Parole Board of Canada decides man who killed 3 people no longer needs mental health oversight while on parole in Fraser Valley
Robert Matthew Chaulk stabbed an 83-year-old to death in 1985, 14 years later murdered two people in ‘brutal and vicious’ attack
September 15, 2026
It’s unclear where exactly he is working or living but as of recently, Robert Matthew Chaulk was living in the Eastern Fraser Valley apparently working for Ruth & Naomi’s Mission at The Interchange on Yale Road at Highway 1, a supportive housing project with a men’s residential recovery program.
Chaulk murdered three people in cold blood. One was an elderly man in 1985 when he was just a teenager then two people he was drinking with in 1999.
Two weeks ago, the Parole Board of Canada removed Chaulk’s parole condition requiring psychiatric treatment, according to documents obtained by Something Worth Reading. Specifically, he no longer is required to “participate in counselling with a mental health professional to monitor and manage your mental health.”
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The daughter of one of his victims doesn’t believe he can ever truly change.
“They claim he has no mental health issues so he is just a serial killer living amongst us,” Nicole McConaghy told me a year ago when discussing his status on parole.
McConaghy is the daughter of Debra Beaulieau who was with her partner Mirzet Zec drinking with Chaulk in an apartment on Hargrave Street in Winnipeg on Jan. 1, 1999. For whatever reason, Chaulk beat and stabbed the couple to death, left the apartment but later returned to clean up. He left again to throw his clothes in a dumpster and went to stay overnight with his girlfriend. He then visited with his family the next day on what was likely a goodbye tour because he then turned himself into police.
The bodies of Beaulieau, 39, and Zec, 37, were found the next day.
In 2007, Chaulk was transferred to a minimum security prison where he received temporary absences and finished a university degree. In 2015, he received day parole for three months that would be renewed several times. In 2018, he rented an apartment and by 2019 he was spending five nights a week there, working a job, saving up money to buy a truck and a motorcycle. That same year he was released on full parole.
“A stone-cold killer who took the lives of three gets to continue to live a normal life in beautiful B.C. with his truck, motorcycle, job and apartment,” McConaghy said.
In 2024, the Parole Board of Canada (PBC) removed one of the four strict conditions on his parole: “Not to associate with any person you know or have reason to believe is involved in criminal activity and/or substance misuse.”
The reason was so he could work with a Fraser Valley “faith-based social service agency” for people with mental health and addiction issues. That special condition would have forbidden that work.
McConaghy doesn’t buy the rehabilitation story since he did the same thing after murdering in 1985 and convincing authorities to release him in 1996.
“He is playing the system as he once did in 1985 after stabbing Mr. Haywood 17 times.”
The PBC decision didn’t state the name or location of where Chaulk would be working, but what they did share narrowed it down to either P2C (Power To Change) in Abbotsford, an evangelical Christian recovery organization, or Ruth & Naomi’s Mission in Chilliwack. No one from P2C replied to a question about his employment. But when a story on Chaulk was posted in July 2025, a reliable source reported that he was working at The Interchange in Chilliwack, which is managed by Ruth & Naomi’s.
One person replied to that original story on social media defending Chaulk.
“I don’t think he’s a threat to anyone,” the person commented. “He did his time and as far as I know was trying to be a good human.”
The problem, at least arguably and to McConaghy, is 11 years after his first murder he was deemed not to be a threat to society by a professional board analyzing offender risk. Three years later he murdered McConaghy’s mother and her partner.
As recently as 2015, Chaulk’s case-management team in prison pointed out he is “capable of extreme gratuitous violence” and a psychiatrist identified a concern about his vulnerability to a psychotic breakdown under “stress or the influence of alcohol or drugs,” according to PBC documents.
The August 30, 2026, PBC decision to remove the counselling requirement continued the conditions forbidding his consumption of drugs or alcohol. That document said a 2025 psychological risk assessment (PRA) placed his risk to reoffend in the moderate range.
“The PRA noted that the underlying causes of your past violence remain incompletely understood, raising concerns that your risk may be underestimated and that any future violent behaviour could occur with little warning and potentially be severe or lethal. As such, the assessor cautions that any reduction in supervision or parole conditions should be approached cautiously.”
Another analysis put him in a category of offenders 80 per cent of which do not commit an indictable offence within three years of release. The condition document otherwise states he has been a model offender living on parole.
“Your mental health appears stable, and you have remained engaged and transparent in your supervision process, regularly communicating significant life developments to your parole officer.”
What crimes he committed other than the 1999 killings is unclear, but a significant portion of one sentence redacted leaves the question open.
“The Board acknowledges the serious nature of your violent offending history, including your current life sentence for two counts of manslaughter and [lengthy redaction].”
Screenshots of a Parole Board of Canada document from August 30, 2026 regarding a change in parole conditions for Robert Matthew Chaulk who killed two people in a violent attack in 1999, 14 years after he murdered an 83-year-old man. (Parole Board of Canada document)
As of July 2025 at least, McConaghy figures Chaulk is destined to reoffend.
“[It’s] just a matter of time until he does it again,” she said.
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