Kelly Cook - Unsolved Murder \ Standard Alberta 1981

[Chris]

Yes my father in particular was one of the victims of teh National Energy Program. We moved to a border town with ND (in montana) in 1982ish and I know there was a lot of other Canadians who were doing the same thing. Most of the oil jobs were actually in North Dakota. I think Des's theory is a very valid one for sure.

[Desespere]

It's a 9 hour drive from Williston, ND to Taber, AB.

For some reason I have the Glacier National Park in mind. I have a feeling, if and only if the same person is responsible, that Barbara may be in Glacier National Park. Just a feeling.

Another thing about that park is there was a woman born there, Jennifer Servo, in 1981. Her family ran a restaraunt for many, many years (still may). She moved to a town just east of Dallas, Abilene, to be a news reporter on TV in 2002. She was there a short time before she was murdered in her home on September 17, 2002. This case is still unsolved. That's the only connection I have is my suspicions the killer of Kelly Cook may have passed through the Glacier National Park on the way into Alberta from Williston where he abducted Barbara Cotton although that is not the most direct route. But from Taber, AB there is a direct road south to meet up with HWY #4 then to US HWY #15 the to US HWY #2 direct to Willston.

It was four days from when this killer called the gymnast to babysit and he got Kelly's name to when he actually called Kelly to babysit. The killer called on Saturday before Easter Sunday - during the Easter long weekend. Kelly was abducted on a Wednesday and headed south where Kelly was located a couple of months later.

[Chris]

Isn't Glacier National Park in BC? Waterton is nearby though.

Is that the reporter who investigated the deaths of those 3 women in Montana for the news just before that? I remember reading about that, they just solved the case of the 3 murdered women.

[Desespere]

I don't know about her reporting. Jennifer was born in Waterton peace park, Killeen, Montana. Maybe hey? The three in Montana were solved? I'll have to check into that. So it might be Waterton Peace Park, not Glacier.

There is an interesting history on how Waterton came about. Neechemoos and Inuspi.

[Chris]

Opps! The american side of Waterton is called Glacier National Park. My error. There is one in BC too.

YEs, if you look under the solved section here, I put that info about that solved case in it.

[Chris]

Here is the link to the thread
http://www.unsolvedcanada.ca/index.php/topic,932.0.html

[andy m]

I remember the 80s very well and Pierre Elliot Trudeau's one finger wave as he came west with his family to see first hand what his national energy program could do to a robust economy. We were one of a handful of families that held on to our home in Calgary's NE. The neighborhood was like a ghost town. Empty deserted houses left vacant by 21% mortgages.

Oil workers drive trucks usually 4x4s and i have worked rigs and know they can be a unsocial unruly bunch prone to fight over anything. This isn't the work of an oil rigger. I am trying my best to find any serial killer that was in the oil business. You can find lots of manslaughter cases but none that would lead me to suspect anything this planned or executed. This person wasnt a fledgling killer. He has done this before. Its daring and brazen and thats his excellerant. Its the capture. I have no idea about the phone call from Hussar but to me that doesnt seem out of line perhaps, Kelly did get a fleeting chance to escape and make a quick phone call. However there is not one shred of evidence that this had anything to do with the case. If? lets play devils advocate and say it was Kelly and perhaps the guy was from Hussar area. After killing Kelly he decides its not in his blood to kill innocent little girls and he fades away? No way this guy is out there and he can't stop. He is hard wired to the kill and to the chase. Its what he does that defines him.  Its like I am hard wired to like women particular women size hair colour demeanor. I have a friend that is Gay.(not out of the closet either) His life has been hard and anyone that thinks gay is a choice is ignorant. It boils down to what turns you on. Something in my friend probably from his birth makes him find men attractive. As hard as he tries to hide it by hunting and fishing and talking the talk. I see little signs and once at his house i seen a picture that i was clearly not suppose to see. I was shocked but it did confirmed my suspicions. He hid the picture when I left the room and i never approached the subject ever. It made me feel sad that my friend felt he had to hide this part of his life from me. I think this person is fantastic human being period. This guy might be able to live a normal life have kids a wife and such but what no one sees in him is what makes him tick. The secret that he tries everyday to keep pushed down. His every fantasy is based around this particular thought. He needs to capture secure and be in complete control of a lesser human being or one that his egomanical mind perceives as such. (Please forgive my callowness if Mr and Mrs Cook are reading this. Your daughter will always be in my heart and thoughts as i live my life and i hope someday to hear that this person is only minutes away from a nice leathal injection or better yet waiting to hear the clang of an electric chair as the lever is pulled.) This guy either died of an accident, maybe succumbed to an illness or is still doing what it is that makes him tick. No other way is this guy living the normal life. Taking other peoples lives for sport is not a thing you can turn off. Once you start killing people it becomes the persona of what defines you too yourself as who you are. The master the brilliant one the man in control. My exwifes Uncle used to be a traveling salesman that sold advertisment space on the sides of bowling lane score sheets. He used to travel to all these small towns and sell these advertising spaces to other area businesses. This is the type of guy that killed Kelly. A traveling sales person that had business in the area for a breif moment that spring of 1981. Not my wifes Uncle he was a short bald guy that was married and his wife traveled everywhere with him. I think the person is a traveling salesperson that was in the area. Someone who traveled alone and had alot of time on their hands. He would have a legitimate reason to be in the area and would have had a lot of time to scout out the area find the laundry matt. Most likely because he used it to wash his clothes while on the road. Look at all the posts. Pick out a victim and here we are today no further then the day Kelly was abducted and murdered. These parasites tend to pick out the easiest targets or ways of getting their victims into their hands. Picking up hookers is by far the easiest way. However this guys taste is not for hookers. He needs to be in control and would never go for a hooker that would probably make him her bitch. He wants to dominate and he can only do that if he can find little girls.

