Looking to the South West you can see the large white courthouse on the Stettler Museum grounds. This is the building where the infamous Robert Raymond Cook murder trials took place. On Saturday, June 27, 1959 Robert Cook found himself in a bit of a bind with the new Chevrolet convertible he had purchased. The unsatisfactory story that Cook told, led to his house being searched. The bodies of his mother and father along with his five younger sibling where found in a grease pit at the home. Robert Cook claimed innocence. Cook was held at the Ponoka mental hospital to be brought before a magistrate on July 10, but he escaped. The man hunt that followed lasted over three days and led to the theft of two cars, the destruction of one, the dynamiting of many beaver dams, the draining of a few lakes, and the involvement of some 20 military jeeps. Robert maintained his innocence until he ended up being the last man hung in Alberta.