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. 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,. And the last story, the one that would tie them all together: the disappearance of a woman named Denise Beaudin from Manchester, New Hampshire. Denise Beaudin has never been located. 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 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,. 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. The abandonment of five-year-old Lisa in Scotts Valley, California. On Nov. 10, 1985, a hunter trekking through Bear Brook State Park in Allenstown, New Hampshire came across a large, industrial steel drum. 07-11-2018. 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. 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. In 1989, Jenson, later identified as Rasmussen, was arrested for child abandonment and was subsequently sentenced to three years in prison. 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. 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. Jessica Rinaldi/The Boston Globe via Getty ImagesRebekah Becky Heath, the researcher and libararian who obsessively worked to discover Rasmussens victims identities. The mother of the middle child, the unidentified girl in the second barrel found at Bear Brook in 2000, who was determined to be Rasmussens biological daughter, has also never been found nor identified. Rasmussen was convicted and sentenced for the murder in 2002 of his then-wife, Eunsoon Jun; he died in prison in 2010. Diane Kloepfer is one of four biological children Terry Rasmussen fathered in his marriage. She had brought her two daughters and a man she identified as Rasmussen to hermothers house in La Puente, California. Investigators knew who their killer was, but they still had no clue who the victims were. 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. 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. The middle child, identified as Rasmussen's daughter, currently remains unidentified. October 24, 2018 An ominous New Year's party introduction. 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. She loved her kids dearly, Chagaris said. [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. He abandoned her in 1986 and was subsequently imprisoned on child abandonment charges. Police believe she died one to two years later, making her 26 to 27 when she died. Starring Terry P Rasmussen Genres Unscripted Subtitles None available A conversation with one of Terry Rasmussen's surviving children. [20] The organization later released an updated version of the child's facial reconstruction. 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. Police question a man with multiple identities. In 1985 and then again in 2000, police discovered the dismembered. David Salamon, Honeychurchs brother, remembered the lengths to which their family went to find Honeychurch and her daughters. Bear Brook | S2 - TRAILER Trailer: Bear Brook S2: A True Crime Story 00:00 03:23 He would say she decided she didn't like me anymore and didn't want me in her life. Golden State Killer's invisible victims: Men whose lives were . 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. After Jenson disappeared, the Deckers were unable to complete the adoption and Lisa was taken into protective custody. [41] Sarah was laid to rest in Connecticut, closer to her father's family. [9][17], The adult, later identified as Honeychurch, was determined to be Caucasian with possible Native American ancestry. While living in Manchester, New Hampshire, Rasmussen lived under the alias "Robert 'Bob' Evans" and worked at the Waumbec Mill. Authorities on Thursday revealed that they had identified three of the four victims in the chilling cold case known as the Bear Brook murders . Then, 15 years later on May 9, 2000, a second 55-gallon drum was discovered in the same area. Investigators have concluded the woman and two of the children lived in the area where their bodies were found. In 2016, this child was determined to be Rasmussens biological daughter. But there was no doubt the killings had been the handiwork of the same person. I don't think they're ever going to find her, Beaudins father, Armand Beaudin, said. 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 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. Buried in the cat litter, police found a human foot completely mummified wearing a flip flop. A True Crime Story is about what happens when the official narrative is challenged. [3] Moon began covering the cold case in 2015, and later started the podcast. [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. Apparently, Honeychurch had been with Rasmussen the last time she was seen. [4], In November 1985, the bodies of Honeychurch and Vaughn were found in a barrel in Bear Brook State Park in Allenstown, New Hampshire. A search leads authorities to his basement. The bones of a foot . 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. [6] The two were married in an unofficial ceremony in 2001. Terry Peder Rasmussen (December 23, 1943 December 28, 2010) was an American serial killer. [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. She also may have suffered from anemia. Although this moment is bittersweet, they had their names back on this day. 1977),[38] all of whom went missing from La Puente, California, around Thanksgiving 1978, while she was dating Rasmussen. The murder of Eunsoon Jun in Richmond, California. 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.. Murders", "N.H. missing woman case linked to bodies found in steel drums in state park", "AG: NH cold cases linked to California murder", National Missing and Unidentified Persons System, "Video of police interview with 'Bob Evans' released; authorities hope for clues about killer", "Authorities reveal actual identity of killer known as 'Bob Evans', "True ID of 'Chameleon' Killer Revealed Terry Peder Rasmussen", "New Hampshire's Most Infamous Cold Case Leads to Unrelated 1985 Tenn. Investigators believe that the mother of the child was also killed by Rasmussen. At the time, Morgan and his friends didnt know there were remains inside the barrel. [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 February 2020, it was announced that DNA analysis suggested the child was primarily Caucasian, with slight Asian, African, and Native American heritage. Huber says the investigation is stalled because she is still unidentified. They werent identified until 2019; at that time, authorities believed Marie was 8 to 10 years old at the time of her death. He faces 30 years to life for each murder conviction and up to five years for the weapons charges. We believe we have our killer, said New Hampshire Assistant Attorney General Jeffrey Strelzin at the time. Jason Carroll is serving life in prison for a murder he says he didn't commit. 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. 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. 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. Beaudin's body has never been found and she is currently presumed dead, according to The Concord Monitor. The Bear Brook Murders And Grisly Crimes Of Terry Rasmussen Serial killer Terry Rasmussen's victims, known and unknown Sarah is believed to have been 2 to 3 years old at the time she was killed, according to authorities. After reading about the long journey to identify the Chameleon Killers victims, read about the Green River Killer, Gary Ridgway. October 31, 2018 This is part two of episode 5. I wished he'd lived longer, so he would have suffered longer in prison, myself.. The focus from this day forward should be to find the family of that little girl, he said. [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].