Librarian played key role in identifying other Bear Brook victims
By Kelly O’Brien
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CONCORD, New Hampshire (WMUR) — A woman from Connecticut previously helped identify three of the bodies found in barrels in Bear Brook State Park decades ago.
The identity of the fourth victim, Rea Rasmussen, was released over the weekend, the culmination of a decades-long investigation.
Librarian Rebekah Heath started researching the case in November 2017, when she responded to a post on an Ancestry.com board about the disappearance of Marlyse Honeychurch and her daughter, Sarah McWaters.
“I was hitting the books, doing research, trying to find individuals that were looking for their missing loved ones and trying to find individuals that matched the description of the victims,” Heath said.
In October 2018, Heath listened to a podcast about the Bear Brook investigation and remembered another posting about McWaters from 2000. She reached out, and a relative told her that Terry Rasmussen was the last person to have contact with Honeychurch.
Investigators say Terry Rasmussen killed Honeychurch and her daughters, McWaters and Marie Elizabeth Vaughn. They say he also killed Rea Rasmussen and placed their bodies in barrels that were eventually found in Bear Brook State Park.
Terry Rasmussen was eventually convicted of killing his girlfriend, Eunsoon Jun, and sentenced to prison, where he died of natural causes.
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