We're here today to bury my sister and my nieces, Salamon said at Honeychurch and Maries funeral. and I went, This can't be, Rose said of learning her friend was gone. 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. It can conquer death." +4. NEW YORK (AP) Amazon is pausing construction of its second headquarters in Virginia following the biggest round of layoffs in . They have so far been unable to identify who the mother of the child is and whether or not she may still be alive. [7] Based on the date they disappeared, available documents and Rasmussen's activities, the victims most likely died between 1978 and 1981. [2][3][4], In 2017, investigators named Terry Peder Rasmussen as the most likely suspect. All of them are still alive. [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. [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). of Corrections, he broke parole and fled, Gruenheid said. She was previously known as San Joaquin Jane Doe and the Lady in the Fridge.[8][19]. Thank you all from the bottom of our hearts..
Timeline of serial killer Terry Rasmussen's terror in New Hampshire "[14] He has been dubbed "The Chameleon Killer" due to his use of various aliases and his crime spree which stretched across the country. That's the only reason.. [12][16] The cause of death for these children was also blunt force trauma. A paternity test comparing Rasmussens blood from prison and a sample police had from 5-year-old Lisa showed Rasmussen was not her father. My father's been outta my life since I was, like, 6 or 7, she said. [15] In attendance were members of Honeychurch's family and Rasmussen's daughter from his first marriage. Beaudin's body has never been found and she is currently presumed dead, according to The Concord Monitor. 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. February 27, 2023 We begin with the story police told about Sharon Johnson's murder. This new discovery didnt offer any immediate clues as to who the killer had been, though. [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. Came to a dead end. The podcast had reignited interest in the case, and captured the attention of a 34-year-old librarian from Connecticut named Becky Heath. 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. Then, learn about Ivan Milat, Australias most violent serial killer. Apparently, Honeychurch had been with Rasmussen the last time she was seen. [6] The two were married in an unofficial ceremony in 2001. They can rest in peace. Inside The Horrifying Mystery Of The Bear Brook Murders And The Evidence That Points To The Chameleon Killer. We had a sister that was gone. The Allenstown Four. On an online message board, she connected with a woman who was looking for her missing family members: a woman and her two daughters whose ages and locations matched that of Honeychurch, Sarah and Marie. It's a blue 55-gallon steel drum. [29], In June 2017, police released a video of a police interview of Evans in hopes of finding his true identity. I closed the blinds back up. 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. The children both went through periods where they were in the custody of their fathers, but Marlyse would later regain guardianship. Bear Brook murder victims remembered. Rasmussen is the suspected perpetrator of the Bear Brook murders. The last time Honeychurch was seen by her family wasonThanksgiving 1978, according to a timeline released by the attorney general's office. Sign up forOxygen Insiderfor all the best true crime content. Since 2017, he has been named as a suspect in several other crimes. Online, she found a post from someone who mentioned the name Sarah McWaters. [4] The identities of the middle child, who Rasmussen fathered, and her mother remain unknown. 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. DNA is wrestled from rootless hair. Thanks for your support. 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. 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.. It was just odd that the barrel was out there It was [a] slightly rusted, dark blue barrel. ET on ABC. Although this moment is bittersweet, they had their names back on this day. From left: Marlyse Honeychurch, Marie Elizabeth Vaughn, a still unidentified victim, and Sarah McWaters. Oxygen Insider is your all-access pass to never-before-seen content, free digital evidence kits, and much more! [8] DNA evidence eventually found that he was not Lisa's father and the case spent years without any significant developments. Assistant Attorney General Jeffery Strelzin explained the discovery at a press conference on June 6. 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. 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. 2021 TV-14 Deep in the woods of New Hampshire, police find barrels with the remains of mutilated victims. Despite hundreds of leads, the bodies were not identified. [36] The senior Rasmussen, known as the Chameleon killer, is believed to have used "at least five different aliases in a decades-long run of crimes across the country, including at least five homicides, and likely more. On November 10, 1985, a barrel was found by hunters on private property close to Bear Brook State Park in Allenstown, New Hampshire. 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. Additionally, Huber said the womans remains bore the hallmarks of Rasmussens other victims. [2] He grew up in Arizona and attended North High School in Phoenix until dropping out during his sophomore year in 1960. The poster claimed to be McWaters half-sister. 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. My father's real full name is Terry Peder Rasmussen, and he was born Dec. 23 of 1943, Diane Kloepfer told 20/20.. 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. [12], New Hampshire investigators announced that the identities of Honeychurch, Vaughn and McWaters were confirmed through DNA testing in June 2019. But there was no doubt the killings had been the handiwork of the same person.
