Sarah L. McWaters was 11 months old when she was last seen with her mother and sister around Thanksgiving of 1978. The bodies were eventually buried in a nearby 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. The second child found in the second barrel has not yet been identified although DNA evidence has confirmed thatRasmussen wasthe parent of this unknown victim and that she was not biologically related to Honeychurch or her daughters. [4] The identities of the middle child, who Rasmussen fathered, and her mother remain unknown. More than 30 years later, is it possible to get to the truth and who gets to tell it? It is later learned that three of the four victims are . Jenson said after those two weeks, the Deckers could arrange for their daughter to adopt Lisa, police said. February 20, 2023 Sharon Johnson's family and friends have spent the last 35 years coping with her brutal murder. 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. 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. [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. He abandoned her in 1986 and was subsequently imprisoned on child abandonment charges. Jessica Rinaldi/The Boston Globe via Getty Images. Oxygen Insider is your all-access pass to never-before-seen content, free digital evidence kits, and much more! He had an unofficial backyard marriage ceremony to Eunsoon Jun in Richmond that same year, though no marriage certificates were ever filed. He was just a really, really bad man, one of the worst, Jensen said. 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. [5] Throughout 1980, he was arrested in Manchester three times for writing a bad check, theft, and diverting electric current. More than 30 years later, is it possible to get to the truth and who gets to tell it? There could be a variety of women out there who could be potential victims.. All of them are still alive. Honeychurchs youngest daughter, Sarah, was laid to rest in Connecticut, near her fathers family. 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In February 2020, it was announced that DNA analysis suggested the child was primarily Caucasian, with slight Asian, African, and Native American heritage. 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. In 2003, the San Bernardino County Sheriff's Department opened a case to find Lisa's biological family. [20], In January 2017, it was announced that Denise Beaudin, who had been missing since 1981, was connected to the murders. 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. 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.. Terry Rasmussen poses as "Larry Vanner" in an arrest photo from 2002. Click here to donate $20. It can conquer death." +4. 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.. A fourth victim in the . Beaudin and Dawn, an infant at the time, had gone missing from their home in Manchester, New Hampshire just after Thanksgiving in 1983. [12], New Hampshire investigators announced that the identities of Honeychurch, Vaughn and McWaters were confirmed through DNA testing in June 2019. [6] They last saw Rasmussen around December 1975 or 1976, when he showed up with an unidentified woman. January 23, 2023 Jason Carroll is serving life in prison for a murder he says he didn't commit. [28] Beaudin disappeared from Manchester, New Hampshire, along with her young daughter and then-boyfriend Robert "Bob" Evans. May their souls find peace in Gods loving care.. In 1985, there was a grim discovery made in Bear Brook State Park in Allenstown, New Hampshire: Two decomposing bodies found in a barrel. For more on the case and to see a timeline of Sharon's last day, visit bearbrookpodcast.com. [11][17], The girl found with the adult female, later identified as Vaughn, was between 5 and 11 years old. On this Wikipedia the language links are at the top of the page across from the article title. In 1985 and then again in 2000, police discovered the dismembered. The middle child, identified as Rasmussen's daughter, currently remains unidentified. Then, learn about Ivan Milat, Australias most violent serial killer. 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. 9 min. Anyone with any information thought to be related to this case is encouraged to contact New Hampshire State Police. She loved her kids dearly, Chagaris said. Her age at the time of death was estimated to be 23 to 33. 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. 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. She was only 5 months old when they left Manchester, [New Hampshire], Armand Beaudin said. [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. Beaudin's body has never been found and she is currently presumed dead, according to The Concord Monitor. A surprising admission leads to a new break in the case. Now we need to identify and try to find all of his victims.. [41] Sarah was laid to rest in Connecticut, closer to her father's family. Additionally, Huber said the womans remains bore the hallmarks of Rasmussens other victims. "[37], On June 6, 2019, New Hampshire investigators held a press conference regarding the case and revealed the identities of three of the victims. 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. Honeychurch had an argument with her mother and left the residence, never contacting her relatives again. In 2016, this child was determined to be Rasmussens biological daughter. In 2017, using genetic genealogy techniques, investigators were finally able to name their man: Terry Rasmussen, an inmate who had died seven years earlier, in 2010, while serving a sentence for the murder of his then-girlfriend, Eunsoon Jun. And they left never called. 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. 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,. In the early days of the investigation, authorities publicized the case in the United States and some parts of Canada. When I got up in the morning, I pulled my shades back, there was clouds and a beautiful blue sky, and there was seagulls circling in the sky, they were beautiful. In November 2019, Honeychurch and her older daughter Marie Vaughn, were laid to rest together with a new headstone bearing their names in Allenstown, New Hampshire. Police later determined the female adult and child, unidentified at the time, had died of blunt force trauma to their heads. [6] The divorce was finalized in 1978. One of the victims had been his daughter. Huber says the investigation is stalled because she is still unidentified. 1977),[38] all of whom went missing from La Puente, California, around Thanksgiving 1978, while she was dating Rasmussen. 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. This is somebody who forms relationships and clearly is having social attachments. Despite hundreds of leads, the bodies were not identified. [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 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. Buried in the cat litter, police found a human foot completely mummified wearing a flip flop. 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,. 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. [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. Honeychurch may have adopted the alias name "Elizabeth Evans" to use in legal documents during May 1980. 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. [8][10] He was arrested that November and pleaded no contest in 2003[12] to charges relating to her murder and dismemberment. But as it turned out, that person had been several different people throughout his life. At least ten possible identities were ruled out. October 24, 2018 An ominous New Year's party introduction. They remained an unsolved mystery, until 15 years later another two bodies were . [6], Rasmussen lived in a number of states including Arizona, Colorado, Idaho, Virginia, Texas, Ohio, Oregon, Hawaii and California. Curiously, the first drum was way back in 1985 and the second wasnt discovered until 2000. The guys jumped on my four-wheeler and we booted out of there and that was the last time that we saw the barrel.. [3][9][10][11][12][13] Autopsies determined both had died of blunt trauma. The first barrel was discovered in 1985, the second in 2000. [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. Click here to donate $20. In the show's second season, host Jason Moon returns with a new, even more complex story: In 1989, New Hampshire police . [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. Yet, they still had no clue who the victims were. He would say she decided she didn't like me anymore and didn't want me in her life. That's why I do these to get her identified and so that there's closure for the families involved here. 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.. 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. They werent identified until 2019; at that time, authorities believed Marie was 8 to 10 years old at the time of her death. [16], Elizabeth Lamotte was 17 years old when she disappeared from the Youth Development Center in Manchester in 1984. Evans later abandoned a young girl, "Lisa", at a campground, and she was found to not be his daughter. Let's talk about the Bear Brook murders. [29], In June 2017, police released a video of a police interview of Evans in hopes of finding his true identity.