SERIAL KILLER: The Lewis-Clark Valley Murders

In the late 70s and early 80s, the Lewiston-Clarkston Valley was rocked by multiple disappearances and homicides. Police at the time thought it was the work of one man, who has remained free. And despite a decades-long investigation, these cases remain unsolved.

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• 0:00Ashley Flowers?

  When you're out in nature, you learn to trust your instincts. You pay attention to the trail, your surroundings, and you stay alert to protect yourself from harm. But what if the biggest threat isn't the environment at all? On Park Predators, host Delia Diambra explores true crime cases that happen in national parks and remote wildernesses, the places we usually think of as safe and peaceful. Each episode reveals what happened and how much more there is beneath the surface. Listen to Park Predators now, wherever you get your podcasts. Hi, crime junkies. I'm your host, Ashley Flowers. And I'm Britt. And I have been dying to tell you this story. It is a story about a serial killer, not one of the ones we've been asked to cover time and time again, like the ones who have gotten endless coverage

• 0:45Ashley Flowers?

  as people pick apart their psyche and motivations. This is about someone I'd never heard of, someone who police suspect of terrible things because somehow, wherever this guy goes, tragedy follows. But they have never had enough to prove the things they so strongly suspect. So this man, either one of the unluckiest people I've ever heard of or a cold-blooded killer, is living among all of us. He could be our neighbor or the guy we pass at the grocery store, someone we know, someone our listeners know. But remember, crime junkie life rule number one: You never really know anyone, ever.

• 1:30Ashley Flowers?

  But it's my job to make sure you're well informed. So buckle up, kiddos. This one's a doozy. I'm talking about the cases that have been linked to a man they call the Lewis Clark Valley Killer. And I'm going to talk about who police think that man actually is.

• 2:18Ashley Flowers?

  I don't know what was in the water in the fall of 1982, but authorities in the Lewis-Clark Valley, where Washington and Idaho and Oregon all meet, they were underwater with cases. Between August 31st and September 19, in this area where not much happens, four people had gone missing. It started with a two-year-old little boy named Ricky Barnett, who was visiting his grandparents' farm in Grangeville, Idaho. And while workers were unloading a delivery of chickens, Ricky vanished into thin air. Almost two weeks later, on September 12, two young women went missing while out running errands in Lewiston, Idaho. 21-year-old Christina Nelson and her stepsister, 18-year-old Jacqueline Miller, who goes by Brandy.

• 3:04Ashley Flowers?

  Then, just as the 12th of September turned into the 13th, before anyone even knew that Brandy and Christina were missing, 35-year-old Steven Parasol vanished after he was dropped off at the local civic theater in the same small town. So, by the 19th of September, when 18-year-old Jennifer Vincent and her car disappear somewhere between her boyfriend's dorm at Washington State University and her home in Spokane, Washington, people are panicked. Authorities, especially in the valley, are drowning. And that's not even speaking of the cold cases they've had looming over them for the last couple of years. The disappearance of a 12-year-old girl in '79, and then the murder and dismemberment

• 3:47Ashley Flowers?

  of a young woman who was found in '81. So, something is happening in this area. Captain M. Dwayne Aler, chief of detectives for the Lewiston PD, said in an article for the Spokane Chronicle that he had been on the force for 19 years and has never seen anything like this. The peace and illusion of safety that the valley residents used to feel is shattered. Parents don't let their kids walk to school alone anymore. People are locking their doors at night. I mean, it's like they're being hunted by this faceless, nameless boogeyman. And that doesn't change after Jennifer Vincent is found. And there actually isn't innocent, albeit scary, reason for her disappearance.

• 4:30Ashley Flowers?

  She had gotten into some kind of accident on her way home and she was found pinned in the wreckage of her car with a broken back and hypothermia. And that was nearly four days after she went missing. So at least for her case, like, there's no connection seemingly to any of the other victims. And after she gets found, the local papers, who had been picking up all of like the five most recent cases and like lumping them together, they let Jennifer's name fall off. Eventually Ricky Barnett's name disappears too. Though I'm not really sure why, especially when I started digging, I found some reporting to suggest that he wasn't the only two-year-old boy to go missing in that area over a span of a couple of years. What? Dude, I don't know, the papers dropped all the reporting on those kids.

• 5:15Ashley Flowers?

  Like, there's almost nothing. Don't worry, I'm not about to. Stay tuned, like, I'm having our reporters dig in, so watch out someday. Yeah. But in putting Jennifer and Ricky's cases aside, this new theory began to emerge. Though police were adamant early to the press that all these cases were considered to be unrelated, it was hard to ignore the fact that three of these people who are still missing, the adults, all went missing on the same night from the same teeny tiny town. So tiny, in fact, that it turns out Steven Parasol actually lived just a few apartment buildings down from Christina Nelson's.

• 5:55Ashley Flowers?

  Christina actually held the part-time job as a janitor at the theater that Steven went missing from before Steven took that job over a year earlier. And Christina and Steven went to the same college. So they knew each other, then? Yeah, I mean, they definitely would have at least been familiar. Like, in the same circles? Right. I like, I don't get the sense that they were, like, close or hung out. But let me lay out for you the separate circumstances surrounding Christina and Brandy's disappearance versus Steven's, so you can get a sense of what police are working with here. So Christina's boyfriend, this guy Bill, called her at her apartment at around 8:30 PM on the night of September 12th. Now, he's planning to come over that night, so I'm sure they're just like coordinating or whatever.

• 6:40Ashley Flowers?

  And she told him that her stepsister Brandy was gonna be over in a little bit and that they were gonna go to the local Safeway grocery store. Now, Bill ended up falling asleep, so he didn't make the trip to Christina's until the next morning. But when he got there, it had to feel a little like déjà vu-y. Cause on Christina's front door was a note written to him saying, quote, "Bill, walk down to the store with Brandy, back in a few. Come on in and get comfy, okay? Chris, keys in our hiding place." But even though the note was presumably left for him the day before, when Bill goes inside, Christina's not there. And it doesn't seem like he's worried. Probably just assumed that he'd missed her, he'd see her later.

