The Bear Brook Murders and The Chameleon Killer: How Many Victims Are Out There?

Bear Brook Sate Park is a heavily forested and swampy 10,000-acre preserve that covers more than half of Allenstown, New Hampshire. It is also the site of dark secrets brought to light decades after they happened.

It was the summer of 1985 and 11- year-old Jesse Morgan lived in a trailer park in the small community of Allenstown where the population was a little less that 5,000.  Like most kids in the area, Jessie hung out around Bear Brook State Park with his friends. They'd play hide and seek, but with the seeker driving around on a four wheeler. One day in particular Jesse was the seeker and riding around on his four wheeler when his friend Keith yelled at Jesse to come look at a big blue barrel he had found. 

The barrel’s lid was slightly ajar and a plastic bag was poking through the top. Keith pulled the top off the barrel, and the group were immediately hit with a thick, sour smell. They kicked over the barrel, but didn't look inside. Assuming it was just rotten milk in the barrel, they left.

On November 10th, 1985, two brothers were out hunting near the site of the  burned-down Bear Brooke store at the park when they spotted a metal 55-gallon drum leaning against a birch tree. When they got closer they noticed a small human foot sticking out of a bag inside the drum. 

There was only one patrolman on duty and it was officer Ron Montplaisir and he was the one that received the call and met the hunter at the edge of the park. The hunter looked pale and he told Ron to go look inside the barrel. The hunter stayed with the patrol car as Ron ventured his way into the woods alone. 

The barrel was on the ground and a bag was inside. When Ron opened up the bag a decomposed face was starting back at him. A young girl's body had been discarded in this makeshift metal coffin along with a body of an adult female. Both the bodies had been dismembered. Ron secured the scene and then radioed for backup. 

The police force was so small that citizens like Jessie's father, Kevin, were deputized. Kevin was charged with keeping the press from compromising the crime scene. 

New Hampshire did not have its own Medical Examiner's office, so the bodies were flown to Maine to be examined. Autopsies determined both females had died of blunt trauma and had been lying there for at least five years. 

Sketches were released in the media hoping to identify what was assumed to be a mother and daughter. Unfortunately, it seemed no one seemed to recognize the pair.

Later the two were buried together in a steel casket in an Allenstown 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. Their slain bodies were found on November 10th, 1985, in Bear Brook State Park. May their souls find peace in God’s loving care."

On May 9th, 2000, New Hampshire did not yet have a cold case unit so they assigned State Police Sgt John Cody to the case. Cody was looking for more clues when he saw a metal 55-gallon drum on it's side in some brush just 300 feet from where the previous bodies were found. It was getting dark and as Cody shinned his flashlight on the barrel he noticed that there was plastic sticking out. Cody ripped open the plastic and inside were the remains of two young girls. The cause of death for these children was also blunt force trauma.

One of the girls had a gap between her front teeth and died at an age between 2 and 4. She had brown hair and was about 3 ft 8 in  tall. She had an overbite. She also may have suffered from anemia.

The other girl, was estimated to be 1 to 3 years old, had long blond or light brown hair, was between 2 ft 1 in and 2 ft 6 in tall, and also had a gap between her front teeth.

This discovery led to the exhumation of the 1985 victims in order to have DNA comparisons done. The tests proved the adult female was the mother of the little girl found in that drum with her along with the youngest girl in the second barrel. The other girl was believed to be part of the extended family.

Chemical compound testing was also done on all four bodies that indicated that all four females were living in the area for at least three months before they were killed. It was theorized that perhaps they lived in the nearby trailer park.

At a press conference in January of 2017, it was announced that police may have found the killer of woman and three little girls as well as a connection to Denise Beaudin, who had been missing since 1981.

Denise was born on January 7th, 1958. She was the only daughter of Armand and Georgette Beaudin. She graduated Goffstown High School in 1976. After graduating, Denise moved around before ultimately settling in Manchester. Her work history included employment at General Cable at 345 McGregor Street in Manchester, and The Demers Nursing Home at 191 Hackett Hill Road in Manchester. In 1981 she had a daughter named Dawn.

The last time Denise and Dawn were seen alive by their family was in 1981 at her parents home in Goffstown, New Hampshire. Denise brought her boyfriend, Bob Evans along to Thanksgiving Dinner. During the dinner Denise announced that she and Bob owed some people some money so they were going to leave town and take 6-month-old Dawn with them. 

On December 1st, Denise's family went to visit her at her home in the 900 block of Hayward Street in Manchester, New Hampshire. No one was home when her parents stopped by, and Denise's family never heard from her again. Because the couple had been having financial problems, Denise's family initially assumed they'd left on their own.

Fast forward 35 years later. In December of 2016 Police revealed Denise Beaudin is considered missing.

I hate to put his picture on here... he just creeps me out.

Then in January of 2017,  authorities announced that they believe a man named Terry Rasmussen was responsible for the deaths of at least 6 people, including Denise Beaudin, the woman and three children -- including his biological daughter -- found inside barrels in Allenstown, and his girlfriend in California. Police also feared he killed the biological mother of the children found in one of the barrels. Her identity and whereabouts are not known.

Terrence "Terry" Peder Rasmussen was odd and aloof. He was a skilled electrician and mechanic, but became violent under the influence of alcohol. He was born on December 23rd, 1943 in Denver, Colorado. He grew up in Arizona. 1954-1958 Rasmussen attended Whittier Elementary School in Phoenix. He then attended North High School in Phoenix, Arizona. 

He stopped attending after his sophomore year to join the United States Navy. In July of 1967 he was discharged from the Navy. He then moved to Hawaii to work in his parents shoe shop.

In 1968 Rasmussen married Fleta Blance Deese. They ended up having four children together,  Deborah and Diane (twins), Eric and Andrea. In 1969 they moved to Phoenix and worked for a man named "Otto." In 1970 the family moved to Redwood City, California and worked as a repairman at McLoughlin’s Shoe Shop. In 1971 Rasmussen moved his family and worked as an electrician in Palo Alto. In October of 1972, Rasmussen and Fleta separated temporarily. 

In 1975 Fleta left him and took the children after Rasmussen was arrested for aggravated assault. They last saw Rasmussen around December 1975 or 1976, when he showed up with an unidentified woman, who police are still hoping to track down. The woman wore glasses and was slim with bouncy brown hair with highlights.

Rasmussen told his family he was living at the Casa Del Rey Apartments in Ingleside, Texas. On September 30th, 1977 Rasmussen’s Father passed away in Hawaii.

At some point during 1978, Rasmussen contacted a friend in Arizona, asking for money. He said he was working in Texas on an oil rig. In June, Rasmussen was working for the "Brown & Root" Company in Houston, Texas. Records there indicate Rasmussen quit the job to work elsewhere. Fleta and Rasmussen divorced in September. 

From 1978 to 1979 Rasmussen was hired as an electrician working at the Waubec Mill and who later helped with refrigeration issues at Bear Brook Store. Around this time he went by the name Bob Evans.

In January of 1980, "Elizabeth Evans" -- who has never been located or identified -- signed a certified letter in Manchester, New Hampshire. Rasmussen is associated with the same address.

In February, as Evans, Rasmussen arrested in Manchester for Issuing a bad check on 12/21/1979. "Elizabeth Evans" is listed as his wife on the arrest report.

In May he was also arrested for theft of services. On this report "Elizabeth Evans" was listed once more as his spouse.

In October he was arrested yet again, this time for diverting electrical current. 

