Forrest Covey was a 24-year-old white man from Mesquite, Texas who was murdered alongside his wife, Jena Covey. The couple were abducted from a grocery store in Mesquite by Carl Taylor and Sherman McCrary; Sherman’s son Danny joined them. The perpetrators took Forrest and Jena to an old barn, where Forrest was killed first while Jena was forced to watch.

This killing was one episode in a series of violent crimes committed by the McCrary family, sometimes called the Donut Shop Murders, which affected multiple states and multiple victims. Law enforcement later arrested Carl Taylor and his wife in Texas and Sherman McCrary and his wife in California. At trial Carl and Sherman blamed each other; Carl attempted an insanity defense.