As the search for murder suspects Kam Mcleod and Bryer Schmelgsky continues, RCMP are saying that on Aug. 3, they located several items on the shoreline of Nelson River in Manitoba, approximately nine kilometers from where a burnt vehicle had been located.
RCMP have confirmed that these items are directly linked to the suspects, however, to ensure the integrity of the investigation, no further information about the items will be provided at this time.
The same day the items were found, a damaged boat was also found along the Nelson River.
Based on this information, RCMP Underwater Recovery Team were immediately deployed. On Aug. 4, URT conducted a thorough underwater search approximately 29 metres around the location where the boat was found. The search did not uncover any additional items linked to the suspects and RCMP say they will not be conducting any additional dives.
The roadblock on PR 290 has been removed, but officers remain in the Gillam area.
A police roadblock has now been put in place in the Sundance, Man., area for ongoing search efforts.
The News-Optimist’s sister publication, the Alaska Highway News, reports Canada-wide warrants have been issued for Kam McLeod, 19, and Bryer Schmegelsky, 18, who are charged with second-degree murder in connection to the death of Leonard Dyck, who was found a few kilometres from the teens’ burned-out pickup truck on Highway 37 near Dease Lake July 19.
The Port Alberni childhood friends are also suspects in the killings of American Chynna Deese and Australian Lucas Fowler. Their bodies were found along the Alaska Highway on July 15 near a van they had been travelling in.
Charges have yet to be announced in that investigation.
They were last confirmed to have been seen on July 22 in Gillam, where they torched and abandoned the vehicle they were last seen driving.
