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As I was trying to find
the identities

of these victims,

I became pretty obsessed
with this case.

The first barrel contained
skeletonized remains

of an adult female
and a young child.

The second barrel contained
two young girls.

They just deserve names.
They should not be nameless.

I was sitting on my couch
in my living room

as I'm researching.

That's when everything clicked.

There were a few posts
that stood out to me.

A young woman that had disappeared,

and there was a family member
looking for her.

I'm contacting her,

because I know
that this is them.

This is them, there's no way
it's not them.

Everything matches.

I'm like, "This woman's gonna
think I am a complete loon."

You know, what can I lose?

And within seven minutes,
she responds back.

"You've got my heart pounding."

And I'm like...

"Oh my God, oh my God."

And my hands started, like,
shaking uncontrollably,

I'm like, "Oh my God,
oh my God, oh my God."

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[Rebekah] My name is
Rebekah Heath,

and I am a research librarian
during the day.

And by night, I like to
look into true crime.

Up until high school,

I would spend a lot of times
in the library.

I think my personality,
as it is,

I'm just inquisitive.

I just love to dig into things.

I love to find pieces of furniture

that someone might think was trash,

and make it look fancy and new again,

make somebody want it again.

I had a very
traumatic childhood.

I craved a family,
I craved belonging.

These Jane Doe cases
I researched

are all nameless victims
who belong somewhere.

Bear Brook was the first case
that I started looking into.

The year was about 2010.

There was a part of me that
really, truly wanted to believe

that I was...

like, a kidnapped kid.

That I truly had a family
that loved me

and wanted me in their lives,

and so I started searching,

"Missing girl, November 1985".

And that is when the story
popped up.

November 10th, 1985.
Three days before I was born.

The first barrel was found
in New Hampshire.

The first barrel contained
skeletonized remains

of an adult female
and a young child,

which they assumed was
likely the mother and daughter.

The victims had died from
blunt force trauma.

They had also been dismembered
and placed into the barrels.

The descriptions of the victims

just did not match anyone
that was missing.

So, they did not know
who they were at that point.

Back in 1985,

they had done
door-to-door interviews.

And each person they asked
knew nothing.

It was just such a mystery.
How did they end up there?

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[Rebekah] 15 years later,

the second barrel was found on
the same property.

The second barrel contained
two young girls.

They were also skeletonized
and wrapped in plastic.

Now we have four victims.

They exhumed the two victims

from the first barrel
found back in 1985,

and compare the DNA to
the second barrel's victims.

They found out there was
a maternal match

between the victims in
the first barrel;

the adult female and
the oldest child.

And in the second barrel,
the youngest girl.

Assuming that they are a mother
and two daughters.

The third little girl
who was in the second barrel

had no relation whatsoever
to them.

They still remained unidentified.

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[Rebekah] What,
you wanna eat?

Jane Doe cases specifically
do resonate with me.

Because I do see
a version of myself

in these Jane Does.

I was raised in
a religious cult,

in a home that was not
very loving.

My environment at home,
it, it was so toxic.

So many people were just
so miserable.

I remember, even as a kid,
just wondering, like,

"What is it like to be loved?"

Like, "What is it like to...

be happy?"

I needed some way out.

And they're like, "Well,
you need to make a choice.

It's us or the world."

I was like, "Well, okay.
I choose the world."

As I was leaving,

I remember trembling,
being scared.

Because I didn't know anyone.

And there was so many times
I just wonder, like,

how did I not somehow come in
down the path

of somebody that was just
so evil

and could make me disappear,

and no one would come
looking for me?

I think that's kinda
really what drives me.

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[Rebekah] I became
pretty obsessed with this case.

It was hard for me to let it go.

I started making it my mission
to try and find a little clue

that could help tie
this case together

and give these victims
back their names.

If I am in an obsessive mood,

there's something that just
won't let me stop.

I could easily spend at least
six hours

outside of work a day,
and then weekends.

