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[29], In June 2017, police released a video of a police interview of Evans in hopes of finding his true identity. A chameleon is revealed. Rasmussen was born on December 23, 1943,[1] in Denver, Colorado. In 1995, scavengers found a refrigerator containing what former San Joaquin County Assistant Sheriff John Huber believes may be another one of Rasmussens victims. Then, by reopening an earlier case, she helped a genetic genealogist to discover the identity of a girl the killer claimed was his daughter, and then, the killers true identity. On this Wikipedia the language links are at the top of the page across from the article title. DNA evidence then connected the man officially identified as Terry Rasmussen to the bodies found in Bear Brook. Let's talk about the Bear Brook murders. Do groundbreaking techniques come at the cost of genetic privacy? She said her mother and Rasmussen got married in 1968 in Hawaii. Bear Brook is an American true crime podcast covering the Bear Brook murders. One of the brothers just pushed the barrel over. Despite hundreds of leads, the bodies were not identified. The unidentified yo. [10] Jun disappeared in June 2002 and her body was found buried in cat litter in their home after having died from blunt force trauma to the head. 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.. 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. [1] The use of genetic genealogy to identify Rasmussen represented new possibilities in forensic investigations. DNA proved this child was fathered by Terry Peder Rasmussen. 07-11-2018. Honeychurch was last seen in La Puente, California, on Thanksgiving day that year. Serial killer Terry Rasmussen's victims, known and unknown She was born in Hawaiian Gardens, California, when her father was in the Marines. Thanks for your support. Homicide", "Four Unidentified Allenstown Homicide Victims", "Allenstown, NH murder victims identified after nearly 40 years", "New rendering released for unidentified girl found in barrel in Allenstown", Original digital reconstruction of middle child, "3 bodies hidden in barrels remained unidentified for decades. National Center for Missing and Exploited Children. 1977),[38] all of whom went missing from La Puente, California, around Thanksgiving 1978, while she was dating Rasmussen. [7], By 1978, Rasmussen was dating Marlyse Elizabeth Honeychurch. Assistant Attorney General Jeffery Strelzin explained the discovery at a press conference on June 6. [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. It was determined that they had been killed sometime between 1977 and 1985. How could it be bright and sunny when Eunsoon's dead?. [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. [8][10] He was arrested that November and pleaded no contest in 2003[12] to charges relating to her murder and dismemberment. October 31, 2018 This is part two of episode 5. ET on ABC. [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. Well it is Wednesday! 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. ALLENSTOWN "Love conquers all things. The hunter had been stalking deer on a property adjacent to New Hampshire's Bear Brook State Park. The Deckers came to believe Lisa might have been abused. [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. [8], Honeychurch and Vaughn's funeral was held in November 2019 in Allenstown, during which they were given a new headstone bearing their names. 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. [30] The daughter is keeping her name private. 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. The first barrel was discovered in 1985, the second in 2000. 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. His own taped confession. 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 2003, when the San Bernardino Sheriffs Department opened a new case aimed at finding Lisas biological family, she was approximately 22 years old. He faces 30 years to life for each murder conviction and up to five years for the weapons charges. A family tree begins to take shape. Click here to donate $20. 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.. Deza was identified by Othram on February 23, 2023. 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. 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. [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. 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. [11][17], The girl found with the adult female, later identified as Vaughn, was between 5 and 11 years old. Lisa sent a sample of her DNA to an ancestry website and learned her mothers name: Denise Beaudin. "[15], On May 9, 2000, the remains of two young girls were found near the first discovery site. [4] They were found to have died of blunt force trauma to their heads. Vanner fended off her loved ones questions with an array of excuses. Updates in the case of the Bear Brook Murders. [12][16] The cause of death for these children was also blunt force trauma. She was previously known as San Joaquin Jane Doe and the Lady in the Fridge.[8][19]. In 2014, police announced that DNA profiling had revealed through MtDNA that the woman, and oldest and youngest girls were maternally related. [10][25] In 2015, the woman was identified as the mother of the two girls. Their slain bodies were found on November 10th, 1985, in Bear Brook State Park. 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. [Its because] there's still one victim out there, former Detective Cody said. The refrigerator had been dumped in a canal in San Joaquin County, California. Marlyse Elizabeth Honeychurch (b. Terry Rasmussen poses for arrest photo from 1973. Additionally, Huber said the womans remains bore the hallmarks of Rasmussens other victims. Josh is charged under the federal death resulting law a new and growing strategy for prosecutors and faces a sentence of two decades or longer. By Eric Shorey & Gina Tron A chameleon is revealed. In 2016, this child was determined to be Rasmussens biological daughter. He was very, very white, very pale, Montplaisir told 20/20. He said to me, There's a barrel up in the woods, and I think there's some bones in there.. [39] By October 1978, Sarah's father was seeing another woman and Sarah was presumably in the care of her mother. 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. Her teeth showed significant dental work, including multiple fillings and three extractions. 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. 1971) and Sarah Lynn McWaters (b. [13], Police released a video of a police interview of Evans in June 2017 in hopes of finding his true identity. 