Page/Link: Page URL: HTML link: The Free Library. Retrieved Feb 16 2018 from. A BLONDE serial killer branded the world's most dangerous woman is stalking her next victim in Britain. Elaine Parent - dubbed The Chameleon because she changes identity so quickly - has been traced to London by US police probing a series of bizarre murders. She targets single women and after they have been killed she assumes THEIR identity.
Parent, who speaks with a posh English accent, has been linked to the gruesome murder of Beverly Ann McGowan and is wanted for questioning about at least five other killings. US cops have been hunting her for eight years but the trail always goes cold because she is an expert at disguise. Now American police have asked Scotland Yard - and the Sunday People - for help. Parent, 55 but looking much younger, is obsessed with the occult and dabbles in a fortune-telling craze called numerology. She has conned scores of women into revealing the numbers on their driving licence, passport and credit cards during numerology sessions.
She told them she needed the figures to predict the future. In most cases, she used the details to commit fraud. But in at least six cases she is suspected of murdering the women and using the passports and credit cards to travel the world and live in luxury. Parent's reason for selecting some women for death and not others has baffled detectives. But a Sunday People investigation has revealed she may have chosen her victims by 'reading' their chilling fate in the numbers on their identity cards. She literally killed her victims by numbers. Numerology appears to be a harmless pastime based on an ancient and mystic practice.
But experts say it can be used for evil purposes. Doug Harris of London-based Reach Out, which is dedicated to fighting the occult, said yesterday: 'Many people are susperstitious about numbers. 'For example 13 is supposed to bring bad luck but this is usually harmless superstition. 'However, to a member of the occult 13 could mean that an evil act had to be committed to fulfil a prophecy. 'In an extreme case if a psychopathic member of the occult saw that a combination of numbers on another person's driving licence added up to 13 that might be sufficient to trigger a murder.' One of Parent's victims was 34-year-old Beverly Ann McGowan of Miami.
Beverly put an advert in a local paper asking for another woman to share her apartment. Parent answered the advert and Beverly later told friends she had met a beautiful Englishwoman. The woman claimed to be an expert in num- erology and asked for Beverly's passport and driving licence to predict her future.
A few days later,on July 18, 1990, detectives discovered Beverly's body. Her head and hands had been crudely severed, and a rabbit tattoo cut off her stomach. As the remains were being examined, an attractive blonde woman with an English accent was using Beverly's credit card at a shopping mall in Florida and 795 dollars were withdrawn from Beverly's bank account. On July 22, a woman with an English accent boarded a British Airways flight in Miami.
Sylvia Ann Hodgkinson, who had travelled to Miami on June 18, handed over her British passport and return ticket for the flight to London. Detectives are now convinced that Hodgkinson and Parent are the same person. The woman used Beverly's credit card to hire a car at Heathrow Airport. An alert to all British car hire agents about Beverly's stolen card arrived hours too late.
Parent's car was later found abandoned and she is believed to have returned to the US under another alias. One girl who had a lucky escape was Charlotte Rae Cowan. Charlotte met Parent by chance in a bar in Orlando, Florida, and was impressed by her 'beauty and charm'. She handed over her driver's number and agreed to meet Parent next day for a numerology session.
But Charlotte turned up with her mother - and police believe that saved her from death. A month later, Parent arrived at Charlotte's home in the middle of the night disguised as a man and begged for help. She told Charlotte her brother was trying to have her committed and she needed a new identity. She persuaded her new friend to lend her social security card and later posted it back to her with a letter of thanks and an apology for having taken so long. Charlotte never saw the woman again but a year later she was arrested in Tampa, Florida, over a misdemeanour Parent had committed while using her identity. But when she was taken to court the officer who had arrested Parent told the judge Charlotte was not the woman he was seeking.
Charlotte said recently: 'I have never forgotten this woman. There is something about her.' The following year Parent was almost caught when she was stopped by police in Miami for a minor traffic offence. She was using a driving licence in Charlotte's name. Parent did a runner and the trail went cold again. Now cops - who say the blonde has used at least nine identities - suspect she is back in Britain and stalking a victim for her NEXT identity.
Detective Troy Church of the St Lucie County Sheriff's Department in Florida told the Sunday People: 'We need the help of your readers to catch this woman. 'She regularly travels in and out of Britain and we are certain she has a home in the UK.
