[2] The three girls were thought to also have some Native American heritage; they had light or European-American complexions. It can conquer hate. Denise Beaudin has never been located. 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. One of the brothers just pushed the barrel over. 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. 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. [2] He grew up in Arizona and attended North High School in Phoenix until dropping out during his sophomore year in 1960. [4], Criminologist Jack Levin has stated that Rasmussen is unlike any serial killer he has ever studied, stating: "What distinguishes Rasmussen from most serial killers, is that he targeted people with whom he had a relationship. Instead, they focus on complete strangers. There's always that hope, but nothing's definite.. Do Not Sell or Share My Personal Information. Under his plea agreement, an additional charge of child abuse was dropped. Despite hundreds of leads, the bodies were not identified. 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. [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. [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. He didn't even look healthy. Then, 15 years later on May 9, 2000, a second 55-gallon drum was discovered in the same area. Huber says the investigation is stalled because she is still unidentified. Rasmussen killed at least six people in a series of crimes that spanned decades and stretched across the continental United States. A year later, Juns body was found dismembered and buried in her basement. In November 2015, the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children released a third set of reconstructions of the four victims at a news conference at the New Hampshire State Attorney General's office. He finds Rasmussen to be a particularly repulsive serial killer in fact, the worst, in his opinion. Want to make sure that NHPR continues creating projects like Bear Brook? Sarah is believed to have been 2 to 3 years old at the time she was killed, according to authorities. 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. From left: Marlyse Honeychurch, Marie Elizabeth Vaughn, a still unidentified victim, and Sarah McWaters. He abandoned her in 1986 and was subsequently imprisoned on child abandonment charges. She had brown hair and was about 3ft 8in (1.12m) tall. 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. When I got up in the morning, I pulled my shades back, there was clouds and a beautiful blue sky, and there was seagulls circling in the sky, they were beautiful. 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. The middle child, identified as Rasmussen's daughter, currently remains unidentified. In 1995, scavengers found a refrigerator containing what former San Joaquin County Assistant Sheriff John Huber believes may be another one of Rasmussens victims. 9 min. [8][39] It is believed that all four victims were murdered before 1981, as Rasmussen was known to have left New Hampshire after this time. The bodies could not be identified at the time, leading the case to go cold. 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. 2021 TV-14 Deep in the woods of New Hampshire, police find barrels with the remains of mutilated victims. Bear Brook | S2 - TRAILER Trailer: Bear Brook S2: A True Crime Story 00:00 03:23 Police question a man with multiple identities. She also may have suffered from anemia. There's always that hope, but nothing's definite.. On November 10, 1985, a barrel was found by hunters on private property close to Bear Brook State Park in Allenstown, New Hampshire. Well it is Wednesday! From the creators of the hit podcast Bear Brook comes A True Crime Story. 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. Jun disappeared from Richmond, California, in June 2002, approximately two years after Vanner met her family and friends. In 1985 two bodies were discovered in a barrel in the Bear Brook State Park. Click here to donate $20. More than 30 years later, is it possible to get to the truth and who gets to tell it? 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. Jensen told Gomulka at CrimeCon that Rasmussen put Jun's body in a 75-pound pile of kitty litter before he was able to dispose of her. 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. [2] All four of the victims were either partially or completely skeletonized; they were believed to have died between 1977 and 1981. At the time, Morgan and his friends didnt know there were remains inside the barrel. We had a sister that was gone. One of the hunters looked inside the open barrel and saw a skull. Deza was identified by Othram on February 23, 2023. [4][14] The two were buried in an Allenstown 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. Yet, they still had no clue who the victims were. His own taped confession. She had been placed in the refrigerator with a pillow, sleeping bag and what appeared to be several blankets, he said. Authorities have connected 5 murders to Rasmussen and they fear there are more. Timelines come together. [8][10] He was arrested that November and pleaded no contest in 2003[12] to charges relating to her murder and dismemberment. It well could be Terry. [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. [7] His cause of death was a combination of lung cancer, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease and pneumonia. 