To make a donation in support of Bear Brook, click here. She was born in Hawaiian Gardens, California, when her father was in the Marines. 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. A year later, Juns body was found dismembered and buried in her basement. Rasmussen is believed to be responsible for several other murders, including that of Denise Beaudin, his known girlfriend,[5] who disappeared in 1981. Due to his use of many aliases, most notably "Bob Evans", Rasmussen is known as "The Chameleon Killer". Before that, hed been jailed in 1988 for driving a stolen vehicle under the name Gerry Mockerman, and even earlier in 1985 for drunk driving and child endangerment. Three of the victims would be identified, however, two years later, thanks to the obsessive amateur sleuthing of Rebekah Heath and Barbara Rae-Venter. Armand Beaudins daughter Denise Beaudin is Lisas mother. A dedicated detective refused to stop digging after she solved the brutal murder of a chemist in California. A family tree begins to take shape. One of the victims had been his daughter. June 7, 2019 A clue is found buried on an internet message board. [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. [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. [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. 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. 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. Jessica Rinaldi/The Boston Globe via Getty Images. He had an unofficial backyard marriage ceremony to Eunsoon Jun in Richmond that same year, though no marriage certificates were ever filed. 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. Wikimedia CommonsFrom left: Marlyse Honeychurch, Marie Elizabeth Vaughn, a still unidentified victim, and Sarah McWaters. Marie E. Vaughn was first, born in 1971, then Sarah L. McWaters was born in 1977, according to the New Hampshire Department of Justice. Create your free profile and get access to exclusive content. Maricopa County Sheriffs Department, Arizona. Honeychurch may have adopted the alias name "Elizabeth Evans" to use in legal documents during May 1980. January 23, 2023 Jason Carroll is serving life in prison for a murder he says he didn't commit. 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. Want to make sure that NHPR continues creating projects like Bear Brook? 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 identity of the fourth victim still remains a mystery. 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. His own taped confession. Most serial killers would never do that; it's the last thing they would do. 2021 TV-14 Deep in the woods of New Hampshire, police find barrels with the remains of mutilated victims. 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. The last time Honeychurch was seen by her family wasonThanksgiving 1978, according to a timeline released by the attorney general's office. 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. A True Crime Story is about what happens when the official narrative is challenged. [12][16] The cause of death for these children was also blunt force trauma. It was sad, Salamon said. Vanner died in prison in December 2010 of natural causes. October 24, 2018 An ominous New Year's party introduction. [1] The use of genetic genealogy to identify Rasmussen represented new possibilities in forensic investigations. 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. 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. In 2003, when the San Bernardino Sheriffs Department opened a new case aimed at finding Lisas biological family, she was approximately 22 years old. Well it is Wednesday! The man imprisoned for her murder maintains his innocence. The bones of a foot . She had brown hair and was about 3ft 8in (1.12m) tall. Bear Brook is an American true crime podcast covering the Bear Brook murders. They werent identified until 2019; at that time, authorities believed Marie was 8 to 10 years old at the time of her death. By 2017, Bob Evans was dead, and investigators believed he had killed Denise Beaudin after they left New Hampshire. Rae-Venter said that in viewing the timeline for Rasmussen, it appears most likely that his daughter was born in Texas, possibly on the Gulf Coast if Rasmussen was working on an oil rig at the time. Lamotte had been found in Tennessee in 1985, killed about four months after her disappearance. [15] In attendance were members of Honeychurch's family and Rasmussen's daughter from his first marriage. Want to make sure that NHPR continues creating projects like Bear Brook? [29], Evans died in prison in December 2010. Honeychurchs youngest daughter, Sarah, was laid to rest in Connecticut, near her fathers family. A family tree begins to take shape. Click here to donate $20. [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. The Deckers came to believe Lisa might have been abused. That's why I do these to get her identified and so that there's closure for the families involved here. In 2016, this child was determined to be Rasmussens biological daughter. We know what he was, we know what he did and now we know who his victims were.. 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. [15], Rasmussen lived a mile and a half away from 14-year-old Laureen Rahn when she disappeared from Manchester, New Hampshire, in April 1980. 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. And he wasnt being cooperative with that at all.. 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.. [12] On January 26, 2017, authorities publicly announced that Evans was a suspect in the disappearance of Denise Beaudin and the Bear Brook murders. They can rest in peace. 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. From left: Marlyse Honeychurch, Marie Elizabeth Vaughn, a still unidentified victim, and Sarah McWaters. [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. 