• 7:23Ashley Flowers?

  So after waiting, he had to leave to go to work. But when he came back that night, neither Christina nor Brandy were there. But the note that Christina left still was.

• 7:35Speaker 01

  Which is a pretty big red flag.

• 7:37Ashley Flowers?

  Yep, for some reason, alarm bells weren't ringing for Bill just yet. Because he didn't go out and like try and find her. And I'm not sure if this was normal for them to just kind of like be missing each other a lot or what. And in his defense, everything in the apartment indicated that she was planning on coming back when he got there the first time. Like, she left a light on, her cat was still there, even her purse was sitting there. So I'm thinking he just assumed Christina's gonna reappear. They could laugh about being like ships passing in the night and just like missing each other.

• 8:07Speaker 01

  Yeah, and at this point, it's not like the disappearances in the area have started piling up, right? Like, not everyone's on high alert for this yet.

• 8:15Ashley Flowers?

  Right, so I mean, like, prior to Christina and Brandy going missing, you had like a young kid who went missing three years before. Then that woman who was found murdered, it was a year before. Both of those very different cases. So like, they're not even being connected to each other, much less anything else at this point. And then, you know, we had the little boy Ricky who goes missing right before as well, but like...

• 8:36Speaker 01

  But it's so different.

• 8:38Ashley Flowers?

  Right. And I don't even know how much pickup his case got before anything started like happening in like a short period of time. So it's like not where Bill's mind jumps to right away, that like something bad has happened. Plus, in 1982, I feel like, fair, like this is a totally made up stat, like 60% of trying to hang out with people was like missing them in real time and having to try and connect later when you got to your landline.

• 9:00Speaker 01

  Because like you, you can't be in contact the way we are right now.

• 9:03Ashley Flowers?

  So, so Bill decides, you know what? He's just gonna stay at Christina's so he doesn't miss her. But when he wakes up in the middle of the night on what is now the 14th, and there's still no sign of his girlfriend, like this is when he realizes like something more is going on here. So he starts calling friends, family, anybody who might know where his girlfriend was. I'm sure he tried to get in touch with Brandy since the note mentioned her and she lived nearby, but he couldn't find her either. He even ends up going to check the Safeway where the grocery store where she was supposed to go to. Nothing.

• 9:37Speaker 01

  Like they just weren't there at the time or they'd never even made it to begin with.

• 9:43Ashley Flowers?

  I have all the questions. Since her purse was left behind, that makes me think that they never even made it to the store.

• 9:50Speaker 01

  But was her wallet in her purse? Or could she have just like taken some cash for the few things she needed, left everything else behind?

• 9:56Ashley Flowers?

  Wallets were still there. To be fair, like I mean, I guess she could have just taken some cash. Like, I don't know exactly what they were getting. I don't know if they're going for just like, oh, we're just gonna like grab a soda or if they're going for like a full on grocery haul. So yeah, did she have money on her? Did she throw just a couple bucks in her pocket? I don't know.

• 10:14Speaker 01

  But at the Safeway, no one saw them there.

• 10:17Ashley Flowers?

  No, which like always makes me wonder if they made it there in the first place.

• 10:22Speaker 01

  Right.

• 10:23Ashley Flowers?

  And it's worth noting that the grocery store at the time, it closed at 10. So if they wanted to make it on time, they would have had to leave before then. And we know the last time Bill spoke to her was 8:30. She was still waiting on Brandy, so it's like a little bit of a tight timeline.

• 10:38Speaker 01

  Yeah, so between 8:30 and when Bill got there the following morning, like they're gone.

• 10:43Ashley Flowers?

  Something happens, right. And I also haven't seen anything in the reporting about there being like fresh groceries or grocery bags or anything like that in the apartment, so.

• 10:53Speaker 01

  And there's no signs of foul play in the apartment?

• 10:56Ashley Flowers?

  No, nothing.

• 10:58Speaker 01

  Just to go back to the note real quick, it was for sure written in Christina's handwriting.

• 11:03Ashley Flowers?

  It was hers, yes.

• 11:04Speaker 01

  Okay.

• 11:04Ashley Flowers?

  So, we don't really know when they went missing, but we know for sure that they were gone by the morning or afternoon of the 14th. And not just because Bill pops by then. He also, as he's looking for them, contacts the restaurant where Christina works and he finds out that she'd been a no-call, no-show for her shift that day, too. And that's the final straw. He knows this is bad, bad. And so from there, he goes right to the police to report Christina and Brandy missing.

• 11:31Speaker 01

  And does their family go with him?

• 11:33Ashley Flowers?

  They actually don't live in town, but when they find out, everyone's just as worried as Bill is. Christina, in particular, is one of those super responsible people who would never no-call, no-show. So while Bill is the one who's there and providing the boots-on-the-ground presence in the early days of the investigation, the family is completely in the background.

• 11:52Speaker 01

  They're on board, yeah.

• 11:53Ashley Flowers?

  Yeah, giving that extra push. Now, police do take the report right away. And this is when they start retracing a lot of the steps that Bill took. They look at Christina's apartment. They try and retrace the paths that the women might have taken to and from Safeway. But they cannot find a single person who saw them, who interacted with them, nothing. Just like, poof, gone. And within a couple of hours of their last interaction with people or contact with people, all of a sudden, Steven Parasol vanishes, too. So investigators learn that Steven's girlfriend dropped him off at the Lewiston Civic Theater at around 6:30 PM on September 12th.

• 12:36Ashley Flowers?