As soon as I wake up
'til I go to bed,

I could just constantly just,

like, I just gotta,
I gotta keep going.

It's like, "One step closer.
One step closer."

I generally search
the Doe Network,

and I also like to use NamUs,

which is a website that compiles
unidentified individuals.

And I just try and put myself
in the perspective

of a family member

and see if I can find any people
that are looking for

their loved ones.

If I was looking to find
a loved one

in approximately late '70s,
'80s,

where would I go?

So, I started going into
newspaper archives,

through classified ads.

People, a lot of times,
would post,

looking for family members there.

I also thought about if
they started looking for them,

like, when the internet started.

Where would they start looking?

So, Ancestry has a message board

where you could look for
missing loved ones.

I would use keywords to search.

"Sister", "daughter",

I just start compiling
potential matches.

And if I found out that
they are alive,

then they'd be ruled out.

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[Rebekah] So, on Facebook,

there was a group
that followed the case.

So, somebody posted something,
and someone posed a question.

You know, we might interact
with each other

in the comment section
of the post.

People would comment
about the case and say,

"Why is nobody looking for
them?"

Like, "Who could, how could
you just let someone go?"

And to me, it wasn't that
there wasn't anyone looking.

It was, how do we find
those people

that are looking for them?

And that's how I got in touch
with Ronda and Scott.

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[Ronda] I grew up in
southern New Hampshire,

about 45 minutes from Allenstown.

In 2011, I came to this case,

and it said a woman and
three little girls

were found out here in a barrel

in the woods in Allenstown.

That really bothered me,

that not only had
someone killed them,

but that somebody had actually
robbed them

of their names, as well,

and that they'd gone unidentified.

Why wasn't there a huge outcry
in New Hampshire,

in New England
about their disappearance?

And so, I decided, "Oh,
I think I wanna go down

and see the area
where they were found."

I asked my siblings if
any of them would go with me.

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[Scott] Early on in the case,

that was kinda hard for me
to understand, you know,

how can a...?

What we thought was a mother
and her three kids go missing,

and no one seems to be
looking for the suspect?

I wanted to lay eyes on
the property

where they were found,

just to kinda get some own
answers for myself.

[Rebekah] It felt like a puzzle,
and you got all of these pieces.

Just put 'em together.

Like, how...?
I don't know.

It just seemed like such
a solvable case.

I feel like they are me.

They just deserve names.
They should not be nameless.

They need someone to fight
for them, and...

I'm, I'm willing to do that.

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[Rebekah] I am on my way to
meet up with Ronda and Scott.

It's been about three years
since we last got together.

I think one main purpose was
that in these Facebook groups,

we truly cared about
the victims.

And if we could all come together

and find some answers,

that's really what mattered
the most.

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[Scott] Interesting meeting Rebekah.

She really does know herself,
she's--know the case,

and she's a great researcher.

Both Ronda and I grew up
ten miles outside of Manchester.

- New Hampshire.
- Yep, yep.

But we moved out of the area
two years ago,

so I probably haven't been back
for two years.

I think it was last fall was the
last time I went up to the park

and to the property.

Follow up on loose ends.

It's like a never-ending project
for Scott and I.

I had been doing a lot of
adoption searches for people.

I like research,
I'm kind of a history buff.

In 2011, my kids grew up
and left home,

and I think it was a little bit
of an empty nest moment

where I just wanted to find
something to research

that was a little bit different
than I'd been doing for years.

And I came to this case,

and there was four victims

put in barrels out here in
the woods.

I couldn't believe
that could be true.

[Rebekah] It was
an extensive amount of work

that Scott and Ronda put into
trying to identify

who the perpetrator was

and how he was connected
to the case.

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They had the same push and drive
that I did.

My mission was to try and find
the identities of these victims.

Ronda and Scott had been just
trying to go headfirst

and find a suspect for
the murders.

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[Scott] Right in this area here

is where the first barrel was
found in 1985.

