Nick Lees: Grieving Alberta mother writes bestselling novel after losing sons in tragic double murder-suicide

Tracey Stark wears a diamond ring on the fourth finger of her right hand, made from the ashes of her two murdered sons.

“I feel writing my book about my former husband Corry MacDougal taking the lives of our sons, 11-year-old Radek and 13-year-old Ryder, has given me a voice and helped in my healing,” says Stark.

“I will always feel closer to my sons because of expressing my feelings in the book. But I will never forget my former husband Corry, who was 40 and my sons’ biological father, taking their lives with a shotgun and then turning it on himself.”

Early in the morning of Monday, Dec. 16, 2016, when Tracy and her husband Brent had discovered Ryder and Radek were absent from school and not answering their phones, they rushed over to her ex-husband’s home to investigate.

“All I could see from a window was Ryder lying with his legs covered in blood. I screamed. Neighbours came running from their doors. Someone called the police and they arrived quickly and knocked down the front door.”

The bodies of Radek and the boys’ father were quickly found. Police described the murders as “atrocious.”

Stark, living in Whitecourt, had primary care of her sons and had given permission for them to stay with their father in Spruce Grove for one school year to play a higher standard of hockey. Read More

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