In 1981 disappearances of Denise and Dawn Beaudin.

From March 1984 to May 1985, Rasmussen was hired under name Curtis Kimball by electrical company in Los Alamitos, CA. Also in May Rasmussen arrested in Cypress as Curtis Kimball for a DUI.

Then in November of 1985 the first barrel was found.

In January of 1986, Rasmussen began living and working at the Holiday Host RV Park in Scotts Valley under the name Gordon Jenson. 

The Holiday Host RV Park sits on the site of what once was a Christmas-themed amusement park called "Santa's Village." The main rides were a bobsled, a spinning Christmas tree and Santa's Express train. The Santa's Village Corporation filed for bankruptcy, and in 1979 the park closed for good. As of 2017, the freeway exit signs still read "Santa's Village Road".

Rasmussen had a five-year-old girl with him he claimed was his daughter. He called her "Lisa." 

Richard and Catherine Decker were also staying at the RV park. The couple was from San Bernardino, California. Richard had a temporary job wit the state, so the couple's stay at the park was just temporary. They also had a grand son staying there with them. 

Richard and Catherine befriended Rasmussen and Lisa. Rasmussen told the couple that Lisa's mother had died of cancer. He also said that he was finding it difficult to raise Lisa on his own.

Richard and Catherine would often babysit Lisa and she would play with their grandson. To the couple, it didn't seem like Rasmussen wasn't taking very good care of Lisa. She seemed malnourished and it didn't appear that she had any toys of her own. So they told Rasmussen about their daughter that can't conceive children and would like a daughter of her own. Rasmussen told the couple that they could take Lisa for a trial adoption for three weeks. So the couple took Lisa to meet their daughter.

Once away from Rasmussen, Lisa talked about the things that Rasmussen would do to her. It became clear to the Decker family that Lisa had been severely molested and tortured by the man that was claiming to be her father.

It was June, and when Richard and Catherine brought Lisa back to the RV park for Rasmussen to sign the divorce papers, he was gone. The couple didn't know what to do, so eventually they took Lisa to the police department. While questioning Lisa, she told the police that she had siblings, but they had died after eating "grass mushrooms" while they were out camping. Police took Lisa into protective custody and sadly, the Decker family had to tell Lisa goodbye for she was not legally theirs. 

Police issued a warrant for Rasmussen's arrest for child molestation and child abandonment. They were having a hard time tracking him down. All the information he had given to his employers at the RV park were fake. When they dusted for Rasmussen's prints, on the camper he left behind, they were surprised when they came back to a man named "Curtis Kimball." 

Even though Curtis Kimball had an arrested record, they were unable to track him down, until November of 1988. He was pulled over in San Luis Obispo, California, under the name Gerry Mockerman. He was driving a vehicle stolen from Preston, Idaho. After running his prints it was now evident that Kimball and Rasmussen were undoubtedly one and the same.

In March of 1989, Rasmussen took a plea deal and charged with child abandonment and sentenced to 3 years in prison. All other charges were dropped.

In October of 1990 and only halfway through his sentence, Rasmussen was paroled. He fled almost immediately.

In June of 1998, Rasmussen was pulled over in California under the name Lawrence William Vanner and is cited for not having insurance or a driver's license.

By 2000 Rasmussen, who was going by Larry Vanner, had met a free spirited biochemist named Eunsoon Pamela Jun.

Eunsoon was born on July 31st, 1957 in South Korea to Kyo Yea Jun. She lived in Monterey County for about five years, attended Pacific Grove High School and graduated from Monterey Peninsula College.

She graduated from the University of California at Davis and earned her master's degree from UC-San Francisco. She worked for Bio Rad, Syntex and GenTech pharmaceutical companies. She worked for City of Hope Hospital in Los Angeles, researching bone marrow transplants. She was an active member of the Richmond Art Center, and enjoyed creating pottery and helping those less fortunate than herself.

Eunsoon was eating at a restaurant and talking to the owner about how she needed to find someone to fix her room. That is when the owner referred her to a local handyman named Larry Vanner, aka Rasmussen.

As Rasmussen worked on Ensoon's roof the two got to talking and soon Ensoon fell in love.

New Years Eve of 2000, Eunsoon introduced Rasmussen who now was going by the name Larry Vanner, to her cousin Elaine Ramos. Rasmussen immediately creeped Elaine out.

"I opened the door to him and it was the first time in my life the hairs on the back of my hand raised up. A chill came over me,” said Elaine.

Ensoon's family and friends weren't very fond of Rasmussen and they soon saw holes in the tales of his past he had fabricated. Ensoon's family tried to tell her their concerns, but she wouldn't listen.

In 2001, Eunsoon and Rasmussen were married in an unofficial ceremony. The theme was Star Trek and it was held in a friend's backyard.

Renee Rose last spoke with her friend, Ensoon, on May 21st, 2002. The pair were planning a trip to Mendocino. Something didn't seem right with Ensoon during this phone call. Ensoon was always calm and collected when she spoke, but this time she seemed to be in a hurry to end the call. Renee chalked it up to Ensoon maybe having an argument with Rasmussen and let it go.

After days of Renee not hearing from Ensoon, she finally got a hold of Rasmussen. He told Renee that Ensoon's mother was sick and that she had flown to Virginia to be with her family. Renee then asked for the number for her mother's house. Rasmussen told Renee that Ensoon was staying at a hotel and he didn't have the number for it. As Renee pressed further as to Ensoon's whereabouts, Rasmussen started lashing out at her. Renee decided to end the conversation and let him cool down for a for awhile. A few days later Renee called back, this time Rasmussen said that Ensoon had came back but then had quickly left for Oregon to work on their cabin. He then went on to tell her that he was headed out to the cabin to visit Ensoon who was frail and fragile and didn't wish to speak with anyone. Renee just couldn't shake the feeling that something was wrong and so by August she called the police.

One of the officers that paid Rasmussen a visit was homicide detective Roxane Gruenheid. Rasmussen ended up agreeing to go to the police station to talk with them. He also willingly gave them his fingerprints.

While Rasmussen's fingerprints were being run through the data base, to see if he had a criminal record, Rasmussen seemed to be enjoying talking to detectives. However, when they started asking him where he was from, Rasmussen would snap at the detectives. Detectives then asked about Ensoon and Rasmussen would refer to her in past tense as he was attempting to dodge their questions.

When Rasmussen's fingerprints came back matching to his Kimball identity, between the warrant out for the parole violation and the charge of child abandonment, there was enough to arrest Rasmussen and get a search warrant for the house he shared with Ensoon in Richmond.

Once detectives entered Ensoon's home, they noticed that there was no sign that a woman had lived there. Ensoon had no personal effects of any kind left in the house. Outside and just over the fence was a dead, dried up kitten. Detectives then made their way inside the padlocked garage. Ensoon's pottery, kiln and wheel were inside. There was also a huge mound of kitty litter next to the water heater. When detectives began to move the litter around, a human foot popped out. Detectives called the forensics team. Once the forensics team arrived, they dug up the pile and unearthed Ensoon's mummified body. When the autopsy came back, it said that Ensoon had died from blunt force trauma to her head.

Rasmussen was arrested that November and pleaded no contest in June of 2003 to charges relating to her murder and dismemberment. He was sentenced to 15 years to life in jail. It is believed that he didn't want to go through a trial so a paternity test wouldn't be done on Lisa.

