They were buried together at a local Allenstown cemetery with a donated gravestone 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 had settled in nearby Manchester, New Hampshire, under the alias "Bob Evans" in the late 1970s. Police built the case against him around his own taped confession. With the confirmation, police believe theycan officially implicate serial killerTerry Peder Rasmussen, who had passed away while in prison in 2010, in their deaths. [5] Throughout 1980, he was arrested in Manchester three times for writing a bad check, theft, and diverting electric current. Marie Vaughn was last seen with her mother and sister at a Thanksgiving gathering in 1978. As the Los Angeles Times reported, Rasmussen had spent time in jail in the early 1990s for theft under the name Robert Evans. [3][9][10][11][12][13] Autopsies determined both had died of blunt trauma. Also in the refrigerator, was a unique brand of milk that was only delivered to a certain area that matched up with where Rasmussen had been at the time, Huber said. It wasnt Rasmussens first time in prison, however hed just been using a different name. A paternity test comparing Rasmussens blood from prison and a sample police had from 5-year-old Lisa showed Rasmussen was not her father. [38], Marlyse had previously married Marie's father in June 1971 and divorced by 1974. [10], Rasmussen resurfaced in December 1999 under the pseudonym Larry Vanner when California-based chemist Eunsoon Jun introduced him to her family. He faces 30 years to life for each murder conviction and up to five years for the weapons charges. The identity of the fourth victim still remains a mystery. [7], By 1978, Rasmussen was dating Marlyse Elizabeth Honeychurch. In 1985, there was a grim discovery made in Bear Brook State Park in Allenstown, New Hampshire: Two decomposing bodies found in a barrel. There's always that hope, but nothing's definite.. In 2016, this child was determined to be Rasmussens biological daughter. An estranged cousin goes missing. Now, the only question that remains is, who was the middle child, Terry Rasmussens daughter and fourth victim? David Salamon, Honeychurchs brother, remembered the lengths to which their family went to find Honeychurch and her daughters. [39] By October 1978, Sarah's father was seeing another woman and Sarah was presumably in the care of her mother. 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.. But what if that story was based on a lie? The bones of a foot . [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. 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. [5][3] A woman named "Elizabeth Evans" was listed as his wife during his time in New Hampshire; this woman has never been identified. She left the home after a trivial argument with her mother and was never seen alive again. 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.. Authorities were able to link him then, using his fingerprints, to the earlier child abandonment case. [8], San Joaquin County, California Assistant Sheriff John Huber speculated that Rasmussen may have been responsible for killing Amanda Schumann Deza, In 1995, her body was discovered by scavengers inside of a refrigerator which had been dumped in a canal. [9][17], The adult, later identified as Honeychurch, was determined to be Caucasian with possible Native American ancestry. The bodies could not be identified at the time, leading the case to go cold. For more on the case and to see a timeline of Sharon's last day, visit bearbrookpodcast.com. Thanks for your support. Authorities have connected 5 murders to Rasmussen and they fear there are more. A year later, Juns body was found dismembered and buried in her basement. The Bear Brook Murders. Turn on desktop notifications for breaking stories about interest? Hes your atypical serial killer, Strelzin said. In 1989, Jenson, later identified as Rasmussen, was arrested for child abandonment and was subsequently sentenced to three years in prison. In the show's second season, host Jason Moon returns with a new, even more complex story: In 1989, New Hampshire police charged three men in the murder of a pregnant woman named Sharon Johnson. At the time, Morgan and his friends didnt know there were remains inside the barrel. 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. The unidentified yo. Honeychurchs youngest daughter, Sarah, was laid to rest in Connecticut, near her fathers family. As Evans, he dated Denise Beaudin, who disappeared in 1981. bodies found. 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. 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. He would say she decided she didn't like me anymore and didn't want me in her life. October 31, 2018 This is part two of episode 5. Authorities believed that Evans was the killer of the four Bear Brook victims, but did not elaborate. [6] The two were married in an unofficial ceremony in 2001. She was only 5 months old when they left Manchester, [New Hampshire], Armand Beaudin said. And Denise only had one daughter, whom she had named Dawn. 