{"id":870586,"date":"2026-08-25T06:40:12","date_gmt":"2026-08-25T06:40:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/870586\/"},"modified":"2026-08-25T06:40:12","modified_gmt":"2026-08-25T06:40:12","slug":"man-who-killed-family-of-6-on-camping-trip-in-1982-denied-parole","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/870586\/","title":{"rendered":"Man who killed family of 6 on camping trip in 1982 denied parole"},"content":{"rendered":"

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A man who killed three generations of a British Columbia family during a camping trip in the 1980s has been denied parole again.<\/p>\n

David Ennis shot and killed George and Edith Bentley; their daughter Jackie Johnson; son-in-law Bob; and grandchildren Janet, 13, and Karen, 11, all from Kelowna,\u00a0B.C, while they camped at Wells Gray Park near Clearwater in 1982.\u00a0<\/p>\n

A decision from the Parole Board of Canada says Ennis poses a risk of violent or sexual reoffending that would be unmanageable if he were released.<\/p>\n

It says Ennis watched his victims at their campsite before fatally shooting the four adults and keeping the two children alive for days, sexually assaulting the older girl.<\/p>\n

The decision issued Monday says Ennis then shot the girls and set fire to the vehicle in which he left the bodies, which were later discovered by a berry picker.<\/p>\n

Ennis, who changed his name from David Shearing, was sentenced to life in prison with no chance of parole for 25 years for the killings.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The parole board says the aggravating factor in its latest denial was Ennis’s decision to “callously and viciously” end the lives of six people in order to gain access to a female child victim, with the aim of satisfying his “sexually deviant fantasies.”<\/p>\n

Ennis was previously denied day and full parole in 2008, 2012 and 2021.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Listen to this article Estimated 2 minutes The audio version of this article is generated by AI-based technology.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":870587,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[43,44,41,39,42,40],"class_list":["post-870586","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/870586","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=870586"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/870586\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/870587"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=870586"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=870586"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=870586"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}