Canadian teen ‘serial killers’ who murdered a North Carolina woman, her Australian boyfriend and a Canadian college professor are found DEAD in the wilderness – Bryer Schmegelsky, 18, and Kam McLeod, 19, had been two weeks on the run
Canadian teen ‘serial killers’ who ‘murdered a NC woman, her Australian boyfriend, and a 64-year-old Canadian college professor are found DEAD in the wilderness after 15 days on the run
Two male bodies were found in dense bushland by a river in Manitoba, Canada on Wednesday morning, police announced
Canadian Police are convinced the bodies belong to Bryer Schmegelsky, 18, and Kam McLeod, 19
An autopsy is expected to confirm the identities as well as the cause of death
Schmegelsky and McLeod who initially were counted among missing persons by Canadian authorities, only to turn out to be murderous predators had been on the run in northern Canada for over two weeks
They were wanted over the murders of American Chynna Deese, 24, her Australian boyfriend Lucas Fowler, 23, and Vancouver man Leonard Dyck
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Canadian Police say two male bodies believed to be triple-homicide suspects, Bryer Schmegelsky, 18, [left], and Kam McLeod, 19, were found by Nelson River near Gillam, Manitoba, on Wednesday morning
Canadian Police announced Wednesday afternoon that two male bodies believed to be Bryer Schmegelsky and Kam McLeod were found in ‘dense brush’ by Nelson River near Gillam, Manitoba, hours earlier.
Assistant Commissioner Jane MacLatchy said she is ‘confident’ the bodies belong to the suspects. An autopsy will be performed to confirm their identities and cause of death.
The discovery of the bodies concludes a 15-day manhunt that began in the western Canadian province of British Columbia and spanned more than 3,100 miles across three provinces.
Schmegelsky, 18, and McLeod, 19, were the sole suspects in the murders of American Chynna Deese and her Australian boyfriend Lucas Fowler, as well as Vancouver biology professor, Leonard Dyck.
Assistant Commissioner Jane MacLatchy said Wednesday morning she is ‘confident’ the bodies belong to the suspects. An autopsy will be performed to confirm their identities and cause of death
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The two teens were accused of killing American backpacker Chynna Deese [right)]a recent college graduate from Charlotte, NC and her Australian boyfriend Lucas Fowler [left], Canadian authorities believe they have found bodies of suspects in killings.
On the same day that police found the items, they also discovered a damaged aluminium boat near the river near Gillam, Manitoba.
Police divers spent Sunday searching the frigid waters of the Nelson River for the fugitives’ bodies.
However, the underwater recovery team did not find additional items, police said.
Survival experts predicted the teenagers would struggle to stay alive if they attempted to hide in the swampy, bug-infested wilderness around Gillam without shelter and equipment.
They also faced the threat of polar bears, black bears, grizzlies and wolves in the area.
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Survival experts predicted the teenagers would struggle to stay alive if they attempted to hide in the swampy, bug-infested wilderness around Gillam without shelter and equipment after traces were found over the weekend
The search for the teenage triple-murder suspects Kam McLeod and Bryer Schmegelsky spanned weeks and thousands of miles, stretching from Manitoba, across British Columbia down to Ontario
Authorities narrowed their search to the long deserted town of Sundance, which closed in 1992, and once served as the hideout for a suspected murderer for three years
After the search party came across a rowboat [photo], on the banks of the Nelson River on Saturday,along with items associated with the fugitives, divers scoured the river but came up empty, so police focused their attentions elsewhere
At the beginning of this week, police focused their search on Sundance in Manitoba, blocking all roads in or out.
Sundance was built in 1975 to house the workers of the Limestone Dam project and their families, and consisted of mostly portable buildings, trailers, with a few small stores and a primary school.
The community was closed in September 1992, and satellite imagery shows empty lots surrounded by roads.
Sundance is considered part of the town of Gillam, where the teens were last seen, and is roughly 1,800 miles from where the bodies of Deese and Fowler were found.
The move to Sundance came as Deese’s family slammed Canadian police for failing to find the teens, questioning whether they were even involved in the tragic deaths of the young couple.
‘It’s taking so long, our family is frustrated the police have not made more progress and we don’t know if it’s even the teenagers who killed my sister and Lucas,’ Deese’s brother Stetson told Australian media.
‘Everyone wants to catch them but we don’t even know if they did it. We’re in the dark as much as the public about what happened to Chynna and Lucas.’
Last week chynna Deese’s family slammed Canadian police failure to find the murder suspects – raising suspicion that they might even be complicit in the death of the pair
The body of botanist Leonard Dyck, 64, [photo] was discovered on July 19 on a highway in British Columbia, a mile away from an abandoned and burning pick-up truck Schmegelsky and McLeod had been driving
The body of college professor Leonard Dyck was discovered four days later on another BC highway, a mile away from an abandoned and burning pick-up truck Schmegelsky and McLeod had been driving. The teenage suspects then drove a grey Toyota RAV4 a distance of 1,865 miles to Gillam before setting it alight in bushland.
Prior to Wednesday’s announcement, Canadian police had not announced any sightings of the duo. – Royal Canadian Mounted Police and the Royal Canadian Air Force, using teams on the ground and planes in the air with infrared cameras and imaging radar, unsuccessfully searched 7,000 square miles around the town of Gillam and surrounding wilderness before scaling back the hunt.
Sundance, Manitoba [photo], was built in 1975 to house the workers of the Limestone Dam project and their families
The genesis of the worldwide attention grabbing, 15-day long manhunt was a 7.19am, call on July 15, that led Royal Mounted Canadian to the side of the road on the Alaska Highway, in remote British Columbia only to find the bodies of a young man and young woman, later identified as Australian Lucas Fowler, 24, and his 23-year-old American girlfriend Chynna Deese about 12 miles south of the Liard Hot Springs, not far from a beat-up blue minivan.
Investigators asked members of the public who may have seen, or have dashcam footage, between 4pm Sunday and 8am that Monday to come forward
Four days later on July 19, police some 292 miles away near Dease Lake, discovered an abandoned truck. The body of Leonard Dyck is found a little over a mile away from the burned-out remains of the truck, which McLeod and Schmegelsky had been driving.
Witnesses reported seeing a ‘bearded man’ having a ‘heated exchange’ with the pair Fowler and Deese on the side of the highway
After photographs emerged of Fowler and Deese’s minivan with a blown out back window, authorities issued urgent appeal for two men who earlier declared missing near Dease Lake – Kam McLeod, 19, and 18-year-old Bryer Schmegelsky.
On July 23, McLeod and Schmegelsky were officially named as suspects and a massive manhunt was underway
The town of Sundance has been deserted for decades
A grey Toyota RAV4 being driven by the pair was spotted in northern Saskatchewan wa later found burnt-out near the town of Gillam, Manitoba.
Six days later York Landing in Manitoba is thrown into lockdown after two men were spotted foraging for food at a landfill.
The manhunt intensified with a combination of police, military, tracking dogs and drones still finding no trace of the two teenage murder suspects.
By August 1 the search had extended to the province of Ontario, about 1,250 miles from where the pair were last seen, after reports of a suspicious vehicle near Kapuskasing
Even as police say the sighting of the pair in Ontario was not credible, they find several items directly linked to the suspects near the Nelson River after a battered rowboat washes ashore
After five days, the search in the Nelson River is called off, and police block off the town of Sundance, which has been abandoned since 1992, and once housed a murder suspect for three years
After 15 days Canadian Police finally announced on Wednesday that two male bodies believed to belong to McLeod and Schmegelsky were found in ‘dense bush’ by the Nelson River, five miles from where they abandoned the burning car
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