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[[File:Allenstown_1yearold01.jpg|thumb]][[File:Allenstown_4yearold01.jpg|thumb]][[File:Allenstown_5yearold01.jpg|thumb|Allenstown1]][[File:Allenstown_23yearold01.jpg|thumb|yOUNG adult]][[File:19013292.jpg|thumb|Allenstown NH]]
 
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Allenstown_1yearold01.jpg|Original reconstruction of the youngest victim
'''Real Name:''' Unidentified Female and Three Children<br />
 
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Allenstown_4yearold01.jpg|Original reconstruction of the middle victim
'''Nicknames:''' No known nicknames<br />
 
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Allenstown_5yearold01.jpg|Original reconstruction of the oldest child
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Allenstown_23yearold01.jpg|Original reconstruction of the adult
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Bear Brook Adult 2015.jpg|Latest reconstruction of the adult
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Bear Brook Oldest 2015.jpg|Latest reconstruction of the oldest child
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Bear Brook Middle 2015.jpg|Latest reconstruction of the middle child
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Bear Brook Youngest 2015.jpg|Latest reconstruction of the youngest child
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'''Real Names:''' Unknown<br />
 
'''Nicknames:''' Allenstown Four<br />
 
'''Location:''' Allenstown, New Hampshire<br />
 
'''Location:''' Allenstown, New Hampshire<br />
'''Date:''' November 1985-May 2000<br />
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'''Date:''' November 1985; May 2000<br />
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[[File:19013292.jpg|thumb|right|Allenstown, New Hampshire]]
   
 
==Case==
 
==Case==
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'''Details:''' On November 10, 1985, a hunter came across a tipped-over 55-gallon drum and trash near Bear Brook State Park in Allenstown, New Hampshire. Inside the drum, he found the remains of an adult woman (twenty-three to thirty-three years old) and a little girl (five to eleven years old) wrapped in plastic.<br />
'''Details:''' On November 10, 1985, A hunter came across a tipped-over, 55-gallon drum and trash near Bear Brook State Park, not far from a burned-down convenience store that burned down in the 80s. Inside the 55-gallon drum, he found what would become one of New Hampshire's most haunting and bizarre crimes to date. The remains of an adult woman (23-33 years old) and a little girl (8-10 years old) were found wrapped within plastic inside the drum. The New Hampshire State Police looked at missing peoples from the 70s to to the 80s but were unable to identify the bodies, but they were able to rule out some of New Hampshire's most famous missing peoples in this case, such as Tammy Belanger and Page Jennings. In 1986 the New Hampshire State Police got their first major tip when they looked into the disappearance of Grace Reapp and her five year old daughter, Gracie Reapp, from the state of Vermont. It is believed Grace Reapp and her daughter, Gracie, were killed by Michael Reapp, the husband and father, but they would rule them out through their New Hampshire dental records. Michael Reapp was killed when he committed suicide while police were trying to arrest him for an armed carjacking in 1997. The remains of Grace Reapp or her daughter Gracie Reapp would never found.<br />
 
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The New Hampshire State Police immediately checked missing people cases from the 1970s and 1980s but were unable to identify the bodies. In 1986, the New Hampshire State Police believed the case would finally be solved when they suspected two missing people named Grace Reapp and her five-year-old daughter Gracie as the unidentified bodies found a year earlier, but dental records proved the unidentified remains found in the 55-gallon drum were not those of Grace or her daughter Gracie Reapp.<br />
Over the years New Hampshire State Police have got hundreds of leads in this case. Investigators distributed composite drawings of the victims throughout the Northeast and Quebec, and several people in the town of Allenstown said the woman resembled someone who had left town with several children a few years earlier before. The woman was tracked down in two weeks and was found alive and living in Arizona with the children. New Hampshire State Police got another lead about A mother and daughter who had vanished from a Maine Indian reservation. Their descriptions and the time of their disappearance seemed a perfect match, but several days later, they found the woman and child in another town in Maine. Investigators checked every elementary school in the state of New Hampshire and medical records of missing persons from Cape Cod to California but got nowhere. One of the major roadblocks in this case is the fact the most law enforcement agencies do not provide or keep adequate information on missing persons cases.<br />
 
