Rea Rasmussen, the middle child, was born in 1976 in California; her mother, Pepper Reed, from Texas, has been missing since the late 1970s.

State officials are working with relatives of the fourth and final identified Bear Brook murder victim to return her remains to her family.

Final Bear Brook victim identified as Rea Rasmussen, closing a 40-year-old case but leaving questions about her mother.

Her tiny body was found stuffed in a barrel in the New Hampshire woods, one of four victims of the so-called Chameleon Killer. No one knew who she was, where she was from or how she got there, until now.

Two of the bodies were found in a barrel at Bear Brook State Park in Allenstown, New Hampshire, and two others, both children, were found in a barrel on private property near the park, the DNA Doe Project says. New Hampshire State Parks photo of Bear Brook State Park

The mystery began in 1985 when a hunter discovered the bodies of a woman and 9-year-old girl in a barrel at Bear Brook State Park in Allenstown.

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.