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- 2026-10-22 22:32
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Thanksgiving Day, 1978, La Puente, California. Marlise Honeychurch argued with her family at the holiday table. She walked out the door with her new boyfriend and her two daughters. Marie was 6 years old, Sarah was 1. Her family never heard from her again. Rasmussen drove them across the country [music] to New Hampshire. He called himself Bob Evans. There is no evidence [music] Marlise or her daughters were ever seen alive again after they left that Thanksgiving dinner. [music] November 10th, 1985, a hunter found a 55-gallon steel drum [music] in the woods near Bear Brook State Park. Inside, a woman and a young girl. Both murdered. Dismembered [music] to fit. A headstone was placed in an Allenstown cemetery. It read, "Here lies the mortal remains known [music] only to God of a woman aged 23 to 33 and a girl child aged 8 to 10." 15 years passed. In 2000, [music] a second barrel was found 300 feet from the first. Two more young girls, also murdered. [music] The second barrel had been there in 1985. Police had simply missed it. In 2017, [music] DNA linked the case to Terry Rasmussen, a drifter who [music] used at least five different names. In 2019, a Connecticut librarian named Rebecca [music] Heath found an ancestry.com post from a man searching for his missing sister. She connected [music] it to the case. Three victims were identified. Marlise Honeychurch, her daughters, Marie Vaughn >> [music] >> and Sarah McWaters. The fourth victim, the middle child, had no name. DNA confirmed [music] she was Rasmussen's biological daughter. He had put his own child in that barrel. He murdered his own daughter. In September 2025, 40 years after that barrel was found, she was identified. [music] Raya Rasmussen, born 1976, Orange County, California, [music] 2 to 4 years old, murdered by her own father. Rasmussen died in prison in 2010 for a different murder. He was never charged for Bear Brook, never charged for any [music] of the four people in those barrels. Marlise Honeychurch, Marie Vaughn, Sarah McWaters, Raya Rasmussen. [music] All four names finally known. But Raya's mother, Pepper Reed, [music] has not been seen since the 1970s. Investigators believe she is another of his victims. Her body [music] has never been found. If you need help, reach out. You are not alone. He murdered his own daughter and put her in a barrel. What do you think [music] happened to Pepper Reed? And how many more victims are still out there?
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