MANCHESTER, NH – Search teams specializing in the recovery of human remains were working Saturday in an area known as Black Acres, on the city’s West Side, related to the disappearance of 25-year-old Denise Ann Daneault, last seen alive in 1980.
The NH Attorney General’s office confirmed Nov. 11 the search on the city’s West Side was tied to the unsolved case of Denise Daneault, a divorced mother of two young children, who disappeared a few days before her 26th birthday on June 8, 1980. She was last seen alive at a social club in Manchester, the Merrimack Club, at Merrimack and Union streets,as she was leaving the club at about 1:30 a.m.
Daneault was living at 343 Hawyard St. at the time of her disappearance, a few doors down from where Terry Peder Rasmussen was living under the alias Bob Evans. Rasmussen is the suspect in the murder of four unidentified homicide victims (one adult female and three children) found in Allenstown in 1985 and 2000, and he is also tied to the disappearance of another Manchester woman in 1981, Denise Beaudin.
Rasmussen was incarcerated under the alias Curtis Kimball, convicted for the 2002 murder and dismemberment of his wife, for the murder of his wife in California, Eunsoon Jun. Rasmussen died in a California prison in 2010.
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Manchester Police, New Hampshire State Police, FBI Evidence Response Team, and Connecticut-based Bay Area Recovery Canines, which specializes in finding human remains, spent Saturday afternoon searching a wooded area behind Kimball Street.
Officials said the search is expected to last at least one day depending on what they find. Anyone with information about Daneault is asked to call Detective Lucas Hobbs at the Manchester Police Department 603-792-5519.