Police believe they found the bodies of Canadian teenage murder suspects

Mounties search a cabin in Manitoba while searching for two murder suspects.

(Image credit: Royal Canadian Mounted Police via AP)

published 7 August 2019

The Royal Canadian Mounted Police announced on Wednesday they believe officers have discovered the bodies of two Canadian teenagers suspected of murdering three people.

The bodies were found on the banks of the Nelson River in Manitoba on Wednesday morning, after a manhunt that lasted several weeks. Jane MacLatchy, commanding officer of the Manitoba RCMP, said she is "confident" officers located the bodies of Kam McLeod, 19, and Bryer Schmegelsky, 18, and an autopsy will confirm their identities.

McLeod and Schmegelsky are from the Vancouver area, and are suspected of killing Leonard Dyck, Chynna Deese, and Lucas Fowler. Dyck was a professor from British Columbia, while Deese, an American, and Fowler, her Australian boyfriend, were driving through Canada on their way to Alaska. Dyck's body was found on July 19, four days after the bodies of Deese and Fowler were discovered in northern British Columbia.

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Catherine Garcia has worked as a senior writer at The Week since 2014. Her writing and reporting have appeared in Entertainment Weekly, The New York Times, Wirecutter, NBC News and "The Book of Jezebel," among others. She's a graduate of the University of Redlands and the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism.

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