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ALLENSTOWN CHILD DOE #2: WF, 3-4, victims found in barrels - 9 M
ay 2000
By: Akoya Date: April 22, 2020, 9:03 am
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On May 9, 2000 an unidentified child was found in an overturned
55 gallon metal barrel off a wooded trail adjacent to Bear Brook
State park in Allenstown. The child is estimated to be 2-4 years
old with brown, wavy hair. The child had an overbite that might
have been noticeable to others. This child was found with
another young, Caucasian girl, 1-3 years old that also remains
unidentified (NamUs #2176). DNA has confirmed that this younger
girl (NamUs #2176) is maternally related to two additional
unidentified females that were found in 1985 in another barrel
in the same wooded area of Allenstown (NamUs #2174 & 2173). It
is unclear how this child is associated with the three related
females but it’s estimated that they all died at the same time
between 1978-1984. Advanced forensic testing reveals that this
non-related child did not grow up in the same geographic area as
other three victims. She likely was born and spent the majority
of her childhood in a more northern and inland location such as
northern New Hampshire, northern Vermont, upstate New York and
further inland.
In October of 2016 – Evans’ DNA profile compared to all three
minor female victims from Allenstown case. Results showed Evans
was the father to this non-maternally related child, the middle
child, found in 2000.
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Re: ALLENSTOWN CHILD DOE #2: WF, 3-4, victims found in barrels -
9 May 2000
By: Akoya Date: April 22, 2020, 9:05 am
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Unidentified Person / NamUs #UP2175 Female, White / Caucasian
Date Found
May 9, 2000
Location Found
Allenstown, New Hampshire
Estimated Age Range
2-4 Years
Case Information
Case Numbers
NCMEC Number
1100662
ME/C Case Number
103-00
Demographics
Sex
Female
Race / Ethnicity
White / Caucasian
Possible First Name
Estimated Age Group
PreAdolescent
Estimated Age Range (Years)
2-4
Estimated Year of Death
1978-1985
Estimated PMI
Years
Height
3' 10"(46 inches) , Estimated
Weight
Cannot Estimate
Circumstances
Type
Unidentified Deceased
Date Found
May 9, 2000
NamUs Case Created
July 2, 2008
ME/C QA Reviewed
May 10, 2011
Location Found Map
Street Address
Bear Brook State Park
Allenstown, New Hampshire
County
Merrimack County
GPS Coordinates
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Circumstances of Recovery
On May 9, 2000 an unidentified child was found in an overturned
55 gallon metal barrel off a wooded trail adjacent to Bear Brook
State park in Allenstown. The child is estimated to be 2-4 years
old with brown, wavy hair. The child had an overbite that might
have been noticeable to others. This child was found with
another young, Caucasian girl, 1-3 years old that also remains
unidentified (NamUs #2176). DNA has confirmed that this younger
girl (NamUs #2176) is maternally related to two additional
unidentified females that were found in 1985 in another barrel
in the same wooded area of Allenstown (NamUs #2174 & 2173). It
is unclear how this child is associated with the three related
females but it’s estimated that they all died at the same time
between 1978-1984. Advanced forensic testing reveals that this
non-related child did not grow up in the same geographic area as
other three victims. She likely was born and spent the majority
of her childhood in a more northern and inland location such as
northern New Hampshire, northern Vermont, upstate New York and
further inland.
Details of Recovery
Inventory of Remains
All parts recovered
Condition of Remains
Not recognizable - Near complete or complete skeleton
Physical Description
Hair Color
Brown
Head Hair Description
Slightly wavy, light brown hair, approximately 5 inches long
Body Hair Description
--
Facial Hair Description
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Left Eye Color
Unknown or Missing
Right Eye Color
Unknown or Missing
Eye Description
Decomposition precluded assessment of eye color
Contacts
Investigating Agencies
New Hampshire State Police Major Crimes Unit
Agency Case Number
00-074
Joseph Ebert
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Office of the Chief Medical Examiner
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Agency Case Number
103-00
Kim Fallon
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Re: ALLENSTOWN CHILD DOE #2: WF, 3-4, victims found in barrels -
9 May 2000
By: Akoya Date: April 22, 2020, 9:14 am
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802UFNH - Unidentified Female
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Artistic renderings of the victim; images of the suspect (and
this victim's father) in the case throughout his years in
prison; Images of suspect at a younger age.
