Editor's note: This story contains details that may be traumatic for some readers. 

 David Ennis, formerly known as David William Shearing, who in August of 1982 shot grandparents George and Edith Bentley and parents Bob and Jackie Johnson and then later abducted, raped, tortured, and murdered the youngest victims; the Johnsons’ daughters, Janet and Karen, who were 13 and 11 was denied parole for the fourth time.

Ennis, by law, was up for parole, but partway through the process had also requested day parole and escorted and unescorted temporary leave of absences. During the parole hearing, Ennis withdrew his request for an escorted and unescorted temporary leave of absence.

The parole hearing, which was held today virtually, was attended by many extended family members of Ennis' victims, in which they read their impact statements to the parole board. The family members read emotional and often tearful statements. The parole board noted that the sheer number of victim impact statements in each prior parole hearing underlines the severity and extent of his crimes.

Family members spoke of the intergenerational trauma that Ennis inflicted, underlining that their wounds are opened every several years as Ennis continues to seek parole, pleading with the parole board that any and all of Ennis's requests be denied. One family member said that justice will only come once Ennis dies in prison. During most of the impact statements, Ennis, 62, sat at a table, with slumped shoulders, looking down.

During the parole hearing, he said that the murder of the four adults was a prelude to what he sought out, which was to live out the violent sexual fantasies he had, though the parole board disagreed with him and argued that the murders were a part of his fantasy. 

Kristal Woolf who is an Airdrie resident is the great-niece of Bob Johnson and a cousin of Karen and Jane, spoke for the first time in front of the parole board. During her impact statement, she said that it was Ennis's choices in his past that laid the path for the rest of his life, that he made the choice to destroy three generations of families as he stalked them and then murdered them. Woolf said that as a mother, she lives in constant fear and anxiety that her children may encounter someone like Ennis. Woolf later revealed that she was supposed to have been on that fateful trip to Clearwater Valley near Wells Gray Provincial Park, British Columbia.

Woolf spoke to Discover Airdrie after the parole hearing.

"My grandpa lost his brothers," she said. "So, unfortunately, we need to be the ones to help out and take this on. We're not backing down."

Woolf who started an online petition on Change.org to keep Ennis behind bars, amassed over 100 thousand signatures online.

Because Ennis is serving his sentence in Alberta, in Bowden Institution, if he were granted parole, it is likely he would live in the area. Woolf, who is fearful even when her children go out for a bike ride, knew she had to act.