  Steven is very involved in this theater. He plays clarinet. He works on sets. He is the janitor. And I believe that he was even in a show or two. And so when he's dropped off, he was either gonna be there practicing playing his clarinet or working on a set or something. Now, he does that. Everything's fine. His girlfriend picks him back up at nine because they have to go to this going away party for another staff member of the theater. They're there for a couple of hours. And then, on what is now the 13th, at like midnight, the girlfriend drops him back off at the theater. So he's gonna play his clarinet. He also has some laundry that he wants to do there, too. Now, a few people see his girlfriend drop him off. One was even a police officer.

• 13:19Ashley Flowers?

  So he is 100% back at that theater by midnight.

• 13:24Speaker 01

  But alone?

• 13:25Ashley Flowers?

  So, there was apparently one other guy who'd been there that night. And he said he saw Steven before Steven had left at like 9:00 PM. And then he says he fell asleep. So by the time Steven made it back the second time, he didn't see him come in or leave. And, in fact, no one ever saw him leave the theater. And just like Christina and Brandy, he's never seen again.

• 13:49Ashley Flowers?

  When he was eventually reported missing, and police go and search his place, it was a lot like Christina's in that it looked like he would be right back. I mean, he left his car parked outside of his place. He left behind an uncashed paycheck for 179 bucks, which is like no chump change in 1982. Especially if you were planning on leaving, which it's clear Steven didn't do. At least, it's clear to those who knew him. Now, a search of the theater didn't turn up anything either, other than finding Steven's clarinet in the orchestra pit. Like, there's nothing. Interestingly, too, like even his duffel bag that he brought, that he was like gonna do laundry or whatever, like, that's gone.

• 14:29Speaker 01

  So at this point, I mean, they have to be thinking that everything is connected, right? Or, like, otherwise, it's this wild coincidence.

• 14:36Ashley Flowers?

  Well, like-

• 14:37Speaker 01

  Wait, did Bill come under suspicion at all?

• 14:40Ashley Flowers?

  Oh, I'm sure police looked at him briefly. And Brandy also had a boyfriend who, like, same thing. I mean, I think they probably looked at. But neither of them are considered suspects. Actually, the first real suspect they had in this case, and this goes to what you were saying about them being connected, the first real suspect was Steven Parasol.

• 14:59Speaker 01

  Oh.

• 15:00Ashley Flowers?

  I know. Turn of events.

• 15:04Ashley Flowers?

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• 17:21Ashley Flowers?

  Now, I don't know exactly when police started to have suspicions about Steven possibly being more suspect than victim. I mean, they sure aren't saying anything like that in the early reporting that I'm able to pull on the case from like 82 and 83. But, everything changes in March of 84. That's when the decomposed, mostly skeletal remains of Christina and Brandy are found at the bottom of a hill about 35 to 40 miles outside of Lewiston.

• 17:52Speaker 01

  And were they still doing searches for them?

• 17:56Ashley Flowers?

  No, I actually don't know if they ever did formal searches. Like, the way they end up getting found, it's truly a miracle. There was this kid who was out at like the top of this hill looking for cans, and like the wind or something like catches his baseball cap and he loses it. And he goes down this hill to chase it. That is how they get found.

• 18:16Speaker 01

  Uh, what are the odds of that happening?

• 18:20Ashley Flowers?

  That is, and that's what I'm saying, like, different hill, different day, different time of day.

• 18:24Speaker 01

  Different kid, different cap, I mean...

• 18:25Ashley Flowers?

  Yeah, like, they might still be considered missing people. But they're not, right? Like, so they're found on March 19th of 84. By March 27th, they've been positively identified as Christina and Brandy. And then boom, April 1st of 84, The Spokesman Review publishes an article saying that police are looking for the third missing person, 35-year-old Steven Perestall. Now, they don't call him a suspect, but it's clear to everyone who hadn't already picked up on police's suspicions by now that like, they're looking for him, you know what I mean?

• 18:58Speaker 01

  Yeah, but why? Like, what would his motive be?

• 19:02Ashley Flowers?

  They don't have one. Like, honestly, at this point, I think they just see the opportunity, because I think one of the paths that the girls could have walked to get to Safeway actually went past the theater. So, you know, they're seeing this big, tall, older guy who has a military background going missing on the same night as these two young women, and I think they kind of just assume that he was responsible. Maybe, maybe it wasn't planned, right? Like, maybe everything, whatever happened, something spiraled out of control, and that's why Steven left with like, literally just the clothes on his back and the ones in his laundry sack? But right away, anyone who knows Stephen was like, absolutely not. They would tell you there is no way he could hurt anyone.

• 19:47Ashley Flowers?

  Stephen was like everyone's big brother at the theater. He was this gentle giant, always looking out for everybody, making sure that the theater was a safe haven for everyone involved. Plus, sweet Stephen, they say that all you have to do is look at what was left behind to know that he is the victim of foul play too. Because remember how his clarinet was found in the orchestra pit? Like, everyone's like, he loved that thing. Like, that thing was his baby. Like, if anything is telling you that your theory is wrong, like, he would never leave that behind. So his loved ones are frustrated that not only is their missing loved one getting wrongly painted as a suspect, but in doing so, they're afraid that they're not putting the same resources into solving this case.

• 20:30Ashley Flowers?

  Because if he's the victim, if he succumbed to foul play, but they're not considering that, like, how are you taking the right steps?

• 20:35Speaker 01

  And they're not just not considering that, they're considering that he is a suspect of foul play.

• 20:39Ashley Flowers?

  Right. And by the way, like, even if you, you know, go with their theory, like, you didn't mean for something to happen or whatever, like, if you're gonna go on the run, like, you think you'd at least take your car for a little bit? And like, cash the paycheck, you're gonna need some money on the road. So, nothing points to Stephen leaving willingly. Nothing points to him hurting Christina and Brandy.

• 21:01Speaker 01

  And going back to Christina and Brandy, were they able to determine how they died?

