New Hampshire Confirms Identity Of Suspected Serial Killer
CONCORD, N.H. (AP/CBS) — New Hampshire authorities say they have confirmed the true identity of a suspected serial killer.
In January, authorities said that a man who died in a California prison in 2010 likely killed a New Hampshire woman who disappeared in 1981 and a woman and three girls whose bodies were found in barrels in Allenstown in 1985 and 2000.
The suspect went by several names, including Bob Evans, but authorities said Friday that DNA results confirm his real name was Terry Peder Rasmussen.
"The hope is now that we have our killer's identity, someone will say, 'oh I knew that guy,'" said NH Assistant Attorney General Jeffery Strelzin.
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Investigators are still trying to detail his whereabouts between 1974, when he visited his ex-wife and children in Arizona, and his arrival in New Hampshire a few years later.
"Now that we know who he is, and it appears he was using this Terry Rasmussen, his real identity through most of the 1970s, we're hopeful somebody will recognize that and have interacted with him and if we're lucky we'll know females or children he was traveling with," said NH State Police Sgt. Michael Kokoski.
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At the time of his death, he was serving time in California for the death of his girlfriend.
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