It took the work of dozens of investigators and advances in technology to identify the final victim of a serial killer whose body was found decades ago in a barrel in Bear Brook State Park, officials said Monday.

The New Hampshire Attorney General's Office announced over the weekend that the girl, who had been referred to during the investigation as " The Middle Child ," was identified as Rea Rasmussen , who was born in 1976 in Orange County, California.

>> Case timeline: Killer Terry Peder Rasmussen, also known as 'Bob Evans'

She was the biological daughter of Terry Peder Rasmussen, the man deemed responsible (but never convicted) for the murders, and Pepper Reed, who was born in 1952 in Texas and has not been seen since the late 1970s.

Terry Rasmussen, who went by "Bob Evans" i

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