• 21:06Ashley Flowers?

  Oh yeah, so I didn't get into that. The pathologists determined that they had been strangled. And even though they didn't appear to have been bound in any way, beneath their bodies were these, like, lengths of something that early days they described as, like, clothesline cord. Now, they also found with the women, like, clothing, lip gloss, jewelry, and there was a bra shoved into the mouth of one of the skulls. So, motive for whoever did this seemed to be sexual, or at least, like, had a sexual component to it. But because of all the time that had passed between when they went missing and then when they were found, I mean, the chances of them retrieving anything to prove that or point to their killer was, like, virtually zero in 1984.

• 21:50Speaker 01

  Nothing been to officially rule out Stephen either.

• 21:54Ashley Flowers?

  No, but honestly, they don't end up needing it for that reason. You see, a little perspective goes a long way in cases when investigators zoom out and take stock of everything. And when they do that in this case, they find reason to start side eyeing someone else. So remember that guy that was sleeping in the theater when Steven was there?

• 22:22Speaker 01

  Yes, I knew there was more to him.

• 22:26Ashley Flowers?

  There's a lot more to him. So his name is Lance Boss. And what are the odds that he not only shows up in this case, but also in one of those cold cases from the area? That one from 1979 where a 12-year-old girl went missing?

• 22:44Speaker 01

  What?

• 22:45Ashley Flowers?

  Uh huh. So back on April 28th, 1979, in Assotin, Washington, which is like just across the river from Lewiston, 12-year-old Christina White goes to her friend Rose's house because the two were gonna go to like the fair that was in town together. Mom knows she made it to Rose's house because she actually walked her over there, like dropped Christina off with her bike and waved goodbye to her as she was at the front door. But a few hours later, so around 2:00 PM, Christina had called home and asked her mom to pick her up. She said she wasn't feeling well, which wasn't entirely out of the ordinary. I guess Christina had a habit of just not drinking enough water. She would get overheated pretty easily.

• 23:26Speaker 01

  Kids be kids.

• 23:27Ashley Flowers?

  Yeah, but like her mom at the time was home with her little sister. She couldn't just like, like pack up and leave at that moment. So she's like, okay Christina, listen, run a towel under some cold water, put it on your forehead, put it on your neck, just try and cool off. And then when you're feeling a little bit better, like just come home, I'll keep an eye out for you.

• 23:43Speaker 01

  But she never came home.

• 23:45Ashley Flowers?

  She never came home.

• 23:46Speaker 01

  Did she decide to just go to the fair instead of heading home?

• 23:51Ashley Flowers?

  So this is, you asked a complicated question. So the current investigator thinks no. But I don't know if anyone can be 100% certain without knowing where Christina is now. You know what I mean? Police reports from back then are minimal. I mean, there's a lot that has been lost to time, if it ever existed at all. Detective Jackie Nichols, who is on Christina's case today, told our team that there was like this turf war going on between the police department and the sheriff's department when it came to this case. And they were battling over who had jurisdiction. Even though, by the way, when Christina first went missing, it doesn't even feel like anyone was quick to jump on it. Like, they wrote her off as a runaway.

• 24:36Ashley Flowers?

  They said because her mom was divorced.

• 24:39Speaker 01

  What, what does that have anything to do with Christina being a runaway?

• 24:46Ashley Flowers?

  They're basically like, oh, it must be a terrible home life because your mother's divorced, so you're gonna leave.

• 24:51Speaker 01

  Okay.

• 24:51Ashley Flowers?

  It's like, complete B, like, yeah, sign of the times.

• 24:53Speaker 01

  Okay, cool. Awesome, great. Her friend, Rose, did, did she, like, say what happened to her?

• 25:01Ashley Flowers?

  Well, she wasn't there because when they talked to Rose, it turns out, um, so again, they were planning on going to the fair. Rose ended up leaving as planned when Christina wasn't feeling good. So she, like, left, went to the fair. Christina is there at this house. And when she left, she just assumed Christina was gonna join her later, or whatever. Now, it's a little confusing. Her little brother, Rose's little brother, might have also been home while Christina was there. But it seems like police don't speak to him much. And like, even today, he's never sat down for like, a proper interview.

• 25:35Speaker 01

  Wait, why?

• 25:38Ashley Flowers?

  Well, he was only 10 back then. So like, at the time, I don't know if police didn't know if he'd be much help. I don't know if like-

• 25:45Speaker 01

  They had this runaway theory, so like-

• 25:47Ashley Flowers?

  Did they, right? Or did like, you know, parents come in and say like, no, you can't interview my 10-year-old? Like, that's too traumatic? Again, like, I don't have a lot of reports from back in the day to like, reference like, what they were even thinking at the time. To me, this is like- I feel like he holds all the answers. But like if he's not talking, also, why is he not talking?

• 26:07Speaker 01

  Mm hmm.

• 26:08Ashley Flowers?

  And I know Detective Nichols like wants to talk to him still like to this day, but she says she's waiting for like the right time or like, you know, if you're out there, like you're welcome to come forward.

• 26:18Speaker 01

  Yeah.

• 26:18Ashley Flowers?

  But all that to say, so little brother, maybe home, maybe not. Rose is already at the fair. There was someone else who had very close ties to this household, who could have come by, like theoretically, we don't know if he was in the house that day. But guess who Rose's mom was dating?

• 26:36Speaker 01

  Lance Voss.

• 26:37Ashley Flowers?

  Lance Voss.

• 26:39Speaker 01

  And what's his story?

• 26:41Ashley Flowers?

  I don't know. So like without the reports, it's hard for me to tell what he said, or even if he was asked at all about that day or his whereabouts. What I know is Christina and her bike are never seen or heard from again. The only thing even connected to her that ever surfaced were some school papers that were found on the outskirts of a farmer's field shortly after she disappeared. And when they get found, they were in pretty good condition. So it looked like they'd only been out there, I don't know, maybe a day or two. But Detective Nichols is actually not sure if this find is even significant. And that's for a few reasons. I mean, for one, it wasn't just Christina's papers. There are actually some from another friend.

