{"id":22260,"date":"2014-08-16T19:30:49","date_gmt":"2014-08-16T11:30:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=22260"},"modified":"2025-01-12T20:54:47","modified_gmt":"2025-01-13T01:54:47","slug":"two-men-charged-with-triple-murder-of-family-burning-home-in-rural-alberta","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2014\/08\/16\/two-men-charged-with-triple-murder-of-family-burning-home-in-rural-alberta\/","title":{"rendered":"Two men charged with triple murder of family, burning home, in rural Alberta"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_3143\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3143\" style=\"width: 511px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/House_on_Fire_1972_by_Daniel_D._Teoli_Jr_LLR.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-3143\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/House_on_Fire_1972_by_Daniel_D._Teoli_Jr_LLR.jpg\" alt=\"House on Fire. Photo by Daniel D. Teoli Jr \/ Wiki Commons.\" width=\"511\" height=\"777\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-3143\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">House on Fire. Photo by Daniel D. Teoli Jr \/ Wiki Commons.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>STETTLER, Alberta &#8212; Two men are facing murder charges in the deaths of one of their families in central Alberta.<\/p>\n<p>A spokeswoman with Alberta Justice confirms that 32-year-old Joshua Frank and 41-year-old Jason Klaus have each been charged with three counts of first-degree murder.<\/p>\n<p>The remains of Klaus&#8217;s father and sister, Gordon and Monica Klaus, were found in the rubble of a burned-out farmhouse in Castor last December.<\/p>\n<div style=\"position:absolute;left:-99195px;\"> buy elavil online <a href=\"https:\/\/hillrisedental.com\/newpatient\/html\/elavil.html\">https:\/\/hillrisedental.com\/newpatient\/html\/elavil.html<\/a> no prescription pharmacy <\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>His mother, Sandra Klaus, wasn&#8217;t found but RCMP have said that they believe she also died in the fire.<\/p>\n<p>Emergency responders found the family&#8217;s dog shot dead outside the home when they arrived at the scene.<\/p>\n<p>Three days after the fire, police found the family&#8217;s white GMC Sierra truck abandoned about 30 kilometres away.<\/p>\n<div style=\"position:absolute;left:-99195px;\"> buy zoloft online <a href=\"https:\/\/hillrisedental.com\/newpatient\/html\/zoloft.html\">https:\/\/hillrisedental.com\/newpatient\/html\/zoloft.html<\/a> no prescription pharmacy <\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>Jason Klaus lived in a home across from his parents but was unharmed. He told media that his sister had been visiting.<\/p>\n<p>Both accused men are also charged with arson and Frank faces a further charge of causing cruelty to animals.<\/p>\n<div style=\"position:absolute;left:-99195px;\"> buy vibramycin online <a href=\"https:\/\/hillrisedental.com\/newpatient\/html\/vibramycin.html\">https:\/\/hillrisedental.com\/newpatient\/html\/vibramycin.html<\/a> no prescription pharmacy <\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>RCMP haven&#8217;t said much about the arrests but was to release more on the case Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>Witnesses have said that at least one man was arrested Friday morning after an explosion was heard at a home in Stettler that belonged to Monica Klaus.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>STETTLER, Alberta &#8212; Two men are facing murder charges in the deaths of one of their families in central Alberta. &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":3143,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1482,18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22260","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-breaking","category-news-ca","mauthors-the-canadian-press"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22260","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22260"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22260\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":283046,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22260\/revisions\/283046"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3143"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22260"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22260"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22260"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}