The Bear Brook Murders

young girls. What followed was a decades long investigation, one that would expose a serial killer who lived under multiple identities, pioneer the use of genetic genealogy in criminal cases, and never stop trying to give names and identities back to the unknown victims he tried to erase. This is the story of the Barbrook murders. My name's Ben, I'm.

now as I speak. The suspect of the incident was also found dead from a self inflicted injury at the school, bringing the death total to nine. And we just want to say that despite political stance, religion, ideology, race, gender and everything else, monsters are the ones who commit these acts. This world will try and divide us from one another, painting others in a certain light, whether it's this horrible

incident or the next. Don't let them do that. Our hearts go out to the victims and those who were affected. Tumblr Ridge is an amazing community and we've visited many times. This horrible act it will not define this beautiful.

just a puppy when you did that. Well, not a puppy, but she was young, she was one or two something like that, young little dog. Maybe I should post something like that in our story if you want to go over to Instagram, maybe you can see a photo of us back in the day hiking that area. It is really beautiful, it is.

sway your opinion. People are people. Yeah, there's a lot of political stuff around this case too, and it's heartbreaking as well on that side. But anyways, I think we should move on to today's case. Are you ready?

walk their dogs, and this place certainly was. It's a place where people hunt deer in the fall, they go on adventures, let their kids run ahead of trails without worrying too much about what might be waiting around the corner. Bear Brook State Park was just this kind of place.

If you've ever been in the woods in late autumn in a place like New England, you know the feeling the air is damp but crisp, leave stick to your boots, walking in trees, thin out in patches where you can see more, and then they close back in again, and it's just so peaceful. Small towns orbit places like this. Trailer parks tuck off just main roads and mills that once employed half the towns sit there. In towns like Allenstown, New Hampshire, life doesn't move quickly. People come and go, sure,

but it's not in ways that usually raise alarms. If someone packs up and leaves, most assume there's a reason. You know, there's maybe a new job or money troubles and a fresh start is waiting for them somewhere warmer. In the late nineteen seventies and early nineteen eighties, that's how things were. No one was looking for a mystery. No one suspected that something had already been hiding out in the woods. Because the unsettling truth about some crimes

isn't how they're discovered. It's more or less how long they go unnoticed. Sometimes answers sit quietly in the background of everyday life, beneath the leaves and beyond mark trails, just close enough to stumble over if you happen to wander a little too far, of course, and in this story, that's exactly what happened. On November tenth, nineteen eighty five, a hunter walking through Bearbrook State Park in Allenstown, New Hampshire. They noticed something that didn't exactly belong in the quiet

stretch of woods. There, lying on its side amongst the trees was a rusted fifty five gallon steel drum. It was long since abandoned and looked like it had been sitting there for years. Curious, the hunter moved towards it and he took a look inside. That's when he immediately realized this wasn't a drum just filled with trash or anything. Inside there he saw, wrapped in plastic were human remains

two bodies, one adult woman and one young girl. Police were quickly called to the scene, and the bodies inside were badly decomposed to the point where determining an exact time of death was extremely difficult. Investigators estimated the victims had been dead at least several months and possibly as long as two to even three years before they were

ultimately discovered. Autopsies on them later determined that both the woman and the child had died from blunt force trauma to the head, and this immediately solidified the idea on the spot that this was not an accident. It was instead clearly a homicide.

The later evaluation suggested that she could have been as young as five or as old as eleven. She also had wavy, light brown or dark blonde hair and stood approximately four foot three inches and between four foot six inches tall. She had a small gap between her front teeth, two earrings in each ear, and several dental fillings, but no extractions. There were also signs that she may have

suffered from pneumonia at some point in her life. Now, there was no identification, no clothing could be traced, no personal items that could lead back to a name. It was just two bodies sealed inside a barrel and left in the woods. Now Bearbrook State Park sits in a relatively quiet area, not far from a trailer park and

an old mill property. It wasn't right off a major highway or anything like that, so whoever left the barrel there, likely knew the area well, and it wasn't just a random dumping ground that someone accidentally stumbled upon.

