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00:00She had been missing for approximately four months
00:07and two weeks.
00:09He had different stories of where she was.
00:12We all sensed something odd about what he told us.
00:17This guy was using so many aliases across the country.
00:21Who is he?
00:22Your friends came back.
00:23You know your other name, right?
00:25Curtis or Gerald.
00:27He was a predator, able to stay off the radar
00:29because after killing someone, he just
00:31kept changing his name.
00:33I opened up the plastic bag, and that's
00:35when I saw the decomposed bodies in 55-gallon barrels.
00:40They were children.
00:42The problem was that nobody could figure out
00:44who these victims are.
00:46And then 1,300 feet away, we found another barrel
00:50and two more bodies.
00:52How many more are there?
00:54They're putting me a very vivid picture of the women
00:56that he had murdered, the children that he had abused,
00:59been killed, and they cried for five hours.
01:05I was floored.
01:07Holy smokes.
01:08This guy's been leaving bodies from coast to coast.
01:11He's a serial killer.
01:29On November 10, 1985, at approximately 9 a.m., dispatch gave me a call and told me to respond
01:40to Bearbrook State Park to meet a hunter.
01:43I thought maybe his partner is lost, because that would happen a lot of times.
01:50As I entered Bearbrook Gardens, I saw him about 200 feet, get out of the car.
01:58He told me that in the woods that he came upon a barrel, and that he thought that there was some bones in the barrel.
02:11I'm thinking, this is an animal carcass.
02:14He said, it's about a half a mile in the woods.
02:17And I walked.
02:19I saw the barrel, a 55-gallon drum.
02:24There was no cover on it.
02:26I also saw a plastic bag laying next to the barrel.
02:31I kneeled down, I opened up the plastic bag, and that's when I saw the decomposed body of a female.
02:39She had brown eyes, long brown hair, and I'm like, whoa.
02:46And I was a little spooked, and this was new to me.
02:50I don't believe that Allentown had a murder in 25 years.
02:56This was my first homicide.
02:58Major crime shows up.
03:00We take photographs.
03:02The body was rolled up in plastic.
03:05And when the coroner later unwrapped the body, they discovered another body of a child.
03:14Both bodies were decapitated.
03:18The female was approximately between 25 and maybe 31, and the child was maybe between 5 and 8.
03:32We had nothing to identify the bodies.
03:36So we knocked on every door in the area, and nobody had any information that they could give to us.
03:45The New Hampshire State Police sent out a teletype to all of the agencies throughout the continental United States and Canada.
03:53There was about 1,000 inquiries that came back from all over the country about missing moms and daughters.
03:59But nothing ever panned out.
04:01But nothing ever panned out.
04:02Not a lead.
04:03Nothing.
04:04And then in 2000, the detective from the New Hampshire State Police was cutting through the property, which used to be an old country store that burnt down.
04:19But there was debris all over the property, car parts, barrels.
04:25And he noticed one of the barrels embedded in the ground.
04:28He's thinking, I want to take a peek in that barrel.
04:32And in doing so, he discovered two bodies.
04:37And they were children.
04:42Just like the bodies that were found in 1985.
04:46These bodies were wrapped in plastic, and they were decapitated.
04:51The cuts on the bodies were identical to the cuts discovered on the bodies approximately 1,300 feet away in 1985.
05:01So I had a sense that the two barrels were related.
05:06The person that did this is a monster.
05:09We thought we would find something on them.
05:14Maybe some form of identification, a ring, a necklace.
05:19Nothing.
05:20Nobody could ever offer any information.
05:24And that continued for years.
05:27I would reflect about, what if that was one of my family members?
05:33Who are you people?
05:39What if it reached out to someone of my children.
05:43Contra Costa County is a county in the San Francisco Bay Area?
05:47Yeah.
05:49The area of East Richmond Heights would be considered a fairly safe community to live in.
