Evans was listed as married to a woman named Elizabeth, according to documents from 1980. 9 min. As the Los Angeles Times reported, Rasmussen had spent time in jail in the early 1990s for theft under the name Robert Evans. Create a free profile to get unlimited access to exclusive videos, breaking news, sweepstakes, and more! A chameleon is revealed. It just made me angry and curious.. Her teeth showed significant dental work, including multiple fillings and three extractions. Then, 15 years later on May 9, 2000, a second 55-gallon drum was discovered in the same area. The Bear Brook murders (also referred to as the Allenstown Four) are female American murder victims, two discovered in 1985 and two in 2000, at Bear Brook State Park in Allenstown, New Hampshire, United States. Authorities on Thursday revealed that they had identified three of the four victims in the chilling cold case known as the Bear Brook murders . Bear Brook murder victims remembered. [6] The two were married in an unofficial ceremony in 2001. 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. Huber says the investigation is stalled because she is still unidentified. Honeychurch was last seen in La Puente, California, on Thanksgiving day that year. Investigators said genealogy research. So our suspect started in 1984 as Curtis Kimball. Then we had Gordon Jenson. Then he was using Larry Vanner. And now, it turns out, in the early 1980s back in New Hampshire, he was using Bob Evans, San Bernardino County, California, Sheriffs Deputy Peter Headley explained. Police have not been able to link Rasmussen to other cases, according toStrelzin. [10] These bodies were also in a metal 55-gallon drum, and police believe that all four murders occurred at roughly the same time, despite investigators inexplicably missing the second drum in 1985. She had brown hair and was about 3ft 8in (1.12m) tall. And for years, no one could put a name to them, instead referring to the Bear Brook murders.. The children both went through periods where they were in the custody of their fathers, but Marlyse would later regain guardianship. These are the stories of the women and children he is suspected of killing, one he confessed to murdering and those whose lives he changed forever: Honeychurch, who was born in Connecticut in 1954, was married twice and had a daughter with each husband. Rasmussen was born on December 23, 1943,[1] in Denver, Colorado. New methods of inquiry are used to crack other cold cases. 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. "[15], On May 9, 2000, the remains of two young girls were found near the first discovery site. Link your TV provider to stream full episodes and live TV. Maricopa County Sheriffs Department, Arizona.A mugshot of Terry Rasmussen from 1973. [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]. He abandoned her in 1986 and was subsequently imprisoned on child abandonment charges. The man imprisoned for her murder maintains his innocence. Came to a dead end, Salamon said. Just disappeared.. Gruenheid said she later determined a man matching Vanners description had bought 10 bags of cat litter from a nearby pet store. It can conquer death." +4. [5] Throughout 1980, he was arrested in Manchester three times for writing a bad check, theft, and diverting electric current. This is the twisted story of the Bear Brook Murders. Jenson arranged for Lisa to be taken to Southern California for two weeks with another family, Katherine and Richard Decker. 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. Sarah L. McWaters was 11 months old when she was last seen with her mother and sister around Thanksgiving of 1978. [12] On January 26, 2017, authorities publicly announced that Evans was a suspect in the disappearance of Denise Beaudin and the Bear Brook murders. [12], New Hampshire investigators announced that the identities of Honeychurch, Vaughn and McWaters were confirmed through DNA testing in June 2019. I don't think they're ever going to find her, Denise Beaudins father Armand Beaudin said. On June 6, 2019, the New Hampshire Attorney General's office revealed that investigators had successfully identified three of the four Bear Brook murders victims. [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. The guys jumped on my four-wheeler and we booted out of there and that was the last time that we saw the barrel.. As with the discovery of many unidentified victims in parks and forests, the bodies were found by hunters, two brothers, who reported their findings to local authorities. Well it is Wednesday! Anyone with any information thought to be related to this case is encouraged to contact New Hampshire State Police. February 20, 2023 Sharon Johnson's family and friends have spent the last 35 years coping with her brutal murder. Testing his DNA, they also determined that the man had not, in fact, been Lisas father and an investigation began to find out who Lisa really was. A paternity test comparing Rasmussens blood from prison and a sample police had from 5-year-old Lisa showed Rasmussen was not her father. After an argument with her family, she left with Rasmussen and her two daughters, six-year-old