Which says, yeah, theres more victims out there, definitely.. On 28 December 2010, Terry Rasmussen died while he was behind bars at High Desert State Prison in Susanville, California. The answer was message boards on genealogy websites such as Ancestry.com and 23andme. The girl was one of four victims found stuffed into 55-gallon drums in New Hampshire woods in 1985 and 2000. Their slain bodies were found on November 10, 1985 in Bear Brook State Park. He died in prison in 2010 after being convicted of her 2002 murder. She flew to Florida to interview the cop in charge of the original case. In 1997, town officials planned to clear the Bear Brook Store site and started a survey. I look back now and see how completely naive and impressionable I was. The identity of the middle child, who Rasmussen fathered, is still a mystery. The girl was one of four victims found stuffed into 55-gallon drums in New Hampshire woods in 1985 and 2000. New Hampshire authorities opened a missing persons case for Denise Beaudin in 2016. When I walked away from the cult and started my life over, I was alone. (New Hampshire State Police). We pursued the lead, explains Ronda. San Bernardino County detectives, and Rae-Venter, soon learned something shocking. He received a three-year prison sentence for child abandonment, but when he was paroled the following year, he disappeared again. Terry Rasmussen Terry Rasmussen is pictured in an undated photo with one of his children. Like, was this really his daughter? The point was bought starkly into focus earlier this year after her work led to the arrest in California of a suspect in a series of brutal rapes. He never saw his daughter again but got to experience an emotional reunion with the granddaughter who had been missing for 35 years. I was really centered on the little girl, on Lisa, Gruenheid told 20/20 last year. At that time, Denise Beaudin also had a 5-month-old daughter. By using this website, you accept the terms of our Visitor Agreement and Privacy Policy, and understand your options regarding Ad Choices. Rasmussen, who was arrested for child abandonment in 1988 and served less than two years in prison as Kimball, was released on parole in October 1990 and disappeared. Police were notified. In 1985, as the man calling himself Gordon Jenson showed up in Cypress with a little girl in tow, authorities in New Hampshire were making their first terrible discovery just outside of Bear Brook State Park. It is an argument she vehemently rejects. Together with her brother, Scott Maxwell, Ronda began a painstaking investigation that spanned almost a decade and became all-consuming. But a year later, in July 2017, he was unmasked, thanks to the pioneering work of another. His last name was Rasmussen., Everything just stopped. Having grown up there I know that people are reticent to talk. 1971 - 1972 MARLYSE lived in various locations in California. Lisa who authorities did not yet know was really Dawn Beaudin was taken into care. Terry Rasmussen Eunsoon Jun is pictured in an undated photo. She said that she did, but they died from eating grass mushrooms when they were out camping, Headley said. The work is not without risks. Marlyse Honeychurch, from left, and her daughters, Marie Vaughn and Sarah McWaters, are pictured, along with artists renderings of their bodies before they were identified in 2019. What people dont understand is that when you upload to GEDmatch you are not uploading your DNA, that stays wherever you tested. No one from Sarahs paternal family had seen or heard from her since Marlyse left California in 1978 after an argument at a family thanksgiving meal. The case, eventually called The Lisa Project, ended up containing more than 200 of the womans relatives including a first cousin, authorities said. He had once been introduced to his pregnant girlfriend. The following November, Evans vanished with Denise Beaudin and her infant daughter. In June 2003, Rasmussen was convicted of Jun's murder and sentenced to 15 years to life in prison, where he would stay until 2010 when he died of natural causes. They dug it up but there was nothing in it. (New Hampshire State Police). Sarah was the youngest, her half-sister Marie Vaughn, was the oldest. When he resurfaced as Juns boyfriend in 1999, he was going by the Vanner alias. It took time to build trust and one of the most surprising revelations to arise from those early inquiries was that very few people in the area knew there had been four victims. And as it wasnt known until she was 20 that she had been abducted there had been no press about it, so when police called people and asked if theyd take a DNA test, they Googled it, didnt see anything and thought it was some kind of scam. The suspected serial killer, who died in a California prison in 2010, is suspected of killing at least six people, including his toddler daughter. Terry