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. [28] Beaudin disappeared from Manchester, New Hampshire, along with her young daughter and then-boyfriend Robert "Bob" Evans. Rasmussen was convicted and sentenced for the murder in 2002 of his then-wife, Eunsoon Jun; he died in prison in 2010. For Bear Brook listeners, a full episode preview of Jason Moon's latest reporting project, Death Resulting. He settled in New Hampshire sometime in the late 1970s. Due to his use of many aliases, most notably "Bob Evans", Rasmussen is known as "The Chameleon Killer". [3] Moon began covering the cold case in 2015, and later started the podcast. Police have not been able to link Rasmussen to other cases, according toStrelzin. Curiously, the first drum was way back in 1985 and the second wasnt discovered until 2000. 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. I remember seeing an ax leaned up there.. 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. Where is she? Hodges remembered. All of them are still alive. A family tree begins to take shape. 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. May their souls find peace in Gods loving care. [30] The daughter is keeping her name private. We as a family would like to thank the community, for caring and loving our sister Marlyse and our nieces, Marie [and] Sarah., We have looked and searched for over 30 years for them, with no luck. The Grisly Crimes Of Terry Rasmussen.#crime #truecrime #solvedcase #unsolved #realcrimeMusic Credit:. They had been living with a man named Bob Evans. Click here to donate $20. New Hampshire State Attorney's Office, Sarah Lynn McWaters, Marlyse Elizabeth Honeychurch and Marie Elizabeth Vaughn. To make a donation in support of Bear Brook, click here. 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. 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. This is the twisted story of the Bear Brook Murders. [Its because] there's still one victim out there, former Detective Cody said. Starring Terry P Rasmussen Genres Unscripted Subtitles None available "The Bear Brook case was the . Marlyse Honeychurch was last seen around Thanksgiving 1978 with her two daughters, Marie and Sarah. 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.. Investigators knew who their killer was, but they still had no clue who the victims 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. She said that she did, but they died from eating grass mushrooms when they were out camping, Deputy Headley said. 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 left the group home after receiving a furlough, so she was not reported missing until police were seeking more information on Rasmussen in 2017. Check out never-before-seen content, free digital evidence kits, and much more! 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. Link your TV provider to stream full episodes and live TV. Wikimedia CommonsFrom left: Marlyse Honeychurch, Marie Elizabeth Vaughn, a still unidentified victim, and Sarah McWaters. Honeychurchs sisters, Roxanne Barrows and Michelle Chagaris, remember her as bubbly and quirky, and said she had a good sense of humor.. They can rest in peace. From the creators of the hit podcast Bear Brook comes A True Crime Story. Oxygen Insider is your all-access pass to never-before-seen content, free digital evidence kits, and much more! [2] All four of the victims were either partially or completely skeletonized; they were believed to have died between 1977 and 1981. One of the brothers just pushed the barrel over. Like Rasmussen's confirmed victims, she had died of blunt force trauma to the head. Vanner fended off her loved ones questions with an array of excuses. On June 8, 2000, the remains of Marie and Honeychurch, which were still unidentified at the time, were exhumed from the grave by authorities for DNA testing. [32], Authorities said in 2018 that the Bear Brook woman was not Beaudin. Timelines come together. Rasmussen is believed to be responsible for several other murders, including that of Denise Beaudin, his known girlfriend,[5] who disappeared in 1981. A search leads authorities to his basement. His wife left him between 1973 and 1974 and his family last saw him around Christmas 1974. She was born in Hawaiian Gardens, California, when her father was in the Marines. 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. MANCHESTER, N.H. The search for the name of the remaining unidentified murder victim found in a barrel in Allenstown is leading authorities to Mississippi. January 23, 2023 Jason Carroll is serving life in prison for a murder he says he didn't commit. Jessica Rinaldi/The Boston Globe via Getty ImagesRebekah Becky Heath, the researcher and libararian who obsessively worked to discover Rasmussens victims identities. Authorities on Thursday revealed that they had identified three of the four victims in the chilling cold case known as the Bear Brook murders . "So our suspect started in 1984 as 'Curtis Kimball.' Then we had 'Gordon Jenson.' [15] In attendance were members of Honeychurch's family and Rasmussen's daughter from his first marriage. "[14] He has been dubbed "The Chameleon Killer" due to his use of various aliases and his crime spree which stretched across the country. Four bodies-one woman, and three little girls-found in two barrels years apart. It would take 17 years until the killer could be named and another two until his victims would be identified. 