Maas was one of many first deputies who responded after a Camas lady escaped an assault by Forrest at Lacamas Lake in 1974. Maas later served as a detective on the Forrest instances in 1976, in keeping with the sheriff’s workplace.
“We want the community to know we haven’t given up on this, and we mainly want Forrest to know we haven’t given up on this — and won’t,” Maas stated throughout a Monday interview from the Main Crimes Unit workplace in downtown Vancouver. “As long as I stay vertical, I’m going to stay on this one.”
With Maas taking the lead, a trio of cold-case investigators are engaged on Forrest’s instances. A pair different cold-case investigators are actively engaged on one other seven unsolved instances, stated sheriff’s Sgt. Fred Neiman Jr., who oversees the unit. (One other 23 unsolved instances are pending, he stated.)
Forrest, 75, of Battle Floor is suspected within the disappearances and deaths of seven girls and ladies in Clark County between 1971 and 1974: Jamie Grissim, 16, in December 1971; Barbara Ann Derry, 18, in February 1972; Diane Gilchrist, 14, in Could 1974; Gloria Nadine Knutson, 19, in Could 1974; Krista Kay Blake, 20, in July 1974; Valenzuela in August 1974; and Morrison in August or September 1974. Two others — Norma Jean Countryman, 15, who was kidnapped in July 1974, and the 20-year-old Camas lady — survived.