Rasmussen is pictured in a 1985 mugshot. Assassinations, Plane Crashes & Overdoses: Inside The Kennedy Family Curse, Rebekah started compiling lists of posts that fitted the into the right timeframe, location and description of the victims. There they were. In the coursed of that, when she started to get matches from people who were adopted, she started to think about techniques to help them. Eventually we convinced the San Bernardino Police Department to put out some press releases so there was a record of the kidnapping and the project.. Rebecca had discovered the key piece that unlocked a grisly decades-old mystery. It allowed me to give a voice to the voiceless. Terry Rasmussen Photos show Denise Beaudin and Terry Rasmussen, aka Bob Evans, in 1981, shortly before Beaudin vanished. She did not set out to find the killer. We dont feel police could have missed it. When I heard the podcast, the timeframe and the locations added up.. In the intervening 15 years, forensic science had evolved and examiners were able to ascertain from DNA taken from all three victims that the adult was related to the oldest and youngest child, but not the middle one. Terry Rasmussen served in the Navy from 1961 to 1967, he was stationed at bases along the west coast and also at Okinawa in the Pacific. His daughters name is unknown, as is the identity of her mother, who authorities believe is likely another of Rasmussens victims. She went with Terry. Detective Peter Headley, who was part of the San Bernardino County investigation, told 20/20 that when he got the case in 2013, genealogy databases were fairly small. She was surprised that she had never heard of the case and that so little had seemingly been done to solve it. She made Time Magazines 100 List in 2019. Terry Rasmussen Terry Rasmussen is pictured in an undated photo with one of his children. Headley sent photos of the man California authorities knew as Kimball/Vanner/Jenson to Manchester police, who showed them to Beaudin. Ronda continues: I wanted to get a sense of what was happening in the area at the time and was flabbergasted when hardly anyone we spoke to realized two more bodies had been found in 2000. In June last year, after all the DNA tests had been completed, and the names had been confirmed, New Hampshire Police Department convened a press conference to reveal the identities of three known victims in the Bear Brook murder case. A conversation with one of Terry Rasmussen's surviving children. Registration on or use of this site constitutes acceptance of our Terms of Service, Privacy Policy and Cookies Policy. Salamon told the network that he and his family never stopped searching for his sister or his nieces. Eventually, the first two victims were buried at Saint Jean Baptiste Cemetery in Allenstown. The medical examiner could not determine for sure how the younger girls died but determined they had been murdered. She knew that, at the time, New Hampshire had no dedicated cold case unit and surmised that the state would be a good place to start, as there was more of a likelihood that she could make an impact. When friends reported her missing, Vanner was taken in for questioning, at which point he was fingerprinted. She scoured official records, searched the internet, pored over registers and formed a Facebook group where 80 former residents helped to re-create a plan of the park. So, our suspect started in 1984 as Curtis Kimball, Headley told 20/20. One of their daughters, Diane Kloepfer, told 20/20 last year that her mother once told her Rasmussen had burned his young son with a cigarette. But in 1975, his wife left him and took their children after Rasmussen was arrested for aggravated assault. Increasingly, her spare time was taken up with research. Terry was united in marriage to Phillip Rasmussen on March 20, 1955, in Mason City. He married in 1968 and had four children with his wife, living in Arizona and California. Each of the women has been changed by their involvement. The siblings interviewed the owner of the General store site several times. Crystal Bonvillian, Cox Media Group National Content Desk, Authorities seek ID of serial killer's slain daughter. They refused to name themselves. The project evolved to require 20,000 hours of work and over 100 volunteers, all focused on finding the family of a woman by now in her twenties who had been kidnapped by a man who died in jail in 2010. The lead detective in the case organized a graveside service presided over by the town's Catholic priest and a Methodist minister. (National Center for Missing & Exploited Children), It tore my mom up. When his daughter and granddaughter left Manchester with Evans, Beaudin said, Evans told him they were leaving town because they owed people money, 20/20 reported. The following November, Evans vanished with Denise Beaudin and her infant daughter. Kloepfer last