Roxane had a weird feeling about Rasmussen and his relation to Lisa, so in August she had a paternity test done. When the results came back, it proved that Rasmussen was not related to Lisa in any way. Roxane then decided to go visit Rasmussen in the Pleasant Valley State prison. When she questioned Rasmussen, he denied even knowing Lisa. And without Rasmussen talking, path to find Lisa's true identity went nowhere.

On December 28th, 2010, Rasmussen died in prison from a combination of lung cancer, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease and pneumonia.

In 2013, detective Peter Headley took over Lisa's case. He looked at Lisa's file and saw her comment about once having siblings that died while camping. This led Headley to believe that maybe Rasmussen had other victims out there.

Headley decided to look through missing person reports to try to find any that might be about Lisa. He found a handful that seemed to match the time frame and Lisa's description. He reached out to those families and asked for DNA samples. Eventually, Headly ruled them all out.

With his search for Lisa's family a bust, Headley started trying to find a shred of truth in the web of lies Rasmussen had spewed. Maybe if he could find out who Rasmussen really was and where he was from, just maybe he could find who Rasmussen had taken Lisa from.

While Rasmussen was staying at the Holiday Host RV Park as Kimball, Rasmussen had made a phone call to an abandoned RV park in Texas.  Headley contacted the former owner of the park who had kept all of the records of all the people that had ever stayed there. The owner then referred Headley to the company that bought the Rv park. When Headley contacted the company, they told him that they had thrown away all the records.

In 2014, Lisa contacted DNAADOPTION.COM and genetic genealogist Barbara Rae-Venter was now attempting to help Lisa and Headley discover Lisa's true identity. 

Barbara Rae-Venter is best known for her work helping police and investigators identify a suspect in the Golden State Killer case. In a sick way, Rasmussen's case helped catch the Golden State Killer.

Distant cousins were discovered, but they had no idea who Lisa was or what family member of theirs she came from. Regardless, Headley and Venter kept working the family tree.

In 2016, Venter finally discovered that Lisa's real name was Dawn and that her mother was Denise Beaudin. Dawn happily connected with her grandfather, Denise's father.

This brings us to 2017 and the first press conference about the Bear Brook murders and how they are connected to Denise and Dawn's Beaudin's disappearance. Police told of how Rasmussen as his different aliases had worked at the Bear Brook dump site where the bodies and the barrels were found. How Rasmussen had used that site in the past to dump trash. And how he had worked as an electrician and that there was electrical wiring found in the barrels with the bodies. 

Additionally, they announced that DNA confirmed that Rasmussen was the father of the middle child found in Allenstown.

Lisa/Dawn didn't attend the press conference, however a statement from her was read aloud.

"I am so thankful to be re-united with my Grandfather and cousins after all these years!! I want to send over a heart-felt "Thank You" to all the organizations and tireless individuals who made this possible.

As a victim in this incredulous story, I would like to ask that the media respects my privacy.

Currently I have three beautiful children and a loving husband, and would like our presently happy and secure life to remain intact and protected through the release of this story. Please turn your focus toward the un-identified victims, and other potentially unknown victims in this case, and hopefully their families will also be offered some closure as this investigation continues.
Thank you, Lisa"

Lisa/Dawn also said how grateful she was to be reunited with her grandfather.

Also in January, authorities searched the home that Denise shared with Rasmussen so long ago. i have yet to find out if there was anything of importance found in that search. All i know is that they didn't find Denise's body. And that police believe that Rasmussen killed her somewhere between New Hampshire and California.

When New Hampshire State Police arrived at the 911 center where Diane Kloepfer worked as a dispatcher in a suburb of Illinois, her heart broke into little pieces. You see, Diane was one of the twins that had been born to Rasmussen and Fleta. She would daydream about her father coming back to rescue them because her mother was abusive and neglectful, leaving her four children to fend for themselves and padlocking the refrigerator. And now the police were telling her that Rasmussen was believed to be a serial killer who died in prison. They asked for a DNA sample, which she readily provided. It definitively linked Rasmussen to the murders, and identified him as Diane’s father. They also told her that the middle child found in the second barrel was her half sister. 

“It’s important for me that she gets her name back,” Diane said about her half sister.

Fast forward to 2019. Citizen sleuth, Becky Heath and genetic genealogist, Barbara Rae-Venter each discovered the identities of three of the four bodies in the barrels. They did this independently within just a few weeks of each other.

After the 2017 press conference, Heath became obsessed with the case. She researched internet forums where people search for long lost relatives and other missing loved ones. The search was made difficult by the fact that the online information is not always accurate or up-to-date. 

In her journey Heath found a post that was dated back to 2000. Someone was searching for their long lost half sister. It is that the half sister was born in the 1970's and that the parents to both sisters were dead. It stated that the mother had died in a car accident.

Heath remembered that a car accident was one of the many lies that Rasmussen had told about Lisa's mother, Denise. Heath checked the death index and found no sign of the sisters' mothering dying.

There were a few replies of people looking for their family members that might be related to the mother that died in the accident.

In the thread in 2013 there were marriage records of the mother.

Heath began researching the time frame of the missing people and was able to put the pieces together. She was pretty sure that she figured out who three of the Bear Brook victims were. She contacted fellow Websleuths via Facebook, but nothing came of her theory. Not until October of 2018 when she began listening to Bear Brook Podcast. This ignited her passion for the case once again.

“I was like, ‘you know what? Listening to this podcast makes me think it is this person - these girls,’” said Heath. “It fits, it just fits.”

Heath then contacted family members who had posted in that online thread. One of the family members told Heath they remembered the mother had been with a man with the last name Rasmussen when they last saw her.

This time, Heath submitted her findings to law enforcement.

At the same Heath was on her journey of discovery, Venter was on her own mission. She had been attempting to use genetic genealogy to identify the Bear Brook victims to no avail. The DNA from the Bear Brook victims was highly degraded. Bacterial DNA had infiltrated the bones.

Venter then noticed an article where forensic scientist Richard Green had done what was pretty unbelievable. He had been able to retrieve autosomal DNA from a rootless hair. After teaming up with Green Venter a DNA sample was gathered that could be used in genetic genealogy. 

The same time that Venter sent in the sample to GED Match, Heath sent in her tip.

On June 6, 2019, New Hampshire investigators held a press conference regarding the case and revealed the identities of three of the victims. Marlyse Elizabeth Honeychurch was the mother of Marie Elizabeth Vaughn. They were the two bodies in the first barrel. Sarah Lynn McWaters was also Marlyse's daughter and she was the youngest child found in the second barrel.

 

Marlyse Elizabeth Honeychurch was born on January 28th, 1954 in Connecticut. She had three sisters: Michelle, Paula and Roxanne. She also had a brother named David, who was the youngest. 

In 1961 her parents separated. The mother took the three youngest children with her to California while Marylse and her older sister stayed with their father in Connecticut.

In 1969, Marlyse was a sophomore at Stamford High School, Stamford, CT. 

When she was 15 years old, Marlyse moved in with her mother in La Mirada.  It was 1970,  and Marlyse was a sophomore at Artesia High School, Lakewood and now using her mother’s last name of Salamon. This is when Marlyse developed a relationship with a boyfriend. The next year on June 12th Marlyse married her boyfriend in Las Vegas, NV.

On December 6th, 1971, Marlyse gave birth to her daughter, Marie E. Vaughn. 

In February of 1972, Marlyse and family were living in Los Angeles. In June they moved to Stamford, CT and lived with Marlyse’s father. 