Date of Discovery: May 9, 2000
Location of Discovery: Allenstown, Merrimack County, New
Hampshire
Estimated Date of Death: 1977 to 1985
State of Remains: Skeletal
Cause of Death: Homicide by beating
Physical Description
Estimated Age: 2-4 years old
Race: White with possible Native American ancestry.
Sex: Female
Height: 3'3" to 3'9"
Weight: Unknown
Hair Color: Light brown, slightly wavy, and approximately 5
inches long.
Eye Color: Unknown
Distinguishing Marks/Features: Possibly anemic.
Identifiers
Dentals: Available. She had an overbite that might have been
noticeable to others.
Fingerprints: Not Available
DNA: Available
Clothing & Personal Items
Clothing: Unknown
Jewelry: Unknown
Additional Personal Items: Unknown
Circumstances of Discovery
On May 9, 2000, the child's skeletal remains, along with the
remains of another female child, 801UFNH, was found in a
55-gallon drum off a wooded trail off Everwood Drive adjacent to
Bear Brook State Park in Allenstown, New Hampshire.
Fifteen years earlier, on November 10, 1985, a hunter discovered
the skeletal remains of an adult female, 799UFNH, and a female
child, 800UFNH, in an overturned 55-gallon metal drum
approximately 100 yards from the 2000 discovery.
DNA testing confirmed that the other three victims are
maternally related. is child is related. Advanced forensic
testing reveals that this child did not grow up in the same
geographic area as other three victims. She likely was born and
spent the majority of her childhood in a more northern and
inland location such as northern New Hampshire and Vermont,
upstate New York and as far west as Michigan, Wisconsin, and
Minnesota.
It was announced in late 2016 that the middle child, who is
unrelated to the three others, was identified as the daughter of
a convicted killer, Terry Peder Rasmussen, known as Robert or
Bob Evans and several other aliases. He died in 2010 and is
believed to be responsible for the murders of these four
victims, along with his former girlfriend, Denise Beaudin
(excluded as a possible identity of the adult victim), who
disappeared in late 1981. Rasmussen had taken Beaudin's daughter
to San Bernardino County, California and later abandoned her
there. Although alive, she was not identified until 2016.
Rasmussen remained unidentified himself until 2017.
Investigating Agency(s)
Agency Name: New Hampshire State Medical Examiner's Office
Agency Contact Person: Kim Fallon
Agency Phone Number: 603-271-1235
Agency E-Mail: Kim.Fallon(at)hotmail.com
Agency Case Number: 85-1050
Agency Name: National Center for Missing & Exploited Children
Agency Contact Person: Carol Schweitzer
Agency Phone Number: 1-800-843-5678 OR 1-800-THE-LOST
Agency E-Mail: NCMECTips(at)ncmec.org
Agency Case Number: 1100662
Agency Name: FBI ViCap
Agency Contact Person: N/A
Agency Phone Number: 800-634-4097
Agency E-Mail: vicap(at)leo.gov
Agency Case Number: Unknown
Agency Name: New Hampshire State Police
Agency Contact Person: John Sonia
Agency Phone Number: 603-223-3856
Agency E-Mail: coldcaseunit(at)dos.nh.gov
Agency Case Number: 85-148
Agency Name: Manchester, New Hampshire Police Department
Agency Contact Person: N/A
Agency Phone Number: 603-271-1235
Agency E-Mail: MPDcoldcase(at)manchesterNH.gov
Agency Case Number: Unknown
NCIC Case Number: U600019598
NamUs Case Number: 2175
NCMEC Case Number: 1100662
Information Source(s)
Namus
NCMEC
Wikipedia
Forensic Magazine
FBI
Boston Globe
Admin Notes
Added: 7/26/13; Last Updated: 8/29/18
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Re: ALLENSTOWN CHILD DOE #2: WF, 3-4, victims found in barrels -
9 May 2000
By: Akoya Date: April 22, 2020, 9:19 am
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Police Look For Answers In Cold Case
Cutting-Edge Techniques May Help Crack Case
UPDATED: 5:34 am EDT March 26, 2009
ALLENSTOWN, N.H. -- A mystery that has gone unsolved in
Allenstown since the mid-1980s is getting a fresh look with new
science.
