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Elizabeth's thread here under Missing - Found Deceased - NH - Elizabeth Lamotte, 16, Manchester, 6 April 1984
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1985 Tennessee homicide victim identified as New Hampshire missing 17-year old by Caitlyn Shelton Wednesday, November 14th 2018 Photo: TBI AA GREENE COUNTY, Tenn. (WZTV)
— More than 30 years ago, the partially decomposed body of a young woman was discovered along Interstate 81 in Greene County near Exit 44. The Jane Doe's death was ruled a homicide by special agents with the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation.
Autopsy results determined the victim died three weeks before her body was found on April 14, 1985, but investigators could not positively identify her remains.
Over time, the investigation continued and a sample of the remains were submitted to the University of North Texas Center for Human Identification. A DNA profile for the victim was produced in 2006 and entered into the Combined DNA Index System as detectives hoped for a match. This week, the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation received new they had been waiting for when the center confirmed the victim's identity through DNA.
The remains were identified as those of Elizabeth Lamotte, 17, who was missing out of New Hampshire. Lamotte was last seen alive in November 1984. It was only last year that New Hampshire detectives found Lamotte's family members and gathered DNA samples from them, then sending them to CODIS.
The investigation into the circumstances surrounding Lamotte's death remains active and ongoing. Anyone with information about Lamotte's murder or days prior has been urged to call 1-800-TBI-FIND.
— More than 30 years ago, the partially decomposed body of a young woman was discovered along Interstate 81 in Greene County near Exit 44. The Jane Doe's death was ruled a homicide by special agents with the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation.
Autopsy results determined the victim died three weeks before her body was found on April 14, 1985, but investigators could not positively identify her remains.
Over time, the investigation continued and a sample of the remains were submitted to the University of North Texas Center for Human Identification. A DNA profile for the victim was produced in 2006 and entered into the Combined DNA Index System as detectives hoped for a match. This week, the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation received new they had been waiting for when the center confirmed the victim's identity through DNA.
The remains were identified as those of Elizabeth Lamotte, 17, who was missing out of New Hampshire. Lamotte was last seen alive in November 1984. It was only last year that New Hampshire detectives found Lamotte's family members and gathered DNA samples from them, then sending them to CODIS.
The investigation into the circumstances surrounding Lamotte's death remains active and ongoing. Anyone with information about Lamotte's murder or days prior has been urged to call 1-800-TBI-FIND.
Homicide victim in Greene County cold case identified after 33 years
Travis Dorman, Knoxville News Sentinel Nov. 14, 2018
Authorities have identified a homicide victim whose body was found alongside Interstate 81 in Greene County more than 33 years ago.
Elizabeth Lamotte was 17 when she left a youth development center in Manchester, New Hampshire, on Nov. 22, 1984, according to a statement from the New Hampshire Attorney General's Office. She never returned.
Five months later, a body was discovered just off I-81 near exit 44 in Greene County. An autopsy found the woman died of blunt force trauma to the head and that she had been dead for two or three weeks, according to the statement. Investigators were unable to identify her, so they labeled her a "Jane Doe."
In 2006, authorities sent a sample of the woman's remains to the University of North Texas Center for Human Identification, and a DNA profile was developed.
Lamotte was not reported missing until January of last year, when police sought information about Terry Peder Rasmussen, according to the statement.
Authorities believe Rasmussen, living under the alias Bob Evans, killed a woman and three children and stuffed their bodies into barrels in Allenstown, New Hampshire, sometime between the late 1970s and the early 1980s. He was later convicted of killing his girlfriend. He died in prison in 2010.
A tipster reported that Lamotte had been missing since she escaped from the youth development center and speculated that she could have been Rasmussen's wife, known as Elizabeth Evans.
Manchester police confirmed Lamotte was missing, entered her into the national database and obtained DNA samples from two of her brothers.
Those samples, authorities say, led to Lamotte being positively identified as the Greene County homicide victim.
Redhead Murders
The case had been counted among a series of at least 11 unsolved homicides involving young women with red or reddish hair and slight builds, whose bodies were found close to major highways in Tennessee and several other states between 1978 and 1992.
Lamotte was documented as having brown hair with red highlights.