In 1973, Marlyse and her family packed up and moved again, this time to Fall River, MA. Later that year, Marlyse’s husband took Marie and move to Lakewood, CA. That summer Marlyse traveled to Lakewood and took custody of Marie, when Marie’s father was not present. 

In February of 1974 Marie’s father divorced Marlyse. Marlyse was awarded custody of Marie. In September, Marlyse married her second husband in Los Angeles. 

In February of 1975, Marlyse and Marie were believed to be living in Downey, CA. In of that year, they were believed to be living on Camp Pendleton base in San Diego County.

In January of 1976, Marlyse and Marie were believed to be living in Santa Ana. On March 30th Marie was brought to the base clinic because she has scarlet fever. In August Marie’s father noted his last contact with Marlyse and Marie was in Hawaiian Gardens.

On December 13th, 1977, Marlyse gave birth to her second daughter, Sarah Lynn McWaters.

Sometime in 1978, Marlyse and Sarah’s father separated. On August 30th Sarah’s father was awarded temporary custody of Sarah and Marlyse was awarded reasonable visitation rights.

On Thanksgiving in 1978, Marlyse was last seen by her family at her mother’s house in La Puente, CA. Marlyse introduced the family to a man named Terry Rasmussen. After an argument with her family, she left with Rasmussen with her two daughters in tow.

Marlyse may have adopted the alias name "Elizabeth Evans" to use in legal documents during May 1980. It is believed that all four victims were murdered before 1981, as Rasmussen was known to have left New Hampshire after this time.

In November of 1985, a private investigator was hired to find Marlyse and her children. That effort was unsuccessful.

Marlyse and Marie's funeral was held in November 2019 in Allenstown, during which they were given a new headstone bearing their names. Diane Kloepfer, sat locked in arms with Marlyse’s family. David, Marlyse's brother, thanked the community for never giving up on his sister and nieces. He also said, "Although this moment is bittersweet, they have their names back on this day. They can rest in peace." 

Sarah was laid to rest in Connecticut, closer to her father's family.

Diane Kloepfer's half sister's identity is still unknown.Through ongoing genealogy work, the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children says the child is primarily Caucasian with a small amount of Asian, black and American Indian ancestry. She was 2 to 4 years old at the time of her death, placing her birth date between 1975-1977. She had slightly wavy brown hair and stood as tall as 3 feet, 9 inches. She had a slight overbite.

Please contact the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children at 1-800-THE-LOST if you have any information that could help identify this child.

Authorities believe that mother of the child may be a victim of Rasmussen's as well. 

Denise Beaudin is still missing and presumed murdered by Rasmussen. At the time of her disappearance she was 23 years old, 5'4 - 5'6, 120 - 140 pounds. She had brown hair, brown eyes and an overbite.

If you have any information about her disappearance please call the

Manchester Police Department at 603-668-8711 or 603-792-5505.

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. Most serial killers would never do that; it's the last thing they would do. Instead, they focus on complete strangers." 

Rasmussen has been dubbed “The Chameleon Killer” for assuming so many different identities as he infiltrated families and destroyed lives in New Hampshire and California.

For any tips concerning Terry Rasmussen and any unknown victims, please contact please contact Deputy Peter Headley with San Bernardino County Sheriff’s Department at pheadley@sbcsd.org or the New Hampshire State Police Cold Case Unit (603)223-3648, ColdCaseUnit@dos.nh.gov

There are other murders and disappearances that Rasmussen could have possibly committed.

Authorities believe that Rasmussen is probably responsible for the murder of the San Joaquin County Jane Doe aka "Lady in the Fridge".

On March 29th, 1995, the unidentified woman's body was discovered by scavengers. The woman was found  in Holt, San Joaquin County, California inside of a refrigerator bound with rope, in an irrigation ditch along Bacon Island Road, in the Delta area west of Stockton. When the individuals cut through the rope they opened the fridge and then dug through a patched faux fur waterbed quilt and a Hillary brand sleeping bag, that's when they found her remains.

She had been murdered by a blow to the head with a blunt object around a year before she was found. 

She was twenty-nine to forty-one years old and was five feet five to five feet seven inches at a weight of 110 to 130 pounds. She was white with strawberry-blond hair and had manicured nails. Her teeth were virtually perfect with only a few fillings. A one-third carat wedding ring was found on her right hand and authorities believe that she may have been estranged, separated, or divorced from her husband. Also a leather band found that detectives believe was a part of a charm necklace. The ornaments that would have been laced on the necklace were found in the victim's pocket. Investigators believe that she quite possibly had her necklace broken in the scuffle and collected the ornaments and placed them into her pocket before she was murdered. She wore a blue sweatshirt, Levi shorts a size 30-32, Victoria Secret brand bra (size 34B), Fruit of the Loom T-shirt, trendy multicolored knee-high socks with toes, and Gorilla brand hiking boots worth approximately $120.00 in 1996.

Detectives say that the items found inside of the refrigerator lead them to believe that the fridge had resided in the East Bay. They came to this conclusion because the items that they found all had ties to that area. Some of the cities associated were; Richmond, Antioch, Pittsburgh, Oakley, and Brentwood. The electrician's tape used to tie up the victim had been purchased at the military surplus store in Oakley. There was an unopened bag of Ice from the Glacier Ice Co. which is produced in Freemont and shipped only to the East Bay. There were miniature milk cartons in the icebox that are used mainly in hospitals, schools, or institutions.

Based on the contents, police say the refrigerator was likely to have originated between the Highways 680, 580, 4, and Interstate 5.

The refrigerator's serial number revealed it had been manufactured in Pennsylvania and sold in Oakland, California.

Turquoise Doe was found on August 23rd, 1975, in the bushes along a pathway in Tilden Regional Park in Contra Costa County, California. It is believe that she had been dumped in the bushes after being killed elsewhere. Her time of death was estimated to have been four days before she was found. The cause of death is listed as beating. She is thought to be between 18-30 years old with brown eyes and brown hair that was streaked and combed back. She was 5’3″ tall and 166 lbs. She had a lightly rounded face and she was well-tanned with manicured nails.She was wearing a turquoise blue T-shirt with clouds and sun rays behind a biplane, label Outrageous Devil – distributed solely in California. A white Playtex Freespirit bra, size 36 D. She wore a thin chain with four turquoise stones and a matching ring.

If you have any information on Turquoise Doe, please contact the Contra Costa County Sheriff’s Office at 925-335-1500.

Laureen Rahn was born on April 3rd, 1966 to Judith Rahn. Rasmussen lived a mile and a half away from Laureen when she disappeared from Manchester, New Hampshire on April 26th, 1980.

Laureen loved singing and dancing and she dreamed of becoming an actress. She lived with her mother in a third-floor apartment on Merrimack Street. She was 14 years old. She was a student at Parkside Junior High School where she made good grades. It was spring break and her mother was out of town. Judith's then boyfriend was a professional tennis player and she was out of town attending one of his tournaments. Laureen usually went with them, but her mother agreed to let her stay home.

Laureen invited two of a female friend and a male friend over. They drank wine and beer for awhile. Then the male friend claimed that he heard a noise coming from the front door. He thought that it was Laureen's mother and didn't want to get in trouble so he darted out the back door. He claimed that he heard Laureen lock the door behind him. 

Sometime after midnight, Judith arrived home, and noticed that the light bulbs on all three of the apartment building's floors had been unscrewed, leaving the hallways completely dark. When she arrived at her apartment's front door, she found it unlocked. She peeked in Laureen's room and thought that she saw her in bed.