05:59But, in September of 2002, I had been given a heads-up by a deputy working here in East Richmond Heights
06:08about a missing persons case on soon june was a 44 year old korean woman and she had been missing
06:16for approximately four months and two weeks or so on soon june's friend renee was the person who had
06:24reported her missing to the sheriff's office renee said she called a house and renee told us
06:32unsoon's husband larry made up excuses where unsoon was and she got suspicious
06:45i met unsoon in 1985. we're in our late 20s we were roommates i would describe unsoon as a very loving
06:57gentle soul very intelligent she was korean and unsoon moves to united states i think when she was
07:06a teenager with her family and she also got her master's degree in biochemistry she quickly found
07:15a job in pharmaceutical company we used to at the christmas party every year in 1999 unsoon brought
07:26this guy named larry he was really friendly to everyone and then 2001 she and larry got married
07:36in her backyard larry vanner wasn't necessarily a suspect in anything at this particular point
07:49but we needed to talk to him and he voluntarily came back to our field operations building
07:54we learned that larry vanner had been basically homeless doing odd jobs that paid cash he had
08:02different stories where unsoon was and really the story that he had settled on was that unsoon had gone
08:09to oregon then she had basically a nervous breakdown and had been put into some sort of a facility where
08:16she was under the care of a psychiatrist that psychiatrist was contacted by our office
08:24and that doctor did not have a patient matching unsoon june's physical description or appearance
08:34i've always tried to live by the model that there's no defense against the truth larry vanner seemed articulate to me he seemed intelligent to me but i felt like he was very very calculative
08:44and knew things and he was not telling us on purpose i'm just not going to say any more about him soon
08:54or myself right now because frankly you're not my priest and you're not my doctor
09:03i'd been checking on uh dmv i tried to go and look at vehicles registered to him
09:11but there was nothing there i'd never come across someone who had no digital footprint it was as if
09:18he just popped out of nowhere
09:24so the detectives began to talk to larry about whether he'd be willing to go down to our records
09:29bureau to get fingerprinted and he agreed our records bureau at that time performed the fingerprinting
09:36we got back in the car and we were driving back to the office during our conversation about
09:44whatever the weather i kind of just threw out there you know where'd you grow up and larry stopped
09:50speaking and leaned towards me a little bit and he basically said that's none of your goddamn business
09:57it was like a light switch had gone off
09:59so i knew that i had hit a nerve i was like okay all right well we'll see where this goes
10:08when we got back to the office the detectives had received the call from the records bureau advising
10:15them that based on the fingerprints he was not larry banner
10:19he was a parolee at large by the name of curtis mayo kimball with a parole warrant for his arrest
10:30the date on the warrant was from 10 years prior so he had absconded from parole in california where
10:39he had served two and a half years in state prison for abandoning a child and been on the lamb for all
10:45these years and here he was additionally there were other names that he had gone by previously like
10:54gordon jensen uh your prince came back
10:59you know your other name right curtis or gerald
11:02curtis kimball curtis kimball or gerald uh monk uh what's that
11:07mockerman mockerman right ring a bell no yeah that's who you are man
11:13what's going on with this guy and where's on soon
11:18kimball declined to make any statements at that point it was clear he wasn't free to leave anymore
11:24because he's got a parole warrant and was taken down to the county jail and booked in for the parole
11:29warrant the reason that kimball agreed to go down to our records bureau i believe is because years prior
11:38when he had been arrested the technology was that you were ink fingerprinting put it in the computer
11:43database and it would take a while to get a response back and people were able to run but we now have
11:49what's called live scan machines that do all of that work in a blink of an eye and so i don't believe
11:56he was aware of that newer technology we still didn't know what to believe about where unsoon was
12:06and because of kimball's parolee status we did not need to get a search warrant so my partner and i
12:13took the opportunity to go over to unsoon june's residence to do a search
12:18we used the keys that had been taken off of kimball at the time of his booking search