saw her father in either 1975 or 1976, when she was about 6 years old. The trooper found another metal drum about 100 yards from where the first had been discovered. Rebekah looked for missing girls. Theoretically, Barbara replied, yes, it was possible, although Lisa was a complete blank slate and lurking in the background was the possibility that something may have happened to her parents. In 2017, Rebekah learned two new pieces of information that bought her closer to the true identities of the victims. Honeychurch and her family have no ties to Mississippi, and they had no connection to New Hampshire before the murders, authorities said. Rasmussen was born in 1943 in Denver but grew up in Arizona, according to New Hampshire authorities. Authorities believe Rasmussens daughter was between 2 and 4 years old when she was killed, putting her date of birth somewhere between 1975 and 1977. In a criminal investigation first, Barbara took DNA that Lisa provided and then ran it through popular ancestry websites such as Ancestry.com, 23andme and the aggregate site GEDmatch, to try and find matches. Examination of the genetic composition of the child and genealogy research suggest the mother of the child has relatives in Pearl River County, Mississippi, officials said in a news release. ALLENSTOWN, N.H. Relatives in Mississippi could hold the key to identifying a little girl who was among four serial killer victims found stuffed into two 55-gallon drums in the New Hampshire wilderness decades ago. (New Hampshire State Police). In 2017, investigators named Terry Peder Rasmussen as the most likely suspect. Ronda, 55, and a mother-of-three grown up children, was a childrens counselor when she first heard about the bodies in the barrels from an old newspaper report. Examination of the genetic composition of the child and genealogy research suggest the mother of the child has relatives in Pearl River County, Mississippi, officials said in a news release. Overview of the area in Bear Brook State Park and the second barrel, 2000. ABC's '20/20: The Chameleon' examines the life, crimes, and impact of Terrence "Terry" Peder Rasmussen, a serial killer who the authorities believed used "at least five different aliases in a decades-long run of crimes across the country, including at least five homicides, and likely more." But unlike most killers, instead of targeting strangers, Terry committed [] It was just a situation where, every time we searched, (we) came to a dead end, he said. She had slightly wavy brown hair and stood approximately 3 feet, 3 inches to 3 feet, 9 inches tall. Inside, wrapped in plastic, were the badly decomposed bodies of Honeychurch and her 6-year-old daughter, Marie Vaughn. Terry Rasmussen's 1973 mug shot. The test revealed that Beaudin was Lisas maternal grandfather. I wanted to know why we have so many. The victim was not Denise Beaudin. All the same guy.. Terry Rasmussen is pictured in a 1985 mugshot. The good old boys. Knowing the region well, she has her own theories about why the crime faded into obscurity and why there was little effort to publicize it over the years. I have three beautiful children and a loving husband, and would like our presently happy and secure life to remain intact and protected, she said in the statement, according to CNN. Lisa still doesnt know what happened to her mother. Geologists use a technique called radio isotope testing to determine details of rock samples based on their environmental isotope profiles. As time went on, investigators located hundreds of her genetic cousins. Rasmussen was born in 1943 in Denver but grew up in Arizona, according to New Hampshire authorities. Along with her team, Barbara traced one of Dawns birth grandfathers to the state. In 2016, Barbara discovered that Lisa was Dawn Baudin, daughter of Denise, from New Hampshire. They are not curious folk. After a courageous battle with muscular. Although Denise was never seen again, Rasmussen resurfaced in California four years later under the alias Curtis Kimball with Dawn, who he now claimed was his own daughter and called Lisa. People forgot. They mind their own business. By this time, Lisa had been adopted. There, Ronda met Rebekah met. In the early days, on her first visit the site where the bodies were discovered, she took four stones from the scene, one for each victim, and vowed to one day write their names on them. How could a whole family go missing. Around a decade later, Rebekah Heath recalls reading about the Bear Brook murders in an archived newspaper report. Could the technique she used to trace the biological families of adoptees be used to trace the biological family of someone with no knowledge of who their family was? Plausibly, the child and her mother could be descendants from Thomas Deadhorse Mitchell, born in 1836, or William Livings, born in 1826. Terry Rasmussen Terry Rasmussen