[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. Honeychurch was 24 at the time, according to the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children. A sister and two nieces.. 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. 1977),[38] all of whom went missing from La Puente, California, around Thanksgiving 1978, while she was dating Rasmussen. [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. 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. Four bodies-one woman, and three little girls-found in two barrels years apart. Came to a dead end, Salamon said. Sarah is believed to have been 2 to 3 years old at the time she was killed, according to authorities. The victims were officially named in June 2019. Eunsoon Jun, a chemist from California, was the first victim authorities were able to tie to Rasmussen. Jason Carroll is serving life in prison for a murder he says he didn't commit. 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. Rasmussen, who had used several other aliases throughout his life,was named as a suspect in 2017. [Its because] there's still one victim out there, former Detective Cody said. 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. How could it be bright and sunny when Eunsoon's dead?. 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. His true identity, Terry Rasmussen, was not revealed by authorities until 2017. "[15], On May 9, 2000, the remains of two young girls were found near the first discovery site. In the early days of the investigation, authorities publicized the case in the United States and some parts of Canada. The identity of the fourth victim still remains a mystery. June 7, 2019 A clue is found buried on an internet message board. On November 10, 1985, a barrel was found by hunters on private property close to Bear Brook State Park in Allenstown, New Hampshire. Thanks for your support. according to a timeline released by the attorney general's office. 1971) and Sarah Lynn McWaters (b. 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. [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. Lamotte had been found in Tennessee in 1985, killed about four months after her disappearance. His face was gray. DNA proved this child was fathered by Terry Peder Rasmussen. 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. 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. Click here to donate $20. After countless hours of research, genetic genealogist Rae-Venter found Armand Beaudin, Lisas maternal grandfather. The New Hampshire Attorney General's office revealed that three of the victims in what became widely known as the "Bear Brook Murders" are Marlyse Elizabeth Honeychurch and her two daughters,. Jessica Rinaldi/The Boston Globe via Getty ImagesRebekah Becky Heath, the researcher and libararian who obsessively worked to discover Rasmussens victims identities. Born in 1943, Rasmussen was a native of Denver, Colorado. 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. Rebekah Heath, a librarian and true crime enthusiast from Connecticut, was ultimately the one who made the link between "Bob Evans," Rasmussen, and the missing women, leading to a round of DNA tests which ultimately confirmed the identityof the victims thus solving the crime. To make a donation in support of Bear Brook, click here. But what if that story was based on a lie? With the confirmation, police believe theycan officially implicate serial killerTerry Peder Rasmussen, who had passed away while in prison in 2010, in their deaths. [4], While using the pseudonym Bob Evans, Rasmussen dated Denise Beaudin, who disappeared from Manchester, New Hampshire, after Thanksgiving of 1981 with her six-month-old daughter. Bear Brook is an American true crime podcast covering the Bear Brook murders. Investigators said genealogy research. [29], Evans died in prison in December 2010. It was sad, Salamon said. 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. Now we need to identify and try to find all of his victims.. [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. A staff writer for All That's Interesting, Austin Harvey has also had work published with Discover Magazine, Giddy, and Lucid covering topics on mental health, sexual health, history, and sociology. For more than two decades, the Bear Brook murders remained a complete mystery. [10] The reconstructions were created in black and white, as their skin tones and eye colors could not be determined.[24]. These versions incorporated their dental information, showing how their teeth could have affected the appearance of their faces. The crime goes by many names, but one thing that is certain-it is one of the most horrendous and baffling crimes in American history. Instead, they focus on complete strangers. [4] They were found to have died of blunt force trauma to their heads. [2] He often worked as an electrician for oil and gas companies. He abandoned her in 1986 and was subsequently imprisoned on child abandonment charges. Yet, they still had no clue who the victims were. The refrigerator had been dumped in a canal in San Joaquin County, California. Rebekah Becky Heath, the researcher and libararian who obsessively worked to discover Rasmussens victims identities. 