Just about everything related to the 2 killers is covered here, from the most trivial detail to the official reports.
I would think seeing the homes of the killers would be at least as interesting to websleuthers as say... did LF have car insurance
For those who missed it:
Hometown of Canadian Teenage Murder Suspects Grapples With Unwanted Infamy
Yeah I think there's a difference. We're discussing the case in our own little corner of the internet where the family members would have to actively seek us out to see what we've written. The reporters are going right up to the families' houses, where they're presumably inside grieving, and taking close-up pictures of their garden ornaments and stuff.
Didn't he write this memoir long before the situation with Bryer and Kam? Sounds like he might actually have shared some similar ideologies with Bryer if he really was mentioning manhunts and serial killings. Also, what a strange coincidence if he had written specifically about "two brutal serial killers" in a memoir about his life long before any of this happened. Talk about a foreshadowing.
jmo.
The Daily Fail did publish some excerpts from the book. Unfortunately, it's the Daily Fail, so who knows....
Father of teen Canadian murder fugitive tries to hijack media frenzy to publicize his new book | Daily Mail Online
'Just read my book, I explain everything,' he said. 'I wrote it in October, before all this. It has been in editorial and publishing processes this whole time.'
Schmegelsky does not mention his son by name in the book, but describes how in 2008 his ex-wife pressed criminal harassment charges against him, leading to restrictions on his access to then nine-year-old Bryer.
The 53-year-old construction worker wrote that he turned himself in to police over the harassment charge, rather than prompting a 'multi-million dollar, province-wide search', but complained that RCMP wrote a report for the judge in his case casting him as a 'homicidal, suicidal schizophrenic maniac'.
'This proceeding contained three reports: The RCMP Report; the homicidal, suicidal schizophrenic maniac off his meds and going to murder. The Forensic Psychiatric Assessment Report; the delusional, untreatable and needs medication for the rest of his life. And the Probation Services Report; hard worker, never missed an appointment, always courteous, never does drugs, no apparent alcohol problem,' he wrote.
That is
really weird...why would he think there would be a multi-million dollar province-wide search over a criminal harassment charge?
And those reports sound awfully familiar, don't they...ie. Bryer's grandma and great-uncle saying "he was a great kid, polite and quiet" vs. his peers saying "we're not surprised, he was acting like a future mass shooter since middle school."
There are also some other excerpts posted in that article. The other excerpts are very telling when it comes to Bryer's childhood, if they are true (well, even if they aren't it tells us something). Of course, we have no idea of knowing how much of what he wrote was actually true, especially because he said parts of it were fictionalized (why?). In my experience coming from an entire family of "grievance collectors," usually the basic facts of what they rant about are generally true, but they exaggerate or misinterpret events to fit their narrative. But as I said, who knows. It's all very, very strange.
If I knew my parent was going to write something this personal I would freak out (but I wouldn’t kill anyone). I would not want to be associated with it at all.
I imagine BS was aware of the content. I wonder if he was fuelled by it.
From the article posted above:
Speaking to DailyMail.com, the 53-year-old said the memoir was meant to be published last week, the same day Bryer and McLeod are suspected of killing three people. [which doesn't make any sense because they didn't kill all three of them on the same day...great job Daily Fail]
'I put the release on hold, it was supposed to be released on Monday,' he said.
'I wrote my book so Bryer and I could buy a home,' he said. 'That was our plan.'
So according to that, maybe Bryer was aware of it. But I feel like if you're a teenager and your mentally ill homeless dad has all these wild plans about publishing a book and getting rich and buying a house, you're probably going to be like "yeah, ok, sure," and quickly change the subject. I highly doubt Bryer took any of it seriously. Unless he was just as delusional as his dad, which of course, is possible.
He may not be responding to the media in a way that I would prefer but it seems that the McLeod's aren't meeting public expectations either.
No matter HOW the families of criminals, especially teen criminals, act, people are always going to find something to nitpick and criticize them on, and twist their words and actions to try to make it seem like they don't really care about the victims. It happens in literally every case.
It would be interesting to know where BS and KM were when the book was revealed to the media. Could have been another tipping point unfortunately.
As far as I can tell it was revealed July 27th so...I think Kam and Bryer had other problems to deal with at that time.
I still haven’t managed to find a video with his saying “blaze of glory”, despite watching many, with a few articles even stating they were the whole interview.
In a thread wayyyyy back, we went over the “blaze of glory” thing, and it was stated that he never said that exact phrase, instead the media made that up and attributed it to him.
I think people are scrutinizing him because he’s so out there with everything and basically trashing his ex-wife. Plus there’s not a lot of sympathy for someone who was charged with harassing his ex. Repeatedly. He’s got a lot to answer for in terms of not being there and helping raise his son in a healthy environment.
Yeah the really bizarre thing is, I went and looked up the video just now, and it has the "blaze of glory" quote
as the title, but he never actually said it in the video. Did they edit it out because it was too controversial? And if so, why leave it in the title? Yet another detail about this case that makes no sense, as if we didn't have enough of those already.
Honestly...sometimes the best thing you can do for your kid is NOT be there for them. Like, if he was repeatedly arrested for "criminal harassment" of his ex as well as possibly other people (a charge, which someone posted on here earlier, which involves making threats that makes the person fear for their life...hmm wonder where Bryer got that from), do you honestly think it would have been better if he was
more involved in Bryer's life during that time? Sometimes people just do not have the mental capacity to be parents. You can't even necessarily judge them for it, because they just don't have the ability to do better. I think that was the case here. JMO.