Warren Forrest was convicted of murder in 1978 — and for decades, that was treated as the end of his story. It wasn't.

This episode covers the 2015 identification of a second victim, Martha Morrison, and the 2023 DNA breakthrough that finally connected Forrest to her murder nearly 50 years after she disappeared. We also cover the cases that remain unsolved and actively under investigation by Clark County's cold case unit: Carol Valenzuela, Jamie Grissim, and Barbara Derry.

This is Part 2 of a two-part series. If you haven't seen Part 1, start there for the full story of Forrest's early crimes and 1974 arrest.

If you have information related to any of these cases, contact the Clark County Sheriff's Office cold case tip line — 564-397-2036

 SOURCES

- The Columbian — "Survivor recalls night of terror" (2014)

- The Columbian — "Clark County jury finds Warren Forrest guilty in 1974 murder" (Feb 2023)

- KATU — "Cold case team says Warren Forrest may be tied to seven deaths in Clark County" (Feb 2026)

- Wikipedia: Warren Forrest

- Grokipedia: Warren Forrest (cross-referenced for court record details)

- KSL Podcasts — "Stolen Voices of Dole Valley" (episode descriptions, for factual cross-referencing only — not a source of quoted material)

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Today on Twisted Mysteries... Warren Forrest worked for the Clark County, Washington Parks Department. He was married, had two daughters, and by most accounts was unremarkable — which is exactly how he was able to move through his community for years while young women went missing.

This is Part 1 of a two-part series covering the case of Warren Forrest: his early life, the suspected early victims, the 1974 murders of Krista Blake and Martha Morrison, and the survivor whose escape from Lacamas Lake led to his arrest.

Part 2 is available Monday, 8/24, covering the 1978 trial, the decades of unresolved suspicion, and the 2023 DNA breakthrough that finally connected Forrest to a second murder.

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Sources for this episode:

- The Columbian — "Survivor recalls night of terror" (2014)

- The Columbian — "Clark County jury finds Warren Forrest guilty in 1974 murder" (Feb 2023)

- KATU — "Cold case team says Warren Forrest may be tied to seven deaths in Clark County" (Feb 2026)

- Wikipedia: Warren Forrest

- Grokipedia: Warren Forrest (cross-referenced for court record details)

- KSL Podcasts — "Stolen Voices of Dole Valley" (episode descriptions, for factual cross-referencing only — not a source of quoted material)

In 2002, deep in the mountains of Kandahar Province, a U.S. patrol vanished without a trace. When a Special Forces team was sent to find them, they discovered a cave littered with bones, scattered gear — and something waiting inside that shouldn't have existed. Thirteen feet tall. Red hair. Six fingers on each hand. What happened next has been told and retold in veteran circles and cryptid communities for over two decades, surfacing publicly only in 2016 through a documentary built on a single anonymous source. The Pentagon says there's no record of it. Believers say that's exactly the point. In this episode, we trace the Giant of Kandahar from cave mouth to conspiracy — and ask what it means that stories like this keep surfacing from every war fought in unfamiliar terrain.

Sources for today include:

1. Snopes, “Did U.S. Special Forces Kill a Giant in Kandahar?” (2016) — the fact-check; confirms no DoD record of the incident.

https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/u-s-special-forces-killed-a-giant-in-kandahar/

2. L.A. Marzulli, Watchers 10 (2016, IMDb page) — the documentary that introduced “Mr. K” and made the story mainstream.

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt7546462/

3. Nick Orton, Tales from the Grid Square: Volume One — anonymous-submission collection of military paranormal stories

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/61470267-tales-from-the-grid-square

4. Havok Journal, “Enemy Unknown: High Strangeness in the Shadow of the Afghan War” — 

https://havokjournal.com/culture/military/enemy-unknown-high-strangeness-in-the-shadow-of-the-afghan-war/

5. Military Times, “Here be giants — outlandish tales of the military & the Afghan colossi” (2022) 

https://www.militarytimes.com/off-duty/military-culture/2022/11/01/here-be-giants-outlandish-tales-of-the-military-the-afghan-colossi/

6. Weird Darkness, “The Giant of Kandahar” writeup — notes the story was first broadcast on Coast to Coast AM in 2005, later covered by Military Times for a 2023 Halloween episode, and separately came up when former Navy SEAL MrBallen mentioned an interpreter telling him about it during his own Afghanistan deployment. 

https://weirddarkness.com/giant-of-kandahar/

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Three real people. Three first-hand ghost stories from the Pacific Northwest wilderness — a vanishing hiker near Zigzag Mountain, marching footsteps on the Tahoma Glacier, and a trail of torn leather leading up a silent hillside at Wallowa Lake. Sources in the show notes.