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. Their slain bodies were found on November 10th, 1985, in Bear Brook State Park. [35] He married in 1969, had four children, and lived in Phoenix, Arizona, and Redwood City, California. It was determined that they had been killed sometime between 1977 and 1985. These versions incorporated their dental information, showing how their teeth could have affected the appearance of their faces. Her hair was wavy and light brown; she had no dental fillings. DNA is wrestled from rootless hair. A conversation with one of Terry Rasmussen's surviving children. It was reported that he was known to travel with women and children. It is later learned that three of the four victims are . [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. 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. According to investigators, the reason that it took so long for the second drum to be recovered is that it was located outside the proximity of the initial crime scene. His own taped confession. All the same guy., Watch the full story on "20/20" FRIDAY at 9 p.m. [11] Rasmussen was arrested under another alias, Gerry Mockerman, in 1988 for driving a stolen vehicle. [8][10] He was arrested that November and pleaded no contest in 2003[12] to charges relating to her murder and dismemberment. Inside The Horrifying Mystery Of The Bear Brook Murders. 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 was also confirmed, via DNA, to be the father of a 2-to-4-year-old girl who was one of the Bear Brook victims. They remained an unsolved mystery, until 15 years later another two bodies were . In February 2020, it was announced that DNA analysis suggested the child was primarily Caucasian, with slight Asian, African, and Native American heritage. [8], Honeychurch and Vaughn's funeral was held in November 2019 in Allenstown, during which they were given a new headstone bearing their names. An early morning drug deal in a hotel bathroom ends in tragedy. That's why I do these to get her identified and so that there's closure for the families involved here. I don't think they're ever going to find her, Beaudins father, Armand Beaudin, said. June 7, 2019 A clue is found buried on an internet message board. In 2003, the San Bernardino County Sheriff's Department opened a case to find Lisa's biological family. February 13, 2019 A son remembers his father, and searches for clues in his military paperwork. 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. It was the first time, researchers claimed, that genetic genealogy had been successfully employed in a murder case. He was just a really, really bad man, one of the worst, Jensen said. [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. She also may have suffered from anemia. 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,. 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. DNA proved this child was fathered by Terry Peder Rasmussen. Although this moment is bittersweet, they had their names back on this day. 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. I don't think they're ever going to find her, Denise Beaudins father Armand Beaudin said. And the last story, the one that would tie them all together: the disappearance of a woman named Denise Beaudin from Manchester, New Hampshire. [12][16] The cause of death for these children was also blunt force trauma. My father's been outta my life since I was, like, 6 or 7, she said. Golden State Killer's invisible victims: Men whose lives were . 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. In 1995, scavengers found a refrigerator containing what former detective John Huber believes may be another one of Rasmussens victims. [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. From the creators of the hit podcast Bear Brook comes A True Crime Story. More than 30 years later, is it possible to get to the truth - and who gets to tell it? 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. Heath submitted her tip to authorities in October 2018. Donate $20 today. She married Sarah's father in September 1974, and the two were separated by the time she was known to be dating Rasmussen. He then took on the alias Gordon Jenson and abandoned the child at an RV park in Scotts Valley, California, in 1986. Heath continued researching, messaging some of the family members who had been around at the time when another name came up: Terry Rasmussen. DNA evidence then connected the man officially identified as Terry Rasmussen to the bodies found in Bear Brook. Curiously, against the advice of his attorneys, Vanner pleaded guilty to the murder during his trial. Beaudin's daughter was abducted by Rasmussen and taken to California, where he raised her under the pseudonym "Gordon Jensen". Her age at the time of death was estimated to be 23 to 33. 