[Ronda] It was found by
a couple hunters,

brothers who were out here.

And at that time,

you could look over into
the mobile home park,

and you could see
the various mobile homes.

You could see the path where
people walked their dogs.

And we figured that the,

everybody in the neighborhood
had been spoken to.

You know, questions had been asked.

[Ronda] Many, many,
many people told us

they waited for the police
to come and ask questions,

and nobody ever did.

Very shortly after
they were found,

the investigation was taken out
of the hands of the local police

and turned over to New Hampshire
State Police.

And in a lot of people's minds,

that's where the investigation
fell apart.

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[Ronda] So, finally,
we just said,

"Alright, we're just a brother
and sister,

we grew up in New Hampshire.

And, you know, we believe
this case can be solved.

We know it can,

and we just need to ask the
right questions to find out."

Two things became very apparent.

Nobody knew
the little girls were found,

almost nobody in
the mobile home park.

And you could just throw,
you know,

a rock over there, practically.

And the second thing was

that we needed to focus on
this property

and the men who lived here.

Because why would you risk
coming down here?

Down a private driveway,

in sight of a mobile home park,
dumping bodies?

Likely, who placed them here
was familiar with the property.

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[Ronda] We heard
all kinds of stories.

Like, there was a family with
kids, they moved away.

We'd be like, "Who were they?"
And they didn't even know.

So then we began thinking,

"Well, maybe they could've
lived here."

One theory being that
whoever did this

was what they call
a family annihilator.

You know, an individual who just
exploded one day,

killed his family,

took off for parts unknown.

Maybe a family in
the mobile home park

befriended the girls,

if they had stayed on
the property.

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[Scott] One of
the biggest things we did

was to recreate
the trailer park.

Try to identify all
the residents that lived there

and contact them.

[Ronda] Out of the ten families
that lived there in 1985

that also were there in 2000,

only one family knew that
the little girls had been found.

And clearly, they didn't talk to
their neighbors about it.

None of the other families.

I mean, we felt like we're
having to prove,

you know, pull out
the composites and show them.

I know at some point,
people began wondering if

there was a serial killer
that was loose.

[Scott] To go after the suspect
every weekend, every evening,

we're traveling all over
New England talking to people.

It was all-consuming.

Like, I always kept coming back
to one thing.

They're somebody.

They belonged to somebody,
and somebody is missing them.

They had families,

and I'd like to see justice
served for them.

[Ronda] I mean, took quite
a while just going door to door.

You know, we'd come back
over and over again sometimes.

Or people just refused to speak
to us.

So, we just said, you know,

"We realize us showing up at
your door

on a Saturday morning is awkward,

but so are dead little girls."

And we just wouldn't take no
for an answer.

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[GPS] Use the right two lanes
to keep right to Elm Street.

Downtown[indistinct]

[Rebekah] Ronda and Scott
had a blog going

a couple of years before

I started proactively searching
for answers.

But in the beginning,
I, I mean, I was alone.

I had nobody at all.

My research process,
it's just kind of, like,

scattered all over the place.

I'm dyslexic, and for
the longest time,

I couldn't do normal things
that everyone else could

the same way that
everyone else could.

And I couldn't learn
the same way,

and it used to frustrate me
so much.

But it really, truly taught me
to think outside the box.

There was one specific post
that was posted on Ancestry,

and it was from 1999.

It was family members looking
for Sarah McWaters,

a child born in 1977,
in California.

She was missing with her mother, Marlyse.

Sarah had a half-sister,
Marie Vaughn,

who was also missing.

So, as I'm looking into it,
the dates are all lining up.

The equation already
is lining up,

of the victims found
in the barrels.

There's two girls,
and there's an adult female.

But the more I looked into
that case,

I really couldn't find
enough information

to confirm or to rule it out.

All I can think of is, like,
"How can I find who you are?

Where else can I look?
What angle am I not looking at?"

There's gotta be someone
out there that's looking.

There just absolutely has to be.

