The Messed Up Truth About The Chameleon Killer Roxane Gruenheid/Contra Costa County Sheriff s Office/Wikipedia
By Cody Copeland/Feb. 16, 2021 1:55 pm EDT
In 1985, Jesse Morgan, 11, and his friends were playing hide-and-seek in Bear Brook State Park in Allenstown, New Hampshire. One of his friends suggested they check out a barrel he d seen in the woods, but when they opened it, a smell that he told ABC s
20/20 was absolutely putrid came from it, and they all hightailed it out of there. He and his friends were unaware that the barrel contained the remains of a woman and her young daughters, the victims of a man who would go on to be known as The Chameleon Killer, though their bones would lay anonymous in the Allenstown cemetery for decades before the full extent of the serial killer s crimes were brought to light.