The string of killings became known as the Redhead Murders. For years the cases languished as authorities struggled to identify the victims. Investigators have quietly considered whether the homicides could be the work of a serial killer but have not publicly linked any of the cases.
One of the victims was identified in September. A body found wrapped in a blanket off Interstate 75 in Campbell County on New Year's Day 1985 was identified as Tina Marie McKenney Farmer, a 20-year-old woman who had been reported missing from Indianapolis.
A second break came last month, when DNA analysis confirmed the identity of Espy Regina Black-Pilgrim. The auburn-haired woman from Spindale, North Carolina, was found dead exactly four months after Farmer. She had been suffocated inside a discarded refrigerator at a dump just off U.S. Highway 25E in Knox County, Kentucky.
The TBI asks anyone with information about the circumstances surrounding Lamotte's death to call 1-800-TBI-FIND (1-800-824-3463).
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Homicide victim in Greene County cold case identified after 33 years
Travis Dorman, Knoxville News Sentinel Nov. 14, 2018
Authorities have identified a homicide victim whose body was found alongside Interstate 81 in Greene County more than 33 years ago.
Elizabeth Lamotte was 17 when she left a youth development center in Manchester, New Hampshire, on Nov. 22, 1984, according to a statement from the New Hampshire Attorney General's Office. She never returned.
Five months later, a body was discovered just off I-81 near exit 44 in Greene County. An autopsy found the woman died of blunt force trauma to the head and that she had been dead for two or three weeks, according to the statement. Investigators were unable to identify her, so they labeled her a "Jane Doe."
In 2006, authorities sent a sample of the woman's remains to the University of North Texas Center for Human Identification, and a DNA profile was developed.
Lamotte was not reported missing until January of last year, when police sought information about Terry Peder Rasmussen, according to the statement.
Authorities believe Rasmussen, living under the alias Bob Evans, killed a woman and three children and stuffed their bodies into barrels in Allenstown, New Hampshire, sometime between the late 1970s and the early 1980s. He was later convicted of killing his girlfriend. He died in prison in 2010.
A tipster reported that Lamotte had been missing since she escaped from the youth development center and speculated that she could have been Rasmussen's wife, known as Elizabeth Evans.
Manchester police confirmed Lamotte was missing, entered her into the national database and obtained DNA samples from two of her brothers.
Those samples, authorities say, led to Lamotte being positively identified as the Greene County homicide victim.
Redhead Murders
The case had been counted among a series of at least 11 unsolved homicides involving young women with red or reddish hair and slight builds, whose bodies were found close to major highways in Tennessee and several other states between 1978 and 1992.
Lamotte was documented as having brown hair with red highlights.
The string of killings became known as the Redhead Murders. For years the cases languished as authorities struggled to identify the victims. Investigators have quietly considered whether the homicides could be the work of a serial killer but have not publicly linked any of the cases.
One of the victims was identified in September. A body found wrapped in a blanket off Interstate 75 in Campbell County on New Year's Day 1985 was identified as Tina Marie McKenney Farmer, a 20-year-old woman who had been reported missing from Indianapolis.
A second break came last month, when DNA analysis confirmed the identity of Espy Regina Black-Pilgrim. The auburn-haired woman from Spindale, North Carolina, was found dead exactly four months after Farmer. She had been suffocated inside a discarded refrigerator at a dump just off U.S. Highway 25E in Knox County, Kentucky.
The TBI asks anyone with information about the circumstances surrounding Lamotte's death to call 1-800-TBI-FIND (1-800-824-3463).
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Homicide victim in Greene County cold case identified after 33 years
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True ID of ‘Chameleon’ Killer Revealed: Terry Peder Rasmussen
Terrance Peder Rasmussen (left in 1959, center in 1960, right in a 1985 booking photo during which he was going under the name "Curtis Kimball") has been identified as the "Chameleon" killer believed responsible for the death of one woman and three young girls whose bodies were found in barrels in 1985 and 2000 in the same location in New Hampshire. Rasmussen, who went under several aliases, died in prison under the name Kimball in 2010 while serving a sentence for the murder of his wife, Eunsoon Jun. (Photo Credits: Courtesy of the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children and the New Hampshire Attorney General's Office)
The “Chameleon” killer butchered women and children, and left an undetermined trail of bodies and mayhem across the United States in the 1970s, 1980s and 1990s.
