FBI, NHSP Searching Location For Woman Missing Since 1980

MANCHESTER, NH — The Federal Bureau of Investigation and New Hampshire State Police are in Manchester today searching a wooded area of the city hoping for clues in a nearly four decade missing person case. Investigators are looking for Denise Daneault, who went missing in 1980 at the age of 25. Jeffrey Hastings of Frame of Mind Photography reported on Facebook that state troopers, the FBI, and the New Hampshire Attorney General’s Office had brought in a specialized search group – Bay Area Recovery Canines – to help with the investigation which is in the West End of the city, in an area known as the “black acres.”

The area is at the end of Upland Street near the Kimball Street Housing Project. They have been at the scene, along with a NHSP K-9 unit, since around 1 p.m. on Nov. 11, 2017.

“The FBI evidence response team appears to be coordinating the large search area,” he noted. “Local law enforcement is also involved and the head officer of the CSI team for that LE is on scene.”

Daneault was last seen in June 1980, outside of a private social club at the intersection of Merrimack and Union streets, according to the Charley Project website. A girl – Laureen Rahn, 14 – who lived two blocks from Daneault disappeared six weeks before and has also never been found. Both females “closely resembled” each other despite their age difference.

Some websites have noted that Daneault and Rahn were living near Terry Peder Rasmussen aka "Robert T. Bob Evans," the serial killer who is presumed responsible for the death of Denise Beaudin as well as another woman and three girls known as the Allenstown 4. They were discovered in barrels near Bear Brook State Park in 1985 and 2000.

Image via Jeffrey Hastings/www.frameofmindphoto.com, used with permission.