[Chris]

Interesting post. First of all, our family was also one of those who suffered under NEP and we took off for Montana after that. It was horrible, never seen so many familes get up and leave like that.

When I read the calgary sun article a few years, I sort of got an impression that the police have a suspect in this. Finding small places like Hussar, which is out of the way you'd think the person would have to have been local.

There are other cases before of young girls being murdered or missing. This person could have been respsonsible for those too. And in fact, I was even wondering if this person may be in jail for another simular crime.

I really wish someone who had inside info could share more with us.

I do agree with how you feel about this kind of killer. I understand these kinds of killings is a pwerful force inside the person who does it. I wonder if this person (if alive and not in jail) drives back to Standard or the place he killed her just to relive the time.

A travelling sales person? Very well could have been, that would also fit the profile of the other young girls scatered throuout the west.

[andy m]

Another thing that bothers me about this Husslar phone call incident. I have never been to Husslar so i really dont know if that small town has a gas station. This guy plans this abduction and calls three or four days in advance. I think I read somewhere he called on the Saturday or Sunday and doesnt pick Kelly up until the Wednesday night? Or am i totally clueless on this time line. Anyways my point is this guy somehow forgets to fill up with gas prior to picking Kelly up, so somehow he forgets to fill up prior to picking her up and has to stop to get gas. This animal was careful there is no way it didnt fill up with gas prior to the picking Kelly up. I will bet the animal stopped in this town very breifly found a number and called it. He set it up did his business perhaps a hundred miles away from Standard but had to travel back through this area to reach his home. Which leads me to believe he is more then likely to live in the USA. I think this would best fit why no one has come forward with any relevent information about the possible discription of this animal. He was in Standard for the laundry matt and then for the abduction. I dont think this animal was local. This animal has done this before. I love your site and i think if you could develope it into a North American wide crime posting site that could perhaps start linking similar crimes it would be a very effective tool in destroying these animals that prey on the weak and vulnerable. Like i said before this wasnt this animals first time. He is clever enough to maybe even have changed his MO. Very few serial killers stray from their normal fixation. Have any psychics been asked to give their two cents worth? I know i am grasping at straws but i would give anything to see this animal destroyed. i do hope that this guy is State side too at least they know what you do to animals that bite. You simply take them and destroy them. You dont warehouse them in safely guarded cells and feed them till they die. You arrange a nice little reunion between them and God. If you are the animal that did this and you like to see everyone come here and chase their tails looking for you. I guarantee you God knows what you have done. Karma is a wonderful power that intertwines everything the hell you are living only mirrors the life you have chosen. In the end you will be destroyed like you so justly deserve.

[Chris]

There are plans on the USA site, do you have a lot of cases you are aware of? It will be www.unsolved.ws, you are welcome to add anything if you would like.

IF he is from the USA, then yes, there would be some simular cases. Des found one in North Dakota. Lots of Americans lived in Alberta at that time, and many still do.

I sure wish I could find out if the police have a suspect in mind though, I bet they do.

[andy m]

Hi Chris, I have never heard that the police ever had a suspect in Kelly's murder. I know the Mother and daughter in Turner Valley they have a pretty good idea who did it. Matter of fact i have read the fellows name, its been published. That particular case the man still lives in the community and denies all involvement. That was more along the lines of a passion killing and fire cover up. Stranger abduction/murder is far harder to track. That is why this site is so important. The more people that can add their knowledge and perhaps get a workable field in which this guy operates would greatly increase the chance of this animal being caught. Remember the two guys that were going around Alberta I think it was in the late 80s early 90s. They took the girl out of the convenient store in either highriver or was it out of Okatoks? They took another lady from the highway who was broken down. Is there any chance those two could have been involved in Kelly's case. They were caught one committed suicide in prison the other died at the hands of an inmate. They liked to bludgeon and then burn their victims if i recall.

[Chris]

Yes I recall that case in Turner Valley. A regular criminal would not kill a child, it would take hate. It is one of those sad cases where it seems the police know who, but short on solid evidence.

I never heard about that case in the 80's, that is really weird. It very well could be.

Yes, they have a person of interest in Standard I believe. I just hope that there is some evidence left for the RCMP to test. Back in 1981, the guy would have no idea what technology would become available.

FOr some reason, this case is of special interested to me. One that I hope has a positive conslusion.

[robkich]

A lot of people in Warner Alberta believe Kelly's killer was a resident of their town.  He was shot and killed by his wife's boyfriend many years ago.  His personality and his circumstances around the time of her abduction pointed a finger in his direction.  At any rate, he is dead.  I'm sure the RCMP know about this suspect.  Warner is just south of Chin by 20 miles or so.....

[Chris]

Wow, that is just weird. I went to Lethbridge today, and drove right by Warner on the way there.

That would make sense, Chin is on the way to Warner. Des had a theory this person was headed south the states, Warner is just a short drive to the border.

That is a very small town. Was he killed in Warner or somewhere else? Do you also know if he was a suspect in other cases or why he might have been in Standard?

Thanks.

[capeheart]

This is an incredible thing to happen to someone who just wanted to make some extra money babysitting. She never should have gotten in a car with someone she did not know.  Her parents should have driven her to her jobs and got to know the people before she took any babysitting at all. I feel that it was someone in her home town also. I believe they saw the note and they just thought about it a while and got the nerve to carry it out. This could have been a person that was involved in sexual assault crimes in the area. I suppose the police have gone over all of those cases.  I hope something comes up so her mother and father can find peace.