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The scene was about five miles from where a car thought to be stolen by the pair was located last month, and close to where Kam McLeod, 19, and Bryer Schmegelsky, 18, were reportedly last seen July 22.
“I’m confident that it is them,” she said, adding that an autopsy will confirm the identities of the deceased, who were from the Vancouver area.
The teens are suspected of killing North Carolina resident Chynna Deese, 24, and her Australian boyfriend, Lucas Fowler, 23.
The victims’ bodies were discovered on July 15 on a remote highway in northern British Columbia. Four days later, investigators found the burned out gray Dodge pickup McLeod and Schmegelsky were traveling in, and said the teens were missing.
The body of Vancouver university professor Leonard Dyck was discovered also on July 19, and authorities believe McLeod and Schmegelsky were responsible for Dyck’s death, as well.
The suspects were later seen in his RAV4 in Saskatchewan, a few days before that vehicle was found burned out in Manitoba, near the small, remote town of Gillam.
Kevin Hackett, the RCMP assistant commissioner in British Columbia, said the investigation is not yet closed even though authorities believe the suspects were the killers.
He said it will be difficult to determine what the motive was for the slayings. But authorities are sure the two killings are connected.
“There was significant evidence that linked our suspects to both crime scenes,” he said.
Officials narrowed the search area after critical evidence was found on the shore of the river Friday. The remains were found Wednesday around 10 a.m. in very dense brush less than a kilometer from where the evidence was discovered.
Schmegelsky’s father told The Canadian Press two weeks ago that his son had planned to go out in “a blaze of glory.”
McLeod and his son hung out a lot together, he said.
Both had jobs at Walmart, but said they weren’t making enough money and decided to go to Alberta to look for work, he said.
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