Leonard Dyck’s family says ‘there’s still a hole’ 4 years after B.C. manhunt for killers

Leonard Dyck had a habit of not texting his family when travelling.But in July 2019, the 64-year-old Vancouver resident finally broke that trend.“This was the first trip where I was able to convince him to text us every day if he could, because normally he was never letting us know where he was,” said his wife, Helen Dyck.“So, this time I said, ‘Text us,’ and so he did.

He actually texted us.” Read more: The northern B.C. murders were 2019’s most gripping story. Here’s how it all unfolded Those texts – his first to his family on one of his many solo trips – would happen to be his last.Four years since Leonard’s murder in northern British Columbia – one of three victims that resulted in one of the largest police manhunts in Canadian history – his family is still left with many unanswered questions.For the first time since his tragic death, Helen and her sons, Philip and Ben Dyck, are speaking out about the killings and the police response in The Manhunt for Crime Beat, a Global TV show probing Canada’s most infamous criminal cases.Leonard, a botany lecturer at the University of British Columbia, left his home on July 16 in his silver Toyota RAV4 to go on one of his typical outdoor research trips.“He was really interested in seeing the new Nisga’a Highway … and then go up to Stewart (B.C.) and see the grizzly bears that are in Hyder (Alaska) … up to Dease Lake and do the loop and come back,” Helen said.“I was hoping to go, but I was too tired, and normally he would go with one of the boys.… This is the first trip he went on his own in years.