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Over the years New Hampshire State Police received hundreds of leads and distributed composite drawings of the victims throughout the Northeast and Quebec, Canada. Several people in the town of Allenstown said the unidentified adult woman resembled someone who had left town with several children a few years earlier, but this proved to be a dead end once again when the woman was found alive in Arizona with the children.<br />
In 2000, the case took another turn when the case reassigned to another New Hampshire stae trooper. The officer returned to the area where the bodies would found and 700 yards away found an other 55-gallon drum. Inside that drum were the remains of two little girls that DNA linked to the adult woman. The first new remains were that of a white female child (1-3 years old) and the fourth was also a white female child (4-8 years old). In 2010 the New Hampshire State Police and New Hampshire Attorney General office credted the state's first cold case unit and has put this case on there list of cases they are working on. The New Hampshire Cold Case unit has been using an new technique that links isotopes found in drinking water to different regions of the country by using hairs from the unidentified female with the hopes of find where they may have came from.<br />
 
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New Hampshire State Police received yet another lead about a mother and daughter who had vanished from a Maine Indian reservation. The descriptions and time of their disappearance seemed a perfect match, but the mother and daughter were quickly located alive in another town in Maine.<br />
To date no one has been able to come up with the identities of these individuals. <br />
 
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Without any solid leads, investigators started to check several of the elementary schools in the state of New Hampshire and almost every medical record of missing persons from Cape Cod, New Hampshire to California. Their efforts proved futile in the end.<br />
'''Suspects: '''New Hampshire State Police in 2000 looked at serial killer John Edward Robinson in this case because of his M.O. matched this case but he was rule out. There have been theories that this crime was the work of a serial killer or an organized crime member but never pan out because of the area some believe the killer was someone who was local or know the area well because it was not close to any main highways. One possible theory is that the victims would have been killed by a boyfriend or husband.<br />
 
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In 2000, the case took another turn when it was assigned to a New Hampshire state trooper. The officer returned to the area where the bodies were discovered in the 55-gallon drum and stumbled upon yet another 55-gallon drum. Two bodies were found inside that drum; both of them were young female children. DNA determined that the remains of the two little girls found in 2000 were linked to the adult woman found in 1985. The remains found in 2000 were that of a white female child (one-to-three years old) and another white female child (two-to-four years old).<br />
'''Extra Notes:''' This case has yet to be featured on ''Unsolved Mysteries.''<br />
 
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The New Hampshire Cold Case Unit is still trying to identify the remains found in 1985 and 2000. There are no current suspects in this case and the identification of all the female victims is still unknown.<br />
'''Results:''' Unsolved, New DNA testing in 2011 has shown that the older Jane Doe is not the biological mother of any of young Jane does and the middle child is not biological related to any of the other Jane does in this case<br />
 
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'''Suspects:''' In 2000, New Hampshire State Police looked at serial killer John Edward Robinson as a suspect in this case; his M.O. matched, but he was ruled out.<br />
 
There have been theories that this crime was the work of a serial killer or an organized crime member. Some believe the killer was someone local or who knew the area well because it was not close to any main highways. One possible theory is that the victims could have been killed by a boyfriend or husband.<br />
 