In New Hampshire, he was Robert Evans, an electrician who apparently killed a woman and three children and stuffed their bodies in barrels in the woods in 1981. He was a drifter named Larry Vanner who conned an unsuspecting woman in the late 1990s in California, before killing and dismembering her, and burying her in a pile of cat litter in her home. In between, he was Gerald Mockerman, Curtis Kimball, Gordon Jenson and other names and identities, with separate birth dates and identifying numbers he could rattle off to police, or victims.
Authorities had not been able to pin down his core identity, as they had a decades-long delay in their pursuit of the serial killer, who died behind bars in 2010.
But they have now caught up with the “Chameleon.”
After a year of a multi-agency investigation, they finally have their man: the “Chameleon” was one Terry Peder Rasmussen, a U.S. Navy veteran whose wife left him and took their four children before he went on what is proving to be a historic killing spree across America lasting decades.
The New Hampshire Attorney General’s Office announced this morning the biggest breakthrough yet in the investigation: Rasmussen’s identity, and a bit of the history that pinned him to the infamous Allenstown, New Hampshire case—sometimes known as the Bear Brook Murders.
After the DNA of “Robert Evans” proved he was the biological father of one of the girls in the New Hampshire barrels, authorities announced their campaign to discover his true identity—and to pinpoint more of his horrific exploits.
The latest breakthrough was made through dozens of tips they received from the public—and finally the match of the DNA between the Evans sample and one of his known surviving biological children, they announced this morning.
“As a result of those efforts, a DNA sample was obtained from a living adult believed to be Evans’ child,” they said in a statement. “Testing on that adult’s DNA sample has confirmed that his father was the person known as Robert ‘Bob’ Evans. Those DNA results and other investigative work have allowed investigators to confirm that Robert ‘Bob’ Evans’ true identity is in fact, Terry Peder Rasmussen.”
Gaps remain in the timeline and the narrative of Rasmussen’s marathon rampage, notably some of the females he was seen with, along with the time periods 1974 to 1978, 1981 to 1984, and 1986 to 1988.
But the New Hampshire authorities have compiled a major trove of information on the long-dead killer.
Rasmussen was born in Colorado on Dec. 23, 1943. He lived there and in Arizona with his family, and attended Phoenix North High School between 1959 and 1960. But in 1961, still a teenager, he enlisted in the U.S. Navy. During his military time, he served as an electrician in a construction unit on bases across the U.S. West—and also on Okinawa (both stints fit descriptions of his work skills and worldly knowledge of language and cultures that were highlighted by investigators earlier in the investigation). Rasmussen was given a general discharge in 1967.
After his service, Rasmussen moved to Hawaii, where he married. The couple moved to Arizona in 1969, and would move around to various locations in Phoenix and Redwood City, California. But they also had children during this period, twin daughters in 1969, a son in 1970 and the youngest daughter in 1972.
The couple separated in 1972, then reconciled—but she left for good with the kids between 1973 and 1974, authorities said in their timeline.
This part of the killer’s family last saw him in the Christmas season of 1974 in Arizona. He told them he was living in a particular apartment building in Ingleside, Texas. But he left—and they never saw him again.
However, he was with an unidentified female during that visit, the family (all still alive) told authorities.
Authorities are now looking to further complete the timeline—and the death toll—from the “Chameleon killer” who was Terry Peder Rasmussen.
Sgt. Michael Kokoski of the New Hampshire State Police told Forensic Magazine that investigators are now essentially entering "phase three of three," now that the ID has been made. It was the product of a half-dozen detectives spending the majority of their hours tracking the trail, along with the help of another half dozen assisting. The other agencies have also provided fundamental breakthroughs: the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children, the Manchester (NH) Police Department, the San Bernardino (Calif.) Sheriff's Office, and the Naval Criminal Investigative Services all made vital contributions.
Finding the ex-wife and four children still alive was a needed - but unexpected - break, Kokoski said.
"It's not necessarily something we expected," the sergeant said.