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We wanted to find out who lived
in the mobile home park.

We got aerial photos from
the late '70s.

And we just started piecing
together who lived where.

Then I made a Facebook page
and a blog.

I had come across the blog before.

'Cause I know it referenced

the list of names of people that
lived there.

[Scott] And during this time,
we were having

some conversations with
the property owner.

And I think Ronda asked him,
you know,

"Well, do you have any idea
who could've done this?"

And he says, "Well,

I have somebody that
I wondered about,

but I don't wanna say anything
bad about him."

That sends us down...

Three years after having
many conversations with him,

where he said he didn't know anything.

He's the guy that would know everything.

[Ronda] Yeah, yeah.

[Scott] Ronda was on the phone
with him,

and she was asking about
a particular group of people.

And he got frustrated and said,

"No, you're barking up
the wrong tree.

The person you wanna look at
is Bobby.

Bobby Evans."

And we said, "Why?"

And he said, "Well,
he was a strange guy,

and he dumped trash on
my property."

And that's when you pretty much
moved into

the Manchester Library.

[Scott] So, we'd look up
everything we could find

you know, about a Bob Evans.

[Ronda] We heard he was
an electrician,

so, then we began to ask people,

"Do you recall an electrician

being in the area named
Bob Evans?

What was your interest,

you know, what was your
interaction with him?"

And we did find people who
knew him.

This clearing area over here is
where the Bear Brook Store was.

Bob Evans was an electrician,

so he helped work on the store,

in the cooling and refrigeration
part of it.

One family's recollection is
that he was living with a family

here on the property
in a pop-up camper.

And it was around Christmastime,

and the family felt bad that
there were kids here,

and they sent over some of
their adult children

with food for the family.

What we don't know is whether
these little girls

were the victims.

They're sure it was Evans,

because they knew him,

they worked with him
at the Waumbec Mill.

So, we know that he was on
this property

for some time, anyway.

We just try to collect stories
in case there was any clue,

but we could never find him.

You know, so after six months of
looking into it ourselves,

you know, we turned it over to
the New Hampshire State Police.

[Scott] They probably
just thought,

"Oh, it's another name that
Ronda and Scott are giving us."

That name didn't mean anything
to anyone.

It kinda went cold for us.

But it, it was always,

it, that name was always in
the back of our head.

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[Jeff] My name is Jeff Strelzin,

I'm a senior assistant
attorney general

with the New Hampshire
Attorney General's Office.

[Rebekah] There was gonna be
a press release,

'cause, you know, there was
a big break in the case.

At my desk at work, I'm like,

"Okay, I'm gonna need to see
this press release."

So I get, like, my phone and
my headphones, I'm listening in.

I'm like, "Okay,
what's the break?

What's the break,
what's the break?"

[Jeff] We believe we have
our killer

of the Allenstown victims.

We're confident that Bob Evans
is the person

who killed the four victims
in Allenstown.

[Ronda] New Hampshire
State Police said that

the name Bob Evans first came up
in 2014, in our research.

It was pretty exciting.

[Rebekah] At that time,

I didn't know Ronda and Scott
had researched Bob Evans.

He had a beard and, like,
a plaid shirt,

and these piercing blue eyes.

It really kinda came as a shock.

He had many other victims
besides just the victims

that were in the barrels.

When New Hampshire State Police
had confirmed Bob Evans

as the Bear Brook Killer,

he had already been incarcerated

for an unrelated murder
in California.

They uncovered that he had also

kidnapped a baby girl
from New Hampshire in 1981,

and he had abandoned her
in California.

Even though this baby girl was
not one of the victims

in the Bear Brook barrels,

she had disappeared not too far
from Allenstown,

where Bear Brook State Park
is located.

Once they had the connection of
this perpetrator, Bob Evans,

in the area of
the Bear Brook murders,

police tried testing the DNA
of this perpetrator, Bob Evans,

against the DNA of the victims
found in the barrels.

The DNA test showed Bob Evans as
the biological father

of the middle child.