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. [3][4][11] This means that the woman could have been the girls' mother, aunt, or older sister. Deza was identified by Othram on February 23, 2023. [9][17], The adult, later identified as Honeychurch, was determined to be Caucasian with possible Native American ancestry. [5] In 1989, he received a three-year prison sentence for child abandonment. A family tree begins to take shape. [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. It is later learned that three of the four victims are . Inside, he found two bodies, dismembered, wrapped in plastic bags, and highly skeletonized beyond recognition, Oxygen reported. 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,. [5] Throughout 1980, he was arrested in Manchester three times for writing a bad check, theft, and diverting electric current. In the show's second season, host Jason Moon returns with a new, even more complex story: In 1989, New Hampshire police . [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. A child is abandoned. She had curly or wavy brown hair and was between 5ft 2in (1.57m) and 5ft 7in (1.70m) in height. As the Los Angeles Times reported, Rasmussen had spent time in jail in the early 1990s for theft under the name Robert Evans. There could be a variety of women out there who could be potential victims.. His wife left him between 1973 and 1974 and his family last saw him around Christmas 1974. The only evidence against him? Link your TV provider to stream full episodes and live TV. When Lisa was taken into protective custody in 1986, police asked her if she had any siblings. [32], Authorities said in 2018 that the Bear Brook woman was not Beaudin. Oxygen Insider is your all-access pass to never-before-seen content, free digital evidence kits, and much more! One of the victims had been his daughter. It can conquer hate. 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. The remains of a young girl, aged 2 to 4, was found in the second barrel with Sarahs remains in 2000. The conclusion was made after family members of the victims helped with the process ofDNA testing andgenetic genealogy. [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. They had been living with a man named Bob Evans. At least ten possible identities were ruled out. [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. More than 30 years later, is it possible to get to the truth - and who gets to tell it? 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. I don't know if my mother knew his capacity for violence, but I don't believe that she knew about this His ability to kill women and children., If my mother wouldn't have left my father, it couldve been me, she said.Would have been me.. It well could be Terry. After his stint in the 1990s, Rasmussen stayed off authorities radar for a little over a decade. For more than 30 years, that story has profoundly shaped the lives of many people. [2] The three girls were thought to also have some Native American heritage; they had light or European-American complexions. [8][10] He was arrested that November and pleaded no contest in 2003[12] to charges relating to her murder and dismemberment. She said that she did but "they died eating grass mushrooms when they were out camping". In 1985 the plastic wrapped bodies of a woman and girl were discovered in a metal drum in a forest in Allenstown, New Hampshire. 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. [15] In attendance were members of Honeychurch's family and Rasmussen's daughter from his first marriage. Rasmussen was born on December 23, 1943,[1] in Denver, Colorado. [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. He would say she decided she didn't like me anymore and didn't want me in her life. [10], Rasmussen resurfaced in December 1999 under the pseudonym Larry Vanner when California-based chemist Eunsoon Jun introduced him to her family. Marlyse Honeychurch was last seen around Thanksgiving 1978 with her two daughters, Marie and Sarah. Online, she found a post from someone who mentioned the name Sarah McWaters. It just made me angry and curious.. We had a sister that was gone. 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. 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. The Allenstown Four. I guess dying serves him right, Rose said. Inside The Rise And Fall Of Atlantic City, Retired Kansas City Detective Roger Golubski Charged With Sex-Trafficking Teenage Girls In The 1990s, What Stephen Hawking Thinks Threatens Humankind The Most, 27 Raw Images Of When Punk Ruled New York, Join The All That's Interesting Weekly Dispatch. Then, 15 years later on May 9, 2000, a second 55-gallon drum was discovered in the same area. 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. From left: Marlyse Honeychurch, Marie Elizabeth Vaughn, a still unidentified victim, and Sarah McWaters. [6] He was paroled in 1990 and subsequently absconded. After months of trial and error, Rae-Venter was able to use this method to identify the victims. 2021 TV-14 Deep in the woods of New Hampshire, police find barrels with the remains of mutilated victims. 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. Want to make sure that NHPR continues creating projects like Bear Brook? Why are you with him? Hodges said. Police officials announced on May 6 that three bodies two discovered in 1985 and a third discovered in 2000 were identified asMarlyse Elizabeth Honeychurch, 24, and her two daughters, Marie Elizabeth Vaughn, 6, and Sarah Lynn McWaters, 1. I closed the blinds back up. DNA evidence then connected the man officially identified as Terry Rasmussen to the bodies found in Bear Brook. [1] [2] The podcast is hosted by Jason Moon and was released through New Hampshire Public Radio. The first barrel was discovered in 1985, the second in 2000. For more on the case, visit bearbrookpodcast.com. Bear Brook murder victims remembered. 