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. [13] Additionally, they announced that DNA confirmed that he was the father of the middle child found in Allenstown but that Evans was a pseudonym and his legal identity was not known. 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The Mysterious Bear Brook Murders | Dispatches From The Middle 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.. [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. There's always that hope, but nothing's definite.. They can rest in peace. A family tree begins to take shape. [11], San Bernardino detective Peter Headley got Lisa's case in 2013 and genealogy website databases had grown since the case had started. Evans later abandoned a young girl, "Lisa", at a campground, and she was found to not be his daughter. I would go to work and Id come home and I would just research and research and research.. Killer: Terry Rasmussen - The Chameleon Killer, Bear Brook murders And he wasnt being cooperative with that at all.. Beaudin and Dawn, an infant at the time, had gone missing from their home in Manchester, New Hampshire just after Thanksgiving in 1983. In the show's second season, host Jason Moon returns with a new, even more complex story: In 1989, New Hampshire police . My father's been outta my life since I was, like, 6 or 7, she said. Roxane Gruenheid was a homicide detective at the Contra Costa County Sheriff's Office. Although this moment is bittersweet, they had their names back on this day. I wished he'd lived longer, so he would have suffered longer in prison, myself.. Marie Vaughn was last seen with her mother and sister at a Thanksgiving gathering in 1978. 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. For more on the case, visit bearbrookpodcast.com. The only evidence against him? [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. She was 2 to 4 years old at the time of her death, placing her birthdate between 1975-1977. [9][17], The adult, later identified as Honeychurch, was determined to be Caucasian with possible Native American ancestry. NEW YORK (AP) Amazon is pausing construction of its second headquarters in Virginia following the biggest round of layoffs in . The remains of a young girl, aged 2 to 4, was found in the second barrel with Sarahs remains in 2000. There Were Two Barrels And Four Bodies In 1985, a hunter came across a steel drum containing the bodies of a woman between the ages of 23 and 33 and a girl between the ages of 5 and 11. The last time Honeychurch was seen by her family wasonThanksgiving 1978, according to a timeline released by the attorney general's office. 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. More than 30 years later, is it possible to get to the truth - and who gets to tell it? The Story of the Serial Killer Behind the "Bear Brook Murders" DNA is wrestled from rootless hair. 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. Bear Brook killings: An old photo raises more questions Authorities were able to link him then, using his fingerprints, to the earlier child abandonment case. Came to a dead end, Salamon said. 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. Rae-Venter said that in viewing the timeline for Rasmussen, it appears most likely that his daughter was born in Texas, possibly on the Gulf Coast if Rasmussen was working on an oil rig at the time. 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. Never contacted nobody. The middle child, identified as Rasmussen's daughter, currently remains unidentified. Online, she found a post from someone who mentioned the name Sarah McWaters. "The Bear Brook case was the . 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. In 1985 the plastic wrapped bodies of a woman and girl were discovered in a metal drum in a forest in Allenstown, New Hampshire. In 1995, scavengers found a refrigerator containing what former detective John Huber believes may be another one of Rasmussens victims. [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. Bear Brook Podcast on Amazon Music A sister and two nieces.. He died in prison in 2010 after being convicted of her 2002 murder. October 31, 2018 A child is abandoned. David Salamon, Honeychurchs brother, remembered the lengths to which their family went to find Honeychurch and her daughters. [7] His cause of death was a combination of lung cancer, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease and pneumonia. [6], Rasmussen lived in a number of states including Arizona, Colorado, Idaho, Virginia, Texas, Ohio, Oregon, Hawaii and California. His wife left him between 1973 and 1974 and his family last saw him around Christmas 1974. Lisa was born Dawn Beaudin in 1981, Armand Beaudin said. He pleaded guilty to the death of his partnerEunsoon Jun, landing him a 15 year prison sentence, according to The Los Angeles Times. His face was gray. A True Crime Story is about what happens when the official narrative is challenged. From the creators of the hit podcast Bear Brook comes A True Crime Story. Similar posts also aided in the identifications of the victims. Timelines come together. She had curly or wavy brown hair and was between 5ft 2in (1.57m) and 5ft 7in (1.70m) in height. He would say, Well she's busy taking care of her mother or She was going to get some therapeutic help, Rose said Vanner told her. Beaudin's body has never been found and she is currently presumed dead, according to The Concord Monitor. The Bear Brook Murders - Billy Jensen "The Middle Child" was found on May 9, 2000 on private property next to Bear Brook State Park in Allenstown, NH. 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. New methods of inquiry are used to crack other cold cases. In her free time, Heath began scouring the internet for any clues she could find. 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. 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. 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. The Family in Barrels. One of the victims had been his daughter. 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. Marie E. Vaughn was first, born in 1971, then Sarah L. McWaters was born in 1977, according to the New Hampshire Department of Justice. Jessica Rinaldi/The Boston Globe via Getty ImagesRebekah Becky Heath, the researcher and libararian who obsessively worked to discover Rasmussens victims identities. 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. 