Terry Peder 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.
Their hard work, along with that of a dogged researcher, ultimately unraveled a long trail of missing and murdered women and children all leading back, police say, to a serial killer.Maricopa County Sheriff's Office
“I don't remember exactly what happened,” Paula Hodges, Honeychurch’s other sister, told “20/20.” “I just heard that they had an argument, Marlyse and my mom.” “It was just a situation where, every time we searched, [we] came to a dead end. Came to a dead end. Came to a dead end,” Salamon said. “We were playing a game of hide and seek,” Morgan told “20/20.” “I was approached by one of the kids in the group that he had come upon a barrel out in the middle of the woods, which was off the trail. It was just odd that the barrel was out there… It was [a] slightly rusted, dark blue barrel. It's a blue 55-gallon steel drum. It's just kind of sitting out in the woods.”
Ron Montplaisir, Jr., a former Allenstown, New Hampshire, police officer spoke to “20/20” about the hunter who found the first barrel in 1985. Sarah is believed to have been 2 to 3 years old at the time she was killed, according to authorities. The woman also told Heath that her missing family member had once married a man with the last name Rasmussen.
“We're here today to bury my sister and my nieces,” Salamon said at Honeychurch and Marie’s funeral. “We as a family would like to thank the community, for caring and loving our sister Marlyse and our nieces, Marie [and] Sarah.”David Salamon and Paula Hodges are Honeychurch's siblings.“We have looked and searched for over 30 years for them, with no luck. We have never stopped looking,” he said. “Although this moment is bittersweet, they had their names back on this day.
“You know, people ask me why I do these interviews. [It’s because] there's still one victim out there,” former Detective Cody said. “There is one girl who we don't know who she is. That's why I do these … to get her identified and so that there's closure for the families involved here. That's the only reason.”
Jun was in her mid-40s when she introduced her family to her new boyfriend “Larry Vanner,” whom authorities later identified as Rasmussen, according to the New Hampshire Department of Justice. Rose ultimately went to the Contra Costa County Sheriff, where Roxane Gruenheid was a homicide detective. Buried in the cat litter, police found a human foot completely mummified wearing a flip flop. Ultimately, the body was identified as Jun, who police determined had died of blunt force trauma to the head.Terry Rasmussen poses as "Bob Evans" in an arrest photo from 1985.“When I got up in the morning, I pulled my shades back, there was clouds and a beautiful blue sky, and there was seagulls circling in the sky, they were beautiful.
In 1981, Denise Beaudin went missing shortly after Thanksgiving with her 6-month-old daughter and her boyfriend, Rasmussen, who she knew as Robert T. Evans, according to the New Hampshire Department of Justice. “She said that she did, but they died from eating ‘grass mushrooms’ when they were out camping,” Deputy Headley said. “Which says, yeah, there's more victims out there, definitely.”Terry Rasmussen poses as "Curtis Kimball" in an arrest photo from 1990.The mother of the “middle child,” the unidentified girl in the second barrel found at Bear Brook in 2000, who was determined to be Rasmussen’s biological daughter, has also never been found nor identified.
In 1995, scavengers found a refrigerator containing what former detective John Huber believes may be another one of Rasmussen’s victims. The refrigerator had been dumped in a canal in San Joaquin County, California. The Deckers came to believe Lisa might have been abused. When they reached out to Jenson again to finalize the adoption, he had disappeared. After Jenson disappeared, the Deckers were unable to complete the adoption and Lisa was taken into protective custody.
“There were little fingerprint cards, with these little tiny little hands, and had their little footprints on the back of them and little tiny fingerprints,” Gruenheid said. “It just made me angry and curious.”
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