After Years of Investigation, New Hampshire Police Officially Identify 9 min. In June 2013, new versions of the victims' facial reconstructions were created by the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children. Authorities on Thursday revealed that they had identified three of the four victims in the chilling cold case known as the Bear Brook murders .
Diane Kloepfer is one of four biological children Terry Rasmussen fathered in his marriage. He later abandoned that child, whom he had pretended to father and called Lisa, in a trailer park. 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. Most serial killers would never do that; it's the last thing they would do. MORE: Suspected Potomac River Rapist, who 'terrorized' women in '90s, caught with genetic genealogy July 2017 This is the twisted story of the Bear Brook Murders. This linked him to New Hampshire in the same timeframe as the Bear Brook murders, when he was known as Robert Evans. By Eric Shorey & Gina Tron "The Bear Brook case was the .
Bear Brook killings: An old photo raises more questions New Hampshire State Attorney's Office, Sarah Lynn McWaters, Marlyse Elizabeth Honeychurch and Marie Elizabeth Vaughn. Gruenheid said she later determined a man matching Vanners description had bought 10 bags of cat litter from a nearby pet store. Investigators knew who their killer was, but they still had no clue who the victims were. She went with Terry. The only evidence against him? He was sentenced to 15 years to life in jail. May their souls find peace in Gods loving care. [20] The organization later released an updated version of the child's facial reconstruction. 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. 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. He settled in New Hampshire sometime in the late 1970s. The abandonment of five-year-old Lisa in Scotts Valley, California. 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. He was 62 years old when he passed away in prison. Wikimedia CommonsFrom left: Marlyse Honeychurch, Marie Elizabeth Vaughn, a still unidentified victim, and Sarah McWaters. More than 30 years later, is it possible to get to the truth and who gets to tell it? Show 8 More Episodes. A sister and two nieces.. 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. For more than two decades, the Bear Brook murders remained a complete mystery. The Family in Barrels. Just disappeared.. [15], The fourth victim's identity is not yet known, but investigators stated that through advanced DNA testing they could confirm the child was Rasmussen's. In 2014, police announced that DNA profiling had revealed through MtDNA that the woman, and oldest and youngest girls were maternally related. [5] In 1989, he received a three-year prison sentence for child abandonment.
Amazon pauses construction on 2nd headquarters in Virginia It wasnt Rasmussens first time in prison, however hed just been using a different name. The hunter had been stalking deer on a property adjacent to New Hampshire's Bear Brook State Park. Donate $20 today. 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. 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. In 2003, when the San Bernardino Sheriffs Department opened a new case aimed at finding Lisas biological family, she was approximately 22 years old. [8] Authorities believe that Rasmussen killed Beaudin somewhere in California, although her body has never been found. The family was comprised of Sarah McWaters, an infant, her older sister Marie Elizabeth Vaughn, and their mother Marlyse Honeychurch. Get an all-access pass to never-before-seen content, free digital evidence kits, and much more! 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. One of the hunters looked inside the open barrel and saw a skull. And he wasnt being cooperative with that at all.. 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. One of the victims had been his daughter. 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.. Beaudin's daughter was abducted by Rasmussen and taken to California, where he raised her under the pseudonym "Gordon Jensen". And he brings a fresh examination of the evidence to a state that has never exonerated anyone for murder. I got a little crazy with it, she said. She was born in Hawaiian Gardens, California, when her father was in the Marines. Rasmussen's identity was confirmed via DNA from a son from his first marriage. 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. Denise Beaudin has never been located. Similar posts also aided in the identifications of the victims. Bear Brook Starting February 20 Jason Carroll is serving life in prison for a murder he says he didn't commit. Click here to donate $20. 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. Marlyse Elizabeth Honeychurch (b. While living in Manchester, New Hampshire, Rasmussen lived under the alias "Robert 'Bob' Evans" and worked at the Waumbec Mill.
