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The Chameleon Killer: Terry Rasmussen and the Twenty-Five-Year Hunt for a Hidden Name
In November 1985, a hunter in the New Hampshire woods found a rusted drum containing the remains of a woman and a child. Fifteen years later, a second drum surfaced a hundred yards away, holding two more victims. It would take investigators nearly forty years, and a scientific revolution nobody could have predicted, to answer the question those drums posed: who were they, and who put them there? This is the definitive account of Terry Peder Rasmussen, the "Chameleon Killer," who lived as five different men across four states for over two decades, murdering the women who loved him and the children who called him father, protected at every turn by a law enforcement system that could not talk to itself. It traces his life from a wartime Denver birth through a Navy electrician's training that became the tool of his evasion, and follows the investigators, forensic scientists, and genetic genealogists who finally unmade him, not through confession or capture, but through DNA databases built for hobbyists tracing their ancestry. Rigorously sourced and unflinching in its judgment, this is a story about how a fractured system let a monster hide in plain sight, and how patient science, decades later, gave his victims back their names.
The Chameleon Killer: Terry Rasmussen and the Twenty-Five-Year Hunt for a Hidden Name
In November 1985, a hunter in the New Hampshire woods found a rusted drum containing the remains of a woman and a child. Fifteen years later, a second drum surfaced a hundred yards away, holding two more victims. It would take investigators nearly forty years, and a scientific revolution nobody could have predicted, to answer the question those drums posed: who were they, and who put them there? This is the definitive account of Terry Peder Rasmussen, the "Chameleon Killer," who lived as five different men across four states for over two decades, murdering the women who loved him and the children who called him father, protected at every turn by a law enforcement system that could not talk to itself. It traces his life from a wartime Denver birth through a Navy electrician's training that became the tool of his evasion, and follows the investigators, forensic scientists, and genetic genealogists who finally unmade him, not through confession or capture, but through DNA databases built for hobbyists tracing their ancestry. Rigorously sourced and unflinching in its judgment, this is a story about how a fractured system let a monster hide in plain sight, and how patient science, decades later, gave his victims back their names.
Über den Autor
Martin Guire is an Irish writer specializing in narrative nonfiction and criminal history, drawing on a long-standing interest in forensic science and the investigative techniques reshaping how cold cases are solved. Raised with a keen appreciation for meticulous, evidence-based storytelling, he approaches even the darkest true crime subjects with scholarly discipline and a commitment to letting victims emerge as fully realized people rather than footnotes to their killers. His work focuses on cases where science and patient investigation eventually triumphed over decades of institutional failure. The Chameleon Killer reflects years of research into the Bear Brook murders and the genetic genealogy revolution that resolved them, and continues his ongoing exploration of how modern forensic tools are finally answering questions criminal justice once left permanently unanswered.
Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2026
Fachbereich: Strafrecht
Genre: Importe, Recht
Produktart: Nachschlagewerke
Rubrik: Recht & Wirtschaft
Medium: Taschenbuch
ISBN-13: 9798235702608
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: Guire, Martin
Hersteller: SilverBack
Verantwortliche Person für die EU: Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, D-36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr@libri.de
Maße: 216 x 140 x 17 mm
Von/Mit: Martin Guire
Erscheinungsdatum: 05.07.2026
Gewicht: 0,39 kg
Artikel-ID: 135900775

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