• 27:25Ashley Flowers?

  Two, the papers aren't all in one place. Like it doesn't feel like, you know, they were like staged there. They're sort of scattered, almost like they flew out of someone's car, like passing on a nearby road. So Detective Nichols kind of wonders if maybe, you know, some of Christina's and this other friend's schoolwork was in like the friend's family's car, somehow like it got mixed up, fell out, whatever. And we talked to a woman named Gloria. She is Christina Nelson's cousin. So that's how this whole thing like got started for her.

• 27:53Speaker 01

  Okay.

• 27:54Ashley Flowers?

  She has been deep in this case. I mean, like, I mean, really, along with Detective Jackie Nichols, Gloria is the one who brought this case back to life. And she says that the field where those school papers were found, that's where Rose and her mom kept their horses. So all in all, Detective Nichols doesn't think that those papers are like the key to cracking this case.

• 28:14Speaker 01

  And is there any direct connection between Lance and this property?

• 28:18Ashley Flowers?

  No, um, but you can see that there is like a really strong connection between Lance and Christina. And that's where I'm like, do the papers mean anything? I don't know. But like, you know, going back to our scoped out, just like him being the last person who was in the same place as Steven before Steven disappears. Lance is suspected by police to potentially be the last person in the same place as Christina when she disappeared. And when you look at the case that happened between Christina and then the other three from Lewiston, there isn't a tight connection to Lance, but I don't know, enough circumstantial things to make you go, huh. So the other case is that of 22-year-old Kristen David.

• 29:03Ashley Flowers?

  So on June 26, 1981, Kristen goes missing while riding her bike from her dorm at the university in Moscow, Idaho, to her parents' house in none other than Lewiston. Like Christina, both she and her bike, just poof, gone. But unlike Christina, Kristen gets found. Eight days later, on the 4th of July, her body is found in pieces in the Snake River. Her body parts were wrapped in newspaper and placed in black garbage bags. Now, she'd been in the water for some time, so finding forensic evidence was pretty much a no-go. They don't know who took her, they don't know where she was killed, they don't know

• 29:47Ashley Flowers?

  much of anything. The only clues they had in her case were the newspaper that she was actually like wrapped in, they were local papers from Lewiston dated April of 1981, and police got a couple of sightings of maybe a big brown van that was maybe stopped on the side of the road with her and her bike. But they never figured out who the driver was. Though, and this is one of those very loose connections to Lance Foss, it's been speculated that maybe he had a brown van at the time. I guess he had a lot of vehicles. But we're saying brown van, not officially confirmed.

• 30:28Ashley Flowers?

  Though what's more interesting is that Lance's job took him specifically from the valley to Moscow, which includes like the same route that Kristen would have taken on her bike the day that she went missing. And Kristen had actually worked at the Lewiston Civic Theater for at least a little while at some point. So she theoretically very well may have known Lance Foss, although we cannot 100% confirm that. So again, let's scope out 30,000 foot view. In 1984, you have this witness who was with Steven right before Steven went missing. Now you realize that his name has come up in other cold cases. Very suspicious. And listen, even early on,

• 31:13Ashley Flowers?

  they recognized that his story about being at the theater always kind of stunk a little bit. So while police are still looking for Steven, right after Christina and Brandy are found, they also bring this guy Lance back in for questioning. And the first time they talked to him, it was just as a witness. This time it is as a suspect. And this time, his story gets even stranger.

• 31:43Ashley Flowers?

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• 32:26Ashley Flowers?

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• 33:44Ashley Flowers?

  Lance's story originally was that he was working with Steven on the set, and he left around 9:30. Which we know Steven left at 9:00, so, fine, sure, could make sense. But then in another, like, version of his story or events, he claimed to police that he'd spent more time at the theater that night. And that at some point, he'd been working up in this attic, like, doing rigging or whatever for, like, the curtains or something, and then he accidentally fell through the ceiling. Which is possible, because if you, like, go up to the attic, there are these, like, catwalks that you have to stay on, otherwise the ceiling's just, like, plastered. So, I mean, it would be easy to fall through. So, in this other version, he's like, "Oh, I fell through this thing. Like, I'm not super hurt, but I just needed to lay down for a second, and I ended up falling asleep until, like, 5:00 a.m."

• 34:28Ashley Flowers?

  And he's like, "Oh, when I woke up, I immediately was like, 'Oh, God, I gotta get home, because I never let my wife know that I was gonna be staying there.'" "Oh, and by the way," he tells police, "like, while I was, like, there and sleeping or whatever, I did hear the phone ring at some point, like..." But I was, like, you know, I think this is, like, when he was, like, dazed or half asleep or whatever, but he's like, "I didn't answer it."

• 34:49Speaker 01

  So, convenient if his wife says she called looking for him, and he didn't pick up.

• 34:53Ashley Flowers?

  Exactly. Anyways, he says that on his drive home, as he's like going, he realized, you know what? Like, there's no point in rushing. My wife is probably already at work by this point. So never mind, I'm gonna go back to the theater. So again, this is like the kind of weird story he's told them before when he was a witness. And that was back in 1982. Fast forward to now, 1984, and he gives a little more detail. So he reiterates that he's working at the theater. But then, he says between 9:00 and 9:30, he leaves. And he drives to this pizzeria called The Red Baron to have a couple of beers and watch a movie. He says that the movie got out at 11, which is when he left the pizzeria and went back to the theater.

• 35:37Ashley Flowers?

  This is presumably when he fell through the ceiling, that whole rigging thing. Laid down, sleeps till 5:00 AM. But he's still in all of this, claiming that he never saw Steven back at the theater. And, oh no, I never saw The Missing Women either, by the way.