Bear Brook on Apple Podcasts Police built the case against him around his own taped confession. [11], San Bernardino detective Peter Headley got Lisa's case in 2013 and genealogy website databases had grown since the case had started.
The Bear Brook Murders And Grisly Crimes Of Terry Rasmussen 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. 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. In 1985 the plastic wrapped bodies of a woman and girl were discovered in a metal drum in a forest in Allenstown, New Hampshire. 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. [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.
[38], Marlyse had previously married Marie's father in June 1971 and divorced by 1974. When Lisa was taken into protective custody in 1986, police asked her if she had any siblings. 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,. They werent identified until 2019; at that time, authorities believed Marie was 8 to 10 years old at the time of her death. He pleaded guilty to the death of his partnerEunsoon Jun, landing him a 15 year prison sentence, according to The Los Angeles Times. [35] He married in 1969, had four children, and lived in Phoenix, Arizona, and Redwood City, California. 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. 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. 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. Big, like 4 or 5 feet around and probably 2 or 3 feet high, she said. [6] They last saw Rasmussen around December 1975 or 1976, when he showed up with an unidentified woman. It was sad, Salamon said. 1954) was the mother of Marie Elizabeth Vaughn (b. June 7, 2019 A clue is found buried on an internet message board. 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.. [6], Rasmussen lived in a number of states including Arizona, Colorado, Idaho, Virginia, Texas, Ohio, Oregon, Hawaii and California. 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 was convicted and sentenced for the murder in 2002 of his then-wife, Eunsoon Jun; he died in prison in 2010. National Center for Missing and Exploited Children. 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. 1971) and Sarah Lynn McWaters (b. 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: Buried in the cat litter, police found a human foot completely mummified wearing a flip flop. [30] The daughter is keeping her name private. [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][17], The girl found with the adult female, later identified as Vaughn, was between 5 and 11 years old. October 24, 2018 An ominous New Year's party introduction. 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.
Killer: Terry Rasmussen - The Chameleon Killer, Bear Brook murders The bodies could not be identified at the time, leading the case to go cold. More than 30 years later, is it possible to get to the truth - and who gets to tell it?
THE CHAMELEON KILLER 'Bear Brook Murders' - Starcasm I remember seeing an ax leaned up there.. [5] His wife left him and took the children in 1975 after he was arrested for aggravated assault.
Bear Brook [Its because] there's still one victim out there, former Detective Cody said. Jason Carroll is serving life in prison for a murder he says he didn't commit. She said her mother and Rasmussen got married in 1968 in Hawaii. Want to make sure that NHPR continues creating projects like Bear Brook? Click here to donate $20. She also may have suffered from anemia. [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. It was reported that he was known to travel with women and children. 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. [6] The divorce was finalized in 1978. Why are you with him? Hodges said. An estranged cousin goes missing. [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. He would say, Well she's busy taking care of her mother or She was going to get some therapeutic help, Rose said Vanner told her. 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. [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. Hes your atypical serial killer, Strelzin said. We know what he was, we know what he did and now we know who his victims were.. Deza was identified by Othram on February 23, 2023. 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. Clockwise from left: Denise Beaudin, Marlyse Elizabeth Honeychurch, Sarah L. McWaters, Marie E. Vaughn, "the Middle Child," Eunsoon Jun. Investigators believe that the mother of the child was also killed by Rasmussen. Do groundbreaking techniques come at the cost of genetic privacy? There's always that hope, but nothing's definite.. Yet, they still had no clue who the victims were. Like Rasmussen's confirmed victims, she had died of blunt force trauma to the head.