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. November 7, 2018 The case that was solved in reverse leaves many questions unanswered. Timelines come together. [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). I do, my sister does, and my brother does., I do know that my mother tells me All that I can get from her is that he was the great love of her life, she 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. Police believe Honeychurch fled to New Hampshire with Rasmussen, who at that point had begun using the name "Bob Evans." A surprising admission leads to a new break in the case. More than 30 years later, is it possible to get to the truth - and who gets to tell it? Where is she? Hodges 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. And he brings a fresh examination of the evidence to a state that has never exonerated anyone for murder. MORE: Suspected Potomac River Rapist, who 'terrorized' women in '90s, caught with genetic genealogy July 2017 The middle child, identified as Rasmussen's daughter, currently remains unidentified. Their slain bodies were found on November 10th, 1985, in Bear Brook State Park. Huber said the body of a woman was found in a state of advanced decomposition and police couldnt discern the womans facial features. 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. Bear Brook murder victims remembered. [6] The divorce was finalized in 1978. [9] Beaudin was not reported missing at the time as her family believed she left town due to financial reasons. Click here to donate $20. 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. ET on ABC. The refrigerator had been dumped in a canal in San Joaquin County, California. Terry Peder Rasmussen (December 23, 1943 December 28, 2010) was an American serial killer. 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. 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. [5][3] A woman named "Elizabeth Evans" was listed as his wife during his time in New Hampshire; this woman has never been identified. Under a plea deal, an additional charge of child abuse was dropped. The woman, the oldest child and the youngest child . On this Wikipedia the language links are at the top of the page across from the article title. [2] The three girls were thought to also have some Native American heritage; they had light or European-American complexions. After countless hours of research, genetic genealogist Rae-Venter found Armand Beaudin, Lisas maternal grandfather. Rasmussen, who had used several other aliases throughout his life,was named as a suspect in 2017. 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. He abandoned her in 1986 and was subsequently imprisoned on child abandonment charges. I closed the blinds back up. 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.. [3][4] Rasmussen enlisted in the United States Navy in 1961 and served until he was discharged in 1967. [8] Authorities believe that Rasmussen killed Beaudin somewhere in California, although her body has never been found. 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 . [11], San Bernardino detective Peter Headley got Lisa's case in 2013 and genealogy website databases had grown since the case had started. The four victims were estimated to have died between 1977 and 1981. [2] He often worked as an electrician for oil and gas companies. During the news conference, investigators detail the Bear Brook State Park murders; the killing of Eunsoon Jun in California; Lisa's abandonment; and Lisa's link to the still-missing Denise Beaudin, her mother. But, I think until we know her identity, we're not going to solve the case.. Renee Rose spoke to "20/20" about her friend Eunsoon Jun. His own taped confession. To this day, she has yet to be identified. There's always that hope, but nothing's definite.. 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. 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. 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. In 1995, scavengers found a refrigerator containing what former San Joaquin County Assistant Sheriff John Huber believes may be another one of Rasmussens victims. [39] By October 1978, Sarah's father was seeing another woman and Sarah was presumably in the care of her mother. The murder of Eunsoon Jun in Richmond, California. David Salamon, Honeychurchs brother, remembered the lengths to which their family went to find Honeychurch and her daughters. 07-11-2018. It just made me angry and curious.. A sister and two nieces.. Buried in the cat litter, police found a human foot completely mummified wearing a flip flop. It was just a situation where, every time we searched, [we] came to a dead end. [8], Honeychurch and Vaughn's funeral was held in November 2019 in Allenstown, during which they were given a new headstone bearing their names. Like Rasmussen's confirmed victims, she had died of blunt force trauma to the head. And they left never called. She was 2 to 4 years old at the time of her death, placing her birthdate between 1975-1977. Donate $20 today. October 31, 2018 A child is abandoned. He had settled in nearby Manchester, New Hampshire, under the alias "Bob Evans" in the late 1970s. We had a sister that was gone. He was just a really, really bad man, one of the worst, Jensen said. 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. But only 19-year-old Jason Carroll was convicted. The poster claimed to be McWaters half-sister. The family was comprised of Sarah McWaters, an infant, her older sister Marie Elizabeth Vaughn, and their mother Marlyse Honeychurch. In her free time, Heath began scouring the internet for any clues she could find. She said that she did but "they died eating grass mushrooms when they were out camping". DNA is wrestled from rootless hair. 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. She had an overbite, which was probably noticeable. In 1981, Denise Beaudin went missing shortly after Thanksgiving with her 6-month-old daughter and her boyfriend, Rasmussen, whom she had known as Robert T. Evans, according to the New Hampshire Department of Justice. 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. [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. [10], Rasmussen resurfaced in December 1999 under the pseudonym Larry Vanner when California-based chemist Eunsoon Jun introduced him to her family. 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. Want to make sure that NHPR continues creating projects like Bear Brook? It's a blue 55-gallon steel drum. [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. Her age at the time of death was estimated to be 23 to 33. Inside The Horrifying Mystery Of The Bear Brook Murders. The woman also told Heath that her missing family member had once married a man with the last name Rasmussen. She went with Terry. Jenson arranged for Lisa to be taken to Southern California for two weeks with another family, Katherine and Richard Decker. 