even wanted them dead. So although the investigation had officially begun on this story, it began with almost nothing to go on. Now, the New Hampshire State Police began running missons. Persons report through every available system they had to try

and identify any potential names. They checked local records first, then expanded outwards towards statewide databases and national systems, and even federal records in Washington, d C. If a woman and young girl had vanished anywhere in the country during the late nineteen seventies or early nineteen eighties, the investigators wanted to know about it. However, nothing came back as

a match. Police also canvassed nearby areas, including the trailer park not far from where the barrel had been found, to see if they could find any information. They went through the woods walking. They knocked on doors and asked if anyone had seen a barrel dumped in the woods, or if anyone noticed strangers in the area years earlier. Maybe there were some families that even disappeared quietly without much attention, even being paid, But no one could provide

anything useful. The barrel could have been sitting there for years for all anyone knew. Sketch artists began working from the remains to create facial reconstructions. Those photos they came up with were circulated across New England and even parts of Canada as well. Authorities released detailed descriptions of the victims physical features and dental work, hoping that maybe a dentist or a relative, a friend, anyone might recognize a feature or even them themselves. Tips soon began coming in

as well, hundreds of them over time. In fact, each one was followed up, but unfortunately each one also led nowhere. The lack of identification of the remains it became its own kind of cruelty. It meant that these people like basically vanished without anyone ever reporting the missing, if they're not in any database or anything like that, and if they had been reported, no connection had been made. So it was pretty kind of sad in its own world.

Super odd, especially for a child for sure. You know, you think that would be reported unless it was just like this mom and a child and they were kind of on their own, I guess. But well, and there's also the potential that they might not have even been from the area, and that's what investigators started to think, like the possibility that they'd been killed elsewhere, brought here and you know, discarded in the bare Brook State Park afterwards as a part of trying to hide or distance from the.

girl child aged eight to ten. Their slain bodies were found on November tenth, nineteen eighty five, in bear Brook State Park. May their souls find peace in God's loving care end quote.

ever stuck. There were no fingerprints to run, no identification in the barrel, and the witnesses nothing. They just had a barrel and two victims. That was about it now. Based on the level of decomposition, the medical examiner had estimated the murders may have happened sometime between nineteen seventy seven and nineteen eighty five, a window of time that

was so wide it was pretty much useless. Eventually, investigators tried thinking outside of the box for this case, and no matter how they thought of it, though, the one troubling possibility kept resurfacing. Maybe the victims weren't from New Hampshire at all, and if that were the case, it would make solving this that much harder. As the years passed, the case slowly lost its momentum. Detectives retired, files were put in boxes and stored away in the woods of

bar brooks Well. It remained quiet. The memorial stone and ouns Town became the only visible reminder that two people had been murdered and left in the forest. Locals remembered the shock of the discovery and the fear that followed, and the uneasy feeling too that someone responsible had never been found. For fifteen years, that's where the case sat, but by the year two thousand the files were still there,

but no one had identified the woman and child. Now that same year, the case was reassigned to a new Hampshire State Police trooper, and rather than simply reviewing the paperwork, he decided to return to Bearbrook State Park and walk the grounds again himself. His goal was to better understand the original scene, you know, distances or terrain and how the search had been conducted in nineteen eighty five. Sometimes physically revisiting a location can reveal something that reports and

photographs can't. Right, maybe he could understand how he got the barrel in there. Maybe there's a spot he could

roll it down a hill, something like that. Right, So it was on May ninth, in the year two thousand, while examining the area near the original discovery site, he expanded his search slightly beyond the perimeter that had been established fifteen years earlier, and as he was walking outside that original perimeter, roughly one hard one hundred yards away from where the first barrel had been found, he came across another object, partially concealed in the woods, another rusted

fifty five gallon metal drum. No way, the similarities to the first discovery was very immediate and unsettling, and when investigators opened the second barrel, their worst fears were confirmed because inside that old metal drum they found the skeletal remains of two more young girls. Just like the first victims, the remains were wrapped in plastic, and the conditions of the body suggested that they had been there for many years, likely placed in the park around the same time as

the woman and child found in nineteen eighty five. The proximity of the barrels, the identical method of disposal, and the condition of the remains all pointed to this being a single event. What investigators have believed to be a double homicide. Well now it was, in fact a quadruple homicide.

