Two victims, one killer’s woods.
Two hikers. A remote trail. A shallow grave.
In 1976, on Tukes Mountain, a grim discovery forced investigators to confront a reality they’d long overlooked. Buried in that grave was Krista Blake—a young woman whose life ended violently at the hands of Warren Forrest.
Krista had been kidnapped a week before Forrest abducted Norma Jean Countryman. When he tied Norma between two trees in that same patch of woods, Krista’s body was already lying in the earth just feet away. The proximity of those two crimes—the living victim and the one already gone, plus his horrific crimes against Susan (the Lacamus Lake victim) —would later become a chilling hallmark of Forrest’s calculated brutality.
The search for answers in Krista’s case exposes more than just a killer’s pattern. It reveals the investigative blind spots of the era—leads overlooked, evidence left to gather dust, and connections that should have been made years earlier.
Drawing on interviews with investigators, forensic experts, and those who loved Krista, this episode reconstructs her final days and the circumstances that kept her case from closure for years. Krista’s story becomes a crucial link in the chain of crimes attributed to Forrest, tying together timelines, victims, and locations in a way that investigators could no longer ignore.
Her recovery is both a breakthrough and a tragedy—a moment when the dots finally begin to connect, but only after decades of silence when answers should have been discovered over the years.