• 35:54Speaker 01

  So he's saying he's aware enough to like, hear the phone ring, decide not to answer it. But don't worry, he definitely didn't like interact with the missing guy that we absolutely know was there at midnight.

• 36:07Ashley Flowers?

  Okay, yes, but it's even more bananas than that because when they dig in, they realize that the couch that he says he's like asleep on, or half asleep on because he hears the phone, whatever, is right by the door that Steven would have entered from. Like when his girlfriend dropped him back off after the party. So suspicious, but there are other parts of his story that don't line up either. Like, right, he says he goes to this pizzeria, he leaves when the movie's over at 11. When investigators actually check, they find out that the movie didn't get out at 11. It got out at midnight. And they find out that one of the paths that the women might have taken to get to Safeway, right, we're talking about Christina and Brandy.

• 36:50Ashley Flowers?

  There's a path that just so happens to cross right in front of The Red Baron, where he's now telling them he was. And to me, in the perfect timeframe, right, like we know Christina is talking to her boyfriend Bill at 8:30. She's waiting for Brandy. We know that the Safeway closes at 10. So she would have walked right by The Red Baron as he says he's sitting there.

• 37:11Speaker 01

  Right.

• 37:12Ashley Flowers?

  So investigators can't help but wonder. Could Lance have seen the girls from inside the Red Baron, somehow lured them back to the theater? Because at the time, Steven was gone. Like, maybe he didn't know Steven was coming back. And then Steven walked in on something happening, and then maybe Steven was just like collateral damage.

• 37:33Speaker 01

  Which is an interesting theory, but then where is Steven? Like, they found the girls.

• 37:40Ashley Flowers?

  And yeah, Steven was not with them. One theory has always been that maybe he's still in the theater. Like, when I did a TikTok on this case, asking locals to tell me, like, what have you been hearing? Right? Like, you guys need to follow me, because I'm always asking people before now, before we do stuff. Because like, I'm finding, especially in these old cases, there's usually like this town lore where everyone's like, well, I've heard this 100 times. I thought police knew, whatever. So I asked people what they said, and what I kept getting from people is that there's this rumor that he is in the wall of the theater. Now, like, were they telling police that at the time? I don't know. I feel like if he was in the wall, he would have been found. Like, the theater is abandoned and condemned now, but it wasn't then.

• 38:25Ashley Flowers?

  Like, the smell alone, I feel like would have gotten some attention from people.

• 38:29Speaker 01

  Yeah. Did they ever search it?

• 38:31Ashley Flowers?

  I don't know. Like, I don't know how much they were searching for a body early on.

• 38:36Speaker 01

  Versus like, evidence of a missing person and their last, like, interactions and movements.

• 38:41Ashley Flowers?

  Right. And I know, I know back in the day, like, and I'm pretty sure it was after the Christina and Brandy were found. I know they were going to the theater trying to find evidence of a crime scene. And I haven't told you this yet, not just because of like the Lance connection and Steven or whatever, like, the theater makes sense. But I told you there was like cord found under Christina and Brandy.

• 39:03Speaker 01

  It was like a clothesline, yeah.

• 39:05Ashley Flowers?

  Well, to police, when you, again, you scope out and you're looking at all these pieces, that cord looks an awful lot like the rigging, specifically the type of rigging that Lance said he was working with at the theater that night. So, like, everything in these three cases just like keeps coming back to the theater for them. So I know that they conducted luminol testing in the basement, by the back door, but they never got anything that they could work with, because it turns out that the theater walls were painted with lead-based paint. And like, lead will apparently light up just like blood under luminol, which I did not know. Fun crime junkie fact. So unfortunately, at the time, like, they can't say if anything happened there.

• 39:48Ashley Flowers?

  But, but no, they're not taking down walls looking for a body either.

• 39:51Speaker 01

  But when they're looking for evidence, I'm not sure I'd expect like blood at the crime scene if we know that the women had been strangled, right?

• 40:00Ashley Flowers?

  Yeah, but like, we don't know what happened to Steven. So, and you don't know if like, no, they didn't have skull fractures as far as we know or anything like that, but you don't know.

• 40:08Speaker 01

  If there was like a laceration from like a defensive wound or something.

• 40:11Ashley Flowers?

  I think they're just looking for anything that can be helpful.

• 40:13Speaker 01

  Well, what would be helpful is finding Steven. Like that, I feel like that would be like a huge puzzle piece in all this. Did they ever actually check the walls or whatever? Like run down some of these local rumors that like you at least have heard?

• 40:27Ashley Flowers?

  Yeah, like would love to know. If they checked the walls, like there's nothing in it in the police documents. But like I said, I know the theater was condemned and it recently just got purchased with plans to turn it into a senior center. So with those renovations, like it's twofold, right? Like there's a chance that any evidence there either already has or soon going to be lost. I don't know. And maybe I'm just being like too optimistic, but I'm like, oh, also does this mean like as we're tearing it down, if we're careful enough, can something be found?

• 40:58Speaker 01

  We could find evidence, right?

• 41:00Ashley Flowers?

  But not finding Steven, I think is one of the biggest hangups in this case. Because I think prosecutors are like, well, a defense is going to have a field day with this, right? Like.

• 41:10Speaker 01

  It's something you can't tie up.

• 41:12Ashley Flowers?

  Right, because until you can prove like with a body that he's a victim, I think a defense attorney is going to paint him as an alternate suspect. It's just not a slam dunk, even with how suspicious Lance looks to police. Like after that second interview where it was clear they were suspicious of him, he lawyers up, refuses a polygraph, stops cooperating.

• 41:32Speaker 01

  I get that this is not like a slam dunk case, but going back to your like zoom out 30,000 foot view, I mean, there's something going on here.

• 41:43Ashley Flowers?

