Unsolved Murders That Will Make You Think

In 1985, a hunter was walking the woods of the Bear Brook State Park where he discovered two 55 gallon drums. Inside the drums were two female bodies that were wrapped in plastic sheeting and almost completely dissolved. It was later reported that both victims had died from blunt force trauma to the head. Without any evidence to go off, the case quickly went cold as local police exhausted all leads, but none of them came up with substantial evidence.

The first break in the case would be when an amateur private detective was looking around the area in which the first two bodies were discovered, and he stumbled upon another 55 gallon drum. Inside this drum were two more skeletons, wrapped in plastic sheeting, died from blunt force trauma, and once again no evidence could be recovered from the scene. Sadly, the case went cold again.

The medical examination also turned up with little results besides the discovery that all four victims were of Native American descent, and were most likely related. Another thing that was noted during the medical examination was that all four victims had very bad dental health. The oldest victim had many fillings and extensive dental work done while alive. The second and third victims had a severe overbites. Outside of this, the local police and state police had nothing else to go on.

No new information in the case was found until 2013 when facial recognition of the four victims was provided. These images were sent out through many public systems in hopes that they could be identified. No solid leads ever turned up, but in 2015, DNA evidence was able to prove that the oldest victim was the mother of the other three victims. Based on some tips that were received, it was said that the four victims had just moved into the Allenstown area and had been there less than four months before their deaths.

In 2017, based off of loose end tips, it was announce that Denise Beaudin was connected to the murders through DNA evidence. The only problem was that Denise, her daughter, and her boyfriend of the time had gone missing in 1981. She was not reported missing however until 2017, when her daughter came forward and officially reported her missing. Later on in 2017, the National Center for Missing Children had been able to prove that Robert Evans (Denise's boyfriend at the time of her disapperance) was the father of the middle child. At this point in time, police listed him as the main suspect in the case and believed that he was the Bear Brook Murderer. Evans however, had passed away in prison in 2010, after he was sentenced for the murder and dismembermant of his wife in 2002.

Police quickly found out that Robert Evans was not this man's actual name however and released a video of him in late 2017, hoping that someone would be able to identify him. A man stepped forward and claimed that this man was actually Terry Peder Rasmussen, which was later verified through a DNA test. Rasmussen was also known as the "Chamelon Killer" as he had been known to have used five different names to commit five different murders. But without Rasmussen being alive for questioning, and no other evidence to go on, yet again the case went cold.

Finally in 2019, the identities of the victims had been figured out. The oldest victim was Marlyse Elizabeth Honeychurch, who passed away at 24 years of age. The second victim that was identified was Marie Elizabeht Vaugn, who was only seven years old at the time of her murder. The last victim that was identified was eleven month old Sarah Lynn McWaters. Sadly this case still remains unsolved to this day, and the family of the victims may never get closure.