NH Police consider disturbing possibility in 37-year-old unsolved case

MANCHESTER, N.H. — On Monday night, the FBI and police in New Hampshire continued their search in Manchester for clues in the case of the disappearance of 25-year-old Denise Daneault, a mother of two who was last seen 37 years ago.

In the woods behind a public housing complex on the west side of the city, investigators turned over the tightly packed forest floor, sifting through dirt.

A tip brought investigators to this area off Upland Street over the weekend in search of Daneault, missing since 1980, and a cadaver dog hit a scent.

At the time of her disappearance, Daneault lived two and a half miles from the search location at 343 Hayward St. in Manchester.

At that same time, on the same street, lived a man New Hampshire authorities now say was a serial killer.

Terry Rasmussen, known in the early 1980s as Bob Evans, is suspected of murdering four people, three of them children. He's also suspected of leaving his victim's bodies in barrels in the woods near Bear Brook State Park in Allenstown, New Hampshire, about 18 miles away.

Authorities say DNA samples identified Rasmussen as the father of one of the murdered girls, but none of the Allenstown victims have been identified.

Rasmussen, as Bob Evans, lived just a mile up the road from Daneault at 925 Hayward St. with his girlfriend, Denise Beaudin.

Daneault was last seen at a social club that was located at Merrimack and Union Streets, which is about a mile from her house, and two miles from Rasmussen.

Daneault disappeared a year before Rasmussen and Beaudin left New Hampshire.

Beaudin is now missing and is feared murdered while Rasmussen died in a California prison.

New Hampshire authorities will not say if they suspect Daneault was a victim of  Rasmussen. Right now, they are just trying to find her.

Both the FBI and New Hampshire Police are expected to return to the woods in Manchester on Tuesday to renew the search for Daneault. However, they are still looking into the possibility that she could've fallen victim to a suspected serial killer.

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