Four bodies -- one woman and three children -- were found left
in metal drums in the Allenstown woods.
"They were stuffed in barrels like they weren't worth anything,"
said state police Detective John Sonia. "So we think we're
dealing with a suspect who has the capacity for this type of
violence."
Investigators said they know many details of the mystery, but
they lack answers. They said they're now hopeful that something
as simple as tap water can put names with the faces.
"We knew we weren't dealing with two separate homicides," Sonia
said. "They were all linked together."
In November 1985, a hunter found a tipped-over, 55-gallon drum
near Bear Brook State Park, not far from a burned-down
convenience store.
"You could see basically packaging of some type, and as he
examined closer, he noticed there was a skull there," Sonia
said.
The hunter had found the remains of an adult woman and a girl,
somewhere between 5 and 10 years old. Both had been beaten about
the head.
But with badly decomposed remains and no missing persons report
that matched, the case stalled until 2000, when it was
reassigned to another trooper.
"He goes out to the scene, starts looking around and locates
another barrel, another 55-gallon metal barrel," Sonia said. "At
that point, we find the remains of two female children in that
barrel, also."
Investigators said they believe the all the remains are closely
connected.
"We believe that all four of these individuals are connected
based on the testing that was done, the similarities and the
condition of the bodies and how they were disposed of," said
Assistant Attorney General Jeffrey Strelzin. "We believe these
four individuals are connected, aside from just being the victim
of a murder."
"It's possible, and the circumstances make it seem like they're
a family, but it's not definite," said forensic investigator Kim
Fallon.
The youngest victim could be as little as 1 year old. DNA has
linked two of the children to the adult, but their specific
relationship is unclear. Police said there could be many reasons
why, in 24 years, no one went looking for them.
"That was a different time," Sonia said. "You didn't have cell
phones back then. You didn't have the Internet back then. People
weren't as connected, so it's possible four people went missing
and maybe a local police department was notified and it didn't
go any further than that, and that's some distance from New
Hampshire."
Sonia said the four could be from Canada or transients. There
are no reports of four people missing together from that time.
With a case this cold, investigators said they know forensic
science is one way to get answers. The National Center for
Missing and Exploited Children has produced composites of three
victims based on their remains, but the descriptions are rather
broad with large age ranges and race varying from Caucasian to
Native American.
"When you have bodies that are outdoors for a long period of
time, they are being exposed to the weather extremes, heat, cold
and bacteria,' said Kim Rumrill of the stte police forensics
lab. "All these things work against you trying to find a DNA
profile."
Investigators are now turning to water. A new technique links
isotopes found in drinking water to different regions of the
country. Those isotopes are found in human hair, and samples
from the adult victim are now being tested.
"If she traveled they can get the travel history because they
analyze segments of the hair, each segment separately," Fallon
said.
Police said it's the first of three steps -- learn where they're
from, discover who they are, and then find the killer.
"There's a lot of, I guess, force involved," Sonia said. "Again,
it's pretty brutal. So that shows some kind of level of intimacy
to take those, to do that to the bodies and to dispose of them
the way they disposed of them."
State police are asking anyone with information to contact them
at 603-271-2663 or nhsp.intel@dos.nh.gov.
