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. Lamotte had been found in Tennessee in 1985, killed about four months after her disappearance. She had brown hair and was about 3ft 8in (1.12m) tall. NEW YORK (AP) Amazon is pausing construction of its second headquarters in Virginia following the biggest round of layoffs in . 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. 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. [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]. But 15years later, a similar barrel was discovered in the same area, this time containing the remainsof two girls. Lisa sent a sample of her DNA to an ancestry website and learned her mothers name: Denise Beaudin. On November 10, 1985, a barrel was found by hunters on private property close to Bear Brook State Park in Allenstown, New Hampshire. [6] The two were married in an unofficial ceremony in 2001. [1] The use of genetic genealogy to identify Rasmussen represented new possibilities in forensic investigations. [3][4][11] This means that the woman could have been the girls' mother, aunt, or older sister. 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. She had curly or wavy brown hair and was between 5ft 2in (1.57m) and 5ft 7in (1.70m) in height. [33] They also said that "Robert Evans" was a pseudonym and that the man's legal identity was unknown. Bear Brook | S2 - TRAILER Trailer: Bear Brook S2: A True Crime Story 00:00 03:23 The Grisly Crimes Of Terry Rasmussen.#crime #truecrime #solvedcase #unsolved #realcrimeMusic Credit:. Through the years my mother always said, You know, something's not right. Golden State Killer's invisible victims: Men whose lives were . We're here today to bury my sister and my nieces, Salamon said at Honeychurch and Maries funeral. 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. 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. But only 19-year-old Jason Carroll was convicted. She left the home after a trivial argument with her mother and was never seen alive again. It just made me angry and curious.. When people ask me who was the worst serial killer out there I point to him and the reason is this: he not only would kill a woman but he would take their children, molest their children, and not only that but use their children as a lure to get his next victim and I cant think of anything more horrible than that.. The veteran detective on the case develops a theory involving her husband and a teenager. Heath submitted her tip to authorities in October 2018. When they reached out to Jenson again to finalize the adoption, he had disappeared. It is later learned that three of the four victims are . The Bear Brook murders: Two barrels, four bodies found 15 years apart . I don't remember exactly what happened, Paula Hodges, Honeychurchs other sister, told 20/20. I just heard that they had an argument, Marlyse and my mom., My mom might've said something to her as, He's too old for you. Upon Rasmussen's release from prison, according to the State of California Dept. Two brothers were hunting in Bear Brook State Park on the 10th of November 1985. Honeychurch was last seen in La Puente, California, on Thanksgiving day that year. 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. I was like, There is no way there is no way thats a coincidence,' Heath said, This is huge.'. "The Bear Brook case was the . I guess dying serves him right, Rose said. It well could be Terry. She was born in Hawaiian Gardens, California, when her father was in the Marines. And the last story, the one that would tie them all together: the disappearance of a woman named Denise Beaudin from Manchester, New Hampshire. [10], Throughout the early 1980s, Rasmussen remained in possession of Beaudin's daughter, whom he called Lisa, and posed as her father. Which says, yeah, there's more victims out there, definitely.. I don't think they're ever going to find her, Denise Beaudins father Armand Beaudin said. By 2001, Rasmussen was working odd jobs in California under yet another alias, Lawrence Vanner. Together we have been able to uncover the identity of the Allenstown killer, a murderer who tried to erase his victims and hide in the process, tried to hide who he was and what he did, but ultimately he wasnt successful, Strelzin said, according to The Washington Post. 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. It was the first time, researchers claimed, that genetic genealogy had been successfully employed in a murder case. 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. Police have not been able to link Rasmussen to other cases, according toStrelzin. "[14] He has been dubbed "The Chameleon Killer" due to his use of various aliases and his crime spree which stretched across the country. Sarah is believed to have been 2 to 3 years old at the time she was killed, according to authorities. 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. He settled in New Hampshire sometime in the late 1970s. 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. 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. A chameleon is revealed. From the creators of the hit podcast Bear Brook comes A True Crime Story. We have his eyes. Terry Peder Rasmussens 2002 mugshot after his arrest for the murder of his girlfriend Eunsoon Jun. 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. [6] He was paroled in 1990 and subsequently absconded. For Bear Brook listeners, a full episode preview of Jason Moon's latest reporting project, Death Resulting. Authorities fear both Beaudin and the unidentified mother of the middle child are other possible victims of Rasmussen. It was determined that they had been killed sometime between 1977 and 1985. 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. You know, people ask me why I do these interviews. Lisa was born Dawn Beaudin in 1981, Armand Beaudin said. This is the twisted story of the Bear Brook Murders. 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.. 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. 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. 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. A True Crime Story is about what happens when the official narrative is challenged. 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. Rasmussen killed at least six people in a series of crimes that spanned decades and stretched across the continental United States. It's just kind of sitting out in the woods., The brother that found the barrel went over to it and tried to lift the top of the barrel and when he did that, we were hit with a smell that was absolutely putrid. [7] His cause of death was a combination of lung cancer, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease and pneumonia. 