is pictured in a 1973 mugshot. Eunsoon Jun is pictured in an undated photo. The Billionaire Murders: 'Arrest Imminent' In Brutal Execution-Style Killings Of Canadians Barry & Honey Sherman. With Lisa we had to do so target testing because we just didnt have the information. Meanwhile in New Hampshire, a decade after the second two victims had been discovered, theBearBrookmurder case had gone cold again. (National Center for Missing & Exploited Children), It tore my mom up. Rebekah Heath at the scene of the Bear Brook State Park. As Jenson, he had abandoned a 5-year-old girl, who he claimed was his daughter, Lisa Jenson, while they were living together in 1986 at an RV park in Cypress, California. It makes no sense. Her response was, now you know what its like to have your privacy violated. People may receive compensation for some links to products and services. Investigators, amateur sleuths, professional genealogists and others continued their dogged pursuit for answers and identities. Ronda Randall grew up in the Granite State, one hour away from Allenstown. It contained the remains of two little girls. The more matching DNA you have, the more closely they are related.. Denise Beaudins body has never been found. She was raised and educated in Joice, graduating from Joice High School with the Class of 1953. Can you help identify 2 people found dead in King County? One came from a true crime podcast released that year, which explained how cutting-edge isotope tests had revealed where the victims had lived. San Bernardino County Sheriffs Office detectives opened an investigation into Lisas true identity. As a test, Barbara recently reworked the Lisa case using the same methodology. Rasmussen. Terry Rasmussen is pictured in a 1973 mugshot. Her retirement is now on hold and, along with a newly formed team of colleagues, she is working on 50 active cases. He was born May 30th, 1964 in Madrid, son of. To this day my brother and I question whether it was there all that time, she reveals. We knew that Bob Evans actually spent a good amount of time on that property where the barrels were found, because he used to fix up and do some electrical work at a camp store that was right there on the property at the park, Carol Schweitzer of the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children told 20/20 last year. They searched his home and found Eunsoons dismembered body hidden under a large pile of cat litter. The couple separated in 1972 and got back together before splitting up for good in 1975, following Rasmussens arrest for aggravated assault, authorities said. 1970 RASMUSSEN family moved to Redwood City, CA. We were very close. Its not known how Rasmussen met Marlyse Honeychurch and her two daughters, but in 1978 after the fateful Thanksgiving argument with her mother, the four of them left California and traveled to New Hampshire, where they lived in the town of Manchester and Terry adopted the alias Bob Evans. The suspected serial killer, who died in a California prison in 2010, is accused of having killed at least six people, including his toddler daughter. Authorities seek ID of serial killer's slain daughter (NCD). It is not known how Rasmussens biological daughter fits into this time frame or when she died, but it is assumed Marlyse, Sarah and Marie died after May 1980. The girl, whose body was recovered in 2000 from the woods near Bear Brook State Park in Allenstown, is the biological daughter of Terry Peder Rasmussen, who is suspected of killing at least six people across the U.S. Rasmussen, who became known to authorities as the Chameleon Killer because of his multiple aliases, died in a California prison in December 2010. In the meantime, Rasmussen lived out his days in jail, still under the name Kimball. It became consuming, you know that the answer is there somewhere. Terry Rasmussen poses for arrest photo from 1973. My starting point was not who are these people, it was how do I find the people that are looking for them,' because I figured there must be someone. Headley asked her a question. And now it turns out in the early 1980s, back in New Hampshire, he was using Bob Evans. The bodies were discovered two to a barrel, 15 years apart, just yards from each other. 