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Re: ALLENSTOWN CHILD DOE #2: WF, 3-4, victims found in barrels -
9 May 2000
By: Akoya Date: April 22, 2020, 9:20 am
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Tap-water test on hair may help ID cold-case victims
ALLENSTOWN – Investigators may know in about a month if
they have a key to the area from which four murder victims --
found in metal drums in the woods here years ago -- might have
come from.
Two of the bodies, an adult female and a female child, were
found by a hunter in 1985 in a 55-gallon drum near Bear Brook
State Park.
The other two bodies, both female children, were found in
another barrel in 2000 by a state trooper newly assigned to the
cold case.
State Police Major Crime Det. John Sonia said the first two
bodies had been beaten about the head and were stuffed into the
barrels. Because the bodies were badly decomposed and no missing
persons reports matched, the investigation stalled until a
trooper newly assigned to the case looked around the area and
found the second barrel.
Senior Assistant Attorney General Jeffrey Strelzin yesterday
said tests on the hair of the adult female should reveal where
the victims might have come from. He said isotopes found in
drinking water in different regions of the country can be found
in hair.
"Hopefully it will give us a region and an approximate date," he
said.
Strelzin said if nothing in the United States matches, the
search may be extended to Canada or Mexico because there are
some indications there may be some Native American heredity to
the victims. "We're trying to keep an open mind," he said.
While investigators believe all of the victims are related, DNA
tests so far have linked only two of the children to the adult
woman. Strelzin said two kinds of DNA testing are underway on
the third child.
Allenstown Police Chief Shaun Mulholland said yesterday he is
pleased about the new efforts to resolve the case, which would
clear up four of the six unsolved murders in Allenstown.
He said his department does not have the staff to conduct the
kind of investigation that can be done by the State Police.
I'm glad they brought it to light." he said.
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Re: ALLENSTOWN CHILD DOE #2: WF, 3-4, victims found in barrels -
9 May 2000
By: Akoya Date: April 22, 2020, 9:25 am
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Names of murdered lost over decades - Police hope to identify
bodies left in barrels
Concord Monitor (NH) - Friday, March 27, 2009
Author: KAREN LANGLEY ; Monitor staff
At least 25 years have passed since a woman and three children
were murdered, stuffed into barrels and left near Bear Brook
State Park.
The remains of the woman and one child were found spilling from
a barrel in 1985. Fifteen years later, a state trooper
revisiting the dormant case found the other remains in a barrel
about 100 yards away. The four have never been identified.
There are other unsolved murders in New Hampshire, an average of
about two per year, but these four victims are the only
unidentified ones known to the chief of the attorney general's
homicide unit. The void of information about their lives has
crippled hopes of explaining their deaths.
"Here the resources are going into identifying the victims,"
said Jeff Strelzin, senior assistant attorney general and
homicide unit chief. "Normally in a homicide crime the resources
are going to solving the crime. Getting to who killed them
without knowing who they are is next to impossible."
Now authorities hope advances in forensic technology could help
to identify the remains left in the Allenstown woods.
A new technique for analyzing hair could yield clues about where
the victims lived before their deaths. Analysts at a Utah lab
are studying the woman's hair for isotopes peculiar to the
drinking water of different regions. Investigators believe
narrowing the search would increase the chance of finding
someone who had contact with the victims.
Tracing evidence to a particular location has helped
investigators before. In 2004, after Concord resident Manuel
Gehring told the police he had forgotten where he buried his son
and daughter after killing them, tests of pollen found with his
shovel led to the discovery of the bodies in Ohio.
State investigators are also awaiting nuclear DNA tests being
performed by the FBI. These tests would provide individual DNA
profiles that could be used to find family members listed in
federal databases.
If the victims are identified, investigators will at last be
able to ask the questions that are usually the first steps in
solving a murder. When they do, they will be looking for a
killer who committed a personal, violent crime, said Detective
John Sonia of the State Police Major Crime Unit.