When Judith awakened just a few hours later, she realized that it was Laureen's female friend in her bed.  The friend claimed that she had last seen Laureen asleep on the couch in the living room. When Judith looked around the apartment, she found articles of Laureen's clothing and her brand new sneakers in the living room along with a pillow and blanket on the couch. The back door open was also allegedly open. Judith called the police at 3:45 a.m. to report Laureen missing.

For a few weeks authorities treated Laureen as a runaway. From the beginning Laureen's mother knew better. Besides her clothes, Laureen left her purse behind. Investigators soon reconsidered their theory. They then stated it appeared as if Laureen had left the apartment willingly and intended to return within a short time.

On October 1st, 1980, three months after Laureen disappeared, Judith found she had been charged for three phone calls placed in California. 

In 1980, calls could be charged to your own number by calling the phone company and entering a pin code. Judith was confused because neither her or Laureen had ties to the area what-so-ever.

Two of the calls were placed from a motel in Santa Monica. The third call was from a motel in Santa Ana made to a teen sexual assistance hotline. Detectives spoke with the physician who maintained the hotline, and he initially denied having known anything of the call. Five years later, the physician claimed that numerous young women and runaways occasionally visited his wife at their home, and that one of the girls may have been Laureen. He also stated that Annie Sprinkle, a sex educator and former pornographic actress who allegedly knew his wife, might have had information regarding Laureen's disappearance. However, law enforcement was unable to find any evidence linking Sprinkle to Laureen's disappearance.

One of Laureen's family members reported seeing a girl matching her description in a Boston, Massachusetts bus terminal in 1981

Throughout 1981 and for a few years after, Judith claimed to have received numerous mysterious phone calls, which she always received at approximately 3:45 a.m. This was oddly the same time of day that Judith had initially had called the police to report Laureen missing. During these calls, Judith claimed the caller never spoke. The phone calls increased in frequency during the Christmas holiday. The calls eventually stopped after Judith moved to Florida and changed her phone number several years later.

Laureen's male friend committed suicide in 1985. Authorities never considered him a suspect in this case.

In 1986, an investigator visited California on Judith's behalf. He located the two motels involved in the October 1980 phone calls. Authorities said that one of the establishments may have been used by a child pornographer named "Dr. Z." Investigators were unable to link "Dr. Z" to the teen hotline and it is not known if pornography was involved in Laureen's disappearance.

The same year, a childhood friend of  Laureen's named Roger Maurais received a phone call from a woman who claimed to be "Laurie" or Laureen. Maurais's mother answered the phone call and stated that the woman claimed to have been her son's former girlfriend.

In 1988 there was another unconfirmed sighting of Laureen when a witness claimed to have seen a prostitute in Anchorage, Alaska, who matched Laureen's description. Authorities do not believe that this woman was in fact Laureen.

Judith believes she is still alive and some of Laureen's acquaintances may know more about her disappearance than they disclosed in 1980. Investigators continue to suspect that foul play was involved in her case, which remains unsolved.

At the time of her disappearance Laureen was 5'4" tall, 90 pounds with brown hair and blue eyes. She had a prominent scar on her upper leg, resulting from a fall onto broken glass. She was thought to be wearing a white V-neck sweater, a blue plaid blouse, jeans, brown shoes, a heart-shaped gold ring and a silver/blue necklace.

If you have any information about Laureen's disappearance, please call the Manchester Police Department at 603-668-8711.

Denise Daneault lived two blocks from the Rahn residence. She went missing from a bar in June 1980. Denise had been living on the same street as Rasmussen.

Denise Daneault was born Denise Ann Lavoie on June 14th,1954 in Dillon, Montant. 

On June 8th, 1980, 25-year-old Denise was a mother of two sons that she loved very much. She was divorced and going through child custody issues and she was allegedly in debt.

She was living at 343 Hayward Street with a roommate named Tamara Leiby. According to Leiby, Denise was last seen at 1:30 a.m. at the Merrrimack Club. 

While Leiby was conducting her own investigation into Denise's disappearance, she claimed that she spoke with two men that told her they talked to Denise as she was leaving the club the night she disappeared. 

Denise had allegedly told the men that she was going to a party on Kimball Street.  There are rumors floating around that Denise overdosed at the party.

Leiby also checked with several friends, but there has been no known sightings of Denise since she left the club. Denise also missed an appointment she had for later that day. According to Leiby it is uncharacteristic of Denise to leave without warning and she had no reason to leave.

At the time of her disappearance Denise was about 5'5" - 5'6" tall, 135 pounds with blonde/brown hair, brown/green eyes. She was wearing a brown print skirt.

If you have any information regarding her disappearance please call the Manchester Police Department at 603-668-8711.

Denise's ex-husband, Paul Daneault, moved into her apartment after she went missing. Sometime later, he and and another man were arrested for selling 46 bags of heroine to undercover agents. 

At the time of his arrest, Paul was in possession of 109 bags of heroin that had a "Batman" insignia stamped on them. Another 11 bags of heroin were also confiscated.

Police are not sure if Denise is connected to Laureen's disappearance or if Rasmussen was the perpetrator. 

One of the men that Denise had dated was named Victor Paquette. 

Paquette's mother, Rena was a victim of and unsolved homicide from 1964. 

Rena Rene Ferland Paquette was born in 1910 in Marine. 

In 1964 Rena had called a tip into police. Rena worked at a laundromat.

She said she knew who had killed 14-year-old Pamela Mason in 1964. She said that a man named Edward J. Coolidge Jr. took particular interest in Pamela's babysitting flyers.

The police never got back to Rena. Early the next morning, on February 3rd, 1964, Rena seemed to vanish. Her son Danny had come downstairs for breakfast, expecting to see his mother, but the house was empty. 

Danny was very worried about his mother. It was very cold and Rena had left her winter coat in the house. Danny called his uncle, and the two of them started to search the farm. About an hour into the search they spotted smoke coming from the barn that sat over a mile away from the house. When they looked inside the barn, they found Rena's body burning. 

Her death was ruled as a suicide. But, her family and friends could not believe that she would kill herself, and especially by setting herself on fire. They feel her knowledge of who killed those girls is what led to her death.

A few weeks after Rena's death, the police did arrest the man they claimed killed Pamela Mason. He was a delivery driver named Edward Coolidge. Coolidge said he had called Pamela on the pretense of babysitting. When she came over to his house he had beaten and raped Pamela. Then he stabbed her four times and then shot her twice in the head. Afterwards he dumped her body in a snow bank where it was found 8 days later.

Coolidge was found guilty and sentenced to life in prison in New Hampshire, which meant that he wouldn’t be eligible for parole until he served 18 years. 

i don't think that he should have been eligible for parole.

Even thought Coolidge had admitted to killing Pamela, the way the police obtained some of the evidence presented at his trial was controversial and his first degree murder conviction was overturned. He was able to plea to second degree murder and was released from prison in 1991.

Also in 1991, Rena’s body was exhumed and thoroughly examined. Her cause of death was changed from suicide to undetermined.

Rena's family believes that Coolidge killed her because she told the police her suspicions. 

Rena's death was extremely hard on Danny. Danny eventually got married and had children. But, his marriage ended in divorce and he lost a lengthy custody battle. He then had a mental break and wound up at a mental hospital. During a hypnosis session at the hospital, Danny remembered that he had seen his mother arguing with Edward Coolidge before her death. Regardless of this new revelation, the police refused to re-open Rena's case.

