Australian Murdered in BC

[Anonymous]

With the forensic technology we have now, they will be found eventually, if they are still alive.

Do you think they are still alive.

[cc]

Found .. Dead .. in heavy brush area



Police sure bodies are the suspects - The bodies were discovered Wednesday morning at approximately 10 a.m. local time in dense brush, approximately a kilometre from where items linked to the fugitives were found along the Nelson River.



"At this time, we believe that these are the bodies of the two suspects wanted in connection with the homicides in British Columbia," said Assistant Commissioner Jane MacLatchy, commanding officer of the Manitoba RCMP.



An autopsy will take place in Winnipeg to confirm the identities and determine the cause of death, she said.



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 Will make "significant announcement" this afternoon

[cc]

BUMP!!! ... ^^^^^^^^^^^^ Found .. Dead .. in heavy brush area



Canucks might also find this interesting .. Bricks worse nightmare falling down the list

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[Odinson]

Found .. Dead .. in heavy brush area



Police sure bodies are the suspects - The bodies were discovered Wednesday morning at approximately 10 a.m. local time in dense brush, approximately a kilometre from where items linked to the fugitives were found along the Nelson River.



"At this time, we believe that these are the bodies of the two suspects wanted in connection with the homicides in British Columbia," said Assistant Commissioner Jane MacLatchy, commanding officer of the Manitoba RCMP.



An autopsy will take place in Winnipeg to confirm the identities and determine the cause of death, she said.



https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/manitoba/rcmp-significant-announcement-1.5239053">https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/manitoba ... -1.5239053">https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/manitoba/rcmp-significant-announcement-1.5239053



 Will make "significant announcement" this afternoon

Yes, they "found" them dead...  ac_biggrin

[Gaon]

Found .. Dead .. in heavy brush area



Police sure bodies are the suspects - The bodies were discovered Wednesday morning at approximately 10 a.m. local time in dense brush, approximately a kilometre from where items linked to the fugitives were found along the Nelson River.



"At this time, we believe that these are the bodies of the two suspects wanted in connection with the homicides in British Columbia," said Assistant Commissioner Jane MacLatchy, commanding officer of the Manitoba RCMP.



An autopsy will take place in Winnipeg to confirm the identities and determine the cause of death, she said.



https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/manitoba/rcmp-significant-announcement-1.5239053">https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/manitoba ... -1.5239053">https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/manitoba/rcmp-significant-announcement-1.5239053



 Will make "significant announcement" this afternoon

And all the reports to the police of seeing them in Ontario were hoaxes.

[Anonymous]

Life can go back to normal for the people of Gillam, Manitoba.

[Odinson]

What if the other kid was bullied by the homosexual psychopath looking one...



And this Kam Mcleod (bearded boy) wasnt the one committing all those murders.





It happens... The mentally stronger one dominates the weaker one.





In that sense.. He didnt deserve to die.

[cc]

I suspect that is exactly what happened .. that the dominant one led  and the other fella followed him



This not an uncommon concept

[@realAzhyaAryola]

I am a consummate skeptic. While I agree with the above speculations, I believe there is more to this. Too bad that this gripping saga will leave us all with an unsolved mystery. We will never know the full story.

[Anonymous]

I am a consummate skeptic. While I agree with the above speculations, I believe there is more to this. Too bad that this gripping saga will leave us all with an unsolved mystery. We will never know the full story.

Some questions will remain unanswered.

[cc]

A lowlife who wants to kill gets a helper .. they kill 3 people .. make it to Manitoba just before cops are notified of them ... go north ... take off into the bush ... die



Not sure what "consequential" questions remain.

[Anonymous]

A lowlife who wants to kill gets a helper .. they kill 3 people .. make it to Manitoba just before cops are notified of them ... go north ... take off into the bush ... die



Not sure what "consequential" questions remain.

Robbery or thrills? Did they run out of cash and would be thieves became cold blooded killers. We won't know that.

[cc]

Meh .. a killer is a killer



Canadian killer fugitives' trail of clues: Billowing smoke, sardine cans, sleeping bag helped end manhunt



tour guide Clint Sawchuk told The Globe and Mail he thinks he helped police after he spotted a blue sleeping bag in the water on Friday, tangled up in some willows and reported it to RCMP.



"I'm so happy that I made that call," he said.



Seems a lot of people spotted clues and called in - really helping police

[Anonymous]

They still haven't revealed the cause of death or even confirmed their identities.

[@realAzhyaAryola]

Robbery or thrills? Did they run out of cash and would be thieves became cold blooded killers. We won't know that.

Precisely. Then there's this too.



[size=200]Northern B.C. manhunt ends, with many questions left unanswered[/size]

Hannah Jackson



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The RCMP believe they have their men after two bodies were found close to the Nelson River in Manitoba on Wednesday.