The woman and the child found with her were killed by blunt
force trauma to their heads, Sonia said. The medical examiner
did not determine how the pair of children died, he said, but
ruled they had been murdered.
"This case was particularly heinous and brutal," he said. "It
either shows some kind of relationship between the perpetrator
and victims that's so close and personal where they were
bludgeoned and put in barrels."
But people who murder their entire families more often use
methods like poisoning or shooting, he said. Crimes of intense
violence are typically committed against a single victim, he
said.
"On the other hand, a serial perpetrator, a serial stalker with
multiple victims, as we believe they're from one time. . . .
That gives a different profile, a psychotic profile," he said.
Strelzin said he could not comment on whether the victims had
been bludgeoned.
For now, little information has been drawn from the remains.
Forensic analysts have determined that the woman was between 23
and 32 years old. She had curly, light-brown hair and, like the
children, was either white or Native American. She was about
5-foot-5.
The child found with her was a girl between 5 and 10 years old.
The girl stood about 4-foot-3 and had light-brown hair and ears
pierced twice.
The second pair of bodies were those of two children who appear
to be younger. Investigators believe they are female, but the
children were too young to know for sure.
"You can't get sex from skeletal morphology when they're that
young," said Kim Fallon, a forensic investigator at the state
medical examiner's office. "They have traits that suggest
they're female, but that's not definite."
One of those children was between 4 and 8 years old and stood
about 3-foot-8. She had light-brown hair and a noticeable
overbite. The other child was between 1 and 3 years old. She
stood about 2-foot-5 and had long, blond hair.
The initial DNA tests showed that the woman could be the mother
of the child found with her and of the youngest child.
Investigators said she is not the mother of the child who was
between 4 and 8 years old.
The National Center for Missing and Exploited Children has
produced images from the bone structure of the woman and the two
children who might be hers.
The case was reactivated a few years ago when Fallon learned
about the four victims at a conference about missing persons and
unidentified remains.
"I couldn't believe when I heard about this case," she said.
"That it's four of them from probably one event and three of
them are children."
Quadruple homicides are rare. In 1991, Concord resident James
Colbert strangled his wife and three young daughters. The 1997
shooting rampage of Carl Drega killed two state troopers, a
part-time judge and a newspaper editor in northern Colebrook.
There are different theories about how four people could have
disappeared as long as 30 years ago without ever being
identified. The woman could have been a teenager who left home
and had children without her family knowing, Fallon said. Or she
and the children could be from the West Coast and brought here
by a long-haul trucker, Strelzin said.
Investigators ask that anyone with information contact Detective
John Sonia or Lt. James White of the State Police Major Crime
Unit at 271-2663.
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Re: ALLENSTOWN CHILD DOE #2: WF, 3-4, victims found in barrels -
9 May 2000
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Bear Brook Jane Does - New Hampshire - 1985/2000
May 16, 2016
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The Bear Brook murders, also referred to as the Allenstown Four,
comprise four unidentified murder victims discovered in 1985 and
2000 at Bear Brook State Park in Allenstown, New Hampshire.
Here's a rundown:
"On November 10, 1985 - Allenstown, New Hampshire a hunter came
across a tipped-over 55-gallon drum and trash near Bear Brook
State Park. Inside the drum, he found the remains of an adult
woman whom was around (23-33 years old) and a little girl whom
was roughly (5-11 years old) wrapped in plastic.
The New Hampshire State Police immediately began to check
missing people cases from the 70s and 80s 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 were 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 EVERY
elementary school 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 fresh pair
of eyes: a different 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 ALSO found inside that drum, and this time they were
both 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 (1-3 years old) and another white female
child (2-4 years old). DNA testing indicated that the woman and
at least TWO of the three children were related maternally.
(Could have been the mother, aunt or an older sister to the
youngest and oldest children).
(The third child may not have even been related to the others at
all).