2023 Cox Media Group. A son was born in 1970 in Palo Alto, California, followed by a third daughter in 1972. A son was born in 1970 in Palo Alto, California, followed by a third daughter in 1972. The same DNA analysis that showed the girl was Rasmussens daughter showed that she was not related to Honeychurch or her girls, who were all last seen alive in November 1978 in La Puenta, California. An artists rendering shows what the unidentified daughter of suspected serial killer Terry Rasmussen might have looked like before her killing. Detectives who went to the couples home looking for Jun found her mummified body buried under 10 bags worth of cat litter in their basement. Learn about careers at Cox Media Group. We didnt want to think he was out there, we felt he had come to some kind of end. Pictured are the metal drums in which four suspected serial killer victims were found in 1985 and 2000 in the woods near Bear Brook State Park in Allenstown, N. H. Three of the victims have been identified as Marlyse Honeychurch and her two daughters. Terry Rasmussen May Have More Victims Than We Know The only person Rasmussen was ever convicted of killing was Eunsoon Jun, according to ABC News. Terry Peder Rasmussen (December 23, 1943 - December 28, 2010) was an American serial killer. Headley told 20/20 that when Dawn Beaudin was taken into protective custody after being abandoned in 1986, she was asked if she had siblings. We had enormous numbers of descendants. The genealogist told 20/20 that identifying Rasmussen as their serial killer was the first time genetic genealogy was used to help law enforcement investigators solve a case. Rasmussen became a suspect in the Bear Brook killings thanks to dogged police work and a California womans search for her biological family. [1] In the late 60s, he moved to Hawaii, where he worked in his parents shoe store and married in 1968, according to the police timeline. She could easily get lost in research and was driven by deep empathy because, as she explains it, she could have a been a victim herself. Cant you just go back to sleep. (AP Photo). Civil liberties and privacy campaigners argue that using DNA data placed on ancestry websites for law enforcement investigation contravenes rights. Its a pretty straight forward technique, she explains. Terry Rasmussen Terry Rasmussen is pictured in a 1973 mugshot. He provided the DNA, which proved the biological link and told San Bernardino Investigators that his daughter, Denise, had left town back in 1981 with a man who called himself Bob Evans. As the first person involved in this new line of investigation, cops warned her she could potentially be a target for "any wingnut out there who had left his DNA somewhere he shouldnt have.". ALLENSTOWN, N.H. Relatives in Mississippi could hold the key to identifying a little girl who was among four serial killer victims found stuffed into two 55-gallon drums in the New Hampshire wilderness decades ago. The crime scene was searched but offered up no clues. Her modus operandi was always the same. This guys a ghost. Attempts to discover who she was and what happened to her mother are ongoing. When Beaudin last saw his daughter, she introduced her family to her boyfriend, who she knew as Bob Evans. He dropped out of high school and enlisted in 1961 in the U.S. Navy. Rasmussen's identity was confirmed via DNA from a son from his first marriage. The brothers notified the police, who found the skeletal remains of a 23-33-year-old . By the next year, when Lisa reached out to him for an update, the amount of available data had exploded. Detectives who went to the couples home looking for Jun found her mummified body buried under 10 bags worth of cat litter in their basement. Terry Rasmussen Terry Rasmussen is pictured in a 1990 mugshot taken under the alias of Curtis Kimball. They were skeletonised remains and composite pictures, instead of little girls with real names. They shy away from controversy. I got the call that he was not biologically related to Lisa, and that confirmed a lot of what my suspicions were, the former detective said. Thankfully, she says, her family was supportive and became as engaged with the case as she was. The trooper found another metal drum about 100 yards from where the first had been discovered. Off a trail, one of the brothers noticed an oil barrel turned on its side. Louisiana State Police investigators reached out Thursday to the public, asking for help finding the girls remaining family in the hopes of being able to finally give her a name. According to CNN, Rasmussen left the girl with neighbors, who later had to put her up for adoption. It was a missed opportunity. She surmised that he was afraid she would look too closely at his past. While the technique was straight-forward, the task was mammoth, akin to building a vast reverse family tree. The couple moved to Arizona in 1969, and his twin daughters were born. I havent been able to get back to tennis yet, she laughs. (New Hampshire State Police). When he resurfaced as Jun's. The genealogist told 20/20 that identifying Rasmussen as their serial killer was the first time genetic genealogy was used to help law enforcement investigators solve a case. Rasmussen died in prison in California, where he was serving a sentence for killing his girlfriend, Eunsoon Jun. In that email exchange in October 2018, Rasmussens name was the link Rebekah needed to confirm that the family her contact was searching for were three of the victims in the barrels. As