Police in British Columbia say they think they know who killed 26-year-old Bradley Kline seven years ago, but with no arrests made, investigators are appealing for fresh leads as his family says their "hope is fading."

The Lower Mainland's Integrated Homicide Investigation Team says Kline was found dead "with injuries consistent with criminality" inside a Surrey, B.C., home around 1:30 a.m. PT on Dec. 7, 2018.

Kline's maternal aunt, Clare Southcombe, recalled receiving a call that same day from an unknown number that she uncharacteristically answered. The person on the other end informed her that her nephew had been killed.

"I couldn't even speak at the time," she said in an interview with The Canadian Press on Monday. "I was just so shocked."

1 year on, police plead for help to solve

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