In 2013, it was reported that $30,000 was raised in order to
examine the DNA from each of the bodies. The third young girl
likely came from Dakotas or Nebraska, according to testing of
her hair, teeth and bones.
The New Hampshire Cold Case Unit continues are 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."
"In 1985 the unidentified remains of an adult female and a young
female child were found in a barrel in the Bear Brook State Park
of Allenstown. Fifteen years later when police revisted the
scene, several hundred yards away another barrel was found
containing the unidentified remains of two other young children.
The adult female and the child buried in the barrel with her
died from blunt trauma to the head. The two younger children
found were probably also murdered and though there is not
definitive evidence, they are believed to be female. DNA tests
proved that the adult female is related to the child found
buried with her as well as of one of the other children found in
2000. However, she is not the mother of all three children. The
adult female was believed to have been between the ages of 23
and 32. She was between the 5'2 and 5'7. She was caucasian with
possible Native American ancestry. She had light curly brown
hair. The two children linked to her were around the ages of
5-10 and 1-3 years old. The other is not related to her and is
believed to be around 3 to 4 of age. It is possible that the
three children could be paternally related though but it is not
proven. Isotope testing shows that all four victims were born in
the United States, they believe that the woman and her two
children spent substantial time near the Atlantic Coastline
anywhere from Maine to Pennsylvania but that is not definitive.
The Other child may have spent time as far west as Minnesota.
Whoever killed these individuals has not been caught."
Thoughts? Some reports put the the time of their deaths as far
as 1978, adding another difficult barrier to the case. Since it
seems they're all related in some way, one has to wonder if any
relatives are worried about missing members. It's one thing to
have one person disappear without a trace with no worry from
relatives. It's another to have a mother and three kids go
missing without the family filing any reports or calls to law
enforcement. Either these does are a single mother (assuming the
oldest victim is the mother, another barrier) her two kids and a
friend of the children or even cousin or adoptive child who had
all come to contact with a serial killer or the killer is a
relative or friend possibly the father. I'm leaning towards the
later scenario unless the mother had children with a deadbeat
father.
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Re: ALLENSTOWN CHILD DOE #2: WF, 3-4, victims found in barrels -
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Bear Brook murders
The Bear Brook murders (also referred to as the Allenstown Four)
are four unidentified female murder victims discovered in 1985
and 2000 at Bear Brook State Park in Allenstown, New
Hampshire.[3] All of the victims were either partially or
completely skeletonized; they are believed to have died between
1977 and 1985.[3][4][5]
The victims' faces have been reconstructed multiple times, most
recently by the National Center for Missing & Exploited
Children.
In 2017, investigators announced that Terrence "Terry" Peder
Rasmussen, who used multiple aliases including Robert "Bob"
Evans, was the most likely suspect. He was confirmed, via DNA,
to be the father of the 2-to-4-year-old girl found among the
remains. He is also believed to be responsible for several other
murders, including the disappearance of Denise Beaudin in 1981.
He was convicted of a different murder and died in prison in
2010.
On November 10, 1985, a hunter found a 55-gallon metal drum near
the site of a burned-down store. Inside were the bodies of an
adult female and young girl, wrapped in plastic (possibly a
garbage bag). Autopsies determined both had died of blunt
trauma; they were later buried in the same grave.
On May 9, 2000, the remains of two young girls were found near
the first discovery site. The bodies were also in a 55-gallon
metal drum.The cause of death for these children was also blunt
force trauma.
The woman may have had Caucasian and Native American heritage.
She had curly or wavy brown hair and was between 5'2" and 5'7".
Her teeth showed significant dental work, including multiple
fillings and three extractions.[3][11][16] The three girls may
have also had Native American heritage, with light or white
complexions.[17]
The girl found with the adult female was between 5 and 11 years
old. She had symptoms of pneumonia, a crooked front tooth and a
diastema, two earrings in each ear, and was between 4'3" and
4'6" tall. Her hair was wavy and light brown; she had no dental
fillings.[18]
The second-youngest girl (age estimated between 2–4 years old)
also had a gap in her front teeth. She had brown hair and was
about 3'8" tall. She had an overbite, which was probably
noticeable. DNA proved the child was fathered by Terry Peder
Rasmussen, a now-dead convicted killer who used the name Robert
"Bob" Evans and other aliases. The child's mother was not the
woman found with the children.