Authorities believe that it is possible that Coolidge murdered 18-year-old Sandra Valade in 1960, but have yet to find evidence to prove it. She went missing and then her body was found in a snow bank 9 days later. She had been sexually assaulted and shot to death.

Sandra and Rena's cases remain unsolved.

After five months, Danny was released from the psychiatric hospital. He worked hard to turn his life around.

On the same weekend that the first barrel was found in Allentown, Danny was working on a bulldozer with a few friends in his garage. Around 11 am when Danny was out of sight of his friends. They heard a loud pop. They ran towards the sound and found Danny lying on the ground.

At first Danny's friends thought that he got electrocuted, but they soon realized that he had been shot in the back. Danny was dead and the only clue the killer left behind was his footprints as he ran away. Later, bullet that had traveled through Danny was in a telephone pole. 

At first, authorities believed it was an accidental shooting, that a hunter in the nearby gravel pit had fired the fatal bullet, even though the pit was a mile a way. There were too many obstacles would have gotten in the way.

Nothing happened with Danny's case until 2004. 

The tipsters said that Eric Windhurst killed Danny. When Danny was killed, Eric had been dating Danny’s daughter Melanie Paquette. 

In 2005, Eric Windhurst was arrested and charged with murder. At fist Windhurst claimed that he was with Melanie at a field hockey game at the time of Danny's murder, but later Melanie came forward and said that she watched Windhurst kill her father. 

Melanie said that Danny had sexually abused her as a little girl. And Eric was exacting revenge.

Melanie Paquette Cooper received 15 months for hindering an investigation. Eric Windhurst pleaded guilty and was sentenced to 15–60 years in prison. He is eligible for parole starting sometime this year.

Did Chad Daybell have something to do with Kiplyn Davis' disappearance?

Back in April of 2020, according to ABC 4 Utah, the Utah Cold Case Coalition began focusing on the Kiplyn Davis case. With ground penetrating radar they started searching a Springville cemetery where Chad Daybell had worked as a gravedigger. Kiplyn's family allegedly knew Chad and it is possible that he could have aided with the concealment of her body.

Kiplyn Davis 

She was born on July 1, 1979 to Richard and Tamara Davis.

Kiplyn was a sophomore at Spanish Fork High School in Spanish Fork, Utah. 
She was last seen on in the morning on May 2, 1995.
It was raining hard that day.
She had a fight with both of her parents then attended her early driver's education class, her morning classes and was seen at lunchtime in the school's cafeteria with her friends and classmates.
She did not show up for her fourth and fifth period classes.
Her purse, makeup, dental retainer and schoolbooks, were left in her locker at school.
She was reported missing when she failed to arrive home at 5:00 p.m.
After months passed police began to suspect foul play in her disappearance. 
Her family believes she was murdered. 
Four years after her disappearance, her family held a memorial service for Davis and put up a marker in her name at the Spanish Fork City Cemetery.
In 2003, Timmy Brent Olsen and Christopher Neal Jeppson had been charged with her murder.
On May 6, the murder charges against Christopher Neal Jeppson were dropped.
In court he pled no contest to obstruction related charges and ultimately signed an affidavit that he does not know the circumstances or cause of Kiplyn Davis's disappearance.
Rucker Leifson pleaded guilty to one count of lying to a grand jury and was sentenced to four years in prison. 
Gary Blackmore and Scott Brunson have also been found guilty of lying to a grand jury, their sentences hinge upon their testimony against Olsen.
On June 1, 2009, a motion to dismiss the murder charge against Olsen was announced. 
The judge decided to defer any ruling on the motion in the case, stating he had not heard all the evidence from the prosecutors. 
An evidentiary hearing to establish whether there is evidence of death is still possible.
On February 11, 2011, Timmy Brent Olson pleaded guilty to manslaughter and was sentenced to 15 years in prison.
He claimed he saw another individual hit Davis twice in the head with a soft-ball sized rock and helped him move her body.
He declined to name the other individual and admitted that he helped move and bury the body.
He also refused to tell authorities where the body was located.
Olson and Leifson had come under suspicion after claiming they left school with Davis on the day she disappeared.
Olsen and another individual met up on May 2, 1995, and drove up Spanish Fork Canyon with Kiplyn. 
At some point, she and the other person went out of sight. 
After about 30 to 45 minutes, Olsen went to look for them because he heard an argument.
Olsen reached the area where the two were, he saw the other person strike her on the right side of the head with the rock. 
Kiplyn fell, and he then saw the other person strike her a second time, on the right side of the head.
Olsen approached the other person and asked what they were doing. 
That person asked him to help move the body. 
At that point, Kiplyn was unconscious and Olsen said he didn't know whether she was dead.
Olsen helped move her underneath a line of trees, then returned to the vehicle with the second person and left the area. 
The two returned later that evening and moved Kiplyn's body to the other person's vehicle. 
At that time, it was apparent she was dead.
Kiplyn's father said he believes he knows who it was that killed his daughter.
Olsen was accused of making statements to police that placed David Rucker Leifson at the scene of the crime. 
Olsen allegedly also bragged to people in the past that he and Leifson took Kiplyn from school and drove her up the canyon that day.
Leifson threatened to kill Olsen if he kept mentioning him in connection with Kiplyn's disappearance.
Richard Davis thanked Olsen for his plea, saying he forgives him.
He also begged Olsen to tell authorities where his daughter's body is located.
"It's like she's suffering, like she's still cold,"
Her parents leave the porch light on every night for her.

Chad Daybell has been arrested, but so far not charged, as human remains have been unearthed on the property he once shared with Tammy Daybell.

UPDATE: Remains of two bodies has confirmed to be found. JJ and Tylee's grandparents are supposed to talk on the local Idaho news tonight at 10 p.m. MST

Authorities pulled over Chad Daybell this morning in Idaho. They took him into custody and impounded his car after a search on the property where he lived with Tammy Daybell was conducted. Remains were found and an anthropologist is on scene. Allegedly Lori Vallow pointed them in the direction of the remains. No news yet on how many bodies are there and if they are those of JJ and Tylee. There is talks that the family might do a press conference today, but it is unconfirmed.

Garth Rector Was A Former Wrestling Coach Who Was Gunned Down In His Kitchen.

Garth Gene “Buddy” Rector

Garth was born on February 9th, 1960 in Munchie, Indiana. He came from a family with a high school wrestling background. He was a wrestling coach who was wildly popular and everyone always had something good to say about him.

On March 21st, 2008, he was 48 years old and recently separated from his wife. He was living alone in a small rented house in the sleepy rural Delaware County town of Cowan. He allegedly was dating more than one woman at the time and one of those women had a not-so-happy husband. Family and friends described Garth as going through a "mid-life crisis."

Garth had told his sister that he wanted to go through counseling to "make things right."  He was hoping a family trip to California to celebrate his sister's graduation from the army would be a chance to reconcile with his wife. Sadly, his plan never made it to fruition. 

Somebody  broken the window to the back side door to gain entry into Garth's house and was lying in wait for him to come home from the grocery store. After he entered his house and sat down his groceries, someone shot him five times and he fell dead to the kitchen floor. The first shot came from 30 feet away. A coroner’s report indicated that Garth had been shot twice in the neck, once each in the back and right shoulder, and in the right forearm. One of the bullets caused a cervical spine fracture. Others struck his right lung and liver. Then without taking anything, the murderer sped away almost hitting a school bus as it peeled out of Garth's driveway.