We believe that Bob Evans'
killing finally

came to an end in California
in 2002,

with his last victim,
Eusoon Jun.

He certainly fits the profile
of a serial killer.

[Man] Miss Jun had been
murdered, dismembered,

and was buried in the basement
of her residence.

Which I find so shocking.

Bob Evans was caught and
put in prison in California

for his last murder

17 years after the first
Bear Brook victims were found.

[Jeff] Evans was eventually
charged with murder.

He plead guilty in 2003.

And in 2010,

he died in prison
of natural causes.

[Rebekah] By the time
New Hampshire State Police

determined that Evans was
the Bear Brook killer,

he had been deceased for
six years.

DNA saved from his autopsy confirmed

he was father
of one of the victims.

What stuck with me the most
from the press release

was that the victim,

the little girl that no one
seemed to be related to,

was Bob Evans' daughter.

For some reason, I envisioned
her with, like, little pigtails,

holding her dad's hand and
walking through the woods.

She was, like, three years old.

Just like such a tiny little
innocent baby.

Like, what the hell?

She had no idea that when...

she was in a car ride with him,
drivin' up here,

that that was gonna be
the last location

she ever visited.

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[Rebekah] Now we have a suspect named,

and the victims are still unidentified.

When, in general,
you have the victims identified,

and then that's how you find
the suspect.

It was the opposite
in this case.

This just opened
a whole plethora

of opportunities.

And with this information,

I can start tracking
his locations,

searching for the identities
of the victims.

And at that point,

I assumed that the adult female
with her two children

could've been living in
the same property

with Bob Evans
and Evans' daughter.

So, they don't really know a lot
about Bob Evans' locations.

Knew he had one specific address
that links to him.

It's the known address.

No one else is listed with him.

Although he claimed to have
a wife

that resided at that residence,
as well.

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925, right in the back.

The girls would've lived there, too.

The neighbors that used to live
there within those years

did not recognize
his photo at all.

I would imagine someone would
remember three little girls.

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[Rebekah] Ronda, Scott,
and I came here

to visit Bob Evans' office.

He was hired to work here to...

manage the team that essentially
broke the factory down.

They would fill oil drums
or barrels and dump 'em.

And one of the places
that they would dump them

was at Bear Brook State Park,

where the barrels were found.

Logically, they were here
at some point in this town.

So, when I come here,

it's hard not to feel like
you're reliving the moment

when the girls were here.

Unfortunately, even contacting

neighbors in
the surrounding areas,

employees that worked at
Waumbec when he worked there,

nobody seems to know anything
about his life.

When working at Waumbec Mills,

there was one room that
he left locked all the time,

that wouldn't allow anyone
to go into.

What was in that room?

Could he have been holding
the barrels there?

I found myself questioning,

"What, what other angle can
you possibly look at?"

Disappointment once again.

These little girls and
their mother

were just nameless.

I don't know, at this point
it just seems like I was...

just hittin' dead end after
dead end after dead end.

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I have not seen my family in
a number of years.

Once you leave one of these
religious communities

like I was raised in,

you're just ostracized.

Each person told me,
if I leave, "You're gonna die.

You're goin' to Hell.
You're never gonna make it."

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[Rebekah] I guess, if anything,
it made me...

push and dig even further.

I have been looking for
the victims about seven months.

Then, there's an update
in the case.

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The man known in New Hampshire
as Bob Evans,

that man's real name was
Terry Rasmussen.

[Rebekah] Now the suspect who
they believed to be Bob Evans

is actually just an alias.

His true name is
Terry Peter Rasmussen.

[Ronda] Law enforcement used DNA
from his autopsy,

and was able to build
a family tree

and figure out who he was,

and confirmed it with
DNA from his son.

The identification of
Terry Rasmussen

was the first time a killer had
been identified

using genetic genealogy.

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[Rebekah] So now,
with this information,

I know his true identity.

There's so many things attached
to your actual birth name

within public records.

