Gordon Jensen

Gordon Jensen

Terry Peder Rasmussen (December 23, 1943 – December 28, 2010) was an American serial killer who killed at least six people in a series of crimes that stretched across the contiguous United States from the late 1970s through the early 2000s. Due to his use of many aliases, most notably "Bob Evans", Rasmussen is known as "The Chameleon Killer". Rasmussen is the prime suspect in the unsolved Bear Brook murders, which took place in New Hampshire in 1978. The bodies of his girlfriend, her two daughters, and his own daughter were discovered in two barrels in the Allenstown area between 1985 and 2000. After another girlfriend disappeared from New Hampshire in 1981, Rasmussen abducted the victim's daughter and fled to California. He deserted the child in 1986 and was subsequently imprisoned on child abandonment charges. After his release, he began living with chemist Eunsoon Jun in 2001. He died in prison in 2010 after being convicted of Jun's 2002 murder. Although the Allenstown barrels were discovered during his lifetime, Rasmussen was not named as the culprit until 2017, when DNA profiling connected him to the crime. Subsequent investigations led to three of the Bear Brook victims being identified; the identity of the fourth victim, Rasmussen's daughter, remains unknown. Since 2017, he has been named as a suspect in several other crimes.

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