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.. Terry Peder Rasmussen (December 23, 1943 December 28, 2010) was an American serial killer. In 1985 and then again in 2000, police discovered the dismembered. Marlyse Honeychurch was last seen around Thanksgiving 1978 with her two daughters, Marie and Sarah. David Salamon and Paula Hodges are Honeychurch's siblings. His own taped confession. Starring Terry P Rasmussen Genres Unscripted Subtitles None available She said that she did but "they died eating grass mushrooms when they were out camping". It was sad, Salamon said. [6], In 2019, the three biologically related females were identified as a mother, Marlyse Elizabeth Honeychurch, and her two daughters (of different biological fathers) Marie Elizabeth Vaughn and Sarah Lynn McWaters, last seen in November 1978. Thanks for your support. One of the victims had been his daughter. 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. [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). 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 . 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. 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 . After his stint in the 1990s, Rasmussen stayed off authorities radar for a little over a decade. And for years, no one could put a name to them, instead referring to the Bear Brook murders.. Police question a man with multiple identities. Decades later, investigators discovered that Denise Beaudin was the mother of the child known as Lisa, a little girl Rasmussen claimed in the 1980s was his daughter, which DNA tests later confirmed wasnt true. [6] They last saw Rasmussen around December 1975 or 1976, when he showed up with an unidentified woman. 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. Her teeth showed significant dental work, including multiple fillings and three extractions. 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. 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. [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. She had been placed in the refrigerator with a pillow, sleeping bag and what appeared to be several blankets, he said. And he wasnt being cooperative with that at all.. National Center for Missing and Exploited Children. 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. In 2003, when the San Bernardino Sheriffs Department opened a new case aimed at finding Lisas biological family, she was approximately 22 years old. 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. 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. 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. With the confirmation, police believe theycan officially implicate serial killerTerry Peder Rasmussen, who had passed away while in prison in 2010, in their deaths. She had an overbite, which was probably noticeable. 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. Jesse Morgan, who grew up in a small trailer park surrounded by Bear Brook, was 11 when he and his friends stumbled upon the barrel. We're here today to bury my sister and my nieces, Salamon said at Honeychurch and Maries funeral. [10] The reconstructions were created in black and white, as their skin tones and eye colors could not be determined.[24]. This is somebody who forms relationships and clearly is having social attachments. "[37], On June 6, 2019, New Hampshire investigators held a press conference regarding the case and revealed the identities of three of the victims. Timelines come together. Authorities believed that Evans was the killer of the four Bear Brook victims, but did not elaborate. Then, learn about Ivan Milat, Australias most violent serial killer. 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. 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. Most serial killers would never do that; it's the last thing they would do. 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. Rasmussen was convicted and sentenced for the murder in 2002 of his then-wife, Eunsoon Jun; he died in prison in 2010. New methods of inquiry are used to crack other cold cases. [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. Apparently, Honeychurch had been with Rasmussen the last time she was seen. Sarah, her half-sister Marie and their mother, Honeychurch, were unknown persons until authorities announced their identities at a press conference on June 6, 2019. During this hunt, one of the brothers noticed an oil barrel while walking down a trail. One of his sons from this marriage provided the DNA sample that confirmed Rasmussen as Evans in June 2017. Associate N.H. Attorney General Jeff Strelzin identifies the three of the victims in the Bear Brook murder case. He died in prison in 2010 after being convicted of her 2002 murder. 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. [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. [11], San Bernardino detective Peter Headley got Lisa's case in 2013 and genealogy website databases had grown since the case had started. [9] Beaudin was not reported missing at the time as her family believed she left town due to financial reasons. When Lisa was taken into protective custody in 1986, police asked her if she had any siblings. [8], Honeychurch and Vaughn's funeral was held in November 2019 in Allenstown, during which they were given a new headstone bearing their names. [3] Moon began covering the cold case in 2015, and later started the podcast. Lamotte had been found in Tennessee in 1985, killed about four months after her disappearance. [39] By October 1978, Sarah's father was seeing another woman and Sarah was presumably in the care of her mother. 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. 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. [12][6], Rasmussen died, aged 67, while imprisoned at High Desert State Prison[5] on December 28, 2010. Want to make sure that NHPR continues creating projects like Bear Brook? After months of trial and error, Rae-Venter was able to use this method to identify the victims. Police built the case against him around his own taped confession. [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. 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. 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.. 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. True crime media like books, podcasts and TV shows continue to be a multimillion-dollar industry . Thanks for your support. In 1985 the plastic wrapped bodies of a woman and girl were discovered in a metal drum in a forest in Allenstown, New Hampshire. She was only 5 months old when they left Manchester, [New Hampshire], Armand Beaudin said. Renee Rose spoke to "20/20" about her friend Eunsoon Jun. [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. Marie Vaughn was last seen with her mother and sister at a Thanksgiving gathering in 1978. I wished he'd lived longer, so he would have suffered longer in prison, myself.. 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. His wife left him between 1973 and 1974 and his family last saw him around Christmas 1974. [20], In January 2017, it was announced that Denise Beaudin, who had been missing since 1981, was connected to the 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.. By 1981, Evans was romantically linked to a woman namedDenise Beaudin who also went missing with her daughter shortly thereafter. I would go to work and Id come home and I would just research and research and research.. She had brown hair and was about 3ft 8in (1.12m) tall. [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. [1] [2] The podcast is hosted by Jason Moon and was released through New Hampshire Public Radio. The murder of Eunsoon Jun in Richmond, California. As the Los Angeles Times reported, Rasmussen had spent time in jail in the early 1990s for theft under the name Robert Evans. [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. Public DomainTerry Peder Rasmussens 2002 mugshot after his arrest for the murder of his girlfriend Eunsoon Jun. More than 30 years later, is it possible to get to the truth and who gets to tell it? Their slain bodies were found on November 10th, 1985, in Bear Brook State Park. October 31, 2018 This is part two of episode 5. [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. Vanner fended off her loved ones questions with an array of excuses. [3][9][10][11][12][13] Autopsies determined both had died of blunt trauma. Four months later, Ron Montplaisir, who was an Allenstown, New Hampshire police officer at the time, got a call from dispatch to meet a hunter at the edge of the woods. [35] He married in 1969, had four children, and lived in Phoenix, Arizona, and Redwood City, California. [7] Based on the date they disappeared, available documents and Rasmussen's activities, the victims most likely died between 1978 and 1981. 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.. [8][10] He was arrested that November and pleaded no contest in 2003[12] to charges relating to her murder and dismemberment. 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. His own taped confession. Big, like 4 or 5 feet around and probably 2 or 3 feet high, she said. A chameleon is revealed. They remained an unsolved mystery, until 15 years later another two bodies were . How could it be bright and sunny when Eunsoon's dead?. There's always that hope, but nothing's definite.. February 20, 2023 Sharon Johnson's family and friends have spent the last 35 years coping with her brutal murder. 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. 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.