Abbotsford man and Kamloops woman charged with first-degree murder in death of B.C. man: RCMP

WEST KELOWNA – An Abbotsford man and his alleged accomplice, a 33-year-old woman from Kamloops, have been charged with first-degree murder in the death of a 22-year-old man whose body was found over ten years ago outside West Kelowna, B.C.

According to a statement from B.C. RCMP spokesperson Staff Sgt. Kris Clark, Tura Stephen McCarty was found deceased in the driver’s seat of his 1999 Jeep Cherokee on January 6, 2016, on a rural stretch of Bear Creek Road in West Kelowna, B.C. At that time, the Southeast District Major Crime Unit was engaged and assumed conduct of the investigation.

This past Friday, April 17, 2026, more than a decade after his death, 60-year-old Cal Douglas Little of Abbotsford and 33-year-old Heather Dawn White of Kamloops were arrested by the RCMP. 

The following day, they were charged with the first-degree murder of Tura McCarty.