutal murder. [11][17], The girl found with the adult female, later identified as Vaughn, was between 5 and 11 years old. Their slain bodies were found on November 10th, 1985, in Bear Brook State Park. Terry Rasmussen poses as "Bob Evans" in an arrest photo from 1985. The podcast had reignited interest in the case, and captured the attention of a 34-year-old librarian from Connecticut named Becky Heath. He smoked constantly, Juns friend, Renee Rose, told 20/20. Larry would just grab and gobble up everything on the table and belch and eat more, and then he'd go sit on the couch.. Link your TV provider to stream full episodes and live TV. Eunsoon Jun, a chemist from California, was the first victim authorities were able to tie to Rasmussen. Rasmussen, who had used several other aliases throughout his life,was named as a suspect in 2017. [6] A fingerprint match had confirmed that along with Vanner, he had previously used the aliases Jenson and Kimball,[5] linking him to the child abandonment case. November 7, 2018 The case that was solved in reverse leaves many questions unanswered. Curiously, against the advice of his attorneys, Vanner pleaded guilty to the murder during his trial. Heath submitted her tip to authorities in October 2018. And the last story, the one that would tie them all together: the disappearance of a woman named Denise Beaudin from Manchester, New Hampshire. [36] The senior Rasmussen, known as the Chameleon killer, is believed to have used "at least five different aliases in a decades-long run of crimes across the country, including at least five homicides, and likely more. [8], San Joaquin County, California Assistant Sheriff John Huber speculated that Rasmussen may have been responsible for killing Amanda Schumann Deza, In 1995, her body was discovered by scavengers inside of a refrigerator which had been dumped in a canal. Upon Rasmussen's release from prison, according to the State of California Dept. She was previously known as San Joaquin Jane Doe and the Lady in the Fridge.[8][19]. [4], In November 1985, the bodies of Honeychurch and Vaughn were found in a barrel in Bear Brook State Park in Allenstown, New Hampshire. [6] He was paroled in 1990 and subsequently absconded. It well could be somebody else. After his stint in the 1990s, Rasmussen stayed off authorities radar for a little over a decade. She had brown hair and was about 3ft 8in (1.12m) tall. It can conquer hate. Police believe Terry Rasmussen, a man one expert deemed the worst serial killer, murdered the four women and children found stuffed into barrels in a New Hampshire state park decades ago. The last time Honeychurch was seen by her family wasonThanksgiving 1978, according to a timeline released by the attorney general's office. [30] The daughter is keeping her name private. In November 2019, Honeychurch and her older daughter Marie Vaughn, were laid to rest together with a new headstone bearing their names in Allenstown, New Hampshire. [12], New Hampshire investigators announced that the identities of Honeychurch, Vaughn and McWaters were confirmed through DNA testing in June 2019. We were playing a game of hide and seek, Morgan told 20/20. I was approached by one of the kids in the group that he had come upon a barrel out in the middle of the woods, which was off the trail. This isn't the big news we're hoping to break - stay subscribed for another full episode of Bear Brook that we hope to bring you soon. [7] His cause of death was a combination of lung cancer, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease and pneumonia. Which says, yeah, there's more victims out there, definitely.. The New Hampshire Attorney General's office revealed that three of the victims in what became widely known as the "Bear Brook Murders" are Marlyse Elizabeth Honeychurch and her two daughters,. On this Wikipedia the language links are at the top of the page across from the article title. The bodies could not be identified at the time, leading the case to go cold. Diane Kloepfer is one of four biological children Terry Rasmussen fathered in his marriage. [4] They were found to have died of blunt force trauma to their heads. We believe we have our killer, said New Hampshire Assistant Attorney General Jeffrey Strelzin at the time. Terry Peder Rasmussen (December 23, 1943 December 28, 2010) was an American serial killer. The bodies of his girlfriend, California woman Marlyse Elizabeth Honeychurch, her two daughters, and his own daughter were discovered in two barrels in Allenstown, New Hampshire, in 1985 and 2000. I don't know if my mother knew his capacity for violence, but I don't believe that she knew about this His ability to kill women and children., If my mother wouldn't have left my father, it couldve been me, she said.Would have been me.. Sarah, her half-sister Marie and their mother, Honeychurch, were unknown persons until authorities announced their identities at a press conference on June 6, 2019. Known by a lengthy list of aliases, Terry Peder Rasmussen has been dubbed The Chameleon Killer for assuming so many different identities as he infiltrated families and destroyed lives in New Hampshire and California. She was born in Hawaiian Gardens, California, when her father was in the Marines. In June 2013, new versions of the victims' facial reconstructions were created by the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children. The remains of Marie and her mother, Honeychurch, were found in the first of two barrels that were discovered at Bear Brook State Park in November 1985. Donate $20 today. He was also confirmed, via DNA, to be the father of a 2-to-4-year-old girl who was one of the Bear Brook victims. Under a plea deal, an additional charge of child abuse was dropped. On June 8, 2000, the remains of Marie and Honeychurch, which were still unidentified at the time, were exhumed from the grave by authorities for DNA testing. Thanks for your support. Terry Rasmussen poses as "Larry Vanner" in an arrest photo from 2002. While living in Manchester, New Hampshire, Rasmussen lived under the alias "Robert 'Bob' Evans" and worked at the Waumbec Mill. Who could believe him for one second?, Rose said she told him: I want Eunsoon, not you, I want Eunsoon to tell me that she's done with our relationship or I'm going to get the sheriff involved.. Four months later, Ron Montplaisir, who was an Allenstown, New Hampshire police officer at the time, got a call from dispatch to meet a hunter at the edge of the woods. In 2003, the San Bernardino County Sheriff's Department opened a case to find Lisa's biological family. But there was no doubt the killings had been the handiwork of the same person. [9] Beaudin was not reported missing at the time as her family believed she left town due to financial reasons.
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