  Yeah. And I mean, if you think that now, just wait, because I haven't even told you what Lance's history was before the crimes in the Lewis Clark Valley started happening.

• 41:56Ashley Flowers?

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• 42:40Ashley Flowers?

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• 43:58Ashley Flowers?

  Lance moved around a bit before he settled in the valley. He grew up in Chicago. He was out in California for a little bit. Like dude kind of bounced around. And that, his movements, is something that Gloria has really dug into. She traced Lance's location over the years and cross-referenced other homicides or suspicious deaths in those areas. And she found a few that, like you said Brett, feel like a little more than a coincidence to me. First was the unsolved murder of Diane Taylor in Chicago. Diane was eight years old when she went missing on August 1st, 1963, while heading home from the YMCA. Her body gets found two days later.

• 44:40Ashley Flowers?

  She's been brutally beaten, sexually assaulted, and stabbed. Now, while researching Diane's case, Gloria found that a 15-year-old Lance Voss was her YMCA camp counselor and lived in the same neighborhood as Diane. What's wild is I'm not even sure if he was interviewed at the time. Now, our team tried reaching out to Chicago PD to see where the investigation stands today because Detective Nichols told us that they were really interested when Gloria brought this to them. But when we reached out to Chicago investigators, they would not talk to us. So I'm not sure if they have any evidence to test. I don't know if they've tried talking to Lance about this. Like, I truly know nothing about where things stand in that case today. But it's odd, right?

• 45:25Ashley Flowers?

  Yeah. So that's Chicago, 1963. Fast forward to June 1972. Lance is now 24 years old and living in California. 17-year-old Antoinette Anino is found in the early morning hours floating in the water near the shore of Santa Cruz. Police quickly rule her death as suicide by drowning because they found out that the night before, she and her boyfriend, her brother, and her brother's girlfriend were like all out in the boardwalk together when she and her boyfriend get in this argument. The two of them like leave their friends to go sit on the beach and talk about it, but apparently she was really upset. So her boyfriend got up, left her alone, telling her, "Listen, you can like come join us again when you're calmed down."

• 46:08Ashley Flowers?

  Now, they don't see her again, and when police hear this, they're like, oh, she must have been so upset that she threw herself into the ocean to drown, even though she was found nude and all of her clothes were missing, never found.

• 46:21Speaker 01

  I'm sorry, what?

• 46:22Ashley Flowers?

  I know. Now, here's where it gets freaking weird.

• 46:24Speaker 01

  Weirder than this?

• 46:25Ashley Flowers?

  Weirder than this. Her body was taken to Willow Glen Mortuary in San Jose. Later that same night, Lance Voss gets caught breaking into this mortuary with a flashlight, with a hunting knife, and with a camera. According to the owner's daughter-in-law, Lance gets caught, and he tries to explain this whole thing away. He's like, oh, I'm just trying to get in to see my girlfriend one last time.

• 46:55Speaker 01

  And was Lance the boyfriend that she had been arguing with?

• 46:59Ashley Flowers?

  No, he wasn't her boyfriend. But listen, you can't even say that, like, it was another.

• 47:04Speaker 01

  Was there someone else there?

• 47:06Ashley Flowers?

  Antonette's body was the only one in the mortuary at the time. So he gets charged with attempted burglary, which ended up being reduced to a misdemeanor at the time. And again, like, nobody's connected him to a Chicago thing. This seems like the only thing that has happened. So like, I understand how maybe it got, like, pled down or whatever, first time event, a freaking weird first time offense. When we talk about, like, paying attention to things that people are doing, breaking into a mortuary with a camera, a flashlight, and a knife.

• 47:36Speaker 01

  That feels like different than attempted burglary to me, but what do I know?

• 47:40Ashley Flowers?

  We should, again, we need to be paying attention, all the red flags. So there's that.

• 47:45Speaker 01

  Yeah.

• 47:46Ashley Flowers?

  Then, the last case that came up in Gloria's digging is the death of 25-year-old Claudette Volova in Lewiston on July 27, 1987. Claudette was also involved with the Civic Theater, according to people who knew her, and despite Lance being married, the two were having an affair. According to one of Lance's friends, the day of her death, he had walked into her apartment and found her body after what was eventually ruled a suicide. Now, I'll say upfront, like, from everything I've seen, it doesn't seem like anyone questions the validity at this current time. Like, everyone seems to believe it really was a suicide. He's just connected to her, they were having an affair.

• 48:30Speaker 01

  But it's just so weird.

• 48:31Ashley Flowers?

  Right. So. I mean, this is what you have, right? Like, the thing about this case that hooked me from the beginning is I think it's one of the first instances that I've come across where everyone connected, like, whether it's law enforcement or family, like, to these murders and disappearances, they seem to think that there is a serial killer at work. They seem to think that they know exactly who it is, where he is, but the public at large knows nothing about it.

• 49:00Speaker 01

  Yeah.

• 49:01Ashley Flowers?

  And there is this guy out there, living his life, and people who come in contact with him may never know the things that he has been connected to, coincidentally or not.

• 49:12Speaker 01

  And so much time has passed, though, surely there's gotta be something in one of those cases that could connect them to a killer, the killer?

• 49:24Ashley Flowers?

  Listen, they've been trying. Detective Nichols has done physical searches over the years looking for victims. I mean, she actually even trained her own cadaver dog to conduct searches for Christina's remains because her apartment didn't have the funds to pay for a dog search, like, this woman's, like, going above and beyond, doing the Lord's work. And listen, I'll tell you that, like, not all of the searches she's done have been directly related to Lance. Like, she's looked at other people, other places, whatever, but a good number of them have been connected to him because, by the way, dude owned slash owns currently, like, a few homes and pieces of property around the valley, including, and I think this is important, a home that was right between Christina's house and Rose's house at the

• 50:09Ashley Flowers?

  time Christina went missing, and that house was vacant at the time Christina White disappeared. But even when she looked at that place and all the other places she's looked at, Detective Nichols, she's turned up nothing. What she has gotten over the years, what our reporter got as she was interviewing people for this episode, what I've gotten in my DMs, are stories upon stories from locals who have personally had creepy or just downright terrifying experiences with Lance. And I'm not gonna go over all of them, but the one that I can't stop thinking about... Is described by Detective Nichols in an episode of Cold Valley called Person of Interest.

