OLYMPIC NATIONAL PARK — Kristine Coachman grew up believing her great-grandparents were resting in a watery grave in the depths of Lake Crescent.
Recent video footage, including clear views of the 1927 Chevrolet recorded Saturday by Olympic National Park divers, appears to have confirmed her lifelong suspicion — the vehicle found two weeks ago at the bottom of the lake belonged to Russell and Blanch Warren.
The Warrens are believed to have perished in a 1929 crash along the lake.
Now that the mystery is apparently solved, Coachman said she wants to leave the Warrens in their grave.
“They’ve been there together for 72 years,” she said Saturday.
Coachman, her son, Nicholas, 2, and mother, Geneil Warren, all of Freeland, joined an Olympic Peninsula historian and six divers Saturday as they documented evidence of the vehicle and looked for the Warrens’ remains.
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