The Politician Who Murdered His Wife and Children

In June of 1956, John E. Clark killed his wife, four children, and two boarders on his farm near Stettler, Alberta, about halfway between Calgary and Edmonton. The MLA, who was serving his second term as a Social Credit Party government member under Premier Ernest Manning, suffered from mental illness and depression and was hot tempered, but no one who knew him ever though he’d be capable of such a terrible crime.
An unremarkable backbencher, John Clark, who sometimes went by Jack, made few waves in the four years he spent as a Member of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta. But all that changed on June 4, 1956, when seven bodies were discovered on Clark’s farm. Clark’s body was later found in a field near his home, with a self-inflicted gunshot wound to the head.
Clark’s crime was eerily similar to one that happened several years later, again in Stettler, where Robert Raymond Cook killed his family and was subsequently hanged. Cook was the last man hanged in Alberta.
Long before the term ‘family annihilator’ was in the lexicon, and decades before infamous names like Chris Watts and Scott Peterson, John Etter Clark committed familicide - the murder of family.
This is the story of John E. “Jack” Clark, who he was, and how he became one of the worst mass murderers in Alberta history.
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[@Panda-b0rg]

Grew up in fort Saskatchewan, the old fort is still there and is converted to a museum. I remember reading there that the last hanging in Alberta was there. Pretty neat

[@NeilDeal2023]

Wow! I've lived in Alberta all my life and have never heard this story. Thanks for another interesting video. Great work!

[@ProklaimYYC]

Thanks for watching! As I said in the video, I was very surprised when I started researching this story.

[@GreatNorthernJuna]

What an awful story. Poor kids.

[@ProklaimYYC]

I know. As I say in the video, that’s probably why it’s not a well-known case. It’s almost too tragic to discuss.

[@GASAT4]

Thanks for sharing this interesting story.

[@ProklaimYYC]

Thanks for watching! I agree, a very interesting story and not very well known.

[@taradeleeuw2344]

There is a club for Mr cook