'Serial killers keep on killing until they are caught so Parent may already have picked her next victim.' Scotland Yard said its Organised Crime Squad had been asked to search for Parent. Have YOU seen Parent or do you know where she is? If so either phone Crimestoppers on 0800 555 111 or call the Sunday People newsdesk on 0171 510 3201. How to spot her before she strikes next WITH the help of detective Troy Church, the Sunday People has compiled a profile of Elaine Parent.
Description Brown hair, blue eyes, medium build and 5ft' 7in' tall. Her correct date of birth is 4/8/42. Even if she makes up a false identity she may give her correct date of birth. She speaks with a refined English accent and would easily pass as being English. She will look much younger than her real age.
Personality Very charming and above average intelligence. But she will be impulsive and suffer from quick mood changes. Lifestyle She will live in a small hotel or bed-sit or share a flat with another woman. She will make frequent trips abroad and talk about visits to America.
If she is employed she will work in a high-class apartment store. She will wear designer clothes and use expensive restaurants. Unusual Features She will never be seen with relatives or friends who have known her for many years. All her friends will be recent acquaintances. She will talk about numerology and offer to predict the future.
Earlier this week, Investigation Discovery (ID) continued its successful airing of original scripted programming with a second installment of its “Serial Thriller” series. Some viewers were indeed thrilled, while some seemed a little confused at the purpose of the show, not sure what was “scripted” and what might be from actual news headlines.
But, one question keeps coming up: Who makes up the cast of SERIAL THRILLER: THE CHAMELEON? Responding to TVRuckus readers’ inquiries about the recent airing of Investigation Discovery’s original scripted program SERIAL THRILLER: THE CHAMELEON, we checked with the network about the bios available for those starring in the show, including Joseph Millson, “The Chameleon.” Here is a closer look at the actors included in the series, featuring highlights of previous work, current projects and where you may be seeing some of them in the future.
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Find sources: – (April 2010) Elaine Antoinette Parent (August 4, 1942 – April 6, 2002) was an known as 'the world's most wanted woman' in the late nineties and early 2000s. She was wanted for the murder of her potential roommate, Beverly McGowan, a 34-year-old bank clerk. McGowan had placed an ad in the paper looking for a roommate. A woman named 'Alice' answered the ad. The woman was actually Parent. Soon after, McGowan disappeared; on July 19, 1990, her remains were found in a rural canal in. She had been mutilated by removing a tattoo on her stomach, her head and hands to hinder the identification of her corpse but a small tattoo was enough to identify her.
The origin of Parent's nickname, the 'Chameleon Killer,' was a photograph of an oil painting of herself she sent to police with the message 'Best wishes: your Chameleon' typed on the back. The nickname was apt as she stole the identities of her victims and was found to have used McGowan's credit cards after she killed her. She also scoured graveyards for names and dates of birth and stole the information of other potential roommates by telling them she was a numerologist, soliciting their social security numbers, driver's licences and even birth certificates. When Florida police caught up with her in Panama City, Florida, on April 6, 2002, she committed suicide by shooting herself in the heart as they stood outside her bedroom door waiting for her to get dressed. There have been concerns that in her time on the run she is likely to have committed other crimes. Beverly McGowan's murder and the search for Elaine Parent were profiled on and. In 2014, it was featured on the program Swamp Murders.
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Terrance Peder Rasmussen (left in 1959, center in 1960, right in a 1985 booking photo during which he was going under the name 'Curtis Kimball') has been identified as the 'Chameleon' killer believed responsible for the death of one woman and three young girls whose bodies were found in barrels in 1985 and 2000 in the same location in New Hampshire. Rasmussen, who went under several aliases, died in prison under the name Kimball in 2010 while serving a sentence for the murder of his wife, Eunsoon Jun. (Photo Credits: Courtesy of the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children and the New Hampshire Attorney General's Office). The “Chameleon” killer butchered women and children, and left an undetermined trail of bodies and mayhem across the United States in the 1970s, 1980s and 1990s. In New Hampshire, he was Robert Evans, an electrician who apparently killed a woman and three children and stuffed their bodies in barrels in the woods in 1981. He was a drifter named Larry Vanner who conned an unsuspecting woman in the late 1990s in California, before killing and dismembering her, and burying her in a pile of cat litter in her home.
In between, he was Gerald Mockerman, Curtis Kimball, Gordon Jenson and other names and identities, with separate birth dates and identifying numbers he could rattle off to police, or victims. Authorities had not been able to pin down his core identity, as they had a decades-long delay in their pursuit of the serial killer, who died behind bars in 2010.