Bear Brook - Listen to All Episodes | True Crime | TuneIn 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. [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. David Salamon and Paula Hodges are Honeychurch's siblings. She had been placed in the refrigerator with a pillow, sleeping bag and what appeared to be several blankets, he said. But 15years later, a similar barrel was discovered in the same area, this time containing the remainsof two girls. If you have any information about these missing cases or others, please call the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children at 1-800-THE-LOST (1-800-843-5678) or visit its website at www.missingkids.org. This is the story of the Allenstown Four. 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. [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. I wished he'd lived longer, so he would have suffered longer in prison, myself.. 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. Murders", "Criminologist: 'Allenstown killer is unlike any serial killer I have ever studied', "New Hampshire's most infamous cold case leads to unrelated 1985 Tenn. homicide", "New Hampshire unsolved case file: Disappearance of Denise Daneault", "Remains found in Tennessee in 1985 identified as teen missing from Manchester since 1984", "Homicide victim in Greene County cold case identified after 33 years", "After 27 years, "Lady in the Fridge" is Identified", https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Terry_Peder_Rasmussen&oldid=1141199064, American people who died in prison custody, American prisoners sentenced to life imprisonment, North High School (Phoenix, Arizona) alumni, Prisoners sentenced to life imprisonment by California, Prisoners who died in California detention, Serial killers who died in prison custody, Violence against women in the United States, Short description is different from Wikidata, Articles containing potentially dated statements from June 2019, All articles containing potentially dated statements, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License 3.0, This page was last edited on 23 February 2023, at 21:39. Maricopa County Sheriffs Department, Arizona. The guys jumped on my four-wheeler and we booted out of there and that was the last time that we saw the barrel.. Police later determined the female adult and child, unidentified at the time, had died of blunt force trauma to their heads. Jenson said after those two weeks, the Deckers could arrange for their daughter to adopt Lisa, police said.
Why America is obsessed with the Alex Murdaugh murder trial [28] Beaudin disappeared from Manchester, New Hampshire, along with her young daughter and then-boyfriend Robert "Bob" Evans. In 1985, there was a grim discovery made in Bear Brook State Park in Allenstown, New Hampshire: Two decomposing bodies found in a barrel. Salamon said he and his family call the girl Angel.. [4] They were found to have died of blunt force trauma to their heads. 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. Police and FBI agents conducted a search in Manchester after receiving an anonymous tip regarding Daneault in November 2017, after Rasmussen was announced as the Bear Brook killer. bodies found. Want to make sure that NHPR continues creating projects like Bear Brook? [8][10] He was arrested that November and pleaded no contest in 2003[12] to charges relating to her murder and dismemberment. Rasmussen had been convicted of the murder of aromantic partner in 2003. Her age at the time of death was estimated to be 23 to 33. After his stint in the 1990s, Rasmussen stayed off authorities radar for a little over a decade.
A search leads authorities to his basement. But, I think until we know her identity, we're not going to solve the case.. Rasmussen has been linked to five horrific murders and authorities fear there are more.
The Mysterious Bear Brook Murders | Dispatches From The Middle Her answer led police to believe that Rasmussen killed them too. [11] Rasmussen was arrested under another alias, Gerry Mockerman, in 1988 for driving a stolen vehicle. Two investigators work parallel leads, and authorities call a press conference. Honeychurch had an argument with her mother and left the residence, never contacting her relatives again. Host Jason Moon documents how those involved grapple with the idea that the prevailing story about who killed Sharon Johnson could be a lie. Upon Rasmussen's release from prison, according to the State of California Dept. [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. Vanner fended off her loved ones questions with an array of excuses. 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. Came to a dead end, Salamon said.
New Hampshire murders: Authorities identify three of the four - CNN [41] Sarah was laid to rest in Connecticut, closer to her father's family. [2] All four of the victims were either partially or completely skeletonized; they were believed to have died between 1977 and 1981. 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.