The Savage Terry Rasmussen: The Serial Killer Known as the Chameleon

Love, betrayal, and the many aliases of Terry Rasmussen.

Ana Coughlin
The Crime Center

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Photo Credit to ABC News

1978–79 Terry Rasmussen worked as an electrician and a handyman in Manchester, New Hampshire, in an RV Park. He was working under the name of Bob Evans.

His first wife said Terry was the most handsome man she had ever seen. Little did she know Terry was a serial killer, and most of his known victims were children.

Terry liked to kill women and young children.

All of his victims were bludgeoned in the head with an unknown object. They even had their hands tied with an electric wire.

Terry was an unusual serial killer because he shared his life with the women and children he would later kill.

The Many Terrys

Terry Rasmussen is known as the Cameleon because he liked to move to a different town and change his name and assume different identities. Some of his known aliases are Bob Evans, Gordon Jenson, Larry Vanner, and Curtis Kimball. However, they were all one person — Terry Rasmussen.

Terry lived as Bob Evans with his girlfriend, Denise Beaudin, 24, of Manchester, New Hampshire, and her five-month-old daughter, Dawn. They left town and moved to…

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