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VICTORIA — Investigators on Vancouver Island are treating the deaths of two sailors reported missing last month as homicides.

Vancouver Island’s integrated major crime unit confirmed Friday that human remains found near Ucluelet earlier this month were those of Ryan Daley and Daniel Archbald.

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Archbald and Daley arrived by boat in Ucluelet on May 13 after an eight-week voyage from Panama and were last seen at the Ucluelet dock on May 16.

The major crime unit said their deaths were not random.

Insp. Dave Hall said positively identifying Daley, who was 43, and Archbald, who was 37, was a significant step in the investigation and officers can now focus on finding who killed them.

Hall said there is no evidence to suggest the case is connected to the disappearance of Ben Kilmer, 41, who vanished from the Duncan area at the same time.

Investigators are in contact with the families of all three men and working to determine what has happened to them, he said.