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. 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. Investigators believe that the mother of the child was also killed by Rasmussen. ET on ABC. The woman also told Heath that her missing family member had once married a man with the last name Rasmussen. He was 62 years old when he passed away in prison. "So our suspect started in 1984 as 'Curtis Kimball.' Then we had 'Gordon Jenson.' Authorities were able to link him then, using his fingerprints, to the earlier child abandonment case. The Bear Brook Murders. He pleaded guilty to the death of his partnerEunsoon Jun, landing him a 15 year prison sentence, according to The Los Angeles Times. In 1995, scavengers found a refrigerator containing what former San Joaquin County Assistant Sheriff John Huber believes may be another one of Rasmussens victims. 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. bodies found. 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. Do Not Sell or Share My Personal Information. Rasmussen was born on December 23, 1943,[1] in Denver, Colorado. 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. [15], When Lisa was interviewed by detectives in 1986, they asked her if she had any siblings. Roxane Gruenheid was a homicide detective at the Contra Costa County Sheriff's Office. 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. He didn't even look healthy. The Family in Barrels. This is the story of the Allenstown Four. [20] The organization later released an updated version of the child's facial reconstruction. Maricopa County Sheriffs Department, Arizona. Curiously, the first drum was way back in 1985 and the second wasnt discovered until 2000. The unidentified yo. A year later, Juns body was found dismembered and buried in her basement. Evans was listed as married to a woman named Elizabeth, according to documents from 1980. [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. 1954) was the mother of Marie Elizabeth Vaughn (b. 2021 TV-14 Deep in the woods of New Hampshire, police find barrels with the remains of mutilated victims. October 31, 2018 A child is abandoned. The podcast had reignited interest in the case, and captured the attention of a 34-year-old librarian from Connecticut named Becky Heath. During this hunt, one of the brothers noticed an oil barrel while walking down a trail. 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. Police believe she died one to two years later, making her 26 to 27 when she died. To this day, she has yet to be identified. 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. 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. 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.. In 2014, police announced that DNA profiling had revealed through MtDNA that the woman, and oldest and youngest girls were maternally related. 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. The man imprisoned for her murder maintains his innocence. In 1985 and then again in 2000, police discovered the dismembered. It was just a situation where, every time we searched, [we] came to a dead end. Then, 15 years later on May 9, 2000, a second 55-gallon drum was discovered in the same area. October 31, 2018 This is part two of episode 5. 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.. Then, learn about Ivan Milat, Australias most violent serial killer. A chameleon is revealed. Eunsoon Jun, a chemist from California, was the first victim authorities were able to tie to Rasmussen. How could it be bright and sunny when Eunsoon's dead?. 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 . Salamon said he and his family call the girl Angel.. An estranged cousin goes missing. 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. We have never stopped looking, he said. To make a donation in support of Bear Brook, click here. The murder of Eunsoon Jun in Richmond, California. Instead, they focus on complete strangers. 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. His own taped confession. Under his plea agreement, an additional charge of child abuse was dropped. The focus from this day forward should be to find the family of that little girl, he said. There's always that hope, but nothing's definite.. Just disappeared.. Bodies In Bear Brook Barrel Murders Linked To 'Worst Serial Killer Out There' 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. 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: With the confirmation, police believe theycan officially implicate serial killerTerry Peder Rasmussen, who had passed away while in prison in 2010, in their deaths. For more than 30 years, that story has profoundly shaped the lives of many people. 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. Public DomainTerry Peder Rasmussens 2002 mugshot after his arrest for the murder of his girlfriend Eunsoon Jun. Jenson arranged for Lisa to be taken to Southern California for two weeks with another family, Katherine and Richard Decker. Rebekah Becky Heath, the researcher and libararian who obsessively worked to discover Rasmussens victims identities. Now we need to identify and try to find all of his victims.. 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. [4] The identities of the middle child, who Rasmussen fathered, and her mother remain unknown. This linked him to New Hampshire in the same timeframe as the Bear Brook murders, when he was known as Robert Evans. The hunter had been stalking deer on a property adjacent to New Hampshire's Bear Brook State Park. That's the only reason.. My father's been outta my life since I was, like, 6 or 7, she said. 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. 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. The Allenstown Four. A second search was conducted in May 2018. I wished he'd lived longer, so he would have suffered longer in prison, myself.. The conclusion was made after family members of the victims helped with the process ofDNA testing andgenetic genealogy. Jessica Rinaldi/The Boston Globe via Getty ImagesRebekah Becky Heath, the researcher and libararian who obsessively worked to discover Rasmussens victims identities. [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. Police believe her answer indicates they may have been killed by Rasmussen, too. Denise Beaudin has never been located. [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. Inside The Horrifying Mystery Of The Bear Brook Murders And The Evidence That Points To The Chameleon Killer. Sign up forOxygen Insiderfor all the best true crime content. The guys jumped on my four-wheeler and we booted out of there and that was the last time that we saw the barrel.. [2] The three girls were thought to also have some Native American heritage; they had light or European-American complexions. Buried in the cat litter, police found a human foot completely mummified wearing a flip flop. The only evidence against him? October 24, 2018 An ominous New Year's party introduction. Big, like 4 or 5 feet around and probably 2 or 3 feet high, she 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. This is the twisted story of the Bear Brook Murders. Police built the case against him around his own taped confession. [28] Beaudin disappeared from Manchester, New Hampshire, along with her young daughter and then-boyfriend Robert "Bob" Evans. And Denise only had one daughter, whom she had named Dawn. True crime media like books, podcasts and TV shows continue to be a multimillion-dollar industry . Huber says the investigation is stalled because she is still unidentified. Assistant Attorney General Jeffery Strelzin explained the discovery at a press conference on June 6. 