The third phase in New Hampshire is to identify the victims - and find the last woman seen with him in the Granite State, authorities said.
"Maybe this allows someone to make a connection," added Jeffery Strelzin, the senior assistant Attorney General for New Hampshire. "The focus is on identifying the four bodies in Allenstown, and finding out where Denise Beaudin is."
Rasmussen—then known as Vanner—was finally arrested for good in 2002. He had been living in the house of Eunsoon Jun, who had disappeared and whose mummified remains were found in a pile of kitty litter. He was locked up and pleaded guilty shortly after his fingerprints matched his previous crimes.
Advanced DNA searches through genealogy databases discovered a heretofore-unknown serial killer last summer.
Rasmussen, under the name Curtis Kimball, had been imprisoned for the abuse and abandonment of a little girl in 1986. He had been traveling with the girl for some time, left her at an RV campground, and though he was later caught and served years in prison, he again disappeared off the radar of authorities. When the abandoned little girl grew up, she wanted to know where the killer had taken her from. (Her DNA proved the man who had abandoned her was not her father.) Instead, her DNA later pointed back to a family on the East Coast—and to a birth identity in New Hampshire.
Peter Headley, a detective at the San Bernardino County Sheriff’s Office, enlisted the latest state-of-the-art genetic ancestry help to find her surviving biological relatives, all the way across the country. The girl known as Lisa had been an infant named Dawn Beaudin when she had disappeared with her mother Denise Beaudin and a man named Robert Evans from their Allenstown, New Hampshire home in November 1981. All three were never heard from again. None were ever reported missing by the family left behind, because they had been told they were purposely leaving to avoid debts.
The Bear Brook Murders crime scene was discovered long after the killer left. One barrel with two bodies was found in 1985, the other with two more decomposed remains was discovered a short distance away in 2000. The site was just several miles down the road from the home of Evans and the two Beaudin females. So investigators from the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children, the New Hampshire State Police and the San Bernardino County Sheriff’s Office acted on a hunch, and ran virtually every DNA test possible.
It had long been established that Evans/Kimball was not related to Lisa/Dawn Beaudin. But he was the biological father of one of the little girls inside the Bear Brook barrels. The “Chameleon”—whose real identity has finally been determined—is almost certainly the killer of the four Bear Brook females, the New Hampshire Attorney General announced earlier this year.
Rasmussen, as of this identification, is believed to have killed at least six females: the four Allenstown victims, Denise Beaudin, and Eunsoon Jun. But authorities acknowledge more victims may be out there among the unidentified bodies and unknown graves of America.
Headley told Forensic Magazine by phone Friday investigators still have their work cut out for them.
"This definitely filled in a lot of the gaps," he said. "But there's still a lot of work to do."...
LINK:
True ID of ‘Chameleon’ Killer Revealed: Terry Peder Rasmussen
True ID of ‘Chameleon’ Killer Revealed: Terry Peder Rasmussen
Terrance Peder Rasmussen (left in 1959, center in 1960, right in a 1985 booking photo during which he was going under the name "Curtis Kimball") has been identified as the "Chameleon" killer believed responsible for the death of one woman and three young girls whose bodies were found in barrels in 1985 and 2000 in the same location in New Hampshire. Rasmussen, who went under several aliases, died in prison under the name Kimball in 2010 while serving a sentence for the murder of his wife, Eunsoon Jun. (Photo Credits: Courtesy of the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children and the New Hampshire Attorney General's Office)
The “Chameleon” killer butchered women and children, and left an undetermined trail of bodies and mayhem across the United States in the 1970s, 1980s and 1990s.
In New Hampshire, he was Robert Evans, an electrician who apparently killed a woman and three children and stuffed their bodies in barrels in the woods in 1981. He was a drifter named Larry Vanner who conned an unsuspecting woman in the late 1990s in California, before killing and dismembering her, and burying her in a pile of cat litter in her home. In between, he was Gerald Mockerman, Curtis Kimball, Gordon Jenson and other names and identities, with separate birth dates and identifying numbers he could rattle off to police, or victims.
Authorities had not been able to pin down his core identity, as they had a decades-long delay in their pursuit of the serial killer, who died behind bars in 2010.
