CANADA - Lucas Fowler, Australian & g/f Chynna Deese, American, murdered, Alaska Hwy, BC, Jul 2019

[acutename]

In Canada, as with most countries, stalled vehicles have to be entirely off the highway for the safety of others.

It's not a reason to be shot, but I can understand that if someone was driving at dusk and there was oncoming traffic at the time the suspect passed the van, it would be risky to brake hard or swerve.

I would find this explanation more likely if the angry bearded man was not also described as "standing in the middle of the road," because that has to be more dangerous than having a broken down van parked somewhat in the lane of traffic. IMO.

 

[PingTheRouter]

I got to say I’m a tad skeptical of news reports coming from Australia. How do these reporters know the person they’re speaking with

all major news stations in australia have affiliates in canada, usa, europe

 

[Seattle1]

RCMP say Chynna Deese, 24, of Charlotte, N.C., and Lucas Fowler, a 23-year-old from Australia, were killed sometime between Sunday and Monday. Australian police say they appear to have been shot.

Deese's mother, Sheila Deese, says news coverage of her daughter's death has been haunting her.

"While I want to know the details, it's not going to change my outcome at all. My outcome is I have one less child," Deese told CBC News over the phone on Sunday from her home in Charlotte.

The young couple's bodies were discovered around 7:20 a.m. Monday along the Alaska Highway, 20 kilometres south of Liard Hot Springs, a popular tourist destination in B.C. Deese says RCMP told her Chynna had been shot.

[...]

Deese says her daughter kept telling her about an "Aussie boy." Fowler came and spent three months with the family over the Thanksgiving and Christmas holidays.

"He was part of our family immediately," Deese said. "Lucas was wonderful. They were a kindred spirit."

[...]

Leading up to the Alaska trip, Deese says, Chynna worked double shifts for weeks at her serving job. On Mother's Day, Chynna asked Deese to eat at the restaurant so she could still see her. Chynna snacked on food from her mother's plate between serving tables.

Deese dropped her daughter off at the airport on July 6. Chynna texted her throughout the journey with updates. On July 13, she texted to say they were packing up and getting ready to leave. Their bodies were found two days later.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/bc-alaska-highway-couple-killed-1.5219740

 

[cody22]

dbm

 

[Seattle1]

Nine News Sydney‏Verified account @9NewsSyd
The hunt has intensified for the killer of an Australian man and his girlfriend who were found dead by the side of a remote highway in Canada. @LexiDaish #9News

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9 News Sydney, nightly at 6.00pm.
6:54 PM - 21 Jul 2019

News video clip at tweet

 

[acutename]

Fowler was a little ways from the van and Deese was 17 feet farther away from Fowler. The man who found them said that they were in identical positions - he found that unusual.

if they were running away, you would think that they would have been in different places, random positions, and that they would have been shot in the back, IMO.

 

[Zella]

Could be wrong, but I took the guy who found them describing her as beautiful as a description after the fact, once photos of her in life were circulated.

I know from having to bury a relative after a bad car accident that there's a lot morticians can do with head injuries, even though we'd been told there was a chance it couldn't be open casket. The fact her family was told under no uncertain terms it couldn't be open casket indicates to me there was very severe, irreparable damage to her head/face and that they weren't even going to attempt to fix it.

All MOO.

 

[Seattle1]

I got to say I’m a tad skeptical of news reports coming from Australia. How do these reporters know the person they’re speaking with, from across the ocean, is sharing legitimate information?

9 NewsAUS specifically using their US Correspondents on this story. Lucas Fowler's father is a man of prominence, and this is major news in victim's homeland.

 

[Betty P]

Nine News Sydney‏Verified account @9NewsSyd
The hunt has intensified for the killer of an Australian man and his girlfriend who were found dead by the side of a remote highway in Canada. @LexiDaish #9News

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9 News Sydney, nightly at 6.00pm.
6:54 PM - 21 Jul 2019

News video clip at tweet

Thanks! Good to hear they have the highway employee working with a sketch artist to create a drawing of the suspect.

All the video and photos of the highway in that news report show the highway with a very wide shoulder and white striping at the outer edge of the lane. Just noticed.

 

[SteveP]

I got to say I’m a tad skeptical of news reports coming from Australia. How do these reporters know the person they’re speaking with, from across the ocean, is sharing legitimate information?