12:27when we entered into the residence there was a lack of women's stuff like unsoon stuff was not there
12:34anymore my partner entered into the garage and he came out and he's like shaking his head and he goes
12:43you've got to come in here and take a look at this so i walked in and with my flashlight looking
12:51i immediately saw what appeared to be a giant pile of cat litter there was an axe leaned against the wall
12:59and then there was a sawzall laying on the floor on the blade of the saw and the axe there appeared to be
13:07human blood and hair it was horrible
13:14i asked him any chance anybody come in here and bought a significant quantity of cat litter wait a
13:21minute this could be connected to the barrels how many victims are there bodies were popping up and
13:27you realize when you call someone out like him it's bam one force object in the head if he believed that
13:33i'd stop and go away he didn't know me during our search at unsoon june's house in the garage above
13:47the pile of cat litter there was some significant blood splatter on the wall
13:54i start feeling that there's a pretty high probability that may be the final resting place of unsoon june
14:04the crime lab collected all of the evidence and then slowly the pile was systematically excavated
14:13to a point where a human body was revealed
14:21the cat litter slowly absorbed the liquid out of the body to the point where it was dark and it
14:28appeared to me to be mummified and did an amazing job of masking the odor of human decomposition
14:42the pathologist found the three inch cut to the vertebrae and the neck
14:48the cause of death was determined to be blunt force trauma to the forehead
14:58dna was taken from the body and unsoon's identity was confirmed
15:05so now we have a missing persons case that is closed and a homicide case that is now open
15:11the news came out and i was shocked it was just like there's a part of me frozen
15:24how can this happen all our friends are really emotional crying and i could not walk by her house for many years
15:41so
15:44during our investigation to get information for the district attorney's office to prove the case
15:50against kimball for murdering aunseon june we learned that he was utilizing her atm to withdraw money
15:58after she was dead during the search 10 25 pound bags of cat litter that were found in the garage
16:08for taking his evidence i had a thought like it would be great if we could find out where he bought
16:14the cat litter from when i got the information about him using on soon's atm where the bank was
16:22in that shopping center there was this really really cool like old school pet store back there
16:28i asked to talk to the manager any chance anybody come in here about four and a half months ago and
16:35bought a significant quantity of cat litter the manager goes yeah he bought 10 25 pound bags
16:45and i'm like no kidding he paid cash but we identified the employees that were working
16:53at the pet store that day and each of them were able to look at the photo lineup and pick
16:58kimball as the person that had purchased the cat litter i was like this is awesome
17:05and had he used an atm at a different place none of that would have happened
17:10the district attorney's office determined that there was enough evidence to charge
17:17curtis mayo kimball aka larry vanner with the murder of on soon june
17:26everybody was shocked
17:29how could someone murder someone and so close at home
17:35it didn't down to me until later but back then i noticed when i called on soon he always answered
17:45the phone he was almost like screening her phone calls why he's always answer the phone
17:54i think most of us sense something too something odd
17:58in 2003 curtis mayo kimball aka larry vanner pled guilty to second-degree murder and was sentenced to
18:1015 years to life but if he believed that i'd stop and go away he didn't know me
18:20when he had been arrested why did we find gordon jensen and other aka's and names
18:26from what i could gather from reports back in 1986 gordon jensen was working for an rv campground
18:34and he had a little girl with him that he said was his daughter lisa
18:39all of the police reports from san bernardino county said that lisa had been given away to another family
18:45in 1986 our department was contacted by an older couple named mr and mrs decker
18:58they had been staying at the holiday host rv park which was in scotts valley in central california
19:04and they knew this guy gordon jensen also staying at the holiday host rv park
19:10and he was with his daughter who was named lisa she was approximately five years old
19:18katherine decker feels sorry for this man because he tells her this tale of how
19:23oh it's so hard being a single dad her mother died of cancer
19:28katherine decker notices that lisa seems very neglected
19:32she didn't have good clothes unkempt they'd heard her crying at night and knew something was off