The youngest girl (estimated age 1–3 years old) had long blond
or light brown hair, was between 2'1" and 2'6" tall, and had a
gap in her front teeth.
In the early days of the investigation, authorities publicized
the case in the United States and some parts of Canada. At least
ten possible identities were ruled out. Despite hundreds of
leads, the bodies have not been identified.
In June 2013, new versions of the victims' facial
reconstructions were created by the National Center for Missing
and Exploited Children. These versions incorporated their dental
information, showing how their teeth could have affected the
appearance of their faces. The reconstructions were created in
black and white, as their skin tones and eye colors could not be
determined.
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.
DNA profiling determined the woman, oldest and youngest girls
were maternally related. This meant the woman could have been
the girls' mother, aunt, or older sister.
Other information also shows the woman and children lived
together in the Northeastern United States between two weeks and
three months before their deaths. Investigators have also
concluded the woman and two of the children lived in the area
where their bodies were found. Advanced forensic testing showed
the 2-to-4-year-old girl (Rasmussen's daughter) probably spent
most of her childhood in either the upper Northeast or upper
Midwest, perhaps Wisconsin.
In January 2017, it was announced that Denise Beaudin, who had
been missing since 1981, was connected to the murders. Beaudin
disappeared from Manchester, New Hampshire, along with her young
daughter and then-boyfriend Robert "Bob" Evans. She was not
reported missing until 2016, when her daughter resurfaced alive
and well in California.
The National Center for Missing & Exploited Children
subsequently announced an unidentified man known by the alias
"Robert Evans" was the father of the middle child (who was not
related to the other victims). They also said authorities
believed Evans was the killer of the four Bear Brook victims,
but did not elaborate.[28] Authorities stated that the Bear
Brook woman was not Beaudin. Authorities also indicated that
"Robert Evans" was a pseudonym and that his true identity was
unknown. Evans died in prison in 2010, having been sentenced for
the 2002 murder and dismemberment of his wife, California
chemist Eunsoon Jun.
In June, police released video of a police interview of Evans in
hopes of finding his true identity. Two months later, Terrence
"Terry" Peder Rasmussen was confirmed through DNA testing as
being Robert Evans. Born in 1943, Rasmussen was a native of
Denver, Colorado. He was discharged from the Navy in 1967, and
married in 1969; he and his wife lived in Phoenix, Arizona and
Redwood City, California. The couple had four children before
his wife left him between 1973 and 1974. This family last saw
Rasmussen around Christmas 1974. One of his sons from this
marriage provided the DNA sample that finally identified
Rasmussen in August 2017.
Authorities speculated the adult victim may have been Elizabeth
Lamotte, a teenager who disappeared from a group home in
Manchester in 1984, due to the fact that Evans apparently had a
significant other with the same first name. DNA from Lamotte's
relatives was collected and processed, yet she was identified as
a victim located in Tennessee a year after her disappearance.
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Re: ALLENSTOWN CHILD DOE #2: WF, 3-4, victims found in barrels -
9 May 2000
By: Akoya Date: April 22, 2020, 9:47 am
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Bear Brook murders
HTML https://i.imgur.com/SWCK1LO.jpg
Reconstructions of the victims in order of their age
(clockwise), created in 2015
Date Between 1978 and 1984[1]
Bodies found on November 10, 1985 and May 9, 2000
Location Bear Brook State Park, Allenstown, New Hampshire,
United States
Also known as Allenstown Four
Cause Blunt trauma
Death(s) 4
Suspect(s) Terrence Peder Rasmussen (AKA Robert "Bob" Evans)
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