One of the ladies that Garth was dating before he was killed was his land lady. She lived on the same property, but in a separate house. She had recently broken up with her fiance and it seems like he took it pretty rough. The ex fiance also was an avid gun collector. He knew his way around the house that Garth was staying in and his DNA was found inside. The man also never missed work, except for the day that Garth was killed. And his alibi was not a very good one. He also refused to do a polygraph.

Another woman Garth was dating worked with him at Ball State University and she was married. That woman's husband wouldn't take a polygraph either.

There is at least three persons of interest, but no suspects and Garth's case remains unsolved.

JJ and Tylee Vallow's Cousin Gives A New Interview With Her Husband And JJ's Biological Mother Wants To Know Where Her Son Is.

What do you think about this new video of Lori's Niece's interview? 

Do you think the wrong questions have been asked? If someone were to ask Lori and Chad who they were trying to keep JJ and Tylee safe from and why... Do you think they would divulge information?

Do you think Lori and Chad are trying to keep JJ away from his biological mother? If not i think they should tell her why they have the kids hidden and who from.

Suzanne Morphew Vanished On A Bike Ride On Mother's Day...UPDATED ON 09/27/2023

UPDATED ON 09/27/2023: The remains of missing Colorado mom Suzanne Morphew have been found on September 22, “in the area of Moffat in Saguache County. Today the El Paso County Coroner positively identified.

UPDATED 05/23/2020: Along With the Suzanne's house, authorities are now searching residential construction site. The property owner said that Suzanne’s husband was hired to lay dirt on the riverfront land, located east of Salida. Also, a friend of the family said that Suzanne's husband had an explosive temper, and she wanted a divorce.

Married mother of two,.49-year-old Suzanne Renee Morphew survived cancer twice. She disappeared on May 10th, 2020. She was reported missing by a neighbor at 5:45 p.m. after she did not return from a bike ride near County Road 225 and West Highway 50 in Chaffee County. That is where personal items belonging to Susan was found. 

Her bike was found also, it was leaning on a tree at Fooses creek, but details about the condition of the bike have not been shared.

She had allegedly told her neighbor that if she didn't return from the bike ride to to call the police.

Sheriff John Spezze does not believe that Suzanne was attacked by an animal. It is also not a criminal investigation yet, but foul play is not ruled out. 

Authorities are asking anyone in the area to save video footage from May 8th to May 12th. It might hold clues as to what happened to Susan.

Suzanne's husband was not in town at the time of her disappearance. 

The family had just moved to Colorado in 2018.

Suzanne beat cancer twice. She runs a non profit charity organization and her husband is a Volunteer Firefighter.

A $200,000 reward is being offered.

Direct tips and information to the dedicated FBI tip line at 719-312-7530.
https://www.facebook.com/findsuzannemorphew/

Faith Hedgepeth Attended UNC in Chapel Hill When She Was Bludgeoned To Death And A Mysterious Note Left Behind. Updated 09/23/2023

Update 02/03/2025: In November 2024, it was announced that prosecutors amended the indictment to add charges of first-degree burglary, first-degree rape, and first-degree sexual offense.

Update 09/23/2023: 

On September 16th, 2021, Miguel Enrique Salguero-Olivares arrested and charged with Faith's murder. Authorities used DNA ancestry technology to help find him. Investigators obtained his DNA without his consent during a DWI traffic stop. A palm print on the murder weapon, which was the wine bottle, matched the suspect's left palm. He is currently awaiting trial.

“Faith… well, Faith was a joy-- a true joy. She was a gift, you know, because she came to us at a low point in my life. She kept me going. She was my Faith.”-Roland Hedgepeth 

Faith Hedgepeth was as beautiful on the inside and she was on the outside. She was a lively woman who wanted to help people, especially children and hoped to one day become a pediatrician. She was much loved by her family, friends and her Haliwa-Saponi Native American tribe. She would have been the first one in her family to graduate from college, but her life was violently cut short, just weeks before her 20th birthday.

Faith was born September 26th, 1992, in Warren County, part of the Haliwa-Saponi Native American tribe's traditional territory in North Carolina. Her parents are Roland and Connie Hedgepeth. She was the fourth child born to the family. Unfortunately Roland had a drug problem and Faith's parents divorced within a year of Faith being born. Roland moved to Hickory, North Carolina, about a four-hour drive away and Faith was raised by her mother, with help from her sister, Ronalda, but Faith kept in close contact with her father.

In high school Faith was a cheerleader and a member of many extracurricular clubs and organizations. She was also an honor student and even earned the highly selective Gates Millennium Scholarship. When it came time to apply for college, Faith was determined to go to the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Her father had also attended UNC-Chapel Hill, but never finished after starting a family with Connie.

The first two years at the university went well for Faith and as she began her third year at UNC, she was planning to further her studies and become a pediatrician. But, she took the spring 2012 semester off because she started to struggle. She told her mother that she was thinking about becoming a teacher instead. Connie told Faith that the world was wide open for her and if she put her mind to it, she could achieve anything.

Faith remained in the Chapel Hill area over the summer, living in an off-campus apartment at the Hawthorne at the View complex between Chapel Hill and Durham. She planned to move to another apartment after her financial aid for the fall semester was made available to her. 

Faith shared the apartment with Karena Rosario, with whom she had been friends since freshman year, and Karena's boyfriend, Eriq Takoy Jones. Karena and Eriq had a volatile relationship and Karena became a victim of domestic violence. Eventually Karena ended the relationship and Eriq moved out. However, he had in early July 2012 twice attempted to break into the apartment, even after the locks had been changed. Faith eventually drove Karena to court to get a protective order that required Eriq to stay away from the apartment. Eriq reportedly resented Faith for that and during a phone conversation, he threatened to kill her if he could not get back together with Karena.

Faith's family saw her alive for the last time on Sunday, September 2nd, 2012 at an early birthday celebration for Connie. After Faith’s  shift as a waitress at Red Robin in Durham, Faith and Karena drove to Warren County to join them.

On Tuesday, Connie's actual birthday, Faith called her and wished her happy birthday. That was the last time Connie spoke to her baby girl.

At 5:45 p.m. on Thursday, September 6th, Faith attended a rush event for the campus chapter of Alpha Pi Omega, a sorority she hoped to join. At 7:15 p.m. she left, saying she had to work on a paper she was writing about the history of her tribe. She and Karena went to the university's Davis Library to study together at 8 p.m. Between 8:30 p.m. and 9 p.m. she exchanged texts with her father about her hopes to join the sorority. 

Roland said that Faith always knew the right time to text him. It was like she could sense when something was going wrong in Roland's life. She always would tell him to have faith. He said that she always made him feel like he was the most special person in the world.

Faith left Karena at the library briefly and returned around 11:30 p.m., after which they returned to their apartment together, arriving there around midnight. About a half and hour later they left yet again. Security footage shows the two women arriving at the now-closed nightclub “The Thrill” in downtown Chapel Hill. It was a popular club among college students because it admitted patrons under the legal drinking age of 21 to dance. After almost an hour and a half of dancing, Karena was allegedly having an upset stomach and wanted to leave. Security cameras at the club show her and Faith leaving at 2:06 a.m. 

At 3 a.m., a neighbor said she heard the girls moving around in their apartment. She said that it sounded like a heavy bag being dropped or furniture being overturned. Around the same time, records show Faith’s Facebook page was accessed.

At 3:40 a.m., a text was sent from Faith's phone to that of Brandon Edwards, a former boyfriend of hers, saying "Hey b. Can you come over here please. Rosario needs you more aha. You know. Please let her know you care." Three minutes later, another text was sent from her phone to Edwards' with the single word "than," believed to be a correction for the "aha" in the previous text. That was the last evidence of activity from her phone. At 4:16 a.m., Edwards sent a return text asking who had sent the previous text.

