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U.S. NEWS Friday 27 January 2017
Authorities link 5 killings from 1980s to dead inmate

report her missing at the victims, and other poten- Strelzin said Evans fits the
time, believing she and tially unknown victims in this profile of a serial killer, and
Evans had left the state case.” appeared to target wom-
due to financial troubles. Evans served about 18 en and children, possibly
Authorities now believe he months in jail for abandon- using children as “bait.”
killed Beaudin after leav- ing Lisa, but took off as soon “This is a guy who’s a cha-
ing New Hampshire, and as he was paroled in 1990, meleon,” said Strelzin.
then raised her daughter authorities said. He was on After Evans’ murder con-
until 1986, when he left her the run for the next 12 years viction, California authori-
with a family at a mobile until 2002, when he was ar- ties continued to investi-
home park. The girl, identi- rested for the homicide of gate his relationship to Lisa.
fied only as “Lisa,” was later Eunsoon Jun in Richmond, DNA testing confirmed he
adopted, lives in California California. He was living was not her father, and
and has since been re- under the name Lawrence last year, a genetic gene-
united with relatives in New Vanner at the time and alogist helped identify her
Hampshire. In a statement, had unofficially married cousin and grandfather in
A police officer, right, keeps watch outside a house as an FBI she thanked investigators Jun in 2001. Her partially New Hampshire. That led
agent walks by, Tuesday, Jan. 17, 2017, in Manchester, N.H. and asked for privacy. dismembered body was authorities to conclude
Authorities are searching a home in the case of a woman who “Currently I have three found in their basement, that Denise Beaudin was
once lived there and disappeared more than 35 years ago. The beautiful children and a buried under cat litter. her mother, and given the
search is related to the missing person’s case of Denise Beaudin.
Her family last saw her on Thanksgiving 1981, when she was 23, loving husband, and would Jun’s friends told a local timing of Beaudin’s disap-
with her boyfriend, Robert “Bob” Evans, and her infant daughter. like our presently happy newspaper at the time that pearance, they began
(AP Photo/Elise Amendola)R and secure life to remain Evans was haggard and exploring whether there
intact and protected,” she mean-spirited, and they was a connection to the
HOLLY RAMER 1981 when she and her said. “Please turn your fo- suspected he lied about his unsolved case of the four
Associated Press infant daughter disap- cus toward the unidentified background and finances. other bodies.q
CONCORD, N.H. (AP) — A peared with Evans from
man who died in a Califor- New Hampshire.
nia prison in 2010 after kill- The other four victims were
ing and dismembering his a woman and three girls
wife also had five other vic- whose bodies were later
tims, including his toddler found in barrels near a New
daughter and the mother Hampshire state park, they
of a girl he raised for sev- said. Those bodies have not
eral years and then aban- been identified, but based
doned, New Hampshire on DNA evidence, authori-
authorities said Thursday. ties believes Evans was the
The man was known as Bob father of one of the girls.
Evans in New Hampshire in “Normally we start with the
the late 1970s and early identity of our victims and
1980s, but he used multiple that leads us to the killer,”
names, according to the said Senior Assistant Attor-
New Hampshire state po- ney General Jeffery Strel-
lice and attorney general’s zin. “Here we are confident
office. we have our killer, now we
Authorities believe he killed want to identify these vic-
his then-girlfriend Denise tims.”
Beaudin, who was 23 in Beaudin’s family did not