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S3 Ep281: Bear Brook Murders: The Middle Child (Part 3)

Crime Weekly

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True Crime, Society & Culture, News

4.89.5K Ratings

🗓️ 7 March 2025

⏱️ 67 minutes

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Summary

On November 10, 1985, a hunter walking near the edge of Bear Brook State Park in Allenstown, New Hampshire, stumbled upon a rusted 55-gallon barrel tipped over in the woods. Inside, he found the skeletal remains of a woman and a young girl, both wrapped in plastic. Authorities searched for answers, but the victims remained unidentified, and the case went cold. Then, 15 years later, investigators returned to the scene and made a chilling discovery—another barrel, just 150 yards away, containing the remains of two more young girls. And as the investigation continued, the dark truth behind the Bear Brook murders slowly began to unravel.

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Hello, everybody, welcome back to Crime Weekly. I'm Stephanie Harlow. And I'm Derek LaVascer.

1:12.5

And today we are diving into the third and final part of the Bear Brook murders. Yes. Yes, we are.

1:19.2

So is there anything you want to say before we dive in? I'm kind of wanting to just dive right in.

1:23.2

I am too. Yeah. This case has me in a chokehold, honestly. Yeah, we've covered a lot on last week's episode.

1:30.1

I feel like I need to have the conclusion to the story because basically where we left off,

1:35.1

we still don't know the original victim's names.

1:37.6

And that's how this whole case came to be.

1:40.1

So at minimum, we got to find out who they are.

1:43.0

Yeah.

1:43.3

So after more than 30 years of searching, investigators finally uncovered the true identity of the man responsible for the Bear Brook murders, which is Terry Rasmussen, a drifter and a con man who used multiple aliases to hide his violent past.

1:56.1

So they now knew he was the one who had brutally murdered a woman and three young girls stuffing their

2:01.7

bodies into barrels and leaving them in the woods of Bear Brook State Park. But there's still one

2:06.4

thing they didn't know the names of the victims he had tried so hard to erase. Authorities were

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