But they have now caught up with the “Chameleon.”
After a year of a multi-agency investigation, they finally have their man: the “Chameleon” was one Terry Peder Rasmussen, a U.S. Navy veteran whose wife left him and took their four children before he went on what is proving to be a historic killing spree across America lasting decades.
The New Hampshire Attorney General’s Office announced this morning the biggest breakthrough yet in the investigation: Rasmussen’s identity, and a bit of the history that pinned him to the infamous Allenstown, New Hampshire case—sometimes known as the Bear Brook Murders.
After the DNA of “Robert Evans” proved he was the biological father of one of the girls in the New Hampshire barrels, authorities announced their campaign to discover his true identity—and to pinpoint more of his horrific exploits.
The latest breakthrough was made through dozens of tips they received from the public—and finally the match of the DNA between the Evans sample and one of his known surviving biological children, they announced this morning.
“As a result of those efforts, a DNA sample was obtained from a living adult believed to be Evans’ child,” they said in a statement. “Testing on that adult’s DNA sample has confirmed that his father was the person known as Robert ‘Bob’ Evans. Those DNA results and other investigative work have allowed investigators to confirm that Robert ‘Bob’ Evans’ true identity is in fact, Terry Peder Rasmussen.”
Gaps remain in the timeline and the narrative of Rasmussen’s marathon rampage, notably some of the females he was seen with, along with the time periods 1974 to 1978, 1981 to 1984, and 1986 to 1988.
But the New Hampshire authorities have compiled a major trove of information on the long-dead killer.
Rasmussen was born in Colorado on Dec. 23, 1943. He lived there and in Arizona with his family, and attended Phoenix North High School between 1959 and 1960. But in 1961, still a teenager, he enlisted in the U.S. Navy. During his military time, he served as an electrician in a construction unit on bases across the U.S. West—and also on Okinawa (both stints fit descriptions of his work skills and worldly knowledge of language and cultures that were highlighted by investigators earlier in the investigation). Rasmussen was given a general discharge in 1967.
After his service, Rasmussen moved to Hawaii, where he married. The couple moved to Arizona in 1969, and would move around to various locations in Phoenix and Redwood City, California. But they also had children during this period, twin daughters in 1969, a son in 1970 and the youngest daughter in 1972.
The couple separated in 1972, then reconciled—but she left for good with the kids between 1973 and 1974, authorities said in their timeline.
This part of the killer’s family last saw him in the Christmas season of 1974 in Arizona. He told them he was living in a particular apartment building in Ingleside, Texas. But he left—and they never saw him again.
However, he was with an unidentified female during that visit, the family (all still alive) told authorities.
Authorities are now looking to further complete the timeline—and the death toll—from the “Chameleon killer” who was Terry Peder Rasmussen.
Sgt. Michael Kokoski of the New Hampshire State Police told Forensic Magazine that investigators are now essentially entering "phase three of three," now that the ID has been made. It was the product of a half-dozen detectives spending the majority of their hours tracking the trail, along with the help of another half dozen assisting. The other agencies have also provided fundamental breakthroughs: the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children, the Manchester (NH) Police Department, the San Bernardino (Calif.) Sheriff's Office, and the Naval Criminal Investigative Services all made vital contributions.
Finding the ex-wife and four children still alive was a needed - but unexpected - break, Kokoski said.
"It's not necessarily something we expected," the sergeant said.
The third phase in New Hampshire is to identify the victims - and find the last woman seen with him in the Granite State, authorities said.
"Maybe this allows someone to make a connection," added Jeffery Strelzin, the senior assistant Attorney General for New Hampshire. "The focus is on identifying the four bodies in Allenstown, and finding out where Denise Beaudin is."
Rasmussen—then known as Vanner—was finally arrested for good in 2002. He had been living in the house of Eunsoon Jun, who had disappeared and whose mummified remains were found in a pile of kitty litter. He was locked up and pleaded guilty shortly after his fingerprints matched his previous crimes.
Advanced DNA searches through genealogy databases discovered a heretofore-unknown serial killer last summer.