it turned out, police officials there were familiar with a man named Bob Evans. She turned information over to the police. Rae-Venter told 20/20 the search led her to a man named Armand Beaudin in Manchester, New Hampshire, about 15 miles from Allenstown and Bear Brook State Park. But the technique also offers surprising details about organic life, as plants and animals absorb isotopes through their diet, which are then stored in tissue such as bones, hair and teeth. As he helped Lisa, now grown with her own family, look for her parents, he began working with Rae-Venter, the same genealogist now trying to identify Rasmussens slain daughter. An analysis of her bones suggests that she may have had anemia in life but this cannot be confirmed. The program about the case was aired again Friday night. Consequently, she beefed up security on her home. The medical examiner could not determine for sure how the younger girls died but determined they had been murdered. I think perhaps people felt uncomfortable about it., Brother and sister team, Scott Maxwell and Ronda Randall. The suspected serial killer, who died in a California prison in 2010, is accused of having killed at least six people, including his toddler daughter. Ronda has forged friendships with many of those involved, including Rasmussens children. Inside, wrapped in plastic, were the badly decomposed bodies of Honeychurch and her 6-year-old daughter, Marie Vaughn. In 2012, they flew to Florida to interview the chief officer in the case when the first bodies were first found. Initially, she was intrigued by the bodies in the barrels case. I dont see it. I dont know if my mother knew his capacity for violence, Kloepfer said in her interview. Terry Rasmussen Marlyse Honeychurch, from left, and her daughters, Marie Vaughn and Sarah McWaters, are pictured, along with artists renderings of their bodies before they were identified in 2019. You are uploading a text file., Initially, for many months, she worked in secret and remained anonymous. The detective suspected that Rasmussen had pleaded guilty because he overheard her telling another detective she planned to request a paternity test to determine if Lisa was really the killers child. I went over (to their house) to invite them here for Christmas and found out that they were already gone, Beaudin said. The last time Honeychurch was seen by her family was on Thanksgiving 1978, according to a timeline released by the attorney general's office. The post compromised Barbaras safety. One person who had worked with him speculated that he had come from a warmer climate as he wore a winter jacket in New Hampshire year-round. "My interest in Jane Does comes specifically because of my upbringing, she says. Terry Rasmussen is pictured in a 1990 mugshot taken under the alias of Curtis Kimball. The bones of a foot were sticking out of it. (It) just hurts that she doesnt know that it wasnt her fault, that she left with somebody that was gonna be horrible.. RASMUSSEN's son is born. Denise Beaudins body has never been found. They contact Eric Rasmussen to let them know his abusive father, Terry Peder Rasmussen, who used to burn him with cigarettes, is a serial killer. This station is part of Cox Media Group Television. I tried to put myself in the place of the victims family using the scenario that they were not assuming the worst had happened but had just lost touch over the years and wanted to check back in. Investigators still did not know if Evans was the killers real name or just another alias, so they again turned to Rae-Venter, who used her same methods from The Lisa Project to build a family tree that in 2017 identified their murder suspect as Colorado native Rasmussen. by. The couple separated in 1972 and got back together before splitting up for good in 1975, following Rasmussens arrest for aggravated assault, authorities said. He completed 10 years of school, no degree received. The three were among four victims found stuffed into 55-gallon drums in New Hampshire woods in 1985 and 2000. Rasmussen, who was arrested for child abandonment in 1988 and served less than two years in prison as Kimball, was released on parole in October 1990 and disappeared. After several months of searching, I turned the theory over to the State Police in December of 2014., Jayme Closs' Crime Scene Photos Revealed: Inside Murder-Kidnapping House of Horrors. He mentioned that all his old case notes might provide clues and that they had been left in a safe in Allenstown police office, but when they inquired, they were told the safe had been removed and there was no record of where the notes had gone. I have three beautiful children and a loving husband, and would like our presently happy and secure life to remain intact and protected, she said in the statement, according to CNN.
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