Sources…

The Zigzag Mountain Ghost Originally shared on the Oregon Hikers Forum, thread “Gather ’round the campfire for (real) ghost stories..!!” https://www.oregonhikers.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=17955

Northwesthiker.com

AllTrails.com

The Tahoma Glacier Ghost First-hand account by Les Profitt, “Tahoma Glacier Ghost Story,” Tall Tales From Capt Rogue (blog), December 14, 2019 https://talltalesfromcaptrogue.com/2019/12/14/tahoma-glacier-ghost-story/

Historical background on the 1946 Marine Corps plane crash: Daryl C. McClary, “A Curtis Commando C-46 transport plane crashes into Mount Rainier, killing 32 U.S. Marines, on December 10, 1946,” HistoryLink.org, Essay 7820, posted July 29, 2006 https://www.historylink.org/File/7820

Wikipedia.com

Army.mil

Coppercreekinn.com

The Wallowa Lake Boulders Listener account submitted by “Michaela,” featured in Heart Starts Pounding podcast, episode “Ghost of The Appalachian Trail, Creature Encounters In The Backwoods, and more Listener Stories,” June 17, 2025 https://www.heartstartspounding.com/episodes/appalachiantrail

Wallowalakeresort.com

Josephoregon.com

Thervatlas.com

A quick note worth mentioning is that these are all first-hand accounts as told by the original posters, shared on forums and podcasts that don’t independently verify claims.

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Between February and May 2023, six women went missing or were found dead across the Portland metro area. For months, investigators denied any connection between the cases. They were wrong.

In this episode, we tell the story of Kristin Smith, Charity Perry, Joanna Speaks, Bridget Webster, and Ashley Real — five women whose deaths are now tied to one man, Jesse Lee Calhoun, currently awaiting trial on five counts of second-degree murder. We trace how a wildfire-clemency program put him back on the street, how one victim’s assault report vanished into a jurisdictional gap months before she was killed, and how five families found each other across years of waiting for answers.

This is not a story about the accused. It’s about the women he’s charged with killing, and the families still fighting for them.

Content warning: this episode discusses violence against women and may be difficult for some listeners.

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A two-year-old vanishes from a remote Oregon ranch in broad daylight.

Hundreds search.

No one finds him.

Then, after a freezing night alone in the wilderness, he’s discovered miles away… alive.

Tonight on Twisted Mysteries, we investigate the incredible survival story of Keith Parkins—a case that has inspired legends, sparked Missing 411 comparisons, and left investigators asking one haunting question:

How did a toddler survive the impossible?

Case Sources:

• Reddit.com
• Squatchable.com
• Abcnews.com
• insideedition.com
• locationsunknown.org episode 22
• Missing 411, by David Paulides
• newspapers.com
• TripAdvisor.com

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Five Cayuse men rode away from the Blue Mountains in 1850 and never came home. Their execution ended a war, but their bodies vanished into unmarked graves. Nearly two centuries later, local legends tell of five silent horsemen still riding the mountain trails, searching for home. In this premium episode of Twisted Mysteries, we investigate the true history of the Cayuse Five, the haunting lore of the Spirit Riders, and the ongoing search to finally bring them home.

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Sources for today’s story include:

ctuir.org

ictnews.org

opb.org

Wikipedia

historylink.org

oregonencyclopedia.org

reddit.com

native-languages.org

Eastoregonian.com

oregonhistoryproject.org

scholarsarchive.byu.edu Ghostlore in Oregon

traveloregon.com

yalebooks.yale.edu

legendsofamerica.com

How does a seemingly ordinary teenager decide to kill the people closest to him?

In 2012, Jake Evans murdered his mother and younger sister before calling 911 to confess. His explanations would leave investigators, psychologists, and the public searching for answers that may never come.

This episode explores the crime itself, the handwritten confession, the infamous 911 call, and the difficult questions surrounding violence, fantasy, and the human mind.

Jake Evans 911 call

Jake Evans Written Confession

Two sisters.

One shared terror.

A motorway filled with speeding cars.

A warning that “they’re going to steal your organs.”

And a stranger whose simple act of kindness would cost him his life.

The story of Sabina and Ursula Eriksson isn’t just one of true crime—it’s one of the most disturbing psychological mysteries ever recorded. Was this a rare case of shared madness, an unexplained psychotic break, or something investigators still don’t understand?

This week on Twisted Mysteries, we follow the Eriksson twins from their quiet lives in Sweden to the terrifying events of May 2008, uncovering a case where reality itself seemed to fracture.

Because sometimes the scariest mysteries aren’t the ones hiding in the dark… they’re the ones hiding inside the human mind.

Case Sources include:

Wikipedia

Mental Health General

Everything.explained.today

vice.com

content.time.com

horrorbound.net

The malestrom

news.translogistics.net

reference.org

the-express.com

greennwhite.org

ncbi.nlm.nih.gov

ovid.com

vocabulary.com

sciencedirect.com

journals.lww.com

and

msdmanuals.com

In this episode, Twisted Mysteries dives into the legend of Bigfoot, retelling three of the most compelling Bigfoot encounters in history. A 1924 cabin siege at Ape Canyon. A former Marine stalked through the Cascade Mountains. And chilling audio captured in the Sierra Nevada. Across a century of sightings, one question remains: what is really out there?