Wells Gray Provincial Park

• ‘He hunted them’: Family launches petition to keep B.C. mass murderer behind bars

  In 1982 in central B.C., David Ennis shot grandparents George and Edith Bentley and parents Bob and Jackie Johnson, and raped their young daughters before killing them as well.

  Crime

  Dec 31, 2025
  
• B.C. mass murderer to apply for release, victims’ families want request denied

  David Shearing, who now goes by the name David Ennis, will be seeking his release today.

  Crime

  Sep 15, 2021
  
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• Alberta family pleads and petitions to keep BC mass murderer behind bars

  A man convicted of murdering six people in 1982 could get day parole. David Shearing (Ennis) plans to live in the Calgary area.

  Canada

  Apr 1, 2021
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• Shuswap men identified as victims of 1987 plane crash

  DNA analysis was used to help identify the victims of the crash and end three decades of uncertainly, according to RCMP. 

  Investigations

  Sep 30, 2019
• Massive, unexplored ‘cave of national significance’ discovered in B.C. park

  “It is huge. It is enormous. When you first see it, you just gasp because it’s just this huge hole in the ground."

  Environment

  Dec 2, 2018
• Searchers looking for missing Alberta plane find wreckage of missing B.C. plane from 1987

  The crash site was located in a rugged, remote section of Wells Gray Provincial Park.

  Canada

  Oct 10, 2018
• BC Wildfires 2017: Provincial parks closed due to ‘severe’ wildfire hazard

  The wildfires burning across large swaths of British Columbia have led to the closure of provincial parks.

  Jul 9, 2017