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A case that began as a search for two missing BC teens — Bryer Schmegelsky, 18, and Kam McLeod, 19 — has developed into a police pursuit across western Canada in search of two alleged murderers.
July 15 — The bodies of a man and a woman are found near a blue van on the Alaska Highway (Hwy 97), approximately 20 km south of Liard Hot Springs.
July 17 — RCMP say the deaths are suspicious.
July 18 — RCMP announce that an international couple — Australian Lucas Fowler, 23, and American Chynna Deese, 24 — were victims of a double homicide while travelling through northern BC. Meanwhile, in Jade City, B.C., McLeod and Schmegelsky are spotted in a store where they stopped for free coffee. Jade City is about 350 kilometres from where the two bodies were found.
July 19 — Police announce that they have found the body of an unidentified man approximately two kilometres from a torched vehicle belonging to McLeod and Schmegelsky near Dease Lake. At this time, both teenagers are considered missing. Dease Lake is about 470 kilometres from the first crime scene.
July 21 — McLeod and Schmegelsky are spotted in Meadow Lake, Sask.
July 22 — During a press conference, Mounties say Fowler and Deese were shot. They release composite sketches of two individuals: one of a man seen speaking with the couple on the highway where they were found dead and a sketch of the unidentified man found dead near the burned truck. RCMP say they are not ruling out potential links between the Fowler and Deese's double homicide and the death of the unidentified man.
July 23 — RCMP announce Schmegelsky and McLeod are now suspects in three murders. They release photos of the young men and a 2011 grey Toyota Rav 4 they may be driving. Fox Lake Cree Nation says a burned-out vehicle is found near Gillam in northern Manitoba. Police search that area.
July 24 — Manitoba RCMP confirm the burned-out vehicle near Gillam is the Toyota Rav 4 the suspects are believed to have been driving. Schmegelsky's father says his son had a troubled upbringing and thinks that his son is on a "suicide mission." Police identify the man found near the torched vehicle near Dease Lake, Leonard Dyck from Vancouver. Charges are laid against the two BC teens in connection with Dyck's death.
With files from The Canadian Press
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