‘We bleed again:’ family of Shearing’s victims dreading upcoming parole hearing
CALGARY – Family members of the victims in a gruesome mass murder 30 years ago say they will never forgive the man serving a life sentence for the crime.
David Shearing is up for parole in Alberta later this month and relatives of the victims don’t want to see him released.
Shearing, who now goes by the name David Ennis, pleaded guilty to killing a family of six on a camping trip in the interior of British Columbia in 1982.
He shot and killed George and Edith Bentley, their daughter Jackie and her husband Bob Johnson.
He kept Johnson’s daughters Janet, who was 13, and Karen, who was 11, alive for a few days and sexually assaulted them before killing them, too.
Shelley Boden says every time Shearing applies for parole she relives the death of her aunt, uncle and two cousins.
Boden, who will address the hearing, says she will never forgive and never forget.
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