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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Andrea Cavallier

Final victim of 40-year-old cold case where girls were found dead and stuffed in barrels is identified

A rendering of Rea Rasmussen (left), who was identified as the fourth victim in the Bear Brook murders carried out by her father Terry Rasmussen (right) - (New Hampshire DOJ/Maricopa County Sheriff's Office)

For decades, she was known as Jane Allenstown Doe 2000, a nameless child discovered inside a rusted 55-gallon barrel near Bear Brook State Park in New Hampshire.

One of four victims found in the barrels, investigators called her “the middle child,” and she was the only one who had not been identified – a little girl with no name, no family, and no answers. Until now.

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