Terry Rasmussen, that's not
a common name.

So, you don't get as many hits
as you do

when you're searching for
"Bob Evans,"

because let me tell you,
that's...

that's an endless search.

So, at least it was narrowed
down quite a bit more.

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[Rebekah] Terry Rasmussen
actually was previously married,

and he had four living children.

Which really poses the question,

was he leading two lives?

He's got this
biological daughter

that we've assumed he killed
and placed in a barrel.

I started searching anything
related to Rasmussen

that might lead to the identity
of the victims.

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[Rebekah] It had been a year
since the press release.

There was a podcast coming out

that was going to focus on
the Bear Brook murders.

[Jason] This is Bear Brook.

I'm Jason Moon.

I immediately started listening
to it, trying to just...

grasp at any more
additional information

that perhaps I didn't know
about the case at this point.

This story grabbed the attention
of more people.

It showed the magnitude
that this case really is.

When I was listening to
the third or fourth episode,

that's when everything clicked.

[Jason] The release of
the isotope testing results

was, in some ways,

the final Hail Mary
in the Bear Brook case.

[Rebekah] This specific episode

focused on isotope testing

that was conducted on
the victims.

[Jason] Living things carry
an imprint of their environment,

recorded in isotopes.

It's like your body is coding

everything that you've ingested
over time.

[Jason] Radio isotope testing.

The bones, teeth, and hair
of the victims

can offer one of
the first real clues

about where the Bear Brook
victims came from.

[Rebekah] They did tell with
the adult female

that she was possibly from California

or surrounding states.

[Jason] The map for
the related victims

includes parts of
the West Coast.

[Rebekah] As soon as I heard that,

I remembered that
one specific post

on Ancestry message board.

That Ancestry post from 1999

was Sarah McWaters' family
looking for her.

A child born in 1977,

who disappeared in California.

And I'm like,
"Pause the podcast.

Rewind it back and listen to it
over again."

[Jason] Parts of the West Coast.

And as I'm listening, I'm like,

"I don't know.
I really think..."

"I really think that could
be them."

Sarah McWaters could be
one of the victims.

She could've been one of
the two daughters

that were related to
the adult female.

I'm gonna contact that woman
who posted in 1999.

I'm contacting her because
I know that this is them.

This is them.
There's no way it's not them.

Everything matches.
There's, there's just no way.

I'm like, "Alright, how am I
gonna contact her?"

I'm like, "That's probably
a broken email address.

It's from 1999."

"I'm gonna find her on
Facebook."

So, I'm like, lookin' through,
and I find the person's name.

I'm like, "Alright...
Hey...

just wondering, are you the
same person that posted

an Ancestry message board post
from 1999,

looking for Sarah McWaters?"

I'm like, "This woman is gonna
think I'm a complete loon."

You know, what can I lose?

And, say, within seven minutes,
she responds back.

"Yeah, it is. It's me.

You've got my heart pounding."

"Oh, okay, I'm just wondering
if I could help you find her."

And she starts just giving me,
like, little tidbits on Marlyse.

Marlyse had two daughters:
Sarah McWaters and Marie Vaughn.

She goes, "Oh, yeah,
and by the way...

We believe that she ran off
with a guy,

and his name was Rasmussen."

And I'm like...

"Oh my God, oh my God."

I my hands started, like,
shaking uncontrollably,

I'm like, "Oh my God,
oh my God, oh my God."

I'm like, trying to type,
I'm like,

"Oh my God, it's really them,
it's really them.

It's them, it's them,
it's them."

[music]

[Rebekah] It was so shocking.

I could not believe that I had
found out

the identification
of the victims.

And now I'm trying to
process, like,

"Oh my God, they, they're gonna
be identified.

They're gonna be identified.
It's, it's them."

So, the next day,

I contacted Detective Headley
in California.

I'm like, "I think I have
a credible tip.

There's two girls:
Sarah McWaters and Marie Vaughn.