Rasmussen, under the name Curtis Kimball, had been imprisoned for the abuse and abandonment of a little girl in 1986. He had been traveling with the girl for some time, left her at an RV campground, and though he was later caught and served years in prison, he again disappeared off the radar of authorities. When the abandoned little girl grew up, she wanted to know where the killer had taken her from. (Her DNA proved the man who had abandoned her was not her father.) Instead, her DNA later pointed back to a family on the East Coast—and to a birth identity in New Hampshire.
Peter Headley, a detective at the San Bernardino County Sheriff’s Office, enlisted the latest state-of-the-art genetic ancestry help to find her surviving biological relatives, all the way across the country. The girl known as Lisa had been an infant named Dawn Beaudin when she had disappeared with her mother Denise Beaudin and a man named Robert Evans from their Allenstown, New Hampshire home in November 1981. All three were never heard from again. None were ever reported missing by the family left behind, because they had been told they were purposely leaving to avoid debts.
The Bear Brook Murders crime scene was discovered long after the killer left. One barrel with two bodies was found in 1985, the other with two more decomposed remains was discovered a short distance away in 2000. The site was just several miles down the road from the home of Evans and the two Beaudin females. So investigators from the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children, the New Hampshire State Police and the San Bernardino County Sheriff’s Office acted on a hunch, and ran virtually every DNA test possible.
It had long been established that Evans/Kimball was not related to Lisa/Dawn Beaudin. But he was the biological father of one of the little girls inside the Bear Brook barrels. The “Chameleon”—whose real identity has finally been determined—is almost certainly the killer of the four Bear Brook females, the New Hampshire Attorney General announced earlier this year.
Rasmussen, as of this identification, is believed to have killed at least six females: the four Allenstown victims, Denise Beaudin, and Eunsoon Jun. But authorities acknowledge more victims may be out there among the unidentified bodies and unknown graves of America.
Headley told Forensic Magazine by phone Friday investigators still have their work cut out for them.
"This definitely filled in a lot of the gaps," he said. "But there's still a lot of work to do."...
LINK:
True ID of ‘Chameleon’ Killer Revealed: Terry Peder Rasmussen
I inadvertently left the date of the above post about Terry Peder Rasmussen. It was August 2017. Since that time, he has been connected to other disappearances and deaths besides the six mentioned in the article.
There are very likely other unsolved cases that will eventually be linked to him.
There are very likely other unsolved cases that will eventually be linked to him.
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The Tennessee Bureau of Investigation said Thursday it solved a more than 3-decade-old cold case, but there's no evidence at this time that it's connected to a string of similar murders.
SBM
Thursday, the TBI said the man believed to be responsible for Farmer's death died in prison in December 2015.
This week, a Campbell Co. Grand Jury found there was enough evidence to indict Jerry Johns of Cleveland, Tennessee, of first-degree murder in Farmer's death, according to District Attorney General Jared Effler.
During the investigation, agents learned that two months after Farmer’s body was found, Johns picked up a woman, who looked similar to Tina Farmer. He strangled her, tied her up, then dumped her body along I-40. That victim survived, and her statement led to the arrest of Johns on numerous charges, including aggravated kidnapping and assault. He was convicted on those charges in 1987 and has been behind bars ever since.
Johns was a long-haul trucker and while investigators can't say for certain, it's known that Farmer was seen at a truck stop near her home town in Indiana before her death, so that may be how the two connected.
SBM
For years, Farmer's case has been linked to a number of other unsolved crimes from the time, called the redhead murders, based on the victims' hair color. Investigators have long suspected that the killer may be a truck driver because of the different locations where the victims were found.
But Thursday TBI investigators said at this time, there's no evidence supporting that. However, they will continue to look into similar cases with other investigating agencies to see if there's a link.
TBI names killer in 1985 'Redhead Murder' case
SBM
Thursday, the TBI said the man believed to be responsible for Farmer's death died in prison in December 2015.
This week, a Campbell Co. Grand Jury found there was enough evidence to indict Jerry Johns of Cleveland, Tennessee, of first-degree murder in Farmer's death, according to District Attorney General Jared Effler.
