David Shearing
Imagine taking your family on an epic 2 week camping holiday. It will be awesome! You are able to pick up an old motorhome and a small boat to pack on the roof. Three generations of your family will be going on this trip, and you are really looking forward to it.
This is what the Bentley had planned in the summer of 1982. George, 66, and Edith Bentley, 59, their daughter Jackie Johnson, 40, son-in-law Bob, 44, and grandchildren Janet, 13, and Karen, 11 all traveled from their home in Kelowna to Wells Gray Provincial Park, roughly a 3 and a half-hour drive.
After the 2 weeks passed, Bob failed to return from work. This set off some red flags for his co-workers because, in his 20 years of employment, Bob had never missed a day of work. His worried co-workers called the RCMP who began a search for the missing family.
Centering around Wells Gray Park the massive search failed to find any trace of the family. It wasn’t till about a month after failing to return from their trip that a mushroom picker reported that he saw an old burned-out vehicle in the woods that looked similar to the vehicle that Bob drove.
The RCMP were able to find the vehicle with the help of that mushroom picker and made a gruesome discovery; inside the vehicle were the incinerated…