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The Missing and the Theories


The Barrels:
The two barrels in Allenstown were one hundred yards apart and yet the barrel found in 2000 was beside the footpath that investigators in 1985 would have walked past every day. We considered the possibility that the little girls were NOT in that barrel in November 1985, that their remains were deposited there at a later time.

The Property: 
We were told by one of his relatives that Robert Callahan "took in a woman who had nowhere to go." As Callahan lived on the Allenstown property where the barrels were found during the years in question, we found this information disturbing but were never able to identify who this woman was. Callahan was incarcerated at the NH State Prison from 1991 to 1996 after being convicted for sexual assault of a minor. His court transcripts  reveal that he admitted molesting both boys and girls over a period of many years. Callahan died in NH in 2011.








                                                                Robert Callahan   

The Neighbor: 
Robert Steffen lived on Edgewood Drive in Bear Brook Gardens and went to prison in 1985 for molesting children. He used multiple aliases (Richard Holmes, Bob Stone, Bob Holmes, and Joe Howard) and died in prison in 1988. He was a man of rage and of secrets, once running his own obituary in a local paper. He frequently went on long, unexplained trips- to CA and TN. 
Robert Steffen

The Other Allenstown Case: 
Older people in Allenstown still remember the winter of 1969 when 11 yr old Debra Lee Horn disappeared from her home and was found the following summer in the trunk of a car in Sandown, nude and with probable head trauma, just like the girl found in the barrel fifteen years later. Is it just a coincidence that this tiny rural town has two similar unsolved murders?

Possible Victims:

"Woodlawn Jane Doe." She was thought to have been from the Boston area and was found in 1976. Could she have had a child with Rasmussen, a child who outlived her mother by four years or so?
                                                 
                                                                        
It seemed likely that the unrelated child's mother never reported her daughter missing because she had been killed as well. We considered this unidentified woman who died or was killed in 1985 and whose isotope testing shows likely New England residence. 
 

We considered two women missing out of Massachusetts in the 1970s- Rory Kesinger and Doris Tetreault. Both a little on the old end of the age estimates but geography and lack of information about their lives suggest they would be wise to rule out.



                                                                           

Another man who came to our attention during this research project was Pembroke NH child-pornographer Brian Schultz. 


"In an affidavit summarizing the results of a four-month investigation, FBI agents alleged that the defendants produced and distributed films depicting young women engaged in sexual activity with animals, children urinating on each other, children ingesting human feces and various bizarre sex acts involving children apparently as young as 6 years old ...Howard said he is "hoping against hope" that the investigation does not reveal that many local children were used in making these films.  But the affidavit quotes Schultz saying he filmed "several 13-year-old girls from Lowell, Massachusetts." Howard also said some of the children "were abducted from other parts of the country." We wondered if all of the children in Schultz's films were identified or whether some could have wound up discarded in barrels in the neighboring town.

And speaking of predators, this child sex trafficker came from or has lived in NH apparently. Anyone know where? 

Nicknamed "The Beast," Joshua David Brown has been accused of facilitating a child sex trafficking ring in Peru and some articles about him state that he has also been accused of killing two of his victims. 



This New Hampshire man has some disturbing convictions on his record and his native american roots caught our eye in light of information that has been discussed about the victims having shovel shape dentition (a trait sometimes found in those with first nation heritage, among others).
                                                  Edward C. Paul
                                Aliases: Paul Big Eagle, Charles Edward, Big Eagle Paul, etc.




AND then there were the theories about a situation like the Jaycee Dugard kidnapping, a captor fathering children with a girl he abducted years earlier. Implausible but the strange story of Suzanne Marie Sevakis comes to mind. We wondered about missing New England children such as Lisa Joy White and Debra Lee Spickler, both out of Tolland County, CT.


We looked at the New England runaways such as Maria Florence Anjiras who was once thought to be associated with a motorcycle club (later found to be a case of mistaken identity).

Thinking about motorcycle clubs brought us to the Die Hards, a group who held their annual barbecues in Allenstown. Freddie Comtois, one of their most notorious members, supposedly lived with a girlfriend in Bear Brook Gardens at one time although we never learned who she was. 

Jan 1982 Telegraph article:



 Comtois was hardly a model inmate. May 1983:
Apparently NH Dept of Corrections has a short memory because Comtois made it back to the NH State Prison and was reunited with his partner in crime, Raymond Glidden, before his death in the prison.
 
People familiar with the biker clubs of the day assured us that they would not have sanctioned the killing of children. Their treatment of women certainly was brutal.





And we wondered about a NH couple who went on a grisly killing spree in the 1980s. They killed at least three people, including the woman's child and dismembered her husband, so we wondered what other atrocities they might have committed. 






Comments

  1. have the welch uncle and nephew who worked for carnival,that took sisters (lynch)been ruled out they were
    never found

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  2. Not that I know of, is there any reason to believe they were in New Hampshire?

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    1. itdid say lyon sisters out of maryland kidnapped in 1977 from mall by 2 carnival workers that worked delaware,md.and virginia

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  3. Have you looked at the photos of teh Alcala killer?
    http://www.nbcnewyork.com/news/local/Serial-Killer-Rodney-Alcalas-Photos-Released-Can-You-ID-Any-Of-These-Women-91752849.html

    look at photos 12, 15, 33 and 81

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  4. Yes, the authorities know that Alcala aka Berger was in NH at one time and we've mentioned those same pictures as well. You'll see him mentioned in a 2012 comment on this blog.