During the investigation, agents learned that two months after Farmer’s body was found, Johns picked up a woman, who looked similar to Tina Farmer. He strangled her, tied her up, then dumped her body along I-40. That victim survived, and her statement led to the arrest of Johns on numerous charges, including aggravated kidnapping and assault. He was convicted on those charges in 1987 and has been behind bars ever since.
Johns was a long-haul trucker and while investigators can't say for certain, it's known that Farmer was seen at a truck stop near her home town in Indiana before her death, so that may be how the two connected.
SBM
For years, Farmer's case has been linked to a number of other unsolved crimes from the time, called the redhead murders, based on the victims' hair color. Investigators have long suspected that the killer may be a truck driver because of the different locations where the victims were found.
But Thursday TBI investigators said at this time, there's no evidence supporting that. However, they will continue to look into similar cases with other investigating agencies to see if there's a link.
TBI names killer in 1985 'Redhead Murder' case
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Elizabeth was found 35 years ago today.
MANCHESTER, N.H. — 21 November 2019
The remains of a New Hampshire teenager found dead in Tennessee were identified more than 30 years after she disappeared, but no arrests have been made in her killing.
LINK:
New Hampshire unsolved case file: Who killed Elizabeth Lamotte?
The remains of a New Hampshire teenager found dead in Tennessee were identified more than 30 years after she disappeared, but no arrests have been made in her killing.
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New Hampshire unsolved case file: Who killed Elizabeth Lamotte?
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Today is Elizabeth’s birthday.
1985 Tennessee homicide victim identified as New Hampshire 17 year old...
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http://www.doenetwork.org/closed/articles/264UFTN_article.pdf
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Elizabeth was found 36 years ago today.
Elizabeth has been identified, but her murder remains unsolved.
Fred Howard Coffey, Jr. should be considered as a possible suspect. He is a serial predator, currently sentenced to life in a North Carolina prison for the rape murder of a little 10 year old girl. He is suspected of other molestations and murders. Coffey's home town was Bristol, VA, not far from where Elizabeth's body was found.
In 1986, a Bristol boy named Shane King was abducted and murdered. Fred Coffey is the prime suspect.
FRED H COFFEY
Offender Number: 0081135
Born 1945
Current Location: PENDER Prison, Burgaw, NC
Fred Howard Coffey, Jr. should be considered as a possible suspect. He is a serial predator, currently sentenced to life in a North Carolina prison for the rape murder of a little 10 year old girl. He is suspected of other molestations and murders. Coffey's home town was Bristol, VA, not far from where Elizabeth's body was found.
In 1986, a Bristol boy named Shane King was abducted and murdered. Fred Coffey is the prime suspect.
FRED H COFFEY
Offender Number: 0081135
Born 1945
Current Location: PENDER Prison, Burgaw, NC
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Today is Elizabeth's birthday.
trying to find any information on supposed unidentified victim found strangled at the base of roan mtn in carter county tenn she is mentioned in an article about the hs kids who investigated the bible belt stangler case and believed she was a victim of his can not find any unidentifed in carter co. tn or roan mtn tn
Elizabeth Lamotte, 17, Unsolved Murder
Name Elizabeth Lamotte
Sex Female
Age 17
Missing from Manchester, New Hampshire
Disappeared April 6, 1984/November 22, 1984
Discovered April 14, 1985
Location Greenville, Tennessee
Identified November 2018
Cause of death
Beating/Stabbing
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Young woman found killed in 1985 finally identified after tip links body to missing girl states away
Elizabeth Lamotte
Name Elizabeth Lamotte
Sex Female
Age 17
Missing from Manchester, New Hampshire
Disappeared April 6, 1984/November 22, 1984
Discovered April 14, 1985
Location Greenville, Tennessee
Identified November 2018
Cause of death
Beating/Stabbing
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Young woman found killed in 1985 finally identified after tip links body to missing girl states away
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My understanding is that it is mostly likely unrelated--I believe investigators were looking for people named "Elizabeth" who had gone missing from or in the area where Rasmussen lived in the northeast and publicized that, which lead her disappearance to be re-reported (if you will) by her family. There was then a DNA hit between her family and this Jane Doe.
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Ah okay fair doos. I'm glad she got her name back.
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Elizabeth was found 37 years ago today.
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Today is Elizabeth’s birthday.