'''Extra Notes:''' This case has not to be featured on ''Unsolved Mysteries''. The case has been documented on the two part series ''The Chameleon Killer'', on ''Investigation Discovery'' in 2021.<br />
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[[File:Bob_evans.jpg|thumb|Terry Rasmussen]]
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[[File:Bear brook victims.jpg|thumb|270x270px]]
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'''Results:''' Unresolved. In 2013, DNA tests revealed that the middle child was not biologically related to any of the others in this case. In January 2017, it was announced that murders were believed to have been committed by a man named "Robert Evans"; he was positively identified later that year as Terrance Peder "Terry" Rasmussen. DNA testing confirmed that he was the father of the middle child.<br />
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Rasmussen is the prime suspect in this case and the disappearance of Denise Beaudin. Denise vanished with him and her infant daughter in 1981, but her disappearance was not reported until 2016, when her daughter was found alive. He and Denise lived in New Hampshire in the early 1980s, and he worked near the area where the Bear Brook Remains were later found. After Denise's disappearance, he traveled to California where he abandoned her daughter. In 2002, he was arrested for murdering his new wife, Eunsoon Jun. He pleaded guilty to her murder and was sentenced to fifteen years in prison. He died in prison in 2010.<br />
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Authorities now believe that Rasmussen killed Denise, the Bear Brook victims and the middle child's mother. On June 6, 2019, it was announced that the adult and two of the children were identified as Marlyse Honeychurch and her daughters, Marie Vaughn and Sarah McWaters. The family disappeared during November 1978 after Marlyse had reportedly had an argument with her mother. They reportedly left with Rasmussen, Marlyse's boyfriend.<br>
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Investigators are still searching for the identity of the middle child and her unknown mother. New genealogical research suggests that she may have relatives in Pearl River County, Louisiana.<br />
 
'''Links:'''
 
'''Links:'''
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* [http://doj.nh.gov/criminal/cold-case/victim-list/allenstown.htm Allentown Victims]
 
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*[[wikipedia:Bear Brook murders|The Bear Brook Remains on Wikipedia]]
* [http://oakhillresearch.blogspot.com/ Oak Hill research]
 
 
*[http://www.doj.nh.gov/criminal/cold-case/victim-list/allenstown.htm The Bear Brook Remains on the New Hampshire Department of Justice]
* [http://www.wmur.com/news/19013578/detail.html Local new story on this case]
 
* [http://www.doenetwork.org/cases/799ufnh.html Doe Network info on one of the girl]
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*[http://www.doenetwork.org/cases/799ufnh.html Doe Network on the Adult Victim]
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*[http://www.foxnews.com/us/2013/06/16/authorities-hope-new-images-unidentified-bodies-will-help-solve-new-hampshire.html Authorities hope new 3D images will help ID victims in New Hampshire cold case] - June 16, 2013
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*[http://people.com/crime/drifter-connected-to-murders-of-six-including-his-daughter/ New Hampshire Serial Killer Revealed After 40 Years: How Police Linked Six Cold Case Murders to a Drifter] - January 26, 2017
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*[http://www.wmur.com/article/authorities-reveal-actual-identity-of-man-known-as-bob-evans/12029848 Authorities reveal actual identity of killer known as ‘Bob Evans’] - August 18, 2017
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*[https://www.nhpr.org/post/three-bear-brook-victims-identified-citizen-sleuth-genetic-genealogy-provide-key-clues-0 Three Bear Brook Victims Identified; Citizen Sleuth, Genetic Genealogy Provide Key Clues] - June 5, 2019
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*[https://www.necn.com/news/new-england/Authorities-Search-for-Victims-IDs-of-Suspected-New-Hampshire-Killer-510906371.html NH Authorities ID 3 of 4 Victims in 'Bear Brook' Murders] - June 6, 2019
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*[https://abcnews.go.com/US/terry-rasmussens-victims-unknown/story?id=69585534 Serial killer Terry Rasmussen's victims, known and unknown] - January 18, 2021
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*[https://www.wmur.com/article/terry-rasumussen-victim-update-january-21-2021/35284421 Authorities believe unidentified Bear Brook victim has relatives from Mississippi] - January 22, 2021
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[[Category:Lost Identity Cases]]
 
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Revision as of 01:13, 6 September 2021

Real Names: Unknown
Nicknames: Allenstown Four
Location: Allenstown, New Hampshire
Date: November 1985; May 2000