the woman and the older child in the first barrel. Now, determining an exact cause of death was unfortunately difficult for these two. However, over time, further examination and forensic review led investigators to conclude that these two children also likely died from blunt force trauma to the head. Which was the same cause determined for the other two found fifteen

years earlier. Investigators believed all four victims were killed with a similar timeframe, most likely between nineteen seventy eight and nineteen eighty one, and the realization that this barrel had been sitting in the woods this whole time was deeply frustrating. To say the least, officers had which the surrounding areas, but because of that search zone, it just went undiscovered. Now, Speculation ranged widely at this point on what had happened

to these four. Some wondered whether the killings could be connected to organized crime, and others questioned whether this was the work of a local. You know, offenders are simply familiar with the area. There was also the possibility that the victims had been brought from somewhere else entirely and dumped here to hide and distance themselves from the original crime. But despite the expansion of the case, though, investigators were

still facing the same central problem. They didn't know who the victims were without names, you know, there's no clear starting point. The case had grown larger and more disturbing, sure, but it remains just as confusing up until now. Investigative methods had failed to identify the women and three children, so the remaining path forward was through the evidence preserved

in their remains. In the years following the second barrel discovery, advances in DNA testing began to offer some new possibilities. Early on, authorities conducted mitochondrial DNA testing, which examines maternal lineage. Now, the result of this testing revealed a very critical detail. The adult woman was maternally related to two of the three girls, so that meant she was either their mother,

their maternal aunt, or possibly an older sister. At that stage, the exact relationship it couldn't be confirmed, but it was clear that they shared that maternal line. Now, the third child, however, the middle aged girl in terms of age among the three, did not share that maternal DNA. She was not related to the woman or to the other two girls whatsoever. Now this upset the theory that investigators were already considering for years, which was that the victims might have been

a mother and children. But since science had officially ruled that out, at least for one of the girls, they needed to consider some other options. Now. Later, more DNA analysis would eventually confirm that the adult woman was in fact the biological mother of the oldest and the youngest, but that unrelated middle child remained genetically separate from the others, though it is important to clarify. Investigators found that despite this, all four of them had been living together prior to

their deaths. Now that conclusion was based not only on the DNA but also on environmental testing. Isotope analysis was conducted on hair and bone samples, and isotopes are chemical signatures that can reflect the geography where a person lived,

particularly through drinking water and diet. The results suggested that the woman and all three children had lived in the northeastern United States for a period ranging from roughly two weeks to three months before their deaths, meaning they were likely living in or near New Hampshire shortly before they were killed, and likely altogether.

States area, or possibly the Upper Midwest. Later testing eventually expanded the possibility or suggested warmer regions such as maybe Arizona, Texas, California, or Oregon, could also match her isotope profile too. The results may not have provided a precise location, but they made one thing clear her background at least differed from the others. Now, despite the scientific progress, investigators were still missing the most basic piece of information. They were after

their names. They now knew the family structure among the victims. They knew the likely time frame of the murders. They even had clues about where at least one child may have grown up. Forensic science had drawn a rough outline of who these victims were in relation to one another, but without names and missing persons reports that match, there was still no clear way forward. Then, thousands of miles away, a different thread began to surface, one that at the

time seemed unrelated to bear Brook at all. In nineteen eighty six, one year after the first barrel was discovered in New Hampshire, a man living under the name Gordon Jensen was staying at an RV park in Cyprus, California. He worked as a technician and electrician and kept mostly to himself. With him was a small girl he introduced as his daughter named Lisa. Neighbors in the park noticed

that Lisa appeared unwell and withdrawn at times. She seemed neglected entirely, and Gordon jens And told people that her mother had died of cancer and that he was raising her all alone. Over time, though, a neighboring family called the Deckers. They started to grow concerned about the child's condition and began helping take care of her. Then, without warning, Gordon Jensen just left. He abandoned the five year old girl at the RV park, and he just simply disappeared.

The Deckers eventually took the girl in and she was later adopted. Authorities investigated, and fingerprints recovered from Gordon's RV which he left behind, tied him to another name, Curtis Kimball, a man who had previously been arrested in California for drunk driving. Now during that dui arrest in nineteen eighty five. A young girl had been in the car with him, who was the same child he would later abandon, Lisa. In nineteen eighty eight, using that name Curtis Kimball, he

was arrested again. This time the charges included child abandonment and driving a stolen vehicle. He ultimately pled guilty to the child, a Badminton vehicle charge, and also some molestation charges had been raised but were ultimately dropped, and he served less than two years in prison and was released on parole in October of nineteen ninety, now shortly after his release, though he vanished once again. At the time,