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,. Inside The Horrifying Mystery Of The Bear Brook Murders And The Evidence That Points To The Chameleon Killer. Heath continued researching, messaging some of the family members who had been around at the time when another name came up: Terry Rasmussen. 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 . It's a blue 55-gallon steel drum. The victims were officially named in June 2019. The identity of the fourth victim still remains a mystery. 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. May their souls find peace in Gods loving care. Their slain bodies were found on November 10th, 1985, in Bear Brook State Park. October 24, 2018 An ominous New Year's party introduction. Authorities fear both Beaudin and the unidentified mother of the middle child are other possible victims of Rasmussen. While living in Manchester, New Hampshire, Rasmussen lived under the alias "Robert 'Bob' Evans" and worked at the Waumbec Mill. It was sad, Salamon said. From the creators of the hit podcast Bear Brook comes A True Crime Story. [1] The use of genetic genealogy to identify Rasmussen represented new possibilities in forensic investigations. An estranged cousin goes missing. Turn on desktop notifications for breaking stories about interest? I don't think they're ever going to find her, Beaudins father, Armand Beaudin, said. [6] He was paroled in 1990 and subsequently absconded. according to a timeline released by the attorney general's office. 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. For more on the case, visit bearbrookpodcast.com. In 2003, when the San Bernardino Sheriffs Department opened a new case aimed at finding Lisas biological family, she was approximately 22 years old. 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I got a little crazy with it, she said. This linked him to New Hampshire in the same timeframe as the Bear Brook murders, when he was known as Robert Evans. Where is she? Hodges remembered. 3, 2023 at 9:04 AM PST | Updated: 20 minutes ago. Marlyse Honeychurch was last seen around Thanksgiving 1978 with her two daughters, Marie and Sarah. Oxygen Insider is your all-access pass to never-before-seen content, free digital evidence kits, and much more! After his stint in the 1990s, Rasmussen stayed off authorities radar for a little over a decade. bodies found. [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. Investigators believe that the mother of the child was also killed by Rasmussen. Police believe Honeychurch fled to New Hampshire with Rasmussen, who at that point had begun using the name "Bob Evans." But, I think until we know her identity, we're not going to solve the case.. 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. 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. It was the first time, researchers claimed, that genetic genealogy had been successfully employed in a murder case. He had an unofficial backyard marriage ceremony to Eunsoon Jun in Richmond that same year, though no marriage certificates were ever filed. 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. He pleaded guilty to the death of his partnerEunsoon Jun, landing him a 15 year prison sentence, according to The Los Angeles Times. [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. The Family in Barrels. Click here to donate $20. All of them are still alive. In February 2020, it was announced that DNA analysis suggested the child was primarily Caucasian, with slight Asian, African, and Native American heritage. Get an all-access pass to never-before-seen content, free digital evidence kits, and much more! We believe we have our killer, said New Hampshire Assistant Attorney General Jeffrey Strelzin at the time. Esther Elliott, eight, (left) dressed as . But 15years later, a similar barrel was discovered in the same area, this time containing the remainsof two girls. Check out never-before-seen content, free digital evidence kits, and much more! After months of trial and error, Rae-Venter was able to use this method to identify the victims. Known at times as Curtis Kimball, others as Larry Vanner, and frequently as Bob Evans, the killers true name was revealed as Terry Rasmussen in 2017 seven years after his death. [13], Police released a video of a police interview of Evans in June 2017 in hopes of finding his true identity. 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. Public DomainTerry Peder Rasmussens 2002 mugshot after his arrest for the murder of his girlfriend Eunsoon Jun. That's why I do these to get her identified and so that there's closure for the families involved here. Click here to donate $20. [15], The fourth victim's identity is not yet known, but investigators stated that through advanced DNA testing they could confirm the child was Rasmussen's. Which says, yeah, there's more victims out there, definitely.. [29], In June 2017, police released a video of a police interview of Evans in hopes of finding his true identity. Authorities on Thursday revealed that they had identified three of the four victims in the chilling cold case known as the Bear Brook murders . [8], Honeychurch and Vaughn's funeral was held in November 2019 in Allenstown, during which they were given a new headstone bearing their names. 