Canada believes it has found young people accused of three murders dead

The intense search for Bryer Schmegelsky and Kam McLeod, two accused of three murders in Canada, ended on Wednesday abruptly with the finding of two bodies that are presumed to correspond to those of these two young men, a tragic end that will leave some of The basic issues of the case.

After weeks of fear, anxiety, bewilderment and uncertainty, the Canadian Mounted Police discovered two bodies in the early hours of Wednesday, all indications are those of Schmegelsky, 19, and McLeod, 18, on the banks of a river in the surroundings of the community of Gillam, in a remote area of ​​the center of the country.

The finding of the two bodies occurs when the operations to capture the two fugitives in the surroundings of Gillam, in the north of the province of Manitoba, had been reduced due to the lack of results and while the Police received dozens of tracks that placed to young people in other parts of the country.

"This morning, at approximately 10.00 (15.00 GMT), officers of the Mounted Police located the bodies of two men in an area of ​​dense vegetation," the head of the Mounted Police in the province of Manitoba explained in a press conference, Jane MacLatchy

“Right now, we believe they are the bodies of the two suspects wanted in connection with the murders in British Columbia. The autopsy has been scheduled to confirm the identities and causes of death, ”MacLatchy added.

The Police have not indicated the causes of death or when they occurred, but the area is classified as dangerous since it can be found polar bears and wolves, among other animals, and weather conditions are extreme even in the middle of summer.

The location of the bodies occurred thanks to the discovery yesterday of objects belonging to the two suspects on the banks of the Nelson River, just a kilometer from where the bodies were found today.

The tragic discovery clears one of the questions that had gripped Canadian public opinion, and had captured the attention of the media around the world: where are the fugitives?

But it leaves open many other questions that researchers fear that in many cases they will not be able to answer.

Why did Schmegelsky and McLeod kill three people in the north of the province of British Columbia in a few hours?

That question is perhaps the greatest anguish that hangs over the families of a couple of foreign tourists, the American Chynna Deese, 24, and the Australian Lucas Fowler, 23, as well as botanist Leonard Dyck, 64.

Deese and Fowler, two passionate travelers, were driving through British Columbia in a van bound for Alaska when their vehicle broke down on July 14 near the Liard River Hot Springs Nature Park, about 150 kilometers from the Canadian border with Alaska.

Several people offered to help the tourist couple, but they refused assistance. On July 15, their bodies were shot in the roadside ditch.

Four days later, the alarm spread in the remote area of ​​northern British Columbia when it was learned that two other people traveling through the place had disappeared: Bryer Schmegelsky and Kam McLeod, two young men from Vancouver Island who were heading east on Looking for work.

The alarm became an open fear when the police announced that in the search process the two young people had discovered the body of another person, Leonard Dyck, who was camping in the area.

Speculations linked the deaths and disappearances to the work of a serial killer and the authorities advised maximum caution to the residents of the region.

But the case took a turn when authorities said on July 21 that Schmegelsky and McLeod had become the main suspects of the three deaths.

Why did they flee to a remote town in central Canada more than 3,000 kilometers from the site of the murders?

That is the second big question that authorities and inhabitants of Gillam are asking.

Until the Police concluded that Schmegelsky and McLeod were not the victims of a possible serial killer but the executioners of three innocents, the couple had days to flee to any part of the country and even cross the border with the United States.

But the two fugitives decided to travel in a few hours the nearly 3,000 kilometers that separate Liard River Hot Springs from Gillam and hide in an area of ​​swamps and forests, infested with mosquitoes, leeches, wolves and polar bears where there are only two access roads.