They were half-sisters missing
with their mother,

Marlyse Honeychurch,
in California."

I'm like, "I'm sure you get this
all the time,

but I really, really, really,
really, really, really believe

that this is the victims of
Bear Brook murders.

Marlyse Honeychurch had
disappeared with

a guy with the last name
Rasmussen."

And they're like, "So, what's
your relation to this case?"

I'm like...

"Just a hobby,
I look into these cases."

And I think he was
a little skeptical at first,

but then slowly warmed up to
the idea that

a member of the public
could offer a tip.

The next day,

Sarah McWaters' family was up
in New Hampshire

getting their DNA test
against the victims'.

After the family members had
their DNA tested,

we waited and waited and waited

for what seemed like forever.

[indistinct], come on. Come.

Marlyse's family had
mixed feelings.

They believed that it likely
was her,

and that it was the children.

But at the same time,

they were still hoping
it wasn't her.

They were hoping that, you know,
she had just moved on

and was living a fulfilled life.

[music]

[Ronda] When I heard that she
found the families,

of course, Scott and I were
dying to know,

you know, what she had learned.

But I didn't wanna just be obnoxious.

And, and I knew that maybe

she wouldn't wanna say anything publicly

until she found out more.

So, it was just kind of
a waiting game on our end, too.

[Rebekah] Seven months later,

there was a press release identifying

three of the victims.

[Jeff] After long, hard work
by many people,

we've identified three of
the Allenstown murder victims.

The mother has been identified

as Marlyse Elizabeth Honeychurch.

This is Marlyse's
oldest daughter,

Marie Elizabeth Vaughn.

This is Sarah Lynn McWaters.

The youngest murder victim.

[music]

[Scott] You know, you started
to learn a little bit about

these people that you've been
tryin' to identify

for all those years,

and, and now they had faces,
they had names,

they had families, and...

and that's when it...

I think there was a lot of...

sadness, at that point.

They had kind of become
our family,

because nobody else was
advocating for them.

And, you know, I kinda took 'em
on as, I guess, as our family,

and I didn't realize that until afterwards.

Unfortunately, there's always
gonna be questions

that we will never get
the answers to,

and I think that's always gonna
haunt us.

I know there was years that
nobody knows where he was,

and most likely,
there are more victims.

Yes, Ronda and I went to
the funeral,

and we got a chance to meet
Marlyse's siblings.

[music]

We, as a family, would like to
thank the community.

Although this moment is bittersweet,

they have their names back
on this day.

They can rest in peace.

[music]

[Scott] I believe it's
just a matter of time

before Rasmussen's
biological daughter

is fully identified.

[Ronda] There is also
a picture of a birthday party

that Rasmussen's daughter
may have attended.

If the right person saw
the picture and came forward,

then perhaps she could get identified.

Really, it's an appeal
to the public.

If her composite looks familiar,

or if the circumstances of
her life seem familiar,

it would be really helpful
if the public could submit tips

about who she might be.

[music]

[music]

[Rebekah] The case kinda
solidifies for me

that I truly made
right decisions

when I left the community
I was raised in.

Because I felt that there was,
I was meant to do more in life.

And as I was trying to, to find
the identities of these victims

and these girls,

I truly found my own identity.

And that was something that was
just so unexpected.

[music]

[Rebekah] I am still working
on this case.

The last middle child
is still unidentified,

and I cannot let her go.

[music]

[music]

[Rebekah] She deserves her
own name.

She deserves to have
her own identity,

rather than "the daughter
of a serial killer".

And I will continue that search
until they find out who she is.

[music]

[music]

The officers seen it only
as an accident, and that was it.

On the next episode of

"True Crime Story:
Citizen Detective"...

Woman:
How did he hit his head twice,

falling off the bicycle
one time?

Woman #2:
We had to connect the dots.

Did I do things that put my life
in danger?

Yes.

I needed to know what happened
to my son.

"True Crime Story:
Citizen Detective."

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