19013292

Allenstown, New Hampshire

Case

Details: On November 10, 1985, a hunter came across a tipped-over 55-gallon drum and trash near Bear Brook State Park in Allenstown, New Hampshire. Inside the drum, he found the remains of an adult woman (twenty-three to thirty-three years old) and a little girl (five to eleven years old) wrapped in plastic.
The New Hampshire State Police immediately checked missing people cases from the 1970s and 1980s but were unable to identify the bodies. In 1986, the New Hampshire State Police believed the case would finally be solved when they suspected two missing people named Grace Reapp and her five-year-old daughter Gracie as the unidentified bodies found a year earlier, but dental records proved the unidentified remains found in the 55-gallon drum were not those of Grace or her daughter Gracie Reapp.
Over the years New Hampshire State Police received hundreds of leads and distributed composite drawings of the victims throughout the Northeast and Quebec, Canada. Several people in the town of Allenstown said the unidentified adult woman resembled someone who had left town with several children a few years earlier, but this proved to be a dead end once again when the woman was found alive in Arizona with the children.
New Hampshire State Police received yet another lead about a mother and daughter who had vanished from a Maine Indian reservation. The descriptions and time of their disappearance seemed a perfect match, but the mother and daughter were quickly located alive in another town in Maine.
Without any solid leads, investigators started to check several of the elementary schools in the state of New Hampshire and almost every medical record of missing persons from Cape Cod, New Hampshire to California. Their efforts proved futile in the end.
In 2000, the case took another turn when it was assigned to a New Hampshire state trooper. The officer returned to the area where the bodies were discovered in the 55-gallon drum and stumbled upon yet another 55-gallon drum. Two bodies were found inside that drum; both of them were young female children. DNA determined that the remains of the two little girls found in 2000 were linked to the adult woman found in 1985. The remains found in 2000 were that of a white female child (one-to-three years old) and another white female child (two-to-four years old).
The New Hampshire Cold Case Unit is still trying to identify the remains found in 1985 and 2000. There are no current suspects in this case and the identification of all the female victims is still unknown.
Suspects: In 2000, New Hampshire State Police looked at serial killer John Edward Robinson as a suspect in this case; his M.O. matched, but he was ruled out.
There have been theories that this crime was the work of a serial killer or an organized crime member. Some believe the killer was someone local or who knew the area well because it was not close to any main highways. One possible theory is that the victims could have been killed by a boyfriend or husband.
Extra Notes: This case has not to be featured on Unsolved Mysteries. The case has been documented on the two part series The Chameleon Killer, on Investigation Discovery in 2021.

Bob evans

Terry Rasmussen

Bear brook victims

Results: Unresolved. In 2013, DNA tests revealed that the middle child was not biologically related to any of the others in this case. In January 2017, it was announced that murders were believed to have been committed by a man named "Robert Evans"; he was positively identified later that year as Terrance Peder "Terry" Rasmussen. DNA testing confirmed that he was the father of the middle child.
Rasmussen is the prime suspect in this case and the disappearance of Denise Beaudin. Denise vanished with him and her infant daughter in 1981, but her disappearance was not reported until 2016, when her daughter was found alive. He and Denise lived in New Hampshire in the early 1980s, and he worked near the area where the Bear Brook Remains were later found. After Denise's disappearance, he traveled to California where he abandoned her daughter. In 2002, he was arrested for murdering his new wife, Eunsoon Jun. He pleaded guilty to her murder and was sentenced to fifteen years in prison. He died in prison in 2010.
Authorities now believe that Rasmussen killed Denise, the Bear Brook victims and the middle child's mother. On June 6, 2019, it was announced that the adult and two of the children were identified as Marlyse Honeychurch and her daughters, Marie Vaughn and Sarah McWaters. The family disappeared during November 1978 after Marlyse had reportedly had an argument with her mother. They reportedly left with Rasmussen, Marlyse's boyfriend.
Investigators are still searching for the identity of the middle child and her unknown mother. New genealogical research suggests that she may have relatives in Pearl River County, Louisiana.
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