Police seek two missing teens after vehicle fire leads to body in northern British Columbia

Police are searching for two missing males after finding a burning truck and body in the same region as the roadside murder of Lucas Fowler and Chynna Deese.

Canadian police are looking for two teenage males who have been reported missing in British Columbia.

Police are seeking the teens after a vehicle on fire led them to a man’s dead body not far from the burning truck — which was driven by the teens.

This new incident stirs “growing concerns” in a region where only days earlier, young couple Lucas Fowler and Chynna Deese were found murdered on the side of a Highway, according to new reports.

Authorities were responding to a pick-up truck fire along Highway 37 south of the Stikine River Bridge in the northwestern section of the British Columbia, Canada on Friday when a passing driver told them he spotted what he believed to be a body at a nearby highway pullout, The Vancouver Sun reported.

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Canadian Royal Mounted Police are asking for the public’s assistance in locating two teen males driving this camper truck through British Columbia. Picture: Supplied

There, responding officers from the Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) discovered a corpse — but couldn’t confirm whether the man’s death was related to the truck fire, according to the report. His name and cause of death have not yet been released.

Authorities then announced that they were looking for two young males: Kam McLeod, 19, and Bryer Schmegelsky, 18, who were inside the truck and have been reported missing.

The teens were travelling through British Columbia to visit the small city of Whitehorse, in the remote region known as Yukon Territory.

Once there they were going to look for work, according to the paper.

Bryer Schmegelsky has gone missing with his friend Kam McLeod in the same region where Lucas Fowler and Chynna Deese were found murdered. Picture: Facebook

“Kam and Bryer have periodically connected with family and friends over the past week and it is possible that they are now in area without cell coverage,” Dawn Roberts, a spokesman for British Columbia RCMP, told The Vancouver Sun.

“However, we have found their vehicle and have not been able to locate either of them at this time,” she added. “We are asking for Kam or Bryer to connect with police right away and let us know you are okay. Or we ask that anyone who may have spoken to or seen them over the last few days to call police so we can get a better understanding as to where they might be or their plans.”

The remote Dease Lake, British Columbia, where the teens were last seen, is about 400km from where the bodies of Lucas Fowler and Chynna Deese were found. Picture: Google Maps

McLeod and Schmegelsky were driving in a red and grey Dodge pick-up truck with a sleeping camper area and British Columbia license plates.

The pair was last spotted heading south from the Super A general store in Dease Lake on Thursday afternoon.

Police have acknowledged the “growing community concerns about the ongoing homicide investigations in northern BC” following the murders of American Chynna Deese and her Australian boyfriend Lucas Fowler, two veteran travellers who were found shot dead on the side of the remote highway BC-16 on July 15.

Authorities have not stated if there is a connection between the burning vehicle and dead man and the roadside murders of Lucas Fowler, left, and Chynna Deese. Picture: Deese Family/AP

The site where Fowler and Deese were found was approximately 470 kilometres away from the location of the burning vehicle driven by McLeod and Schmegelsky.

Authorities have not yet stated if there is a connection between the two cases.

Investigators have urged the public to take general safety precautions, remain vigilant, and to come forward with any information.