Author hopes book can keep killer behind bars
Alan R. Warren, an Okanaganbased best-selling true crime author, is hoping his recently released book, Murder Times Six, will generate outrage and help deny a murderer full parole at his hearing in July.
The book tells the story of the horrifying murders of West Kelowna’s Bob and Jackie Johnson, their two daughters, Janet. 13, and Karen, 11, and Jackie’s parents, George and Edith Bentley while the families were camping near Wells Gray Park in August 1982.
David Shearing, who has since changed his last name to Ennis, was convicted of second-degree murder.
He later admitted to sexually assaulting the young girls before killing them.
Murder Times Six covers the case up to present day
Warren is thorough, with the story how Ennis told it, how the police told it and how the family told it.
Warren also looks at how the justice system works and what goes on in parole hearings.
“I don’t want to scare people, but I want them to be aware,” said Warren.
Although he has written a number of true crime books, Warren admitted Murder Times Six was one of the hardest books he has written.
The case doesn’t feel like it’s
over, he said, because Ennis can still get out of prison.
As a result, the family and friends left behind have been unable to move past the murders.
“A lot of time when you talk to the family, they’re crying when they’re going through it as if it happened yesterday,” he said.
Despite his horrific crime, Warren said Ennis has been approved for unsupervised day passes; however, because of COVID-19 that has been shut down for now.
“I think this is tragic because now you’ve got the family on the edge of their seats knowing this man can walk out of the prison and spend days unsupervised,” said Warren.
According to Warren, Ennis has been a good prisoner, changed his name, gotten married and had other crimes including manslaughter expunged from his record.
Warren, who met Ennis as part of the research for his book, described him as passive, quiet, reserved and polite.
What alarmed Warren was Ennis seemed to have no feeling when he was talking about his victims, it was all matter of fact.
“Would you want him as a neighbour?” asked Warren. “Would you want your kids living next door to this man?”
Ennis has served his minimum 25 years and has been applying for parole so far unsuccessfully.
A hearing for Ennis has been set for July 2021 to give consideration to grant him full parole.
A family friend of the Johnsons
has already been circulating a petition online at change.org to try to keep Ennis in jail.
The petition can be found online at change.org/p/parole-board-ofcanada-keep-david-ennis-aka-davidshearing-convicted-mass-murdererbehind-bars-deny-parole.
Close to 20,0000 people have already signed the online petition.
Murder Times Six can be found at bookstores including Indigo and Mosaic. If the store doesn’t have it in stock, they can order it in.
People can also order online through Amazon.
Along with writing true crime books, Alan R. Warren is the creator, producer and lead host of the popular House of Mystery talk radio show.
Sins of the flesh have been deemed disgusting and vilified by so-called proper society. Yet these same moral police enjoy a good frolic just as much as the rest of us.
Sex is hard-wired into our brains and comes as natural as breathing. Our sex drive is nothing more than the beast in us and that beast loves to rut. From the very smallest bug to the largest mammals, we all like happy endings.
So who has the right to tell us that our desires are vile, disgusting or wrong?
If we look back into our family tree we’d find that our ancestors were real swingers.
They not only swung from tree to tree, they also monkeyed around with more than just one ape.
Over countless generations of happy monkeys, we homo sapiens branched off the tree of evolution and began the quest for the best orgasms ever.
Humans developed the ‘G’ spot and ultra sensitive nerve endings so that we might enjoy multiple happy endings. Isn’t evolution wonderful?
As with all good things in life, a business of providing people with what they wanted sprang up, and so began the sex trade.
The word trade in that sentence has two meanings; it means a working trade and to trade goods for services. This trade has been going on for a lot longer than you might think. It’s been observed that monkeys in the wild will exchange food for sex.
How awful is that? The laws of nature should be arrested, along with those hominoid whores and jungle Johns.
This just proves that prostitution is the oldest profession known to mankind.
Everyone uses sex as a way of getting their own way, from the happy hooker to the happy housewife.
I think it’s a victimless transaction not a moral transgression.
Sex should be legalized not moralized.
Who’s to blame for this injustice — politicians, police, priests? They’re among some of the best clients. So who is to blame? Would you believe you are? We see prostitution happening all the time yet we turn a blind eye to it.
Now here’s the part that seems so senseless to me, there are millions of men going to bed horny every night, and just as many women who simply want to get laid.
Are we so screwed up that we can’t see the forest for the trees? We all own a computer and we all want a happy ending — so why not put the two together – and let’s just say you happen to have some unique qualities that others might find desirable, then why shouldn’t you get what you paid for?
If society would only get off its moral high horse and accept the fact that people have always wanted sex and always will. Doesn’t it make sense to open a safe and taxable house of fun?
Women wouldn’t be exploited, criminals wouldn’t profit and socially transmitted diseases could be monitored. It’s a winwin situation.
But it’ll never happen and do you know why? Because some homo sapiens like to think that they’re better than other homo sapiens.
Isn’t that sad? Sorry, no happy ending here.