none of this was connected to the Bearbrook murders. Lisa the Child in California had no known link to New Hampshire, and the names Gordon Jensen and Curtis Kimball meant absolutely nothing to investigators back east. The abandoned girl was placed into a new life, and the man who left her behind simply adopted another identity and moved on. For more than a decade these two cases, the four identified victims in New Hampshire and Lisa the abandoned child in California,

remained completely separate stories. Years passed by, and the abandoned girl from California grew up under a different name, raised by adoptive parents who had no clear answer about where she came from. She only knew fragments of what she'd been told as a child, that her mother died of cancer a man who claimed to be her father simply left. But as she got older, those stories began to feel uncertain, and soon as an adult, she decided to look for answers.

So in the early two thousands, people had already begun trying to determine whether the man known as Curtis Kimball or Gordon Jensen was biologically related to her. In two thousand and three, a DNA test confirmed he was not her father, and that revelation it raised a lot of questions, a lot more than it really answered for investigators. Honestly, if he was her biological parent, then who was she

and how had she ended up in his custody. The real breakthrough came years later, as consumer DNA testing and genetic genealogy began to change the world. Cold cases were beginning to look at this as a potential tool. By twenty thirteen, genealogy experts were working extensively on what became known as the lease A Project. It was named this because Lisa was this abandoned girl's name that she was given,

or at least what she was told was hers. So volunteers and forensic genealogists spent thousands of hours building out this family tree. There were cross referencing distant relatives and narrowing down possibilities to try and find her biological family, And in twenty sixteen, all that hard work and effort finally paid off. The girl once known as Lisa learned that her real name was Don Boden and her biological mother's name was Denise Boden. She was a woman from Manchester,

New Hampshire. However, Denise had disappeared in nineteen eighty one. It seemed like all of a sudden, this child abandoned in California was now linked directly back to New Hampshire, the very same state where four unidentified victims had been found in Beryl's years earlier. Investigators knew that her mother, Denise Boden, had left Manchester around Thanksgiving in nineteen eighty one with her young daughter and and her boyfriend, a

man at the time known as Bob Evans. But after that, Denise was never seen again, and she was never formally reported missing because her family believed she and her boyfriend had simply left the area due to financial troubles.

Oh her DNA was tested, but it did not match the adult victim, so she herself was in fact still missing. But if that was the case, then that meant where was she? As investigators began rebuilding the timeline, every everything led back to the fall of nineteen eighty one. At the time, Denise was twenty three years old, living in Manchester in New Hampshire, and she had a six month old daughter named Don who grew up thinking she was Lisa. Right around that time, she was in a relationship with

the men who called himself Bob Evans. He was older, worked as an electrician and a handyman, and seemed capable of providing some stability in Denise's life. On Thanksgiving weekend in nineteen eighty one, Denise and Don while they visited her family in Gofston. It was that last time that she was ever confirmed to be seen by her family. Not long after that, Denise and her daughter and Bob

were just all simply gone. When Denise's father later stopped by her Manchester apartment to invite her over for Christmas, the place was empty. A neighbor told him that they'd packed up and moved out. There was no sign of a struggle, no obvious indication of violence. In Denise's family assumed, like I mentioned earlier, she just kind of left for financial difficulties or whatever without saying goodbye.

that was a big, big mistake. Well not a mistake. They had no idea what they were doing, but that was a big piece of this puzzle. So by the time investigators identified Dawn in twenty sixteen through DNA, Denise had effectively vanished from records for more than three decades. At that point, only once Don's true identity was confirmed, authorities were able to formally open a missing person's case for Denise Boden, and they were actually starting to able

to target this individual responsible for it. So they searched Denise's former Manchester residence years later, hoping to uncover any sort of forensic evidence that might clarify what happened in nineteen eighty one, but nothing significantly was ever publicly disclosed. And Denise's body, well, it has never been found either. She to this day is still missing.

a likely suspect. By twenty sixteen, invest stigators made a lot of progress, but the problem the problem that they had that they were looking for a men who seemed to have lived multiple lives in New Hampshire. He was Bob Evans, an electrician who worked at Wombeck Mill in Manchester, and he had no connections to the property near Bearbrook

State Park in California. He had gone by Curtis Kimball, a name tied to his DUI arrest and the child abandonment charges, and at other times he used Gordon Jensen. He also used Jerry Mockerman and later even Larry Vayner.

and living in trailer parks, motels, or temporary housing. He worked jobs that required mechanical or electrical skills, and he drank heavily. He frequently presented himself as a single father to try and gain sympathy and trust, and he formed relationships with women who had children, then isolated them. Then when problems arose, he disappeared and resurfaced under a new name.

