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Just three days before Jean Larkamp’s death, a $ 100,000 reward was offered for information leading to his arrest.
The home of the accused murderer Gene Larkamp, at the 2000 Lookout St. in Trail. Photo by Jennifer Small / Special to PNG / PNG
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The uncle of the accused killer, Gene Larkamp, said his nephew struggled to pay a mortgage on his house on the Trail for months before killing a BC gangster in Thailand.
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And Wilf Larkamp said he contacted Jean a few months ago to make sure the 36-year-old had received checks sent to him from a relative’s mansion.
“I’ve given him money for the last four years,” Uncle said over the phone.
Police in British Columbia and Ontario are investigating what happened before Piper’s plane with Gene Larkamp, a second fugitive from Kamloops and two young pilots from Richmond, crashed in a remote area near Sioux Lookout, Ontario, on April 29. All four died.
Larkamp has been on the run since an arrest warrant was issued by the Thai police in February, according to which he and 36-year-old Matthew Dupre traveled to Phuket to kill former British Columbian gangster Jimmy Sandh outside his luxury seaside resort.
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Both are former Canadian soldiers who have started working for private security companies. Dupre was arrested in Sylvan Lake, Alta, on February 20 and remains in custody pending an extradition hearing. Police searched Larkamp’s house on top of Trail Hill that week, but were unable to find him.
Just three days before his death, a $ 100,000 reward was offered for information leading to his arrest.
Gene Larkamp was among four people killed when their Piper plane crashed in a remote area near Sioux Lookout, Ont., On April 29. A $ 100,000 reward is offered for information leading to the arrest of 36-year-old GENE KARL LAHRKAMP, who is number 2 on the list. Larkamp is wanted in connection with the February 5 shooting of former Abbots gangster Jimmy Sandu in Thailand. Credit: BOLO program, photo courtesy of Metro Vancouver Crime Stoppers [PNG Merlin Archive] Photo from BOLO / PNG program
Wilf Larkamp said he had heard of the fatal plane crash on the radio and did not know what to do with it.
“I don’t know exactly what he’s up to,” Wilf said. He already thought he had killed someone, didn’t he? That was news to us. “
The last time they talked, the uncle had reached his nephew’s home in Trail before there were any charges against him. Wilf Larkamp said Jean hoped to make good money by raising his Belgian Malinois on the property he bought.
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“All I know is that I called him a few times, two or three times, and he was elsewhere in British Columbia. He works for a security company. “I’m not sure what it was,” Larkamp said.
Larkamp had not seen his nephew since his mother’s funeral in 2009, Jean’s grandmother, although he kept in touch with phone calls.
He said Jean grew up in Kincardine, Ont., With her parents and older sister. His mother, Lynn, was imprisoned by a Postmedia News reporter on Thursday.
Jean was not the best student, his uncle said. But he was a big fan of the Toronto Maple Leafs.
Wilf Larkamp thought his nephew was on the right track when he bought his home on the Trail in October 2017 for $ 180,000.
“I thought he was starting to leave – this mortgage was quite difficult to deal with an income,” said Wilf.
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He has given his nephew a total of $ 21,000 in recent years, as well as two additional personal checks of $ 2,000 each in January and April 2022. None of them have been cashed in, he said.
Photo of a four-seater Piper plane that crashed near Sioux Lookout, Ont., On April 29, killing two BC fugitives and two young pilots. Photo from Facebook
Duncan Bailey, accused of attempted murder and conspiracy to assassinate Mir Aali Hussein, also died in a plane crash in Ontario. Hussein was wounded in a shooting in western Vancouver on October 6, 2020, after which he was shot dead in May the following May in Coquitlam. Bailey’s arrest warrant was issued on April 26, 2022 for violating the conditions of bail.
Richmond pilots Abhi Handa, 26, and Hankun Hong, 27, were also killed when the plane crashed. Handa was flying at the time.
An online flight tracking website revealed that Piper left Boundary Bay Airport on April 23 at 7:44 p.m. and then made his way through Canada for several days before crashing.
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Boundary Bay Airport President Melissa Sayers did not respond to a request for information. An airport official told a Postmedia reporter on Thursday that “we don’t have to say anything.”
The Richmond woman, who owns the plane, did not open her door on Thursday. Nor did she respond to online messages or a note left at her home.
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