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. With the confirmation, police believe theycan officially implicate serial killerTerry Peder Rasmussen, who had passed away while in prison in 2010, in their deaths. He had settled in nearby Manchester, New Hampshire, under the alias "Bob Evans" in the late 1970s. [9][14] Daneault had been living on the same street as Rasmussen. 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. The Bear Brook murders in Allenstown, New Hampshire. Want to make sure that NHPR continues creating projects like Bear Brook? Rasmussen is the suspected perpetrator of the Bear Brook murders. 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. [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. The podcast had reignited interest in the case, and captured the attention of a 34-year-old librarian from Connecticut named Becky Heath. It well could be somebody else. I was contacted one day by my nephew, and he was working with the sheriff's department out in California, Armand Beaudin told 20/20. They requested for me to do a DNA [test], and they discovered that I was the actual grandfather.. [10][25] In 2015, the woman was identified as the mother of the two girls. 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. A search leads authorities to his basement. [10], Rasmussen resurfaced in December 1999 under the pseudonym Larry Vanner when California-based chemist Eunsoon Jun introduced him to her family. Police later determined the female adult and child, unidentified at the time, had died of blunt force trauma to their heads. [9][17], The adult, later identified as Honeychurch, was determined to be Caucasian with possible Native American ancestry. The abandonment of five-year-old Lisa in Scotts Valley, California. But as it turned out, that person had been several different people throughout his life. 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. [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. I would go to work and Id come home and I would just research and research and research.. 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. [6] They last saw Rasmussen around December 1975 or 1976, when he showed up with an unidentified woman. Vanner died in prison in December 2010 of natural causes. She had curly or wavy brown hair and was between 5ft 2in (1.57m) and 5ft 7in (1.70m) in height. But only 19-year-old Jason Carroll was convicted. [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. [1] [2] The podcast is hosted by Jason Moon and was released through New Hampshire Public Radio. 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. This is somebody who forms relationships and clearly is having social attachments. Roxane Gruenheid was a homicide detective at the Contra Costa County Sheriff's Office. The bodies were certainly killed around the same time as the first two, but with no way to identify them, and lacking any other insight, the investigation once again reached a dead end. The hunter had been stalking deer on a property adjacent to New Hampshire's Bear Brook State Park. They are: Marlyse Elizabeth Honeychurch, the adult woman whose remains were discovered in 1985, and her two biological daughters, Marie Elizabeth Vaughn and Sarah Lynn McWaters. From the creators of the hit podcast Bear Brook comes A True Crime Story. The Bear Brook murders: Two barrels, four bodies found 15 years apart . February 13, 2019 A son remembers his father, and searches for clues in his military paperwork. [4] They were found to have died of blunt force trauma to their heads. [15] In attendance were members of Honeychurch's family and Rasmussen's daughter from his first marriage. Jesse Morgan, who grew up in a small trailer park surrounded by Bear Brook, was 11 when he and his friends stumbled upon the first barrel. When somebody's story keeps changing, it means that they [have] either made something up, can't remember what they told you the first time or that they're lying to you, she added. ALLENSTOWN "Love conquers all things. [20] The organization later released an updated version of the child's facial reconstruction. I remember seeing an ax leaned up there.. My father's been outta my life since I was, like, 6 or 7, she said. His true identity, Terry Rasmussen, was not revealed by authorities until 2017. Show 8 More Episodes. How could it be bright and sunny when Eunsoon's dead?. 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. NEW YORK (AP) Amazon is pausing construction of its second headquarters in Virginia following the biggest round of layoffs in . Marlyse Elizabeth Honeychurch (b. Ongoing genealogy efforts have revealed that Jane Doe's mother's relatives may have come from Pearl River County, Mississippi. My father's real full name is Terry Peder Rasmussen, and he was born Dec. 23 of 1943, Diane Kloepfer told 20/20.. Diane Kloepfer is one of four biological children Terry Rasmussen fathered in his marriage. 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. Rasmussen was convicted and sentenced for the murder in 2002 of his then-wife, Eunsoon Jun; he died in prison in 2010.