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JULY 12
PortAlberni,
BritishColumbia
KamMcLeod
andBryer
Schmegelsky
leavetheir
hometown
together.2
JULY 13
Security
footageshows
FowlerandDeese
ata petrolstation
inFortNelson.3
JULY 15
SouthofLiard
HotSprings,B.C.BodiesofLucas
Fowlerand
ChynnaDeeseare
discoverednear
theirvanon
Highway97.Police
confirmthe
couplewereshot.4
JULY 18
DeaseLake,B.C.
McLeodand
Schmegelskystop
forcoffeeat
CassiarMountain
JadeStorenorth
ofDeaseLake.At
thispoint,theyare
missingpersons,
notsuspects.5
JULY 19
NearDease
Lake
Theburnt-out
truckdrivenby
McLeodand
Schmegelskyis
foundonHighway
37,50kmsouthof
DeaseLake.The
bodyofLeonard
Dyck,64,is found
2kmuptheroad.6
JULY 23
MeadowLake,
Saskatchewan
Policename
McLeodand
Schmegelskyassuspectsinthe
killingsofFowler
andDeese.The
pair’sToyotaRAV 4
is spotted
travellingeast
inthenorthern
Saskatchewan
communityof
MeadowLake.7
JULY 25
Gillam,Manitoba
Thefugitives’
burnt-outcar
is foundnear
thetownof
Gillam,Manitoba,
almost3000km
fromwhereFowler and Deese
were murdered.8
JULY 28 & 29,
Gillam and York
Landing, Manitoba
Police search
houses and
wilderness around
Gillam. On July
29, McLeod and
Schmegelsky
were reportedly
spotted
scavenging food
by a volunteer
group in York
Landing, 200km
south-west of
Gillam.James Favel told Global News. “When they
noticed the truck that was associated with those
activities wasn’t present, then they kind of went,
‘Uh oh, this kind of might be something else,’
and so they were careful to get a description of
the gentlemen that they saw, their exact location
and the direction of travel after that.” Favel told
reporters the pair then fled into bushland when
they were spotted. York Landing, home to fewer
than 500 people, is about halfway between Lake
Winnipeg and Hudson Bay.
At the time of press, about 1000 police were
searching for the missing suspects using
tracker dogs, drones, helicopters and even the
Royal Canadian Air Force. The last confirmed
sighting was 200 kilometres away from York
Landing in the town of Gillam, Manitoba,
where their second getaway car was found
abandoned and ablaze near a rail line. Police
scoured the town of 1200 people, knocking on
doors and searching abandoned buildings.
“Over 100 empty homes have been thoroughly
searched in the town of Gillam,” RCMP
Manitoba said in a statement. Police also
searched an Indigenous area known as Fox
Lake Cree Nation.
However, they could not rule out that the
teens may have changed their appearance and
were no longer in the region.
Schmegelsky and McLeod started their
journey at Port Alberni on July 12. It was a
place they had met as children. They had quit
their jobs at Walmart and were bound forWhitehorse, a former gold rush town. At first,
they were simply thought to be missing.
But soon a sinister picture of them began to
emerge – that of alleged killers. It’s thought that
on the night of July 14 or early on July 15, the
teens confronted lovebirds Fowler and Deese,
whose bullet-riddled bodies were found near
their van. Police believe the teens thenmurdered university lecturer and father Dyck,
whose body was found near the torched truck
Schmegelsky and McLeod had been driving.
As the search continues, a picture has
emerged of the suspects. A former classmate
of Schmegelsky’s revealed he allegedly had
a history of making disturbing and violent
comments. Madison Hempsted told Global
News: “I don’t want to be rude, but he was kind
of a weird kid. He didn’t really talk to anyone,
super into himself. But when he did talk to
people, the things he said were kind of scary. All
he ever said to me was how he wanted to kill me
and ways he would do it.” Schmegelsky’s father
Alan told Canadian media the childhood
friends were likely to go out “in a blazeofglory”.The RCMP search an
abandoned house in
Gillam, Manitoba for the
murder suspects.Who l 15