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[music]

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."

[music]

[music]

[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?

[music]

[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.

[music]

[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.

[music]

[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.

[music]

[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.

[music]

[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.

[music]

[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.

[music]

[music]

[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.

[music]

[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.

[music]

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.

[music]

[music]

[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.

[music]

[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.

[music]

[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.

[music]

[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.

[music]

[music]

[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.

[music]

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.

[music]

[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.

[music]

[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.

[music]

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.

[music]

[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.

[music]

[music]

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."

[music]

[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.

[music]

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.

[music]

[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.

[music]

[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.

[music]

[music]

[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."

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[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.

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[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.

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[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.

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[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.

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[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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