Marie Elizabeth Vaughn and one-year-old Sarah Lynn McWaters. Heath submitted her tip to authorities in October 2018. He holds a bachelor's degree in screenwriting (widely considered to be a bad move) from Point Park University. They were buried together at a local Allenstown cemetery with a donated gravestone that read: Here lies the mortal remains known only to God of a woman aged 23-33 and a girl child aged 8-10. Honeychurch was last seen at her mothers house in La Puente, California, around Thanksgiving in 1978. NEW YORK (AP) Amazon is pausing construction of its second headquarters in Virginia following the biggest round of layoffs in . My father's real full name is Terry Peder Rasmussen, and he was born Dec. 23 of 1943, Diane Kloepfer told 20/20.. Updates in the case of the Bear Brook Murders. The only evidence against him? As Heath was calling in the tip to authorities, investigative genetic genealogist Barbara Rae-Venter was also uncovering the three victims identities through a new technique that involves extracting DNA from the shaft of a strand of hair. In the show's second season, host Jason Moon returns with a new, even more complex story: In 1989, New Hampshire police charged three men in the murder of a pregnant woman named Sharon Johnson. 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. One of his sons from this marriage provided the DNA sample that confirmed Rasmussen as Evans in June 2017. Do groundbreaking techniques come at the cost of genetic privacy? [14] Denise Daneault, a 25-year-old woman who lived two blocks from the Rahn residence, went missing from a bar in June 1980. Where is she? Hodges remembered. Roxane Gruenheid was a homicide detective at the Contra Costa County Sheriff's Office. She had an overbite, which was probably noticeable. But 15years later, a similar barrel was discovered in the same area, this time containing the remainsof two girls. [1] The use of genetic genealogy to identify Rasmussen represented new possibilities in forensic investigations. The hunter had been stalking deer on a property adjacent to New Hampshire's Bear Brook State Park. The woman also told Heath that her missing family member had once married a man with the last name Rasmussen. Similar posts also aided in the identifications of the victims. It was very surreal that a mother and daughter were actually inside the barrel itself, disposed of like common trash, John Cody, a former New Hampshire State Police detective, told 20/20.. She said that she did but "they died eating grass mushrooms when they were out camping". Investigative reporter Billy Jensen, who wrote about Rasmussen in his upcoming book Chase Darkness With Me," told Oxygen Digital Correspondent Stephanie Gomulka at CrimeCon 2019he thinks Rasmussen is responsible for killing other people, too. In the early days of the investigation, authorities publicized the case in the United States and some parts of Canada. It would take 17 years until the killer could be named and another two until his victims would be identified. Wikimedia CommonsFrom left: Marlyse Honeychurch, Marie Elizabeth Vaughn, a still unidentified victim, and Sarah McWaters. Rebekah Heath, a research librarian who said shed become obsessed with the case, helped identify the woman and the two children through her own sleuthing. Rasmussen is the suspected perpetrator of the Bear Brook murders. From the creators of the hit podcast Bear Brook comes A True Crime Story. 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. The second child found in the second barrel has not yet been identified although DNA evidence has confirmed thatRasmussen wasthe parent of this unknown victim and that she was not biologically related to Honeychurch or her daughters. February 27, 2023 We begin with the story police told about Sharon Johnson's murder. Rose ultimately went to the Contra Costa County Sheriff, where Roxane Gruenheid was a homicide detective. June 7, 2019 A clue is found buried on an internet message board. 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. His true identity, Terry Rasmussen, was not revealed by authorities until 2017. Most serial killers would never do that; it's the last thing they would do. 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. We have never stopped looking, he said. You know, people ask me why I do these interviews. The veteran detective on the case develops a theory involving her husband and a teenager. 1971) and Sarah Lynn McWaters (b. I was like, There is no way there is no way thats a coincidence,' Heath said, This is huge.'. Maricopa County Sheriffs Department, Arizona. 