It well could be Terry. Then, 15 years later on May 9, 2000, a second 55-gallon drum was discovered in the same area. Starring Terry P Rasmussen Genres Unscripted Subtitles None available [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. Sarah is believed to have been 2 to 3 years old at the time she was killed, according to authorities. [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. [2] The three girls were thought to also have some Native American heritage; they had light or European-American complexions. When alternate versions are told by lawyers and podcasters as part of a mounting effort to free Jason Carroll from prison and clear his name. [12], New Hampshire investigators announced that the identities of Honeychurch, Vaughn and McWaters were confirmed through DNA testing in June 2019. [4] They were found to have died of blunt force trauma to their heads. 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. [5] Two months later, he was confirmed to be Rasmussen, through Y-DNA testing from a DNA sample contributed by one of his children from what is believed to be his first marriage. Police have not been able to link Rasmussen to other cases, according toStrelzin. [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. For more than 30 years, that story has profoundly shaped the lives of many people. [10], Rasmussen resurfaced in December 1999 under the pseudonym Larry Vanner when California-based chemist Eunsoon Jun introduced him to her family. From the creators of the hit podcast Bear Brook comes A True Crime Story. One of his sons from this marriage provided the DNA sample that confirmed Rasmussen as Evans in June 2017. 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. Also in the refrigerator, was a unique brand of milk that was only delivered to a certain area that matched up with where Rasmussen had been at the time, Huber said. On November 10, 1985, a barrel was found by hunters on private property close to Bear Brook State Park in Allenstown, New Hampshire. 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. The identities of Honeychurch and her two children were not known until they were confirmed by DNA profiling in 2019. The focus from this day forward should be to find the family of that little girl, he said. [42] In February 2020, a new rendering of the fourth victim was released by the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children and New Hampshire State Police. We have a few unidentified remains that we are trying to identify in different parts of the country that we think have all of his earmarks, Jensen told Gomulka. Investigators have concluded the woman and two of the children lived in the area where their bodies were found. 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. And he wasnt being cooperative with that at all.. Honeychurch was 24 at the time, according to the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children. MORE: Suspected Potomac River Rapist, who 'terrorized' women in '90s, caught with genetic genealogy July 2017 Link your TV provider to stream full episodes and live TV. Beaudin and Dawn, an infant at the time, had gone missing from their home in Manchester, New Hampshire just after Thanksgiving in 1983. Terry Rasmussen poses as "Larry Vanner" in an arrest photo from 2002. bodies found. ALLENSTOWN "Love conquers all things. [33] They also said that "Robert Evans" was a pseudonym and that the man's legal identity was unknown. Esther Elliott, eight, (left) dressed as . They werent identified until 2019; at that time, authorities believed Marie was 8 to 10 years old at the time of her death. All the same guy., Watch the full story on "20/20" FRIDAY at 9 p.m. 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 married Sarah's father in September 1974, and the two were separated by the time she was known to be dating Rasmussen. January 23, 2023 Jason Carroll is serving life in prison for a murder he says he didn't commit. It was there that she introduced her family to her boyfriend, Terry Rasmussen, according to the New Hampshire Department of Justice. Jenson arranged for Lisa to be taken to Southern California for two weeks with another family, Katherine and Richard Decker. Beaudin's daughter was abducted by Rasmussen and taken to California, where he raised her under the pseudonym "Gordon Jensen". Although this moment is bittersweet, they had their names back on this day. Investigators knew who their killer was, but they still had no clue who the victims were. "The Bear Brook case was the . Why are you with him? Hodges said. To make a donation in support of Bear Brook, click here. May their souls find peace in Gods loving care.. The Allenstown Four. Instead, they focus on complete strangers. National Center for Missing and Exploited Children. He settled in New Hampshire sometime in the late 1970s. according to a timeline released by the attorney general's office. [34] Two months later, Robert Evans was confirmed as Terry Peder Rasmussen, through Y-DNA testing from a DNA sample contributed by one of his sons from what is believed to be his first marriage. In 1985, there was a grim discovery made in Bear Brook State Park in Allenstown, New Hampshire: Two decomposing bodies found in a barrel. Their slain bodies were found on November 10th, 1985, in Bear Brook State Park. The veteran detective on the case develops a theory involving her husband and a teenager. It would take 17 years until the killer could be named and another two until his victims would be identified. My father's been outta my life since I was, like, 6 or 7, she said. Police believe her answer indicates they may have been killed by Rasmussen, too. Jessica Rinaldi/The Boston Globe via Getty Images. With the confirmation, police believe theycan officially implicate serial killerTerry Peder Rasmussen, who had passed away while in prison in 2010, in their deaths. 