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“We used some of the most advanced technologies available and received assistance from some of the most highly skilled search and rescue personnel in the country.”

Photo by Manitoba RCMP

Despite the efforts, including Canadian military aircraft, police seem no further ahead in finding the pair, suspected in the murder of three people in northern British Columbia: Chynna Deese, 24, and Lucas Fowler, 23, a couple on a road trip across Canada, she from the United States and he from Australia; and Leonard Dyck, 64, a lecturer at the University of British Columbia.

MacLatchy asked everyone, wherever they are, to remain alert and on the lookout for McLeod and Schmegelsky and to call police with any information of possible sightings.

The public is doing just that. Late Wednesday, the Ontario Provincial Police were investigating a report of a suspicious vehicle with two young men inside spotted in a construction zone in Kapuskasking, a town almost 1,000 kilometres north of Toronto and a circuitous 2,350-kilometre drive from Gillam.

“At this time the OPP cannot confirm the identity of the people in the vehicle that was occupied by two males. The OPP is continuing to investigate this incident and is actively looking for the vehicle,” the police force said in a statement.

Photo by RCMP

It seems unlikely, but when you don’t know where someone is, it’s hard to say for certain where they aren’t.

“To be clear, we are not ending this search,” MacLatchy said, adding that RCMP officers will remain in the Gillam area to continue the search, despite there being no recent signs of the fugitives.