Police are confident that they are the bodies of northern B.C. murder suspects Kam McLeod and Bryer Schmegelsky.



The authorities have been hunting them since at least July 23, when they were confirmed as suspects in the murders of Australian Lucas Fowler, American Chynna Deese and Vancouver man Leonard Dyck.



An autopsy is scheduled to be conducted in Winnipeg that will confirm both identity and cause of death, said Manitoba RCMP Assistant Commissioner Jane MacLatchy.



According to MacLatchy, the bodies were found in the "dense bush" along the Nelson River at around 10 a.m. on Wednesday.



The bodies were found near the shoreline, around eight kilometres from where a burned-out vehicle driven by the suspects was discovered on July 23, she said.



The pursuit and investigation lasted weeks, with confirmed sightings dropping off after the pair were last seen in Gillam, Man., on July 23.



The case has left many questions unanswered — and while some are likely to be resolved in the coming weeks, others could remain a mystery.



Here are a few questions about the case that have not been answered yet:



Motive



At a press conference Wednesday afternoon, B.C. RCMP Assistant Commissioner Kevin Hackett said that while officers will continue to investigate, it will be difficult to determine the motive.



"Regarding the motive, it is going to be extremely difficult for us to ascertain definitively what the motive was," he said. "Obviously, we will not have the opportunity to speak with these individuals.



"The examination of the area where they were located (Wednesday) is still being dealt with and searched, so there may be additional items that could help in that regard — identifying a motive, etc. — but we don't have that information yet."



There is no evidence to suggest the suspects were linked to the victims before the murders, nor is there anything tying them to any other incidents in B.C., Hackett said.



Formal charges not laid in connection with Fowler and Deese's deaths



Schmegelsky and McLeod were each charged with second-degree murder in Dyck's death on July 23.



A Canada-wide warrant was issued for Schmegelsky and McLeod after the charges were announced.



The men were also named as suspects in the deaths of Fowler and Deese, whose bodies were found on the side of Highway 97 on July 15.



However, they were never charged in the tourists' deaths.



On Wednesday, Hackett said the force had "anticipated charges were going to be laid."



"In order to get to the threshold of charge approval status from a crime perspective, they require information, they require evidence, and many times as in this case (were) relying on forensic evidence and forensic reports and that sometimes takes some time," he said.



"And understandably, until they have definitive results of those examinations, they're not in any position to lay charges until that happens.



"But we anticipated the charges were going to be laid," he said.



If the autopsy confirms the deceased are, in fact, McLeod and Schmegelsky, the current second-degree murder charges will be "abated," according to the B.C. Prosecution Service.



Leonard Dyck's cause of death



The body of 64-year-old Dyck was found approximately two kilometres south of a burning vehicle along Highway 37 near Dease Lake, B.C., on July 19.



Police have not yet disclosed how the UBC instructor died.



On Wednesday, Hackett said police are aware of the injuries Dyck sustained; however, they would not disclose them out of "respect and sensitivity" to his family.



Police previously confirmed that Fowler and Deese were shot to death.



How did police link the suspects to the victims?



At the press conference on Wednesday, Hackett said there was "significant evidence" linking the suspects to both crime scenes, but did not elaborate further.



"This is early days for the recovery of the two suspects," he said. "We want to bring back all of the information and all of the evidence that we have. Our investigators will go through that meticulously, and we will be in a better position perhaps in the future, in the near future to talk about all of the linkages, perhaps, that existed."



He did, however, confirm that the burned-out SUV located in Gillam, which police said was driven by the suspects, had belonged to Dyck.



Were the suspects ever in York Landing or Kapuskasing?



Schmegelsky and McLeod had been seen across the country following the murders, in Cold Lake, Alta., Meadow Lake, Sask., and finally Gillam, Man., where they were last confirmed to have been seen.



There were also reportedly seen in York Landing, about 200 kilometres from Gillam.



RCMP moved resources to the remote community after Indigenous watch group the Bear Clan Patrol said they spotted two men going through a dump yard who met Schmegelsky and McLeod's descriptions.



However, the Mounties later said they could not substantiate the tip, and police resources were pulled from the area.



Then, word emerged from the Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) on July 31 about a "suspicious vehicle" that was driving through a construction zone on Highway 11 in Kapuskasing, Ont.



The OPP, however, could not confirm the identities of the people inside the vehicle, and said they would continue to investigate.



How much did it all cost?



Public Safety Minister Ralph Goodale said he will "tally at the end" the cost of the hunt and investigation that has taken police across more than 11,000 sq. km. of territory in northern Manitoba.



"At this stage, I couldn't speculate on what the costs are," he said.



"What Canadians expect is that their policing and security services will do what they need to do to investigate crime and to make sure the appropriate consequences follow."



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