19:40katherine decker is very sympathetic and is worried about this little girl and says
19:44gee my daughter and her husband have been trying to conceive they're having trouble
19:49the man says i've been thinking maybe i should let your daughter adopt her
19:54gordon jensen wrote a letter to the deckers giving them permission to adopt her
20:00and they took lisa back to san bernardino county where their daughter lived lisa started telling
20:07horrible stories about things her father had done to her about being sexually assaulted
20:12and so they reported to the police san bernardino county sheriff's department issued the warrant for
20:19his arrest for the crimes of child molestation and child abandonment
20:24my name is dr rachel tolls i'm a forensic psychologist who studies criminals
20:32someone that is desiring of sexually abusing children likely would experience sexual abuse
20:38emotional abuse physical abuse in their childhood then as an adult their fears are not only morphing
20:44into unexpressed rage but they are fantasizing about dominance and violence
20:49the detective went to the holiday host rv park and gordon jensen was gone nobody knew where he went
21:04but the detective found that gordon jensen had been working for the rv park on audio equipment and he
21:11was able to get fingerprints of gordon jensen from a vhs that he had worked on and those fingerprints did
21:18come back to another name curtis kimball
21:22so curtis kimball had fled but then a couple of years later curtis kimball got pulled over driving a stolen car
21:37after two and a half years in state prison curtis kimball was released and immediately absconded from
21:43parole and then he started going by the name of larry vanner and eventually married on soon june
21:49then in 2002 curtis kimball was arrested for the murder of unsung june you definitely think why
22:02is he hiding his identity what has this guy been up to what else are you gonna find in his past
22:09going on a hunch i did not believe lisa the little girl with curtis kimball back in 1986 when he lived in
22:24the rv park was kimball's daughter i don't know if he had abducted her i had taken kimball's dna upon
22:33arrest and i saw that san bernardino county had taken lisa's dna back in 1986 they agreed to send half of
22:43it up to us for testing a couple weeks later i got the report back from our crime lab that curtis kimball
22:53was not related to lisa in any way where did she come from then who is she
23:03i contacted san bernardino county sheriff's office to let them know that the little girl they had found
23:11in 1986 who is somewhere in the world now as an adult is actually a jane doe so we contacted lisa
23:21and we told her we're going to work on finding out who you really are
23:25i went down to the prison to talk to kimball trying to get him to give us more information about lisa
23:35and he used terms like i remember having a girl but i don't know i was drinking a lot back then
23:43and i knew he was sitting there just lying through his teeth
23:45we're trying to figure out when he took lisa but when you're going back that far a lot of records are
23:56just tossed out the earliest history that anybody could get back to was 1984. and that was when
24:03kimball was staying at another rv park down the street from disneyland actually and he had applied
24:09to work at an electrical business the owner said he was an excellent electrician i talked to his
24:17co-workers they said oh yeah we thought he was great guy single dad raising his kid kimball gave
24:24different stories to his co-workers about how lisa's mother had died one story was she died of cancer
24:33another story that he gave out was she ran out in front of a car and got hit
24:37and he'd start crying in front of somebody tears rolling detectives know that curtis kimball going
24:46by the name larry banner killed his wife and son so they'd wonder did curtis kimball also kill
24:54this his mother because he had her daughter and she's never been seen since
24:58in 2002 the ancestry.com database was a very small database so there were not any matches to lisa
25:12we realized that we're stuck
25:17i didn't know if the jane doe slash lisa case could ever be solved i always hoped to find a family member
25:24who remembered her but that just wasn't happening for all those years it was really frustrating but
25:32i wasn't going to give up
25:37then later on 2014 the ancestry.com database was now well over a million so i told lisa let's try it
25:47we got some matches coming back they were distant but they were matches and i was like this might just
25:56work i did some more research and i found that dnaadoption.com helped the adoptees figure out who
26:04their families were so i sent an email to them and said the same methods that you use for adoptees
26:12could it help in this case and that's when i got a response back and that was march 2015.