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,. Never contacted nobody. In 2014, police announced that DNA profiling had revealed through MtDNA that the woman, and oldest and youngest girls were maternally related. Jun was in her mid-40s when she introduced her family to her new boyfriend, Larry Vanner, whom authorities later identified as Rasmussen, according to the New Hampshire Department of Justice. A child is abandoned. Which says, yeah, there's more victims out there, definitely.. [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]. More than 30 years later, is it possible to get to the truth and who gets to tell it? He was 62 years old when he passed away in prison. Since 2017, he has been named as a suspect in several other crimes. Click here to donate $20. [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. 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. We're here today to bury my sister and my nieces, Salamon said at Honeychurch and Maries funeral. Police built the case against him around his own taped confession. 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Sarah is believed to have been 2 to 3 years old at the time she was killed, according to authorities. 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. I guess dying serves him right, Rose said. [41] Sarah was laid to rest in Connecticut, closer to her father's family. Inside The Horrifying Mystery Of The Bear Brook Murders And The Evidence That Points To The Chameleon Killer. Ongoing genealogy efforts have revealed that Jane Doe's mother's relatives may have come from Pearl River County, Mississippi. Roxane Gruenheid was a homicide detective at the Contra Costa County Sheriff's Office. Beaudin's body has never been found and she is currently presumed dead, according to The Concord Monitor. [11] Rasmussen was arrested under another alias, Gerry Mockerman, in 1988 for driving a stolen vehicle. [2] He grew up in Arizona and attended North High School in Phoenix until dropping out during his sophomore year in 1960. From the creators of the hit podcast Bear Brook comes A True Crime Story. Marie Vaughn was last seen with her mother and sister at a Thanksgiving gathering in 1978. She was previously known as San Joaquin Jane Doe and the Lady in the Fridge.[8][19]. Updates in the case of the Bear Brook Murders. Lisa was born Dawn Beaudin in 1981, Armand Beaudin said. Starring Terry P Rasmussen Genres Unscripted Subtitles None available 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. [17] At that time, a tipster speculated that she could have been the "Elizabeth Evans" that had been listed as Rasmussen's wife during his time in Manchester. [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. [10][25] In 2015, the woman was identified as the mother of the two girls. Honeychurch was 24 at the time, according to the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children. All the same guy., Watch the full story on "20/20" FRIDAY at 9 p.m. [7], By 1978, Rasmussen was dating Marlyse Elizabeth Honeychurch. With the confirmation, police believe theycan officially implicate serial killerTerry Peder Rasmussen, who had passed away while in prison in 2010, in their deaths. On Nov. 10, 1985, a hunter trekking through Bear Brook State Park in Allenstown, New Hampshire came across a large, industrial steel drum. 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. [5] In 1989, he received a three-year prison sentence for child abandonment. A search leads authorities to his basement. 3, 2023 at 9:04 AM PST | Updated: 20 minutes ago. Why are you with him? Hodges said. It can conquer hate. 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. Authorities were able to link him then, using his fingerprints, to the earlier child abandonment case. She married Sarah's father in September 1974, and the two were separated by the time she was known to be dating Rasmussen. All of them are still alive. 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. The Family in Barrels. "[15], On May 9, 2000, the remains of two young girls were found near the first discovery site. Curiously, the first drum was way back in 1985 and the second wasnt discovered until 2000. By Eric Shorey & Gina Tron [8], On November 10, 1985, a hunter found a metal 55-gallon drum near the site of a burned-down store at Bear Brook State Park in Allenstown, New Hampshire. May their souls find peace in Gods loving care. Jun was in her mid-40s when she introduced her family to her new boyfriend Larry Vanner, whom authorities later identified as Rasmussen, according to the New Hampshire Department of Justice. I don't think they're ever going to find her, Denise Beaudins father Armand Beaudin said. In 1995, scavengers found a refrigerator containing what former detective John Huber believes may be another one of Rasmussens victims. [2] All four of the victims were either partially or completely skeletonized; they were believed to have died between 1977 and 1981. Came to a dead end, Salamon said. My father's been outta my life since I was, like, 6 or 7, she said. Public DomainTerry Peder Rasmussens 2002 mugshot after his arrest for the murder of his girlfriend Eunsoon Jun. [6], Rasmussen lived in a number of states including Arizona, Colorado, Idaho, Virginia, Texas, Ohio, Oregon, Hawaii and California. Diane Kloepfer is one of four biological children Terry Rasmussen fathered in his marriage. After months of trial and error, Rae-Venter was able to use this method to identify the victims. Get an all-access pass to never-before-seen content, free digital evidence kits, and much more! [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. In 2003, the San Bernardino County Sheriff's Department opened a case to find Lisa's biological family. Thanks for your support. [6] These techniques have since been used in other high-profile cases, including the Golden State Killer case, leading to the arrest of suspect Joseph James DeAngelo in April 2018. A second search was conducted in May 2018. For more on the case, visit bearbrookpodcast.com. [5] His wife left him and took the children in 1975 after he was arrested for aggravated assault. ALLENSTOWN "Love conquers all things. Instead, they focus on complete strangers. One of the hunters looked inside the open barrel and saw a skull. Sign up forOxygen Insiderfor all the best true crime content. He would say she decided she didn't like me anymore and didn't want me in her life. February 20, 2023 Sharon Johnson's family and friends have spent the last 35 years coping with her brutal murder. She said her mother and Rasmussen got married in 1968 in Hawaii. The Grisly Crimes Of Terry Rasmussen.#crime #truecrime #solvedcase #unsolved #realcrimeMusic Credit:.