VANCOUVER—RCMP say there’s no indication a body found in northern B.C. on Friday is connected to the high-profile double homicide that left an Australian man and an American woman dead earlier this week.Police in northeastern British Columbia are currently investigating a double homicide involving two young travellers: Lucas Robertson Fowler, of Australia, and Chynna Deese, a U.S. woman. On Monday, the pair was found dead along the Alaska Highway near Liard Hot Springs, south of the B.C.-Yukon boundary.Then, on Friday, police responded to a vehicle fire south of the Stikine River Bridge on Highway 37, where they found a man’s body nearby.Both RCMP and B.C. Coroner Service are in the preliminary stages of investigating that death. Reports from outside of B.C. had surfaced Saturday linking the latest body with the double homicide but RCMP Sgt. Janelle Shoihet told Star Vancouver those reports were inaccurate.Read more: RCMP investigating ‘devastating’ double homicide of Australian man, U.S. woman in northeastern B.C.“There’s no indication these two investigations are connected at this time,” she told Star Vancouver Saturday morning.“People are just too quick to assume because two incidents happened in northern B.C.,” she said. “A lot of that is coming from outside of our province. They don’t realize how vast B.C. is.”The two incidents happened a seven-hour drive from each other, according to Shoihet.She added there are no updates on the double homicide investigation as of Saturday morning.When asked if there had been previous issues on the portion of Highway 97 where Fowler’s and Deese’s bodies were found, she said the incident was “highly unusual.” “That area of the highway is remote, but it is well travelled because those hot springs are destination points for many tourists, and it’s a throughway to Alberta, to Yukon, to Alaska,” she said.̶ ...
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