The Chameleon
Curtis Kimball is a serial killer. Larry Vanner and Gordon Jenson are as well. They're all the same individual, of course. And, despite previously pleading no contest to second degree murder, Kimball famously revealed at a pre-trial hearing in 2003 that he had murdered Eunsoon Jun. Kimball, whose real name is Terry Peder Rasmussen, had previously done time in prison for child abandonment and other offenses. Nobody knew he had a slew of identities and had been a prolific serial killer of women and children for years. As a result, law enforcement dubbed him the Chameleon.
Police were able to connect the guy who abandoned a 5-year-old daughter in the 1980s to the murder of Eunsoon Jun and discover that Kimball, Vanner and Jenson were all the same man. They didn't know he was Terry Peder Rasmussen at this moment, and they wouldn't for another decade. Ramussen was not the father of Lisa, the girl he was arrested for leaving in the 1980s, when authorities performed a paternity test on her. Curtis Kimball, the guy he claimed to be, simply did not exist prior to his arrest.
The girl, now in her twenties, was ordered by police to submit her DNA to Ancestry.com and 23andMe. The data revealed some distant cousins, and they used the information to create a family tree. They were able to locate the girl's grandfather, whose own daughter had long since vanished. That daughter turned out to be Lisa's mother. When his granddaughter left with her mother and her mother's lover, a man called Bob Evans, in 1981, the grandfather last saw her. Rasmussen, of course, was Evans.
Police then analyzed the DNA of four bodies discovered in barrels in Bear State Park throughout the years in the hopes of finding Lisa's mother. The DNA sequences did not match. However, the DNA of one of them did match Bob Evans. He had murdered a relative. Using his DNA, a new family tree was created, and detectives were able to locate Rasmussen. He was imprisoned and died in 2010.
Born: December 23, 1943
Died: December 28, 2010
Years active: 1978–2002