For investigators, his movements were very difficult to track. Before the digital era, there were no centralized databases linking employment records or vehicle registration or marriages across states in real time. So as long as he stayed ahead of the law enforcement and used a different alias, he could essentially just start over with a fresh slate. Now. In two thousand and two, he married a South Korean immigrant named Yunsun Jun. Two outsiders, it appeared to be a very fresh start,

another life built on another new identity. But within months of their marriage, Us in June suddenly disappeared. Friends of her quickly became concerned after not hearing from her, and eventually a missing person's report was filed. When police came knocking on his door, they questioned Larry Vayner, the name he was going by the time. They questioned him about her disappearance, and he claimed that he didn't know where she was. In fact, he even suggested to investigators that

she may have left or even harmed herself. Now, that last suggestion was ominous and worried investigators, but still they continued asking him questions and remained calm during the interview. They avoided, you know, giving any direct He avoided, sorry, giving any direct answers when possible. Now to clarify at this moment, it's not really like a they have him in custody or anything. They're just at his front door questioning him right where she was.

be and any clues that might explain Larry's identity. It was during the search that they found something hidden Beneath a mound of cat litter stored in a basement area under the garage, they discovered Unson June's partially dismembered remains.

He avoided a trial and was ultimately sentenced to only fifteen years to life in prison.

State Park whatsoever. And he died without ever revealing his real name. He was still under an alias even behind bars. For New Hampshire investigators, the fact that they still didn't know this guy's real name created a unique challenge years later. Normally, in homicide investigations to active start by identifying victims and working towards identifying the suspect. But in the bare bookcase,

it would eventually unfold in reverse. By the mid twenty tens, authorities would know more about the killer than they would about the victims.

more distant cousins. It was very painstaking work, and each match required research into family lineages, marriages, relocations, and descendants, narrowing possibilities generation by generation. After thousands of hours of analysis, a pattern emerged. The DNA they had pointed back to a man born in Colorado in nineteen forty three and his name was Terry Peder Rasmussen. That was his real name, oh Terry, and for the first time, this man had

a confirmed birth identity. Terry Rasmusen had an listed in the US Navy at seventeen. He served as an electrician, and after leaving the military, he married and had four children. His marriage eventually ended, but by the mid nineteen seventies he began drifting, arrested for assaults and other offenses that followed, and at some point he had a divorce that was finalized in nineteen seventy eight. But Terry left his previous life behind and that's when he began using these aliases.

Investigators now understood that by the late nineteen seventies he had moved east and settled into New Hampshire under the name of Bob Evans. From there, the pattern scene in later years began to make a lot of sense. He was targeting women, often single mothers, moving frequently, and he reinvented himself whatever pressure mounted. But now the DNA testing also confirmed something critical to this story. Terry Rasmusen was found to be the biological father of the middle child

found in the second barrel. She was his daughter. Gosh, what the problem with this is? They do not know her name or who her.

if he was dead. Military records, prior addresses, former employers, family members who'd not seen him in decades, all this sort of stuff were useful, but the central question remained. Who were the other three victims, What were the names? What was the name of his daughter? All these things, but the central question of it all remained, how did this all fit together? By twenty seventeen, the bar Brook

case had drawn national attention. The announcement that Terry Petter Resmussen had been identified through genetic genealogy made headline all over, not just because it solved the mystery of the killer's identity, but because it demonstrated a new investigative tool that would soon be used in major cases across the country. Among the people that followed the developments closely was a librarian

from Connecticut. She had listened to coverages of the case, and, like many others, became deeply interested in the unanswered questions,

especially the identities of the three victims still unnamed. Now, Unlike investigators who were bound by jurisdiction and official records, she on the other hand, had time and access to online archives, missing persons forums, genealogy sites, and family history posts, and soon she began combing through websites where families had posted about missing loved ones and people who were never entered into national databases. She was effectively an online web sleuth.