Karena's phone records show she was also trying to call Edwards around the same time. He did not answer, and when he did not she tried to call Jordan McCrary, a UNCCH soccer player she knew. Karena believed that Faith was asleep when she left the apartment at 4:25 a.m. She left the door to their place unlocked for some reason and got in McCrary's car. McCrary drove Karena to the home of another acquaintance on West Longview Street in Chapel Hill. After 10:30 a.m., Karena began trying to arrange a ride home. She first called Faith, who did not answer. Then she called another friend, Marisol Rangel, who came and took her back to her apartment.

It was about 11 a.m. when Karena and Marisol walked into the apartment that Karena shared with Faith. They both called to Faith and when she didn't answer they went into her bedroom and found her bloodied and partially nude, wrapped in a quilt. They immediately dialed 9-1-1. 

9-1-1: "911 where is your emergency?"

Karena: "I...um...i just walked into my apartment and my friend is like, she is unconscious. I just walked into the apartment there looks like there is blood everywhere.

911: "Alright, listen to me, when you touch her how does she feel? Does she feel warm?"

Karena: "No, she feels cold."

When police arrived, they found Faith lying face up, her face halfway off the bed and a pool of blood underneath her head. She only had a black T-shirt on that was pulled up over her head.

When she received the call that her little girl was dead, Connie just couldn't believe it. After she got off the phone, she was just in shock, but she had to make the calls to the rest of the family. 

Details of the investigation were not discussed publicly at first, a deviation from the Chapel Hill police's usual practice. Faith's autopsy report was also sealed. Two years later, Durham County court officials unsealed documents and her autopsy report in the search for her killer.

The autopsy report revealed that Faith had died from blunt force trauma to the head, which investigators believed was caused by an empty rum bottle found in the apartment. The report also detailed cuts and bruises on her arms and legs, along with blood under her fingernails. 

It was also revealed that there was a fast-food bag with a hand-written note that read, “IM NOT STUPID. BITCH. JEALOUS.” that was found near Faith’s body. The bag may have come from Time-Out, a popular 24-hour restaurant in Chapel Hill that would have been the only place open when Faith and Karena left The Thrill. It uses such bags and is a short distance away from the nightclub.

The note didn't have blood on it, which would indicate that it was either written some where else and then placed there or that it was written after Faith's murder.

A voice recording was also released which may have been of Faith's last moments. It seems that she might have "pocket dialed" her friend that the voicemail was left for. In the recording it might sound like she was screaming in pain. It is hard to tell without it being analyzed.

Eriq Jones was an aspiring rapper at the time of Faith's murder. He was quoted saying this about Faith, "From what i knew of her, she was the sweetest person in the world. If you needed her and she could do it she was there."

Despite what he said about how he claimed to feel, Eriq seemed to be a very strong suspect from the beginning. Police learned of his history of domestic violence and his threat against Faith. They also found that the night before, around 6 p.m., he had texted an acquaintance asking for forgiveness "for what I am about to do" and then posted the same message on his Twitter feed. Three days later, he changed the banner on his Facebook page to read "Dear Lord, Forgive me for all of my sins and the sins I may commit today. Protect me from the girls who don't deserve me and the ones who wish me dead today."

After a little bit of coaxing, Eriq cooperated with police and his apartment and car were searched for evidence. He also submitted a DNA sample. Authorities found nothing that linked Eriq to Faith's murder and his DNA did not match the semen collected at the scene. DNA from Edwards and many other men whom police found had been at The Thrill during the same time as Karena and Faith was also tested, with the same result.

In 2016, police released an image generated by Parabon NanoLabs of what the suspect who left the semen behind might look like based on the phenotype in his DNA profile. According to Parabon, the suspect was Native American and European mixed ancestry or Latino with olive skin, brown or hazel eyes and black hair.

Eriq wasn't the only one that Faith's family found suspicious. It seems as though Karena and Marisol's actions after they found Faith's body seemed suspect. First, it seemed that the 9-1-1 operator thought that Karena was alone when she called 9-1-1. 

911: "You're doing alright. You're doing alright you just stay on the phone with me."

Karena: "I see the police."

911: "i just don't want you to be alone right now."

Karena: "OK."

911: "OK. You just stay on the phone with me."

Karena is the only one that can be heard  that 9-1-1 call. In my opinion, she does sound genuinely upset during the call though.

The downstairs neighbor also thinks that Karena was acting suspicious that day. She said that she ran into Karena and Marisol, just minutes after the two found Faith's body. She said that they didn't act like people that found a dead body, especially someone who was brutally murdered and a roommate. She also said that Karena was just texting and that Marisol was softly crying.

I think people handle things in different ways, but you never know 100% about someone. All i can say is that in the 9-1-1 call Karena did say twice in a row that she had just walked into the apartment. i don't know why she felt that that was the most important thing to make known.

Faith's family, especially her father, worries that as time marches on that Faith's case will be forgotten. But detectives involved in Faith's case say that it is only a matter of time before the case is solved.

Faith not only made an impact when she was alive, but her legacy lives on now with the Faith Hedgepeth Memorial Scholarship. The scholarship is offered to help a Native American woman from a North Carolina tribe earn a higher education.

Anyone with information about Faith’s case should contact the Chapel Hill Police Department at (919) 614-6363 or Chapel Hill Crime Stoppers at (919) 942-7515 or http://www.crimestoppers-chcunc.org.

There is also a reward offered for information leading to the capture of Faith's killer.

Denise Bolser Was Missing For 17 Years.

On January 17th, 1985 Denise Desruisseaux Bolser was a 24-year-old bookkeeper living in Raymond, New Hampshire. She was using her estranged husbands truck because hers was in for repairs. She dropped him off in Manchester and drove back home. That is where her husband found footprints in the snow and a note that said "We've got your wife. Don't call the police or you won't see her again."

Apparently, before she disappeared she had cashed some checks and tried to borrow money from her grandmother.

Several days after her disappearance, police discovered her husband's truck parked at the Logan Airport in Boston. On the front seat officers found Denise's social security and credit cards and her birth certificate.

A couple of months later, the courier service where Denise had worked accused her of embezzling $12,000.

The police thought that Denise left voluntarily, but her parents, whom she was very close to, believed that there was foul play involved. They couldn't imagine that she would just leave and never contact them again.  

After Denise vanished her husband divorced her.

Trooper Roland Lamy had gone to school with Denise's parents and vowed to keep the case alive in order to get closure for his classmates. Lamy persuaded Lieutenant Shawne Coope to help him find out if Denise was dead or alive.

Fast forward to 2002. A private detective Shirley Casey, who specializes in missing persons cases, was looking at the DOE Network website when she came across Denise's case. The website said that Denise would be living in a warm climate, so Casey began looking up the name "Denise" in Florida databases. She found a person with the same first name and same birthday and she passed this information on to the police in Raymond, New Hampshire.

On May 13th, 2002, police officers in Panama City, Florida, knocked on the door of Denise James. Denise broke down crying. She had started a new life with a new husband that had no idea about her past and this new revelation answered a lot of questions he had had about her. 

Denise claimed that her former boss threatened to kill her after she began to talk about funds stolen from the company through manipulation of the books. She said that her boss forced her to skim the $100,000 from the company his wife owned. 

She had a very emotional reunion with her family.