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. Huber said the body of a woman was found in a state of advanced decomposition and police couldnt discern the womans facial features. [2] He grew up in Arizona and attended North High School in Phoenix until dropping out during his sophomore year in 1960. And the last story, the one that would tie them all together: the disappearance of a woman named Denise Beaudin from Manchester, New Hampshire. Similar posts also aided in the identifications of the victims. Turn on desktop notifications for breaking stories about interest? Host Jason Moon documents how those involved grapple with the idea that the prevailing story about who killed Sharon Johnson could be a lie. David Salamon and Paula Hodges are Honeychurch's siblings. Jenson arranged for Lisa to be taken to Southern California for two weeks with another family, Katherine and Richard Decker. Diane Kloepfer is one of four biological children Terry Rasmussen fathered in his marriage. He had been convicted and sentenced as Evans for the 2002 murder and dismemberment of his wife at the time, Eunsoon Jun, a chemist in California. Terry Rasmussen poses as "Bob Evans" in an arrest photo from 1985. On this Wikipedia the language links are at the top of the page across from the article title. Investigators have concluded the woman and two of the children lived in the area where their bodies were found. Rasmussen had been convicted of the murder of aromantic partner in 2003. All of them are still alive. He had an unofficial backyard marriage ceremony to Eunsoon Jun in Richmond that same year, though no marriage certificates were ever filed. "[14] He has been dubbed "The Chameleon Killer" due to his use of various aliases and his crime spree which stretched across the country. Starring Terry P Rasmussen Genres Unscripted Subtitles None available As Evans, he dated Denise Beaudin, who disappeared in 1981. He faces 30 years to life for each murder conviction and up to five years for the weapons charges. [20] The organization later released an updated version of the child's facial reconstruction. [2][3][4], In 2017, investigators named Terry Peder Rasmussen as the most likely suspect. 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. [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. Wikimedia CommonsFrom left: Marlyse Honeychurch, Marie Elizabeth Vaughn, a still unidentified victim, and Sarah McWaters. [4], In November 1985, the bodies of Honeychurch and Vaughn were found in a barrel in Bear Brook State Park in Allenstown, New Hampshire. 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. Jessica Rinaldi/The Boston Globe via Getty Images. Click here to donate $20. The man imprisoned for her murder maintains his innocence. 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. She went with Terry. Investigators knew who their killer was, but they still had no clue who the victims were. National Center for Missing and Exploited Children. He pleaded guilty to the death of his partnerEunsoon Jun, landing him a 15 year prison sentence, according to The Los Angeles Times. "The Bear Brook case was the . Want to make sure that NHPR continues creating projects like Bear Brook? One of the brothers just pushed the barrel over. [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]. The last time Honeychurch was seen by her family wasonThanksgiving 1978, according to a timeline released by the attorney general's office. For more on the case and to see a timeline of Sharon's last day, visit bearbrookpodcast.com. She was born in Hawaiian Gardens, California, when her father was in the Marines. [6] The divorce was finalized in 1978. [8], Honeychurch and Vaughn's funeral was held in November 2019 in Allenstown, during which they were given a new headstone bearing their names. May their souls find peace in Gods loving care. After reading about the long journey to identify the Chameleon Killers victims, read about the Green River Killer, Gary Ridgway. 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. In June 2013, new versions of the victims' facial reconstructions were created by the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children. "The Middle Child" was found on May 9, 2000 on private property next to Bear Brook State Park in Allenstown, NH. 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. Denise Beaudin has never been located. I wished he'd lived longer, so he would have suffered longer in prison, myself.. [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. Where is she? Hodges remembered. A year later, Juns body was found dismembered and buried in her basement. Huber says the investigation is stalled because she is still unidentified. 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. Three of the victims would be identified, however, two years later, thanks to the obsessive amateur sleuthing of Rebekah Heath and Barbara Rae-Venter. Two brothers were hunting in Bear Brook State Park on the 10th of November 1985. 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..
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