NEED TO KNOW

In 1985 and then in 2000, the bodies of a woman and three children were found in drum barrels in the New Hampshire woods

For years authorities tried to identify the victims

This is one of the first cases that used genetic genealogy to identify unknown victims

Her tiny body was found stuffed in a barrel in the New Hampshire woods, one of four victims of the so-called Chameleon Killer.

No one knew who she was, where she was from or how she got there, until now.

On Sunday, Sept. 7, authorities announced that the final unidentified victim in the cold case slayings known as the Bear Brook murders has been identified as Rea Rasmussen, who was born in 1976 in Orange County, Calif., and was two to four years old when she was killed.

Known for years as “Jane Allenstown Doe 2000,

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