This article was posted upthread (thank you!) and I highly recommend it, even though I am not in full agreement with it.
‘Murder is not a private matter’: RCMP owe public more answers about suspected B.C. killers, critics say | The Star
I'm a privacy fanatic, so I'm biased toward being sympathetic to arguments based on privacy, but I agree in the main; a bit more transparency, so long as it does not impede the investigation or prosecution, is needful.
I sort of disagree with the issue of revealing the details of Professor Dyck's death. At this juncture (assuming the suspects are indeed dead) and assuming the family made the request not to disclose, I feel that deferring to the family of the victim is correct. However, if Professor Dyck was murdered by the same means as the couple on the van, then back before the suspects were IDd and seen elsewhere, the means should have been disclosed, for reasons of public safety on those roadways.
Quite a few of the questions the article asks are IMHO things in need of answering, though after the suspect autopsies and IDs are completed (probably can't be known for sure without that). A toxicology result (on the suspects) needs to be included in the release, as well.
I also hope that Canadians will demand answers, real answers this time (conflating it with releasing the names was dissembling at best) on why it took over 4 days for them to reveal that anyone had been murdered. Expecting people to read between the lines that "suspicious" means "murdered" is preposterous; if they mean murder, then say murder.
I'll close by saying that I have no rights on this issue, nor any say in it, and that's as it should be - I'm not Canadian. This is a matter for Canadians to decide and, if they so wish, change, but they can't make a decision on that without knowing facts.