• 50:50Ashley Flowers?

  So I'll set it up for you. This woman, she's looking to buy a house and one of the homes that she was looking at was owned and being sold by none other than Lance Foss. So he's giving her this tour and throughout it, he's like hyping up the basement. Like I've done all this work down there. You really gotta see the basement. You've gotta go down in the basement. Like the highlight of the home. So eventually she's like, yeah, okay. Well, you know, I've seen the house. Let's go down to the basement. She started towards the stairs first with like him following behind, but before they actually got to the stairs, she like turned around to tell him something. And when she turned around, she says that he put his arm, his like arm was up and he like put it down really fast and sort of like she felt like hid something behind his back.

• 51:33Ashley Flowers?

  And she asked him, she's like, what, like, what are you holding? And eventually he pulls something out. Okay. There's something in his hand and it is a finial, which is basically like this, like decorative, like top of a bedpost. And, and when did this happen? I believe this was after all of the murder slash disappearances that we've talked about. But this thing like freaked her out because she felt like he was gonna hit her with it. And to add to the weirdness, he started asking her questions like, does anyone know you're here? Which like thankfully lots of people knew she was, or she at least like said, like everyone in my life knows I'm here. Like that's what I would be doing. I'd be like, I'm leaving. Everyone knows I'm here. Everyone I know, they know the address. They know I'm leaving. Yeah.

• 52:15Ashley Flowers?

  And then like, but as soon as he knows that, he's like, doesn't seem interested in showing her the basement anymore. JKA basement's not a big deal. Now, according to our reporting, Lance moved to the East Coast in 1999 and is still there today. We did try getting in contact with him for this episode, but he did not call us back. So listen, if you have your own story or know anything, something, whatever, Detective Jackie Nichols wants to talk to you. No tip is too small. She is technically only the lead on Christina's case because of jurisdiction stuff. So that's probably the one she has spent the most time with, but it is almost impossible to look at just one case without looking at the others.

• 52:54Ashley Flowers?

  So she is fully read up on all five cases and she is unofficially taken over Christina Brandy and Stevens cases too, who most people now call the Civic Theater Three.

• 53:06Ashley Flowers?

  And right now, she's looking into anything that can be tested for DNA, like the ropes from Christina Nelson and Brandy's bodies, like underneath them. And it's worth saying again, it's not just about Lance. Like, she's also actively looking into serial killers who were operating at the time. She's trying to rule people in and out based on where they were, their MO, whatever.

• 53:27Speaker 01

  Does she unofficially have Kristin David's case too?

• 53:31Ashley Flowers?

  She does not. The FBI has jurisdiction there.

• 53:34Speaker 01

  Oh.

• 53:35Ashley Flowers?

  Kristin has always been the outlier. And even though I think she'll forever be tied and like lumped in with this group in the Lewis Clark Valley, just due to proximity and local lore, most, if not all investigators, actually believe that she was not killed by the same person who killed all the others. Mostly because the MO is just so different.

• 53:59Speaker 01

  Well, yeah, and she was dismembered, right? Like, that's like a whole different ballgame.

• 54:05Ashley Flowers?

  And dismembered by somebody who knew what they were doing. Someone authorities believe probably did it before. I told listeners at the top, like, this was one of the first stories I'd come across where there was a serial killer the, you know, public didn't necessarily know about. But it was not the last. And actually, I've been tracking another man who may be responsible for the murder and dismemberment of women across the country. And Kristin David could very well be one of his victims. And listen, I'm not ready to like completely lay that story out yet. Me and a bunch of the reporters are working on this. We still have a ton of investigating to do.

• 54:47Ashley Flowers?

  But I do want to give everyone a peek into the investigation because the number one thing I'm looking for right now are similar cases. Like, you know, they won't let me into Vicap. I keep trying, like, whatever. So what I need is our millions of listeners to tell me if there are cases local to them that match this same MO. So with that, what I'm going to say is do not miss next week's episode. Set your watches or join the Crime Junkie Fan Club. You can listen to it early. I'll let you listen to it right now. I'm going to drop it at the same time. I'll have a link to sign up in the show notes. But in next week's episode, I'm going to dive deep into Kristin David's case and bring people in on this, what is for us, kind of an active investigation.

• 55:32Ashley Flowers?

  So I'm not giving up. Detective Nichols isn't giving up either. But she recognizes that she is not going to be able to solve these cases without the help of the public. Her hope is that someone who may have been too scared to come forward back then will feel comfortable doing so now. And that's exactly why coverage of these cases are so important. And thankfully, we're not the only ones. The Snake River Killer Podcast has also done a deep dive into these cases. We create more of an opportunity for someone who knows something to hear it and to come forward. So if you have any information about the disappearances of Christina White and Steven Parasol, or the murders of Brandy Miller and Christina Nelson, or Kristin David, you

• 56:17Ashley Flowers?

  can contact the Assotin County Sheriff's Department. We're going to have all that contact information in the show notes.

• 56:37Ashley Flowers?

  You can find all the source material for this episode on our website, crimejunkiepodcast.com. And you can follow us on Instagram at @crimejunkiepodcast. We're going to be back next week with a brand new episode, but don't forget, if you want to listen to Kristin David's episode right now, I'm dropping it early in the Crime Junkie Fan Club. Go to crimejunkiepodcast.com/fanclub.

• 57:23Ashley Flowers?

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