As has been mentioned before in this blog, retired Albertan author Jack
Pecover and his sisters Jean Hunter and Helen O’Connor, in their youth, were
neighbours of Dr Robert Henry and Evelyn Hambly MacLauchlan, when the couple
lived in Calgary in the 1940s and 1950s. These now elderly (but still vigorous!)
siblings have another connection which has been of great help to us. Jean
Hunter’s son, the late (June 2012) Dennis Bell, was a well-known and very
respected journalist with The Sun, The Province, the Globe & Mail and the Canadian
Press over the years. By his retirement in the last decade or so, he was News
Director at BCTV
According to both his uncle and his mother, at the time of the
MacLauchlan Murders Dennis was still a print reporter and as such apparently
had the ear of the cops. One of the police told Dennis Bell then that during
their investigation they had learned that “[Doc MacLauchlan] was No. 2 in the
West Coast drug network”.
We at this blog of course would like to hear from any other retired news
reporters who may have similar information on the murdered doctor, Robert Henry
MacLauchlan. Please contact us through this website.
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