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After eluding police for more than two weeks, triple homicide suspects Kam McLeod and Bryer Schmegelsky had reached rural northern Manitoba with a fantastical, movie-like idea of escape: hijack a boat and then make their way to Europe or Africa.

But they would not get far in pursuing that far-fetched idea: they hit a dead end when they reached the large, fast-flowing Nelson River and they were at the bottom of a steep embankment that was impossible to climb back up.

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So they decided to make a suicide pact instead.

Before turning their rifles on themselves, they shaved and admitted, in a series of videos, responsibility for three murders in northern B.C., and asked that their bodies be cremated. But the friends from Port Alberni, B.C., would show “no remorse,” police said, and offered no hints as to what had led them to go on a killing spree.

“If there was in fact a motive, it’s gone with the accused,” Asst. Commissioner Kevin Hackett told reporters Friday. “Nothing from our investigation has helped us determine what the motive was.”