VANCOUVER—It’s been 50 days since Canada’s national police called a news conference to provide a “significant” update in the weeks-long manhunt for two suspected killers that grabbed the attention of Canadians coast to coast. “This morning, at approximately 10 a.m., RCMP officers located two male bodies in the dense brush,” said Assistant Commissioner Jane MacLatchy of the Manitoba RCMP on Aug. 7. Bryer Schmegelsky, 18, and Kam McLeod, 19, had been found dead. Days later, police would confirm they shot themselves to death. That update would be the last — until now. B.C. RCMP have promised to provide answers about their investigation in a technical briefing and media event Friday. Schmegelsky and McLeod, two young men from Port Alberni, B.C., were charged in the death of Vancouverite Len Dyck and suspected in the double homicide of Australian Lucas Fowler and American Chynna Deese.Very little is known about why they became suspects and what possible motive they could have had.These are the lingering questions police might answer Friday:Did Schmegelsky and McLeod kill Fowler and Deese?When the RCMP found McLeod and Schmegelsky’s burning truck near Dease Lake, B.C. on July 19 and the body of Dyck less than two kilometres away, the two young men were not immediately considered suspects — only missing teens. Mounties said the next day there was no reason to believe the deaths of Deese and Fowler, whose bodies were found on a different Northern B.C. highway four days earlier, were connected to the death of the man later identified as Leonard Dyck. Three days after that, on July 23, the manhunt for McLeod and Schmegelsky began as RCMP announced the men were suspects in all three deaths. Police have not said what information turned the missing men into suspects or what connected the deaths of Fowler and Deese to that of Dyck.Police said Deese and Fowler died of gunshot wounds and that the bodies of McLeod and S ...
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