VANCOUVER—Two burnt cars. Surveillance footage more than two weeks old. “Several items” found along a Manitoba shoreline.These are the scant traces of Bryer Schmegelsky, 18, and Kam McLeod, 19, the B.C. fugitives charged with second-degree murder in the death of B.C. lecturer Leonard Dyck and suspected in the killing of two tourists, American Chynna Deese and her Australian boyfriend Lucas Fowler.The details shared by police aren’t enough for Deese’s family to begin to understand the reasons for her death, her brother Stetson Deese said on Tuesday. Yet, like the general public, it’s all they’ve heard since Deese and Fowler were found shot to death on the side of the Alaska Highway on July 15.“I’d say the best word for it is confusing,” said Stetson, 30, in a telephone interview from Charlotte, N.C. “These kids aren’t going to turn themselves in and we’re never really going to know why this happened.” The uncertainty about the suspects’ whereabouts and the possibility that they may never be found alive is weighing on the Deese family, many of whom have yet to return to work due to the trauma caused by her sudden death. “Everybody is having trouble accepting it. It’s just one of the hardest things to accept,” Stetson said. “She was perfectly healthy, she had what probably would have been her husband who she was travelling with.”RCMP officers, local police and the military centred their search for Schmegelsky and McLeod on Gillam, Man. The town sits on the southeast shore of Stephens Lake, a reservoir created by the Kettle Dam where the Nelson River continues its journey north into the Hudson Bay. Early in the manhunt, officers found a burned-out Toyota Rav4 in the area that the young men had been driving.Searchers have combed about 11,000 square kilometres of boggy, bush and forest around Gillam for any sign of the pair. Experts have said whether ...
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