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. The guys jumped on my four-wheeler and we booted out of there and that was the last time that we saw the barrel.. 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For more on the case, visit bearbrookpodcast.com. In the show's second season, host Jason Moon returns with a new, even more complex story: In 1989, New Hampshire police . 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. [4] The identities of the middle child, who Rasmussen fathered, and her mother remain unknown. He holds a bachelor's degree in screenwriting (widely considered to be a bad move) from Point Park University. The Bear Brook murders, and Allenstown Barrel murders refer to four dismembered female murder victims found in barrels, two discovered in 1985 and two in 2000, at Bear Brook State Park in Allenstown, New Hampshire. Their slain bodies were found on November 10th, 1985, in Bear Brook State Park. More than 30 years later, is it possible to get to the truth - and who gets to tell it? 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. Marlyse Honeychurch was last seen around Thanksgiving 1978 with her two daughters, Marie and Sarah. 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. Sarah L. McWaters was 11 months old when she was last seen with her mother and sister around Thanksgiving of 1978. She had been placed in the refrigerator with a pillow, sleeping bag and what appeared to be several blankets, he said. Her teeth showed significant dental work, including multiple fillings and three extractions. Authorities were able to link him then, using his fingerprints, to the earlier child abandonment case. The only evidence against him? As the Los Angeles Times reported, Rasmussen had spent time in jail in the early 1990s for theft under the name Robert Evans. And Denise only had one daughter, whom she had named Dawn. One of the brothers just pushed the barrel over. The children both went through periods where they were in the custody of their fathers, but Marlyse would later regain guardianship. 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. I closed the blinds back up. [7] His cause of death was a combination of lung cancer, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease and pneumonia. [6] He was arrested in Cypress, California, in 1985 under the name Curtis Kimball for charges of driving under the influence and endangering the welfare of a child but failed to appear in court. [3][9][10][11][12][13] Autopsies determined both had died of blunt trauma. [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. In the early days of the investigation, authorities publicized the case in the United States and some parts of Canada. 07-11-2018. 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. A year later, Juns body was found dismembered and buried in her basement. 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. [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. But 15years later, a similar barrel was discovered in the same area, this time containing the remainsof two girls. Thanks for your support. 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. Evans later abandoned a young girl, "Lisa", at a campground, and she was found to not be his daughter. [7] Based on the date they disappeared, available documents and Rasmussen's activities, the victims most likely died between 1978 and 1981. 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. From the creators of the hit podcast Bear Brook comes A True Crime Story. 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. Lisa was born Dawn Beaudin in 1981, Armand Beaudin said. [40], Sarah's younger half brother, who had never met her, created a post in 1999 on the Ancestry.com website in efforts to locate her. In 2003, when the San Bernardino Sheriffs Department opened a new case aimed at finding Lisas biological family, she was approximately 22 years old. "The Middle Child" was found on May 9, 2000 on private property next to Bear Brook State Park in Allenstown, NH. His own taped confession. I stood there for just a few seconds There was no odor. 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. As Evans, he dated Denise Beaudin, who disappeared in 1981. It was just odd that the barrel was out there It was [a] slightly rusted, dark blue barrel. Clockwise from left: Denise Beaudin, Marlyse Elizabeth Honeychurch, Sarah L. McWaters, Marie E. Vaughn, "the Middle Child," Eunsoon Jun. 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. She was previously known as San Joaquin Jane Doe and the Lady in the Fridge.[8][19]. Well it is Wednesday! of Corrections, he broke parole and fled, Gruenheid said. Police built the case against him around his own taped confession. Now, the only question that remains is, who was the middle child, Terry Rasmussens daughter and fourth victim? [12][6], Rasmussen died, aged 67, while imprisoned at High Desert State Prison[5] on December 28, 2010. 