1972 Killer linked to Children of God killed by US police
In the summer of 1972, just a few months after I joined the Children of God, I was on a road team of six people that travelled around Vancouver Island in British Columbia, Canada. We made our way to Long Beach in Tofino, then a hippie haven on the west coast of the Island. We witnessed on the beach for a few days, passing out tracts (this was before we began selling Berg's letters, known as litnessing). We then left and headed to Campbell River on the east coast of the Island. While parked in a mall parking lot, police officers approached our distinctive black delivery truck converted into a camper and began to question us about the recent double murder in Tofino. Apparently the killer left behind some items, including a bible and pamphlets that were traceable back to the Children of God. Witnesses reported seeing our van at the Beach and so it was logical for the police to look for and question us. None of us on that road team knew who he was. Apparently, he had joined the COG commune in Port Alberni, a town you have to pass through to get to Tofino, but he didn't last long. He did take a "bible name", though, and Job Week is listed as one of his aliases. Anyway, the guy disappeared for over 30 years, was a suspect in a similar double murder on a beach in California, and now finally police found him in New Mexico. He was killed by the police, but not before he killed one of them.

Following is information concerning this man from the RCMP website, then an article from today detailing his death, followed by an article from two years ago with more background info on the killer.

Here's info from the RCMP website, that includes an old photo, which might help someone remember him as a COG member:

http://www.rcmp-grc.gc.ca/wanted-recherches/burgess-eng.htm


I don't know how long that page will exist, since the fugitive is now dead. I couldn't figure out how to post the images here, so if anyone else knows how to do that please post the photos in a follow up to this post.

Here's an article about today's development in Canada's Globe & Mail:

From Tuesday's Globe and Mail Last updated on Tuesday, Jul. 21, 2009 04:08AM EDT
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/british-columbia/cookie-bandit-a-bc-cold-case-killer/article1225298/



Here's a Los Angeles Times article on the murders and the fugitive from 2007:
http://articles.latimes.com/2007/jul/22/local/me-beach22