The final victim in New Hampshire's infamous Bear Brook murders has been identified, officials said Sunday, ending a more-than-40-year effort to identify all four bodies found in a state park in Allenstown across three decades.

Rea Rasmussen, who was last seen in the late 1970s, has been identified as the final victim, who'd previously been referred to as the "middle child," state police and prosecutors announced. The Orange County, California, native was the daughter of Bear Brook murderer Terry Peder Rasmussen; her mother, Pepper Reed, remains missing.

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The investigation began in 1985, when two bodies were found in a barrel in Bear Brook State Park. Two more were found in another barrel 15 years later. The other

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