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 is an American true crime podcast covering the Bear Brook murders. Three of the victims would be identified, however, two years later, thanks to the obsessive amateur sleuthing of Rebekah Heath and Barbara Rae-Venter. New Hampshire State Attorney's Office, Sarah Lynn McWaters, Marlyse Elizabeth Honeychurch and Marie Elizabeth Vaughn. [29], Evans died in prison in December 2010. New methods of inquiry are used to crack other cold cases. 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. 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. Show 8 More Episodes. A search leads authorities to his basement. Since 2017, he has been named as a suspect in several other crimes. The remains of a young girl, aged 2 to 4, was found in the second barrel with Sarahs remains in 2000. [6] He was paroled in 1990 and subsequently absconded. She also may have suffered from anemia. 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. It is later learned that three of the four victims are . Terry Rasmussen poses as "Curtis Kimball" in an arrest photo from 1990. [5] In 1989, he received a three-year prison sentence for child abandonment. In 1985 the plastic wrapped bodies of a woman and girl were discovered in a metal drum in a forest in Allenstown, New Hampshire. May their souls find peace in Gods loving care. [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. The conclusion was made after family members of the victims helped with the process ofDNA testing andgenetic genealogy. A family tree begins to take shape. The family was comprised of Sarah McWaters, an infant, her older sister Marie Elizabeth Vaughn, and their mother Marlyse Honeychurch. There could be a variety of women out there who could be potential victims.. It was just a situation where, every time we searched, [we] came to a dead end. [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. For any tips concerning Terry Rasmussen and any unknown victims, please contact please contact Deputy Peter Headley with San Bernardino County Sheriffs Department at pheadley@sbcsd.org or the New Hampshire State Police Cold Case Unit (603)223-3648, ColdCaseUnit@dos.nh.gov, 24/7 coverage of breaking news and live events. I do, my sister does, and my brother does., I do know that my mother tells me All that I can get from her is that he was the great love of her life, she said. The Bear Brook murders (aka the Allenstown Four) are four female American murder victims, discovered in 1985 and 2000, at Bear Brook State Park in Allenstown, New Hampshire. On this Wikipedia the language links are at the top of the page across from the article title. I remember seeing an ax leaned up there.. 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. How investigators had missed it over a decade prior remains unclear, but the second barrel, like the first, contained the mutilated bodies of two young girls, stored in the same manner. Honeychurchs sisters, Roxanne Barrows and Michelle Chagaris, remember her as bubbly and quirky, and said she had a good sense of humor.. His true identity, Terry Rasmussen, was not revealed by authorities until 2017. an investigative journalist and the author of the book "Chase Darkness With Me." . True crime media like books, podcasts and TV shows continue to be a multimillion-dollar industry . Investigators believe that the mother of the child was also killed by Rasmussen. Maricopa County Sheriffs Department, Arizona. 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. Thanks for your support. [1] The use of genetic genealogy to identify Rasmussen represented new possibilities in forensic investigations. Honeychurchs youngest daughter, Sarah, was laid to rest in Connecticut, near her fathers family. 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 . The Bear Brook murders in Allenstown, New Hampshire. After reading about the long journey to identify the Chameleon Killers victims, read about the Green River Killer, Gary Ridgway. They have so far been unable to identify who the mother of the child is and whether or not she may still be alive. November 7, 2018 The case that was solved in reverse leaves many questions unanswered. The unidentified yo. For more than two decades, the Bear Brook murders remained a complete mystery. Beaudin's body has never been found and she is currently presumed dead, according to The Concord Monitor. Bear Brook Starting February 20 Jason Carroll is serving life in prison for a murder he says he didn't commit. While living in Manchester, New Hampshire, Rasmussen lived under the alias "Robert 'Bob' Evans" and worked at the Waumbec Mill. 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. 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. THE CHAMELEON KILLER 'Bear Brook Murders' Starcasm Staff September 5, 2021 The Chameleon Killer, True Crime For 30 years the killer of bodies found in barrels near Bear Brook State Park,. Under a plea deal, an additional charge of child abuse was dropped. The Grisly Crimes Of Terry Rasmussen.#crime #truecrime #solvedcase #unsolved #realcrimeMusic Credit:. The Family in Barrels.
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