Manitoba RCMP spent less than $800K on massive manhunt after B.C. killings

WINNIPEG — Manitoba Mounties say they spent less than $800,000 on a massive search last summer for two young men wanted for three killings in northern British Columbia.

RCMP Cpl. Julie Courchaine says the amount includes only the cost incurred by the Manitoba RCMP during the 17-day search through the province’s northern terrain.

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It does not include the cost of the B.C. RCMP or the Canadian Armed Forces, whose members were also involved in the search.

Mounties have said 18-year-old Bryer Schmegelsky and 19-year-old Kam McLeod confessed in videos to the murders of University of British Columbia lecturer Leonard Dyck, American Chynna Deese and her Australian boyfriend Lucas Fowler.

A burned-out vehicle the killers were using was spotted in Gillam, Man. on July 23, sparking the manhunt.

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Their bodies were eventually found in dense brush near the Nelson River, and police determined McLeod had shot Schmegelsky before shooting himself.

This report by The Canadian Press was first published Jan. 22, 2020.

The Canadian Press

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