Lisa,

I was a young teacher in Kamloops during the missing persons' Wells Gray Park announcements and then when the grisly discoveries were made.

It was a scant year or so after Clifford Olsen's arrest (1981) and I remember telling my students in the fall of 1980 that the bogeyman was real: as Police knew that a serial killer was busy murdering children in British Columbia: and the body count was 11, although that was when the Police stopped paying him for the locations of the bodies!

It made for a truly scary Halloween and both cases burst our hubristic Canadian bubble thinking that we were a safer country than the one south of our border.

Even worse, both cases stirred up memories...I learned that in 1971, one of my friend's sisters Gale never made it home after hitch-hiking from Clearwater to Kamloops on Christmas Eve.

Her body was found in the Spring of 1972, in a melting snowbank.

In the case of Shearing, I remember reading that he had asked someone how to remove/repair bullet holes from a camper.

Sigh, sad times. Thanks for writing this article...obviously it hit home.