http://www.edmontonjournal.com/news/Edmonton+family+help+solve+murder+mystery/1812651/story.html
"Edmonton police have sent familial DNA from a missing city couple to South Carolina to check for a possible match with an unidentified couple found murdered there.
Police are trying to determine whether the remains found off a dirt road in Sumter County, S.C., could be Ron and Terry Yakimchuk who vanished during a cross-Canada drive to attend a wedding in Montreal in 1973, said Const. Jim Gurney."
http://www.edmontonjournal.com/news/Theories+abound+1973+case+missing+couple/1785732/story.html
"Others have contacted The Journal to suggest the Yakimchuks may be the unidentified couple found murdered alongside a secluded dirt road in South Carolina in the 1970s. The victims were each shot twice in the back with a large-calibre handgun and then rolled over and shot once more at point-blank range under the chin. They had no possessions--no wallets or identification--and were buried in a local cemetery in graves marked "Male--Unknown" and "Female--Unknown."
Sumter County police estimated the victims were between 18 and
26. Terry, a former Edmonton Journal reporter, was 23 when she disappeared. Ron, former editor of a rogue University of Alberta student newspaper, was 27.
The female South Carolina victim was an estimated five-foot-six and
105 pounds, with brown hair and blue-green eyes. Terry was five-foot-four, 120 pounds with blond hair and blue-green eyes.
The male victim was estimated at six feet tall, 150 pounds with brown eyes and brown hair. Ron was six feet tall, 150 pounds with brown eyes and black hair.
Years after the bodies were found, a Canadian connection was revealed. A man whose wife worked at a nearby campground said he played pool there with a camper he thought was one of the victims. He told the sheriff that the man said he was formerly a teacher from Canada. Ron Yakimchuk was a teacher.
One problem with the theory is the timeline. The Sumter County couple was believed slain on Aug. 9, 1976, more than three years after the Yakimchuks disappeared."