Trucker makes memorial for murdered couple on Alaska Highway

Truckers are paying tribute to the young couple that was murdered this summer on a lonely stretch of the Alaska Highway in northern B.C.

Whitehorse trucker, Ed Grennan, transports goods between Fort Nelson, B.C., and Whitehorsetwice a week.

Hesaid something needed to be done to remember Lucas Fowler and Chynna Deese.

Grennansaid he passed by the location where the young couple died when RCMP was still on the scene.After the investigation, he said all that was left was a small amount of red spray paint on the highway.

Grennan said every time he drives that stretch of highway, it really bothers him.

"I thought, 'What can we do? Any little thing helps right?'"

So he created a memorial. Grennan placed an Australian flagto remember Fowler, an American flag forDeese, and a floral cross where the couple was found.

It bothers everybody so bad.- Ed Grennan, Trucker

On July 15, the bodies of Fowler, 23,and Deese, 24, had been found on the side of the road, 20 kilometres south of Liard Hot Springs, B.C.

That launched a nationwide manhunt for Kam McLeod and Bryer Schmegelsky. RCMP said they were suspects in the couple's death and inthe death ofLeonard Dyck, abotanistkilled in northern B.C.

On Monday,police confirmed two bodies found in northern Manitoba were those of the two suspects.

Grennan said he has an understanding of what their parents must be going through.

"I lost a kid myself and I know.Everybody says they know, but I know," said Grennan. "The family that must be going through torture right now ... Alot of families are hurting."

He said the memorial isn't just from him;it's from alltruckers who drive the Alaska Highway.

"It bothers everybody so bad. One fella told me yesterday thatwhen he went by and sawthe [floral cross and flags],he broke down ... and cried," Grennan said.

Now when Grennan drives by that location, he said a prayer and feels like the couple won't be forgotten.

He wants the families to know the Alaska Highway truckers are thinking of them.