Forest Park carries darkness in a way that feels deliberate. On the weekend after Thanksgiving, 1960, nineteen-year-olds Larry Peyton and Beverly Allan left for an ordinary night at Portland’s brand-new Lloyd Center…and never made it home. By the next day, Larry’s Ford was found abandoned off a remote turnout in Forest Park, his body inside, the driver’s door ajar. Beverly was gone.
In this episode of Shadows in the Pines, we trace the case from that silent turnout above the city to a ravine along US-26 where Beverly’s body was found weeks later. We walk through the crime scene reconstruction, the methodical investigation, the green nylon cord that tied Forest Park to a suspect’s bedroom, and the slow tightening of the net around Edward “Ed” Sabin — a young man whose presence in the woods was anything but innocent.
This is the story of two ordinary teenagers, an isolated forest road, and a crime that rewrote the way Portland looked at its own hillsides.
🎧 Listen now, and remember:
Keep your eyes open and your footsteps light… because in the pines, the truth never stays buried.
