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Bear Brook

Known Only To God

Bear Brook

NHPR

True Crime

4.815.4K Ratings

🗓️ 10 October 2018

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Summary

The discovery of a second barrel raises questions. A stalled investigation churns back to life and then stalls again. An amateur sleuth takes Jason into the forest.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Previously on Bear Brook.

0:04.7

I believe it was Keith said that he found a barrel just out in the woods.

0:09.7

You know, there was a barrel out there.

0:11.1

The barrel was on the ground and there was a bag.

0:14.4

And when I opened the bag, well, the decomposed face was looking right at me.

0:20.8

The next thing I know, the town's getting together to put a headstone on these bodies.

0:26.6

Where, who are these people?

0:29.6

When I picked up the Allen's town case, I was trying to almost walk through their footsteps,

0:35.6

and that's when I came across the barrel.

0:40.3

When I looked at it, I said, this does not look good.

0:44.3

For Feentown, New Hampshire.

1:07.0

It was 300 feet away when the Morgan's son, Jesse, and his friends pushed over the first barrel in the summer of 1985.

1:14.6

It was there later that year when a hunter saw the bodies and called the police.

1:18.6

It was there 100 yards away as detectives searched in vain for clues about the first two victims.

1:25.6

And it was there when detectives left, when the case went cold and people started to forget.

1:33.5

It sat there as Jesse Morgan grew up and left the trailer park for college.

1:38.6

As Ron Montpleasure, the officer who found the first barrel, neared his retirement.

1:47.2

It sat there through 15 New Hampshire winters.

1:50.7

The blue paint slowly turning brown with rust.

1:59.2

It sat there until State Trooper John Cody spotted it late one spring afternoon as dusk was settling in.

2:02.1

The first thing going through my mind, do we have a dump site here?

2:08.5

Is somebody using this area to dump the bodies of people that they've killed?

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