This is a transcript and radio interview I did with CBC’s The Current.

A sense of relief and mystery has replaced weeks of fear in a remote northern Manitoba community where a lengthy cross-Canada hunt for homicide suspects Kam McLeod and Bryer Schmegelsky ended Wednesday with the discovery of two bodies, says Tessa Vanderhart.

Yet a central question remains despite the apparent outcome for the men suspected in the grisly northern B.C. killings of three strangers: What motivated these tragedies?

It’s unclear if this answer will ever come.

Vanderhart, a reporter for the Winnipeg Free Press, believes the fugitives may have taken their secrets to the grave.

“Unfortunately because of the way that this ended, I don’t know if people will get that closure,” she told The Current’s guest host Laura Lynch.

Listen to my interview with The Current here: https://www.cbc.ca/radio/thecurrent/the-current-for-aug-8-2019-1.5239838/a-lot-of-speculation-mystery-replaces-fear-in-gillam-man-where-pursuit-of-b-c-suspects-ended-1.5239839