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. Due to his use of many aliases, most notably "Bob Evans", Rasmussen is known as "The Chameleon Killer". After reading about the long journey to identify the Chameleon Killers victims, read about the Green River Killer, Gary Ridgway. During the news conference, investigators detail the Bear Brook State Park murders; the killing of Eunsoon Jun in California; Lisa's abandonment; and Lisa's link to the still-missing Denise Beaudin, her mother. The case stumped investigators for years: four bodies, found dismembered, skeletonized, wrapped in plastic bags, and stuffed in two 55-gallon steel drums in the Bear Brook State Park in Allenstown, New Hampshire. She had symptoms of pneumonia, a crooked front tooth and a diastema (space between her top teeth), two earrings in each ear, and was between 4ft 3in (1.30m) and 4ft 6in (1.37m) tall. A year later, Juns body was found dismembered and buried in her basement. Let's talk about the Bear Brook murders. Two investigators work parallel leads, and authorities call a press conference. Investigators have concluded the woman and two of the children lived in the area where their bodies were found. 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. [41] Sarah was laid to rest in Connecticut, closer to her father's family. But what if that story was based on a lie? David Salamon, Honeychurchs brother, remembered the lengths to which their family went to find Honeychurch and her daughters. [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. [13], Police released a video of a police interview of Evans in June 2017 in hopes of finding his true identity. Public DomainTerry Peder Rasmussens 2002 mugshot after his arrest for the murder of his girlfriend Eunsoon Jun. And he brings a fresh examination of the evidence to a state that has never exonerated anyone for murder. Billy Jensen on the Bear Brook 4 Update and Remembering the Victims of Ted Bundy | CrimeCon, Debra and Terra Newell and Laura Richards Discuss Dirty John & Coercive Control, Nancy Grace Speaks About Fighting For Victims at CrimeCon 2019, Nancy Grace on Her New Oxygen Series Injustice, the Chris Watts Case, and More | CrimeCon, Photo: The hunt for a serial killer stretches to California as detectives unravel a tangled web of abuse and murder created by one man with many fake identities. Beaudin's daughter was abducted by Rasmussen and taken to California, where he raised her under the pseudonym "Gordon Jensen". At the time, Morgan and his friends didnt know there were remains inside the barrel. Donate $20 today. A family tree begins to take shape. Vanner died in prison in December 2010 of natural causes. She was 2 to 4 years old at the time of her death, placing her birthdate between 1975-1977. 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 stood there for just a few seconds There was no odor. A fourth victim in the . A second search was conducted in May 2018. [3][9][10][11][12][13] Autopsies determined both had died of blunt trauma. [9] Beaudin was not reported missing at the time as her family believed she left town due to financial reasons. A surprising admission leads to a new break in the case. [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. True crime media like books, podcasts and TV shows continue to be a multimillion-dollar industry . In 2003, the San Bernardino County Sheriff's Department opened a case to find Lisa's biological family. [32], Authorities said in 2018 that the Bear Brook woman was not Beaudin. A staff writer for All That's Interesting, Austin Harvey has also had work published with Discover Magazine, Giddy, and Lucid covering topics on mental health, sexual health, history, and sociology. Starring Terry P Rasmussen Genres Unscripted Subtitles None available He died in prison in 2010 after being convicted of her 2002 murder. Click here to donate $20. DNA is wrestled from rootless hair. [15], When Lisa was interviewed by detectives in 1986, they asked her if she had any siblings. [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. My father's been outta my life since I was, like, 6 or 7, she said. [6] The divorce was finalized in 1978. That's why I do these to get her identified and so that there's closure for the families involved here. 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. [10], Rasmussen resurfaced in December 1999 under the pseudonym Larry Vanner when California-based chemist Eunsoon Jun introduced him to her family. 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. [12][6], Rasmussen died, aged 67, while imprisoned at High Desert State Prison[5] on December 28, 2010. 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. [9][14] Daneault had been living on the same street as Rasmussen. [2] He often worked as an electrician for oil and gas companies. There were still many questions to be answered and gaps in Evans history to fill in, but now investigators had a crucial piece of evidence Bob Evans, or Lawrence Vanner, had lived in New Hampshire in the mid-1980s. Do Not Sell or Share My Personal Information. She left the group home after receiving a furlough, so she was not reported missing until police were seeking more information on Rasmussen in 2017. Rasmussen's identity was confirmed via DNA from a son from his first marriage. Marie E. Vaughn was first, born in 1971, then Sarah L. McWaters was born in 1977, according to the New Hampshire Department of Justice. Before that, hed been jailed in 1988 for driving a stolen vehicle under the name Gerry Mockerman, and even earlier in 1985 for drunk driving and child endangerment. Despite hundreds of leads, the bodies were not identified. I would go to work and Id come home and I would just research and research and research.. The identification of three decomposing corpses discovered in barrels in a New Hampshire state park have led police to believe they've solved a decades-old crime. 