26:21and she said yeah this we can do that
26:25the woman started doing the matches to lisa she would build a tree back from each match
26:32until you get back to the most recent common ancestor for all these matches
26:37so it was huge huge amount of work it took a year but we got a match that was very close
26:46that was robert bowden and he was from new hampshire
26:51i contacted him and he said that one of his cousins denise bowden had a six-month-old daughter
27:00don bowden and moved away the end of 1981 and they never heard from her again
27:06so i was like is denise bowden lisa's mother after all this time have we finally found her
27:13that's a great story
27:22robert bowden relayed information to denise's father armand so i contacted manchester pd in new
27:29hampshire and then they went and talked to armand and he told new hampshire police denise had a
27:38daughter dawn bowden who was about six months old and they had moved away with a boyfriend named bob
27:44evans suddenly at the end of 1981 and they never heard from her again
27:51it was a voluntary missing so nobody would take a police report for that back then especially
27:59manchester police department showed denise's father a picture of kimball
28:07and he said well that was bob evans
28:18so now we had another aka for curtis kimball further back in new hampshire how far back does
28:25this guy go new hampshire police requested dna from denise's father and chucking dna against lisa
28:33it came back that denise is don bowden's birth mother and don bowden is lisa
28:44i called her up and said we know who you are i said do you want to know your name
28:51and she just got really quiet and it was like a full minute and she she finally said yes
28:57the feeling is incredible that finally after all these years we could finally tell lisa who she is
29:09for years i had been working with the national center for missing exploited children on identifying
29:15lisa they knew that lisa had been taken by curtis kimball from new hampshire to california where he
29:22later murdered his wife in june by ted bludgeoning and partial dismemberment so in 2016 the center called
29:31me and said hey there's a cold case in new hampshire there was four victims an adult female and three
29:39children in barebrook area that have a similar mo and we know curtis kimball that lives very close
29:46so they told me i need to talk to new hampshire state police and that's when everything really blew
29:52up maybe denise bowden is one of the victims in the barrels because we know curtis kimball known as
30:00bob evans he disappeared from the area with denise bowden in 1981 and then five years later curtis
30:07kimball then going by the name gordon jensen shows up at this trailer park in california with her daughter
30:15named lisa but there's no sign of denise
30:21i actually did interviews also with ed gallagher who owned the property in the woods in new hampshire
30:26where the second barrel was discovered he remembered kimball known as bob evans had done some
30:32electrical work there and saw not only is kimball the one who left manchester with denise bowden he
30:39also had a connection to the property where the barrels were dumped there was no dna back in the
30:45day but now dna was becoming more scientific so the police received an order from the courts to
30:55exhume the bodies new hampshire state police got dna testing done between lisa and the victims in the
31:05barrels the results of their dna testing comes back and denise bowden elisa's mother who's not one of
31:13the victims found in the barrel two of the girls and the barrels were related to the adult female but
31:23there's one that was not related to the others they also got dna testing done on kimball and the bodies
31:30and it turned out that unrelated female was curtis kimball's child
31:39he was more than likely responsible for all their murders
31:43that's when it's like holy smokes this guy who also killed the boon sim june was a serial killer
31:51he's been slaughtering people literally leaving bodies from coast to coast
31:56i was floored i knew back in 2002 this guy had a lot of secrets and he was not telling us to both
32:06stories but in no imagination in my mind would i have thought that that's where this case would lead
32:15the problem was that nobody knows who these victims are who were found in the barrels
32:19and then in 2017 another ancestry researcher contacts the police with a major breakthrough
32:33we're told yet another name for curtis kimball
32:39i still have a hard time coming to terms that someone could be that terrible let alone my father
32:45i have no memories of my father that are pleasant
33:15my parents used to fight all the time for hours and hours the fights were both verbal and physical
33:24they were violent
33:27in 2007 me and my siblings were looking on ancestry.com and we would all hit the message
33:34boards and look for combinations of names locations go to libraries
33:37but we couldn't find our father anywhere it's like he disappeared
33:50but then my mother in 2017 calls me she said that some internet researcher
33:56that likes to read message boards and try and match those up with missing and unidentified people it
34:02matched up the original message board that my siblings did from 2007 with a whole other host of internet
34:07documents since then and was able to tell the new hampshire cold case unit that someone they were looking
34:13for might be our father my mother told me the new hampshire state police were coming to talk to me and they did that
