Graphic Photos Claiming to be Tim McLean Appear Online
Sep. 01, 2009 at 2:25 pm CDT in
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Some horrifying ‘leaked’ photographs claiming to be of Tim McLean are making their way around the Internet today. The photos show the aftermath of the brutal attack on a Greyhound bus in July 2008 near Portage la Prairie, in which Vince Li mutilated the body.
ChrisD.ca received the photos earlier this morning, but will not be publishing them.
According to a source who works with the Office of the Chief Medical Examiner, they confirm that they are not of Tim McLean. We spoke to someone who was involved with removing McLean’s body from the bus, and they say the photos appear to be of someone who was hit by a train. A number of other inconsistencies in the background of the photos also made it clear that these are not legitimate.
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September 1st, 2009 at 3:26 pm
Thank you for that.
I don’t want to see them, even if they were real.
September 1st, 2009 at 5:43 pm
This is horrible that these sick people are trying to push these photos. And like Lincoln said, thank you for not posting them.
September 1st, 2009 at 8:17 pm
Further info from the original posting site indicates the suspected stills are from a different case, and erroneously attributed to the notorious Greyhound incident.
The Internet being what it is, it may prove very difficult to ‘fix’ this error before it propagates to search engines and becomes part of the ‘lore’ of what happened that night.
Efforts are under way.
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September 1st, 2009 at 8:24 pm
Hopefully Google Images doesn’t index the photos and bring them up whenever someone searches for ‘Tim McLean.’