1981 Missing Person Case Possibly Connected to Other NH, California Murders

CONCORD, NH — The New Hampshire Attorney General’s Office will be holding a press conference with state police and Manchester Police on Thursday morning to discuss a recent missing person case and how it may be connected to two other unsolved murder investigations, according to a press statement. The briefing is scheduled for 10:30 a.m. on Jan. 26, 2017.

Limited information was available at post time but Jeffery A. Strelzin, a Senior Assistant Attorney General, Chief, Homicide Unit, stated that investigators will reveal information connected to its effort to locate Denise Beaudin, who went missing from the Manchester area in 1981, as well as four unidentified murder victims – an adult woman and three children – found in Allenstown in 1985 and 2000, and how those cases may connect to a California murder case.

The press statement did not reveal any information about the California murder case.

Beaudin’s case was officially deemed a missing person incident late last year after “new evidence” led investigators to officially make the proclamation. She was last seen on Nov. 26, 1981, when she, her infant daughter, and boyfriend went to have dinner with her family in Goffstown. At the time, Beaudin was 23, and had a live-in boyfriend – Robert “Bob” Evans, 37 at the time, now 72 – but neither mentioned anything at dinner about leaving the area. The daughter, who is not missing, was an infant at the time.

Less than a week later, according to investigators, Beaudin’s family went to her home on Hayward Street in Manchester to visit her and found that no one was home. At the time, according to the family, Beaudin and Evans were having financial difficulties, so they assumed the couple left to avoid those issues.

Beaudin has not been seen or heard from since.

Last week, investigators, along with workers from the Federal Bureau of Investigation, searched the Hayward Street home in the Queen City where Beaudin was living at the time. Loud bangs and power tools could be heard operating in the basement and around the home with personnel coming in and out of the home wearing protective suits and filtration masks.

The Allenstown murder case – also known as the Bear Brook Murders and/or Allenstown Four – involves four currently unidentified female victims discovered in the Bear Brook State Park in 1985 and 2000, according to Wikipedia.

The victims, according to reports online, are believed to have died between 1977 and 1985. The victims – one woman and three girls – are believed to have been Caucasian or Native American. Facial reconstructions were created by the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children, with DNA profiling determining that the woman, the oldest child, and one of the other two girls were maternally related, meaning that the woman was a mother, aunt, or older sister. It’s unknown what, if any, relationship the third girl had to the others.

The latest information about the investigation revealed that the women and children lived together in the Northeastern part of the country for between two weeks and three months before their deaths and were probably residents of the area. The fourth girl was either from the upper Northeast or upper Midwest, according to testing.

More information about the investigation can be found at the Mystery in Allenstown website.