Bryer Schmegelsky's interest in Nazi imagery, video games and guns has been reported by Canadian media. "He's going to be dead today or tomorrow, I know that," the elder Schmegelsky said. A picture from a Steam account thought to be owned by Bryer Schmegelsky showing him in military gear with a weapon. "He's on a suicide mission. He wants his pain to end," he said, explaining how his son had struggled with his parents' divorce. "He wants his hurt to end. They're going to go out in a blaze of glory. Trust me on this. That's what they're going to do."

Nazi regalia in an image linked to Bryer Schmegelsky. Schmegelsky, 18, and McLeod, 19, have been charged with second-degree murder over the death of Leonard Dyck, from Vancouver, in an apparent killing spree that also claimed the life of Fowler and Deese. The senior Schmegelsky's comments came as police identified Dyck, whose body was found at a highway rest stop near the teens' burnt-out camper. On Tuesday, after finding the camper, police initially said the men were missing persons but then said they were suspects. The Globe and Mail on Wednesday published images, reportedly from gaming accounts linked to Bryer Schmegelsky, which showed pictures of the teenager in military gear as well as with Nazi paraphernalia.

The manhunt continues apace with signs that authorities are nearing the teens. Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) Corporal Julie Courchaine said on Wednesday that a grey Toyota RAV4, driven by McLeod and Schmegelsky, had been found in the remote northern town of Gillam, almost 3000 kilometres from where Fowler and Deese were killed. Australian Lucas Fowler and his American girlfriend Chynna Deese. Credit:NSW Police The discovery confirmed that the suspected killers had travelled from one side of Canada to the other over recent days. Gillam, in the province of Manitoba, is a 32-hour drive from where the bodies of Fowler and Deese were found last week.

With a population of just 1265, the town is so isolated that mayor Dwayne Forman described it as "the end of the road". The RCMP are swarming through the area and locals have been warned to be careful. Leonard Dyck was killed near where a campervan was found burnt on a Canadian stretch of road. "An all-night patrol for the community has been prepared as a caution," Fox Lake Cree First Nation Chief Walter Spence said. "The RCMP are carefully conducting their work with a large presence and I would like to ask all community members to report anything of concern directly to RCMP."

A service station worker at Split Lake, a two-hour drive west of Gillam, told a local radio station that she had served the teenagers on Monday. "They both stopped in, and they came to my till and he just asked to gas up $US20," Mychelle Joy-Keeper said. The torched vehicle used by the alleged shooters. "And that Bryer guy, he asked me: 'Is alcohol allowed here in the community?' Because there's a big sign at the truck stop there, no bootleggers or drug dealers. He was asking about that. "I said: 'No, it's not allowed here because it's a dry community.' That's it. They paid for their gas and they left."

Loading The Gillam mayor told the National Post he was surprised the suspects chose to drive to Gillam because, to get out of the town, they would have to turn around and go back along the road on which they drove in. Or they could catch a train north to the town of Churchill. "We're the end of the road," Forman said. "You can't go any further beyond us." On Tuesday, McLeod's father, Keith, pleaded for privacy as the family comes to terms with what is happening. "This is what I do know: Kam is a kind, considerate, caring young man [who] always has been concerned about other people's feelings," he wrote online.

The teens were driving this 2011 Toyota RAV4. Credit:RCMP The teens, friends since elementary school and recent graduates of Alberni District Secondary School in British Columbia, had been working at Walmart. They left Port Alberni to look for more work in Alberta. Paraphrasing the two young men who he believed were heading to stay with relatives in Red Deer, Alberta, Alan Schmegelsky said in an interview with CHEK television in Victoria, British Columbia, on Monday: "This isn't cutting it. Let's go find the real money, Alberta is where the real money is at." Kam McLeod, 19, and Bryer Schmegelsky, 18, have been named as suspects. Credit:RCMP He said he was surprised to learn that his son was still in British Columbia.

"They're just kids on an adventure," he said in the interview. "They're really good boys; they've been friends since elementary school." One bond between the two men appeared to be video gaming. The elder Schmegelsky said in the interview that his son and his friend were game enthusiasts. In a still from a surveillance video released by police, McLeod is wearing a T-shirt that refers to a mythical creature created by horror writer H.P. Lovecraft, variations of which have appeared in several video games. Two and a half years ago at Christmas, Alan Schmegelsky said, he gave his son a replica of an assault rifle that uses compressed gas to fire plastic pellets in a shooting sport known as airsoft. Its players often simulate military actions and wear camouflage.

Loading " 'Me and the fellas, we like to get out in the woods and play war,' " he said his son told him. "They know how to hide in the woods," he said. "Knowing that, if there was any threat, they would have done what they've actually trained themselves to do and they would have camouflaged themselves in the woods." Fowler, the son of a senior NSW police inspector, and Deese were on a Canadian road trip when their van broke down. They met about two years ago while travelling in Croatia. Their remains were discovered on July 15. With AAP, The New York Times