But they have now caught up with the “Chameleon.” After a year of a multi-agency investigation, they finally have their man: the “Chameleon” was one Terry Peder Rasmussen, a U.S. Navy veteran whose wife left him and took their four children before he went on what is proving to be a historic killing spree across America lasting decades.
The New Hampshire Attorney General’s Office announced this morning the biggest breakthrough yet in the investigation: Rasmussen’s identity, and a bit of the history that pinned him to the infamous Allenstown, New Hampshire case—sometimes known as the Bear Brook Murders. After the DNA of “Robert Evans” proved he was the biological father of one of the girls in the New Hampshire barrels, authorities announced their campaign to discover his true identity—and to pinpoint more of his horrific exploits.
The latest breakthrough was made through dozens of tips they received from the public—and finally the match of the DNA between the Evans sample and one of his known surviving biological children, they announced this morning. “As a result of those efforts, a DNA sample was obtained from a living adult believed to be Evans’ child,” they said in a statement. “Testing on that adult’s DNA sample has confirmed that his father was the person known as Robert ‘Bob’ Evans. Those DNA results and other investigative work have allowed investigators to confirm that Robert ‘Bob’ Evans’ true identity is in fact, Terry Peder Rasmussen.” Gaps remain in the timeline and the narrative of Rasmussen’s marathon rampage, notably some of the females he was seen with, along with the time periods 1974 to 1978, 1981 to 1984, and 1986 to 1988.
But the New Hampshire authorities have compiled a major trove of information on the long-dead killer. Rasmussen was born in Colorado on Dec.
He lived there and in Arizona with his family, and attended Phoenix North High School between 1959 and 1960. But in 1961, still a teenager, he enlisted in the U.S. During his military time, he served as an electrician in a construction unit on bases across the U.S. West—and also on Okinawa (both stints fit descriptions of his work skills and worldly knowledge of language and cultures that were highlighted by investigators earlier in the investigation). Rasmussen was given a general discharge in 1967. After his service, Rasmussen moved to Hawaii, where he married. The couple moved to Arizona in 1969, and would move around to various locations in Phoenix and Redwood City, California.
But they also had children during this period, twin daughters in 1969, a son in 1970 and the youngest daughter in 1972. The couple separated in 1972, then reconciled—but she left for good with the kids between 1973 and 1974, authorities said in their timeline.
This part of the killer’s family last saw him in the Christmas season of 1974 in Arizona. He told them he was living in a particular apartment building in Ingleside, Texas. But he left—and they never saw him again.
However, he was with an unidentified female during that visit, the family (all still alive) told authorities. Authorities are now looking to further complete the timeline—and the death toll—from the “Chameleon killer” who was Terry Peder Rasmussen. Michael Kokoski of the New Hampshire State Police told Forensic Magazine that investigators are now essentially entering 'phase three of three,' now that the ID has been made. It was the product of a half-dozen detectives spending the majority of their hours tracking the trail, along with the help of another half dozen assisting. The other agencies have also provided fundamental breakthroughs: the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children, the Manchester (NH) Police Department, the San Bernardino (Calif.) Sheriff's Office, and the Naval Criminal Investigative Services all made vital contributions. Finding the ex-wife and four children still alive was a needed - but unexpected - break, Kokoski said. 'It's not necessarily something we expected,' the sergeant said.
The third phase in New Hampshire is to identify the victims - and find the last woman seen with him in the Granite State, authorities said. 'Maybe this allows someone to make a connection,' added Jeffery Strelzin, the senior assistant Attorney General for New Hampshire. 'The focus is on identifying the four bodies in Allenstown, and finding out where Denise Beaudin is.' Rasmussen—then known as Vanner—was finally arrested for good in 2002. He had been living in the house of Eunsoon Jun, who had disappeared and whose mummified remains were found in a pile of kitty litter. He was locked up and pleaded guilty shortly after his fingerprints matched his previous crimes.
Advanced DNA searches through genealogy databases discovered a heretofore-unknown serial killer last summer. Rasmussen, under the name Curtis Kimball, had been imprisoned for the abuse and abandonment of a little girl in 1986. He had been traveling with the girl for some time, left her at an RV campground, and though he was later caught and served years in prison, he again disappeared off the radar of authorities. When the abandoned little girl grew up, she wanted to know where the killer had taken her from.
(Her DNA proved the man who had abandoned her was not her father.) Instead, her DNA later pointed back to a family on the East Coast—and to a birth identity in New Hampshire. Peter Headley, a detective at the San Bernardino County Sheriff’s Office, enlisted the latest state-of-the-art genetic ancestry help to find her surviving biological relatives, all the way across the country.