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. Two investigators work parallel leads, and authorities call a press conference. In 2003, when the San Bernardino Sheriffs Department opened a new case aimed at finding Lisas biological family, she was approximately 22 years old. It's a blue 55-gallon steel drum. His true identity, Terry Rasmussen, was not revealed by authorities until 2017. Thanks for your support. But 15years later, a similar barrel was discovered in the same area, this time containing the remainsof two girls. [15], When Lisa was interviewed by detectives in 1986, they asked her if she had any siblings. It was there that she introduced her family to her boyfriend, Terry Rasmussen, according to the New Hampshire Department of Justice. 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. Rasmussen has been linked to five horrific murders and authorities fear there are more. 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. We believe we have our killer, said New Hampshire Assistant Attorney General Jeffrey Strelzin at the time. 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. Terry Rasmussen poses as "Curtis Kimball" in an arrest photo from 1990. [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. She had brown hair and was about 3ft 8in (1.12m) tall. 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. [6] The divorce was finalized in 1978. Their slain bodies were found on November 10th, 1985, in Bear Brook State Park. Beaudin and Dawn, an infant at the time, had gone missing from their home in Manchester, New Hampshire just after Thanksgiving in 1983. We're here today to bury my sister and my nieces, Salamon said at Honeychurch and Maries funeral. [12][6], Rasmussen died, aged 67, while imprisoned at High Desert State Prison[5] on December 28, 2010. 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. 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. She was 2 to 4 years old at the time of her death, placing her birthdate between 1975-1977. Upon Rasmussen's release from prison, according to the State of California Dept. Inside were the bodies of an adult female and young girl, wrapped in plastic. Rasmussen killed at least six people in a series of crimes that spanned decades and stretched across the continental United States. 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.. Police later determined the female adult and child, unidentified at the time, had died of blunt force trauma to their heads. 1954) was the mother of Marie Elizabeth Vaughn (b. 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. 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. [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. 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. Investigators said genealogy research. Just disappeared.. February 20, 2023 Sharon Johnson's family and friends have spent the last 35 years coping with her brutal murder. Under a plea deal, an additional charge of child abuse was dropped. It can conquer death." +4. Three of the victims would be identified, however, two years later, thanks to the obsessive amateur sleuthing of Rebekah Heath and Barbara Rae-Venter. The poster claimed to be McWaters half-sister. When Lisa was taken into protective custody in 1986, police asked her if she had any siblings. 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. [10], Throughout the early 1980s, Rasmussen remained in possession of Beaudin's daughter, whom he called Lisa, and posed as her father. The identities of Honeychurch and her two children were not known until they were confirmed by DNA profiling in 2019. [2] The three girls were thought to also have some Native American heritage; they had light or European-American complexions. I wished he'd lived longer, so he would have suffered longer in prison, myself.. [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. [11][17], The girl found with the adult female, later identified as Vaughn, was between 5 and 11 years old. She had curly or wavy brown hair and was between 5ft 2in (1.57m) and 5ft 7in (1.70m) in height. 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. And we watched the barrel fall on its side, Morgan said. [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. Honeychurch's body and one of the girl's bodieswerefound in November1985 in a barrel tipped on its side inBear Brook State Park in Allenstown, New Hampshire. Published: Mar. In 1985 two bodies were discovered in a barrel in the Bear Brook State Park. One of the victims had been his daughter. Investigators said they finally got a break in 2017, when a new forensic technique known as genetic genealogy pinpointed Rasmussen as the likely culprit. Want to make sure that NHPR continues creating projects like Bear Brook? By 2017, Bob Evans was dead, and investigators believed he had killed Denise Beaudin after they left New Hampshire. 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. To this day, she has yet to be identified. October 31, 2018 A child is abandoned. Lamotte had been found in Tennessee in 1985, killed about four months after her disappearance. I was like, There is no way there is no way thats a coincidence,' Heath said, This is huge.'. She loved her kids dearly, Chagaris said. 1977),[38] all of whom went missing from La Puente, California, around Thanksgiving 1978, while she was dating Rasmussen. I got a little crazy with it, she said. Denise Beaudin has never been located. On this Wikipedia the language links are at the top of the page across from the article title.
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