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    3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
    612-822-4611

Open Daily: 10am - 10pm | Alley-side Pickup: 10am - 7pm
3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
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The Chameleon Killer: Terry Rasmussen and the Twenty-Five-Year Hunt for a Hidden Name

The Chameleon Killer: Terry Rasmussen and the Twenty-Five-Year Hunt for a Hidden Name

Guire, Martin

Paperback

True Crime

ISBN13: 9798235702608
Publisher: Silverback Books
Published: Jul 5 2026
Pages: 274
Weight: 0.71
Height: 0.62 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English

The Chameleon Killer: Terry Rasmussen and the Twenty-Five-Year Hunt for a Hidden Name

In November 1985, a hunter in the New Hampshire woods found a rusted drum containing the remains of a woman and a child. Fifteen years later, a second drum surfaced a hundred yards away, holding two more victims. It would take investigators nearly forty years, and a scientific revolution nobody could have predicted, to answer the question those drums posed: who were they, and who put them there? This is the definitive account of Terry Peder Rasmussen, the Chameleon Killer, who lived as five different men across four states for over two decades, murdering the women who loved him and the children who called him father, protected at every turn by a law enforcement system that could not talk to itself. It traces his life from a wartime Denver birth through a Navy electrician's training that became the tool of his evasion, and follows the investigators, forensic scientists, and genetic genealogists who finally unmade him, not through confession or capture, but through DNA databases built for hobbyists tracing their ancestry. Rigorously sourced and unflinching in its judgment, this is a story about how a fractured system let a monster hide in plain sight, and how patient science, decades later, gave his victims back their names.

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