34:22and they told me that the person they think was my father was dead but they kept going
34:30and they painted me a very vivid picture of the women that he had murdered
34:35the children that he had abused and killed they moved backwards through his timeline with unsoon
34:42going all the way back to the 1980s with lisa
34:45and then when he had left people in barrels in barebrook state park
34:54the police asked me for a dna sample which of course i gave them
34:59it was confirmed that the serial killer is my father terry brasmussen and he actually killed my
35:05half-sister who was found in one of the barrels in the barebrook state park
35:09i didn't think i had a lot left to still break but it broke me
35:20and i cried for five hours
35:31when we were kids my father burned all of us with cigarettes
35:35but i always thought that he might come back one day and it wouldn't be the way that it was
35:43little can be always want to know if he ever missed me
35:55larry vanner slash gordon jensen slash curtis kimball slash bob evans was really terry rasmussen
36:05we got his birth certificate confirmed it we finally have it
36:13he'd been born in colorado never completed high school and then went directly into the navy
36:19he married his first wife and they ended up having four kids and living in the san francisco bay area
36:26in the 70s just being able to backtrack who he really was that his real name is terry rasmussen
36:34was a big jump on being able to try to identify more victims
36:41immediately i had people calling me left and right with tips all over the country and one of the phone
36:47calls i took was from rebecca heath rebecca heath was a young lady in connecticut a librarian and she
36:55used to like to follow these unsolved mysteries but she also used to go on ancestry.com
37:02she had been checking the ancestry pages where people are looking for lost family
37:09and she was describing to me a young single mom named marley's honeychurch and her two kids that
37:16were missing since 1978
37:21and the family was looking for them and all the ages were lining up with
37:28the victims in the barrels in new hampshire
37:30and i thought wow this might be it
37:44after rebecca heath called me and told me about her ancestry.com research
37:51everything was looking like marley's honeychurch and her two kids could be three of the victims in the
37:57barrels in new hampshire then rebecca confirmed that marley's had moved away with a boyfriend
38:05and nobody ever heard from her again the boyfriend was named terry rasmussen
38:12so now we know who three of the victims and the barrels are
38:25i think one of the reasons that rasmussen was able to stay off the radar is because his prime motive
38:32wasn't to kill it was control and sexual abuse we know that he targeted single mothers that were
38:39vulnerable the first phase was the love bombing phase we could sense what a person was feeling
38:46what they needed and he was able to fill in that void then getting these women isolated was phase two
38:55and the big part of rasmussen's whole cycle getting to know what areas in their family systems were maybe
39:02more problematic to convince them that they'll be better off away from their toxic families and friends
39:10and meanwhile he's leading them into the lion's den
39:16after he isolates them at some point it turns out that they either find out that he's been sexually
39:21abusing their children or that he's physically violent something causes them to say i think i'm out of
39:28here but when you call someone out like rasmussen it's game over
39:36bam blunt force object to the head i don't think he was planning it he was thinking i'm going to enjoy
39:43this life and then oh i got called out again and i've got to take care of this now and now i've got
39:51to move on and i guess i got to change my name too now he meets a single mother and it starts over and
40:00over again
40:05terry rasmussen died back in 2010 in the high desert prison
40:12it would have been satisfying to be able to sit down in front of rasmussen
40:17and throw all of his criminal history in front of him and all of his akas and just to tell him
40:23hey we know what you did
40:26terry rasmussen is a self-centered son of a being that totally destroyed and ended innocent lives
40:33but you get right now
40:34when soon was a caring friend and so trusting it cost her life
40:51i'm glad i have been here with this beautiful soul
40:54i believe that the unidentified mother of rasmussen's biological child in the barrel
41:06was also murdered and i would love for her family to have that closure to find her body
41:14my half-sister who was found in one of the barrels in the barebrook state park was killed when she was
41:20very young but she's in my thoughts every day
41:25i think every day is going to be the day i hope when i get up that i'm going to find out who my
41:29half-sister really is
41:33somewhere somehow there'll be some information that the authorities will receive
41:37and i want to know who she is
41:48as far as lisa's mother denise bowden her remains have never been found
41:55and the frustration is that you know there's more victims and while for years terry rasmussen
42:03it was an unknown serial killer i'm just hoping that now somebody recognizes the mo and matches it up to
42:12someone they knew that moved away suddenly that's how we're going to id more
42:24we'll see you next time
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