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SUSPECTED SERIAL KILLERS ON THE RUN IN CANADA: A TIMELINE

July 12: Kam McLeod and Bryer Schmegelsky leave their hometown of Port Alberni, Vancouver Island, to search for work in Whitehorse, Yukon, according to family members

July 15: Police find the bodies of Chynna Deese, a 24-year-old from Charlotte, North Carolina, and Lucas Fowler, a 23-year-old from Sydney, Australia, on the side of Highway 97 about 12 miles south of Liard Hot Springs in remote British Columbia. 

The blue 1986 Chevrolet van they were driving on their road trip through Canada is found nearby with a blown-out back window

July 18: McLeod's torched Dodge pickup truck is found 300 miles away near Dease Lake 

July 19: The body of Leonard Dyck, a 64-year-old Vancouver botanist, is found about a mile away from the burned-out remains of the truck McLeod and Schmegelsky were traveling in. 

RCMP reports the teens as missing, fearing that they had been killed or kidnapped by whomever committed the murders of Deese, Fowler and Dyck

July 24: Schmegelsky and McLeod are named as suspects in the three murders after the RAV4 was found in flames near Gillam 

July 29: York Landing in Manitoba is thrown into lockdown after two men were spotted foraging for food at local landfill, sparking a massive search by police, military, tracking dogs and drones 

August 1: Police begin searching the province of Ontario, 1,200 miles from where the pair were last seen, after reports of a suspicious vehicle near Kapuskasing

August 2: Police say the sighting of the pair in Ontario was not credible, as Lucas Fowler's friends and family hold an emotional memorial for him in Sydney.

Local tour guide Clint Sawchuk spots a blue sleeping bag in the Nelson River outside Gillam and contacts police

August 3: Sawchuk's tip leads police to a battered row boat washed up on the river bank 

August 6: The search diverts to the town of Sundance, which has been abandoned since 1992, and once housed a murder suspect for three years 

August 7: Canadian Police announce that two male bodies believed to belong to McLeod and Schmegelsky were found in 'dense bush' by the Nelson River, five miles from where they abandoned the burning car.

August 12: Autopsy confirms the teens died of self-inflicted gunshots  

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