To be honest, some of the best reporting that I have seen in this case has come from this very reporter, Lexi Daish, who is actually in BC, reporting, and I believe is the US correspondent for 9NewsSyd.

 

[LadyL]

rbbm.
Mystery man could hold key to solving murder of Australian man and girlfriend in Canada
"Road worker Alandra Hull told 9News she saw Mr Fowler and Ms Deese on the highway the night before they were found dead, talking with a man who "kind of looked frustrated or something".
She said the man was standing in the middle of the highway, while Mr Fowler and Ms Deese stood beside their van.
"If you just get a bad feeling, and that's what I had, you just don't stop," she said.
The woman has given a statement to police and will work with a sketch artist to provide a composite of the man."

The night before Lucas Fowler and his gf were found dead beside their van, Alandra saw the couple in a heated exchange with a bearded man in the middle of the Alaska Highway. She says couple seemed bothered and mystery man had walked towards them from his grey car.@9NewsAUS

I'm surprised she wouldn't rather remain anonymous. I feel like she might be in danger.

 

[MistyWaters]

9 NewsAUS specifically using their US Correspondents on this story. Lucas Fowler's father is a man of prominence, and this is major news in victim's homeland.

Yes I understand that. But these murders occurred in Canada and regardless of his position in New South Wales, that’s not the agency investigating the crime. No police officer ever leads an investigation into the murder of their own child and I’d be very surprised if Australia is any different than Canada, or the US.

 

[JudgeJudi]

New South Wales police released the fact that the couple was shot. The families released the fact that the murders were brutal and victims were unrecognizable.

I've only seen "unrecognizable" used in one article, but that's not to say it doesn't appear elsewhere.

The media said they had been shot and it took 3 days for the bodies to be identified.

Chynna’s brother then said the family were not allowed to have an open casket at her funeral. Many took that to mean she had been shot in the face which no doubt would have rendered her unrecognizable. However, the roadworker paramedic said she was “beautiful”, a term no-one would use if a body was unrecognizable.

 

[PingTheRouter]

I’d be very surprised if Australia is any different than Canada, or the US.

this is why he brought head homicide detectives with him to canaada probably to avoid that

about the closed casket thing, could be that the warmth has caused advanced decomposition or something like that to happen where it wouldn't be ok to have an open casket

 

[zecats]

I'm surprised she wouldn't rather remain anonymous. I feel like she might be in danger.

If she drove by in a work vehicle, it wouldn't be difficult to search out info and maybe find her name, if someone really wanted to. If she saw him so clearly while passing by, I have to think he noticed her too. IMO it didn't seem to interfere with whatever his intentions were. Potential witnesses didn't give him pause.

 

[Seattle1]

Yes I understand that. But these murders occurred in Canada and regardless of his position in New South Wales, that’s not the agency investigating the crime. No police officer ever leads an investigation into the murder of their own child and I’d be very surprised if Australia is any different than Canada, or the US.

Huh?

Their network coverage has nothing to do with the jurisdiction investigating the crime but the human interest that a young man and his American girl friend lost their lives, and that the victims father (and his colleagues supporting him) traveled across the globe to collect their son.

IMO, their coverage has been professional, detailed, and compassionate.

 

[Gardenista]

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[otto]

if they were running away, you would think that they would have been in different places, random positions, and that they would have been shot in the back, IMO.

The were 5 meters apart.

 

[LadyL]

I have no idea when this photo was taken, but I would not think that RCMP would have placed that tape over the smashed window, and then left it relatively unprotected, outside. It seems like, once impounded, it would be placed inside somewhere secure for extensive processing. And so now I am wondering if anyone can verify that the window was or was not smashed out before this trip even began??? The window may NOT have been smashed out by the murderer. JMO

well the cops would've seen/cleaned up broken glass

 

[PingTheRouter]

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https://www.nanaimobulletin.com/new...fter-vehicle-found-ablaze-near-dease-lake-bc/

depends what you cladssify as close

This is the second homicide investigation to occur in a week in northern B.C. and police acknowledge there are growing community concerns. The Dease Lake incident occurred on July 19, 2019 and the other incident occurred between July 14-15, 2019, approximately 470 kilometres away.