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. Jessica Rinaldi/The Boston Globe via Getty Images. 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[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. As Evans, he dated Denise Beaudin, who disappeared in 1981. 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. In 1981, Denise Beaudin went missing shortly after Thanksgiving with her 6-month-old daughter and her boyfriend, Rasmussen, whom she had known as Robert T. Evans, according to the New Hampshire Department of Justice. Their slain bodies were found on November 10th, 1985, in Bear Brook State Park. Published: Mar. She had been placed in the refrigerator with a pillow, sleeping bag and what appeared to be several blankets, he said. At the same time, Barbara Rae-Venter, a genetic genealogist, independently used the victims DNA to identify them in a cutting-edge technique that required using autosomal DNA, which is found inside the cell nucleus. Never contacted nobody. In February 2020, it was announced that DNA analysis suggested the child was primarily Caucasian, with slight Asian, African, and Native American heritage. In the show's second season, host Jason Moon returns with a new, even more complex story: In 1989, New Hampshire police . The family was comprised of Sarah McWaters, an infant, her older sister Marie Elizabeth Vaughn, and their mother Marlyse Honeychurch. 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. 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 . Her hair was wavy and light brown; she had no dental fillings. Let's talk about the Bear Brook murders. 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. [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. But, I think until we know her identity, we're not going to solve the case.. [2] He grew up in Arizona and attended North High School in Phoenix until dropping out during his sophomore year in 1960. It would take 17 years until the killer could be named and another two until his victims would be identified. [3] He married in 1969, had four children and lived with his family in Phoenix and Redwood City, California. Similar posts also aided in the identifications of the victims. [32], Authorities said in 2018 that the Bear Brook woman was not Beaudin. Four bodies-one woman, and three little girls-found in two barrels years apart. I got a little crazy with it, she said. [2] All four of the victims were either partially or completely skeletonized; they were believed to have died between 1977 and 1981. Click here to donate $20. Ron Montplaisir, Jr., a former Allenstown, New Hampshire, police officer spoke to 20/20 about the hunter who found the first barrel in 1985. David Salamon and Paula Hodges are Honeychurch's siblings. [1] [2] The podcast is hosted by Jason Moon and was released through New Hampshire Public Radio. Came to a dead end, Salamon said. I stood there for just a few seconds There was no odor. He finds Rasmussen to be a particularly repulsive serial killer in fact, the worst, in his opinion. [3][4] Rasmussen enlisted in the United States Navy in 1961 and served until he was discharged in 1967. [39] By October 1978, Sarah's father was seeing another woman and Sarah was presumably in the care of her mother. [2] He often worked as an electrician for oil and gas companies. Starring Terry P Rasmussen Genres Unscripted Subtitles None available [8] Authorities believe that Rasmussen killed Beaudin somewhere in California, although her body has never been found. [7] Based on the date they disappeared, available documents and Rasmussen's activities, the victims most likely died between 1978 and 1981. Terry Rasmussen poses as "Curtis Kimball" in an arrest photo from 1990. 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. [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 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. It can conquer death." +4. By Eric Shorey & Gina Tron Marlyse was excited to be a mom. [9] By 2020, New Hampshire Senior Assistant Attorney General Jeff Strelzin said there was no "evidentiary connection" between Daneault and Rasmussen but that the interest in his case brought renewed attention to Daneault's disappearance. His own taped confession. She was 2 to 4 years old at the time of her death, placing her birthdate between 1975-1977. The middle child, identified as Rasmussen's daughter, currently remains unidentified. 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. As the Los Angeles Times reported, Rasmussen had spent time in jail in the early 1990s for theft under the name Robert Evans. A surprising admission leads to a new break in the case. In 1985 two bodies were discovered in a barrel in the Bear Brook State Park. [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. After Jenson disappeared, the Deckers were unable to complete the adoption and Lisa was taken into protective custody. On Nov. 10, 1985, a hunter trekking through Bear Brook State Park in Allenstown, New Hampshire came across a large, industrial steel drum. My father's real full name is Terry Peder Rasmussen, and he was born Dec. 23 of 1943, Diane Kloepfer told 20/20.. Thanks for your support. 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. A family tree begins to take shape. He later abandoned that child, whom he had pretended to father and called Lisa, in a trailer park. It was there that she introduced her family to her boyfriend, Terry Rasmussen, according to the New Hampshire Department of Justice. After reading about the long journey to identify the Chameleon Killers victims, read about the Green River Killer, Gary Ridgway. 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. Create a free profile to get unlimited access to exclusive videos, breaking news, sweepstakes, and more! 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