RCMP believe they’ve found bodies of two B.C. murder suspects in Manitoba

Photos courtesy of RCMP

Two bodies, believed to be two teens from Port Alberni on Vancouver Island, wanted in connection with three homicides last month in Northern B.C. have been found in northern Manitoba.

That’s according to the RCMP who held a news conference Wednesday afternoon.

Police say the bodies were found Wednesday morning in thick bush near the shoreline of the Nelson River.

19-year-old Kam McLeod, and 18-year-old Bryer Schmegelsky, were facing second-degree murder charges in the death of a Vancouver man.

They were also suspects in the shooting deaths of an American woman and her Australian boyfriend whose bodies were found near Liard Hot Springs, not that far from the B.C.-Northwest Territories boundary.

RCMP had said Tuesday they found several items linked to the two suspects near the river.

They say the bodies were found within a kilometre from those items.

There’s no word yet on a cause of their deaths. 

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John McFadden
John has been in the broadcast journalism industry since the 1980s. He has been a reporter in Yellowknife since 2012 and joined CKLB in January of 2018. John covers the crime and court beat as well as reporting on other areas including politics, business, entertainment and sports. He won seven national community newspaper awards while he was a journalist with Northern News Services Limited (NNSL). John worked in Ontario before coming North including stints as a TV sportscaster in Peterborough and senior news writer for CBC and CTV in downtown Toronto.