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🗓️ 13 February 2019
⏱️ 20 minutes
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0:00.0 | Many people know what it's like to live in the shadow of their parents. |
0:06.4 | But some shadows are longer and darker than others. |
0:11.7 | Before Terry Rasmussen killed four people and dumped them in the woods near Bearbrook State |
0:16.6 | Park, before he was a serial killer, the chameleon. |
0:21.2 | He had a family. |
0:23.4 | In my reporting I was able to speak to one of his children, his daughter Diane. |
0:28.1 | You heard from her in episode six. |
0:31.0 | Terry Rasmussen also had a son. |
0:34.7 | Let's, can I have you just introduce yourself, your name and your relationship to this case |
0:42.6 | and why we're talking? |
0:44.7 | My name is Eric. |
0:46.5 | Terry Rasmussen is my father. |
0:50.6 | And I guess we're talking about it to try and find some answers. |
0:54.6 | I couldn't find Eric when I was first reporting this series. |
0:58.1 | But a few months after we released the podcast, an email sent by someone with the last name |
1:03.2 | Rasmussen caught my eye. |
1:06.0 | Eric wrote to say that he had listened to the podcast. |
1:08.8 | He said he was glad to hear that with the breakthroughs in genetic genealogy, at least |
1:13.0 | some good had come from the case. |
1:16.0 | But listening to it also had him thinking about his father. |
1:20.2 | Ever since Eric learned about Terry Rasmussen's crimes, he's been holding up an image of his |
1:25.1 | father's life next to his own. |
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