The girl known as Lisa had been an infant named Dawn Beaudin when she had disappeared with her mother Denise Beaudin and a man named Robert Evans from their Allenstown, New Hampshire home in November 1981. All three were never heard from again. None were ever reported missing by the family left behind, because they had been told they were purposely leaving to avoid debts. The Bear Brook Murders crime scene was discovered long after the killer left. One barrel with two bodies was found in 1985, the other with two more decomposed remains was discovered a short distance away in 2000. The site was just several miles down the road from the home of Evans and the two Beaudin females. So investigators from the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children, the New Hampshire State Police and the San Bernardino County Sheriff’s Office acted on a hunch, and ran virtually every DNA test possible.
It had long been established that Evans/Kimball was not related to Lisa/Dawn Beaudin. But he was the biological father of one of the little girls inside the Bear Brook barrels. The “Chameleon”—whose real identity has finally been determined—is almost certainly the killer of the four Bear Brook females, the New Hampshire Attorney General announced earlier this year. Rasmussen, as of this identification, is believed to have killed at least six females: the four Allenstown victims, Denise Beaudin, and Eunsoon Jun. But authorities acknowledge more victims may be out there among the unidentified bodies and unknown graves of America. Headley told Forensic Magazine by phone Friday investigators still have their work cut out for them.
'This definitely filled in a lot of the gaps,' he said. 'But there's still a lot of work to do.'
TV watchers love crime shows. CBS has built a procedural empire on that fact, and cable channels run a steady stream of syndicated reruns in bingeable amounts on a daily basis. The Discovery network even created an entire channel devoted to crime stories with Investigation Discovery, whose programming focuses primarily on true crime through documentaries and talk shows. With every cable channel getting in on the scripted television game now, hoping that one great series will act as a tentpole to launch them into a new era (known as “the AMC effect”), it makes perfect sense for Investigation Discovery to join in.
Who better to tell crime stories than a channel devoted to it? Unfortunately, the answer appears to be: almost anyone else. The landscape for crime series is so oversaturated that to make an impact, a new crime show needs to do something different, or simply be very good. It’s why HBO’s has been able to break out as a success, why has crafted its own weird niche on NBC, and why even Pivot has gotten some small recognition for its gorgeously filmed (by glacially-paced) series Fortitude. Image via Investigation Discovery Serial Thriller, a 3-part miniseries airing on 3 consecutive nights, tells the true crime story of an initially unnamed, but notoriously prolific, serial killer who terrorized the Pacific Northwest in the 1970s. (The identity of the killer is revealed in the second episode, but the clues make it fairly obvious). There have been movies about this spree before (the miniseries is being cut down to a movie for distribution), and Investigation Discovery had the opportunity to approach it with a new take, or to give crime show fans (this reviewer included) a new addiction.
Instead, Serial Thriller borders on self-parody. In fact, as a parody, it would have been pretty terrific. The production value is astoundingly low-budget, the camerawork and sound editing are head-scratching at best, and the dialogue is shockingly bad. At one point, a detective turns to another and says, without irony: “what the hell is he doing with all of those missing girls? He’s not starting a cheerleading squad he’s killing them!” It’s a shame on so many levels, given that the miniseries has gotten two excellent English actors on board to play the dogged lead detective ( Elliot Cowan) and the effortlessly menacing killer ( Ryan Gage). But hope for the series is lost fairly early, with an opening scene devoted to a blood-soaked young woman running for her life from her assailant. She has no name, she has no voice, and she barely has a face.
And then she dies. Yes, the killer dehumanizes his victims, but must the show? But then again, Serial Thriller lacks any finesse.
Though Cowan and Gage try to work with the material, they aren’t given anything back, and the low-budget production lays bare the miniseries’ many issues. The first night, “Angel of Decay,” is disjointed and without any sense of time or scope. In many ways, it plays out like an extended documentary-style reenactment, just without interviews and narration intercutting it. It may have been better off doing so.
That style and the grisly details of the murders may draw in ID’s regular audience, but it’s not going to become a tentpole production. For such a famous case on a network whose livelihood is devoted to exploring these kinds of crimes, Serial Thriller is a missed opportunity, and certainly doesn’t come close to living up to its name.
Rating: ★ Poor — Clear your DV-R space Serial Thriller premieres Sunday, June 7th at 10 p.m. On Investigation Discovery. It’s final two parts will air on the following two nights.
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