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. By 1981, Evans was romantically linked to a woman namedDenise Beaudin who also went missing with her daughter shortly thereafter. And he wasnt being cooperative with that at all.. For more than two decades, the Bear Brook murders remained a complete mystery. Published: Mar. 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The Bear Brook Murders. ALLENSTOWN "Love conquers all things. November 7, 2018 The case that was solved in reverse leaves many questions unanswered. One of the hunters looked inside the open barrel and saw a skull. Rasmussen has been linked to five horrific murders and authorities fear there are more. [20], In January 2017, it was announced that Denise Beaudin, who had been missing since 1981, was connected to the murders. Marlyse Honeychurch was last seen around Thanksgiving 1978 with her two daughters, Marie and Sarah. From the creators of the hit podcast Bear Brook comes A True Crime Story. [28] Beaudin disappeared from Manchester, New Hampshire, along with her young daughter and then-boyfriend Robert "Bob" Evans. Since 2017, he has been named as a suspect in several other crimes. And the last story, the one that would tie them all together: the disappearance of a woman named Denise Beaudin from Manchester, New Hampshire. Rasmussen fell off the radar after that but resurfaced in California under a different name in 2002 when police found adismembered body in his basement. More than 30 years later, is it possible to get to the truth and who gets to tell it? Beaudin and Dawn, an infant at the time, had gone missing from their home in Manchester, New Hampshire just after Thanksgiving in 1983. Now we need to identify and try to find all of his victims.. May their souls find peace in Gods loving care. [2] He grew up in Arizona and attended North High School in Phoenix until dropping out during his sophomore year in 1960. The middle child, identified as Rasmussen's daughter, currently remains unidentified. To make a donation in support of Bear Brook, click here. The refrigerator had been dumped in a canal in San Joaquin County, California. Terry Rasmussen poses as "Curtis Kimball" in an arrest photo from 1990. His own taped confession. February 13, 2019 A son remembers his father, and searches for clues in his military paperwork. Born in 1943, Rasmussen was a native of Denver, Colorado. This linked him to New Hampshire in the same timeframe as the Bear Brook murders, when he was known as Robert Evans. Terry Rasmussen poses as "Larry Vanner" in an arrest photo from 2002. Terry Peder Rasmussens 2002 mugshot after his arrest for the murder of his girlfriend Eunsoon Jun. While searching Vanners California home, Gruenheid and a fellow detective located an enormous pile of cat litter in a crawl space. During this hunt, one of the brothers noticed an oil barrel while walking down a trail. [29] Beaudin was not reported missing until 2016, when her daughter resurfaced alive and well in California after there was more publicity about the murders and Beaudin's disappearance. He was just a really, really bad man, one of the worst, Jensen said. October 24, 2018 An ominous New Year's party introduction. They have so far been unable to identify who the mother of the child is and whether or not she may still be alive. David Salamon and Paula Hodges are Honeychurch's siblings. The first barrel was discovered in 1985, the second in 2000. Authorities believed that Evans was the killer of the four Bear Brook victims, but did not elaborate. 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. On Nov. 10, 1985, a hunter trekking through Bear Brook State Park in Allenstown, New Hampshire came across a large, industrial steel drum. Police believe her answer indicates they may have been killed by Rasmussen, too. It wasnt Rasmussens first time in prison, however hed just been using a different name. She left the home after a trivial argument with her mother and was never seen alive again. But there was no doubt the killings had been the handiwork of the same person. [7] Based on the date they disappeared, available documents and Rasmussen's activities, the victims most likely died between 1978 and 1981. We know what he was, we know what he did and now we know who his victims were.. Rasmussen is the suspected perpetrator of the Bear Brook murders. A True Crime Story is about what happens when the official narrative is challenged. 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. Click here to donate $20. Then a Conn. librarian listened to a podcast", "Funeral for mother and daughter brings closure to longtime mystery", National Center for Missing and Exploited Children, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Bear_Brook_murders&oldid=1130144089, This page was last edited on 28 December 2022, at 20:07. I guess dying serves him right, Rose said. 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.
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