She paid close attention to timelines, ages and mentioned of New Hampshire or any name that related to Terry Rasmussen. Eventually she came across to post about a young California woman named Marle's Honeychurch. Now, according to the Post, Marle's had left her family in nineteen seventy eight after an argument. She'd been accompanied by her two daughters and a boyfriend,

and after that they were never seen again. Oh in the boyfriend's name, by the way, they didn't have it all, but they remembered his last name was Rasmussen.

idea what happened to Marleice and her daughters. They assumed she chosen to leave, and that there'd been no confirmed death in no official missings person's report, Deck declared at the time, and it had simply become one of those painful family stories that lingered with uncertainty. They hoped that one day they could reconnect, but that was about it. It seemed like now though the first time, there was a possibility that Marlice and her children had not simply disappeared,

that they may have been murdered. The tip was quickly passed to law enforcement and investigators, and they began comparing the timelines. Marlee's Honeychurch and her daughters vanished in nineteen seventy eight. Terry resurfaced in New Hampshire not long after that. The age of the children they matched closely with the estimated age of the two girls found in the barrels. The adult victim's age reign also closely aligned with Marlee.

To be sure of this, though, DNA testing will be required, and it was in twenty nineteen, more than three decades after the first barrel was discovered in Bearbrook State Park, that investigators announced that the three of the four victims had finally been identified by name. The adult woman found in the first barrel was in fact a positive DNA match for Marlee's.

But how it exactly played out and why, Well, since Terry had already passed away in jail before ever being connected to the story, it's something we will never.

four years old at the time of her death. And that's about all authorities knew for a long time. They believed her mother may also have been a victim of Terry Rasmussen, possibly killed in another state, and never connected him too, but continuing to pursue answers even decades later, the new Hampshire State Police Cold Case unit partnered again with a DNA dough project in early twenty four, sorry so in early twenty twenty four to re examine the

unidentified child using advanced genetic genealogy techniques again. By this point, investigative genealogy had matured significantly since it was first used in the bear Brooks case. Larger database and improved family tree analysis made it possible to explore distant matches in much greater detail, and after extensive genealogical research reportedly involving a construction of a massive family tree containing tens of thousands of individuals, investigators were finally able to identify the

child's maternal line. That research led them to a woman whose name was Pepper Reed, originally from Texas, born in nineteen fifty two. From there, documentary records were located confirming that Pepper Reed had given birth to a daughter in nineteen seventy six in Orange County, California, and that child's name was Rhea Rasmussen. On September fifth, twenty twenty four, authorities officially confirmed the identification through documentary evidence and DNA testing.

The last remaining victim of the bare Brick murder finally had her name an identity.

modern criminal history. The case unfolded in reverse, with investigators having to identify the killer first and only then could they begin the long process of restoring identities of those he had killed. It was an unusual path in when Genetic genealogy was first used to identify Terry Resmusen in twenty sixteen. It was still largely experimental in criminal investigations.

The success of that effort helped demonstrate that publicly available DNA bases, combined with traditional investigative work could unlock cases that had been considered unsolvable. The techniques while it refined. All this refined during the Barbrook investigation would later contribute to the identification even of the Golden State Killer and countless other cold cases across the country, and that number is growing daily, making an extremely powerful tool to investigators

and their kit today. But for Allenstown, New Hampshire, the case was never just about forensic innovation. It was about four murder victims left in barrels alone in the woods, unidentified for decades. It was about families who never filed missing persons reports because they believed their loved ones had simply left on their own free will. It was about a small town that buried strangers under headstones that read known only to God, hoping someday they would be known

to someone. The identification of Marlise Honeychurch, Marie Vaughan, Sarah Macwaters and re arrest Musen didn't erase what happened. It didn't even answer most of the questions about Terry's full history or how many other victims had fallen to him. Denise Bowden remains missing. Pepper Reid remains missing. There are still gaps in Terry Rasmussen's timelines that investigators continue to examine. But the names matter. For thirty four years, three victims

were buried without any sort of name. For nearly forty years, the fourth remained a question mark, and now they are no longer anonymous. While we often cover stories here about murders, and though this one may contain it, that's not what this story is. This story is about finding identities, ensuring those who were about to be lost to time and violence were reunited with their names and given that respect

that they deserve. The woods of bear Brooks still stand quiet, but the silence that once surrounded those barrels has been replaced by answers, not perfect ones, not even complete ones, but enough to return identities to the people who lost them. And in the world of true crime, where so many cases go unresolved, that alone is so significant. And that's the story of the bear Brook murders.

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