9 min. Thanks for your support. November 7, 2018 The case that was solved in reverse leaves many questions unanswered. [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. The conclusion was made after family members of the victims helped with the process ofDNA testing andgenetic genealogy. He abandoned her in 1986 and was subsequently imprisoned on child abandonment charges. One of his sons from this marriage provided the DNA sample that confirmed Rasmussen as Evans in June 2017. He finds Rasmussen to be a particularly repulsive serial killer in fact, the worst, in his opinion. Years later, when Gruenheid took on the Eunsoon Jun missing-person case in 2002, she became determined to find out more about Rasmussens supposed daughter Lisa, who had been mentioned in his criminal history, including prior booking records. 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. Honeychurchs youngest daughter, Sarah, was laid to rest in Connecticut, near her fathers family. [12][6], Rasmussen died, aged 67, while imprisoned at High Desert State Prison[5] on December 28, 2010. In the early days of the investigation, authorities publicized the case in the United States and some parts of Canada. He was 62 years old when he passed away in prison. The guys jumped on my four-wheeler and we booted out of there and that was the last time that we saw the barrel.. 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. 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. 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. They remained an unsolved mystery, until 15 years later another two bodies were . Under a plea deal, an additional charge of child abuse was dropped. At the time, Morgan and his friends didnt know there were remains inside the barrel. A dedicated detective refused to stop digging after she solved the brutal murder of a chemist in California. THE CHAMELEON KILLER 'Bear Brook Murders' - Starcasm [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. With the confirmation, police believe theycan officially implicate serial killerTerry Peder Rasmussen, who had passed away while in prison in 2010, in their deaths. Anyone who is aware of a missing child or a missing child and her mother from the late 1970s to early 1980s can call New Hampshire State Police at 603-271-2663 or email coldcaseunit@dos.nh.gov.. As of June2019[update], the third child remains unidentified, but authorities were able to confirm that Rasmussen was her biological father. All the same guy., Watch the full story on "20/20" FRIDAY at 9 p.m. 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. Click here to donate $20. Their slain bodies were found on November 10th, 1985, in Bear Brook State Park. Due to his use of many aliases, most notably "Bob Evans", Rasmussen is known as "The Chameleon Killer". Through the years my mother always said, You know, something's not right. Huber says the investigation is stalled because she is still unidentified. Bear Brook - Listen to All Episodes | True Crime | TuneIn [5] In 1989, he received a three-year prison sentence for child abandonment. About a year later, Heath, who lives in Connecticut, was listening to a New Hampshire Public Radio podcast about the Bear Brook murders when information about the victims reminded her again of the . [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). Want to make sure that NHPR continues creating projects like Bear Brook? "So our suspect started in 1984 as 'Curtis Kimball.' Then we had 'Gordon Jenson.' During this hunt, one of the brothers noticed an oil barrel while walking down a trail. 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. [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. 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 focus from this day forward should be to find the family of that little girl, he said. Rasmussen is believed to be responsible for several other murders, including that of Denise Beaudin, his known girlfriend,[5] who disappeared in 1981. Denise Beaudin has never been located. 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. [6] These techniques have since been used in other high-profile cases, including the Golden State Killer case, leading to the arrest of suspect Joseph James DeAngelo in April 2018. 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. 3, 2023 at 9:04 AM PST | Updated: 20 minutes ago. After his stint in the 1990s, Rasmussen stayed off authorities radar for a little over a decade. A surprising admission leads to a new break in the case. His own taped confession. Bear Brook murder victims remembered. In 1985, there was a grim discovery made in Bear Brook State Park in Allenstown, New Hampshire: Two decomposing bodies found in a barrel. World Book Day comes a day early ahead of teachers strikes on March 2 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. I remember seeing an ax leaned up there.. It well could be Terry. Why are you with him? Hodges said. By 1981, Evans was romantically linked to a woman namedDenise Beaudin who also went missing with her daughter shortly thereafter. Link your TV provider to stream full episodes and live TV. The Bear Brook Murders. Where is she? Hodges remembered. Rose ultimately went to the Contra Costa County Sheriff, where Roxane Gruenheid was a homicide detective. 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. Two investigators work parallel leads, and authorities call a press conference. His own taped confession. 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. She went with Terry. He would say she decided she didn't like me anymore and didn't want me in her life. These versions incorporated their dental information, showing how their teeth could have affected the appearance of their faces. She said that she did but "they died eating grass mushrooms when they were out camping". Investigators said they finally got a break in 2017, when a new forensic technique known as genetic genealogy pinpointed Rasmussen as the likely culprit. "The Chameleon Killer" The Bear Brook Murders (TV Episode 2021 - IMDb The scavengers actually walked out in the middle [of the canal], because it was just mud cut the rope and opened it up here and that's when they saw what they thought was a human being inside, Huber told 20/20.. Honeychurch was 24 at the time, according to the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children. You know, people ask me why I do these interviews. There is one girl who we don't know who she is. [12], New Hampshire investigators announced that the identities of Honeychurch, Vaughn and McWaters were confirmed through DNA testing in June 2019. 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.