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    1. 1-14-17..Mja Inc Investigations : We would like to say this is an awesome web-site..Your in depth investigation is what this Case needs..Mja has some of the same Photo's you have on this site that were sent to us in a form of a tip..But not much text involved..But after visiting this site & seeing the Photo's with text that explains everything we have gotten a better view of the Case..Thanks ! I have never seen so much detail on this Case with some true facts to follow..I must admit Mja will have a lot more to do because some of these " Persons Of Interest " might fit some of the other cases we are looking into..Also about Alcala we worked with the Orange County California Sheriff's Office to help with the I.D.of the photo's..We also worked with them on William Bradford's photo's they recovered from a storage unit..I lived in Orange County during Alcala's & Bradford's rampage so I know the area's in question very well..Also just to let you know Mja is helping the New York City Police to put a case on Alcala..It just so happens that on the same date Alcala [ using Berger ] killed a lady in her apartment there was a another Female who went missing 5 blocks from the Murder scene..The Police had totally missed that case & didn't have a clue to a possible connection until we contacted them in 2010..Mja plans on reading this whole site & we hope to find some more surprises that we can look forword too..Great Job..

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  5. Has Janice K. Pockett been ruled out as the adult? She has the noticeable gap between her front teeth that the two children related to her has. I tried to find the ruled out list that is mentioned, and could not find it.

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  6. Janice has been ruled out as being the oldest child which also rules her out as being the woman https://identifyus.org/en/cases/2173

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  7. I didn't see much discussion about vehicle ownership. One thing that came to mind immediately when I read about this case was that in order to get two large barrels, each containing two dead bodies, to the location where they were originally dumped, it would require a large truck and it would have had to have been done at a time of day that did not look suspicious. The truck would have had to drive around the back of the burnt store (assuming the crime happened after the store burned down) and then driven back into the woods as far as it could go. That is undoubtedly why the 2000 barrel was found in the location where it was found, because it was impossible to drive deeper into the woods with a truck that could haul such large barrels. They were probably both dumped in the location where the 2000 barrel was found, and it was probably done well after dark, and most likely when the store was already vacant. The clearcutting behind the trailer court that was done in 1974 was probably a young forest again by then, enough to prevent a truck to drive to where the 1985 barrel was found. Also, if the area was still clearcut when the barrels were dumped there, the driver would be very uncomfortable driving across such a wide open area to dump two barrels that contain evidence of a crime. I don't know how easy it is to look up such old vehicle registration records, but the murderer in this case had to either own a truck or had access to one, and also a saw to cut the adult body. That would probably rule out most bikers and quite a few drifters too. Also, back in the early eighties truck ownership was not yet as trendy as it is today; ordinary people didn't own trucks as much back then as they do now. If the murderer didn't own a good sized truck, then there had to be an accomplice.

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    1. My first thought was hunting season...after store burned down...lots of trash around so a few more barrels would not arouse suspicion, nor would a pick up. Interested to know about this clear cut. I wasn't aware that one had been done, and I lived in the area since '76.

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  8. The theory about the Barrels, The one found in '85 was already onsite seeing as the property was considered a junkyard and the dismembered bodies where wrapped in plastic, possibly bags carried to the barrel, this dump site was one of convenience deep in the woods, Back in the day it was not uncommon to see pickup's parked or traveling down logging roads or trails during late summer early fall as Hunters would start searching for the best spot to hunt no one from the area would have thought twice about a truck in the woods, The close proximity to the Trailer Park could suggest that some one with a workshop setup in a shed could have had the specific type of saw which was used to dismember the body place it in bags and carry it to the site I don't believe the first two victims where brought there in a truck I believe they where carried there. Most clear cut lots are required to leave a buffer zone to adjacent properties so even after the cut it would not have been as open as one might think. The second Barrel I believe was dumped at a later date certain things indicate the bodies where not there at the time the first one was found the close proximity to the road indicates a hastily dump that indicates time was not to the advantage, a Truck or Van say one that is used when moving could have backed onto the property dumped the barrel and left in minuets. I have lived in the area my whole life I know the Trailer Park well, The Store property well and the State Park as I have lived and hunted the area for years and after researching this case for quite some time these are my thoughts on this. X

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  9. Has anyone checked DMV or voter registration records on Bob Evans (or other aliases?). If they had a list of possible addresses, they may be able to locate a kill zone (even so many years later) with a lumalight. If they have a place of death, they may find objects related to the woman (purse, ID, anything similar).

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    1. No doubt they ran those records the day they learned of Evans. With the FBI and authorities on both coasts working on this, they aren't going to overlook any record or document or domicile associated with him.

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  10. has anyone else here about a possible second child with denise's daughter before being abandoned. I read that a women came forward and said that she babysat lisa and a 6mo old child, but there was no mention of a 6mo being abandoned. She said that the 6mo old disappeared. could that have been denises second child also killed.

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    1. They don't know who that baby was and there is obviously concern for its well-being. Mother unknown.

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  11. Could the woman be Leslie Guthrie missing with her two kids Feb.1977 from NY

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    1. Their names have come up numerous times in connection with this but I believe they were ruled out some years ago.

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  12. I've met people that believe Robert Steffen killed Tammy Belanger. They said something about a van that was described to be in the area matched a van that Steffen had that he put a heater in on one of the sides. The people I talked to 100% believe Steffen was the man that put those people in those barrels as well. He was supposedly a very bad man.

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  13. My great Aunt Mary Virginia Weldon went missing as a teenager speculation was that she ran away from home. This may be confirmed by a marriage certificate and divorce decree from CA. Other marriage and divorce certificate was found for her later in Nashua, NH. She has yet to be located and public record connecting her to anyone or anywhere else after 1967 has not been found.

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    1. I know you have been in contact with Rebekah Heath re. this matter. She is an amazing researcher and will fully explore this.

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