The Road That Kept Taking Them: The Highway of Tears
The Road That Kept Taking Them: The Highway of Tears
Along roughly 720 kilometers of Highway 16 between Prince George and Prince Rupert, British Columbia, women and girls have been disappearing or turning up murdered since 1969. The RCMP officially recognizes 18 cases; Indigenous organizations count more than 40. Why did it take until 1998 for the pattern to even get a name? Why did the first bus service on this corridor arrive only in 2017, and cell coverage only in 2024? And how did DNA preserved for 38 years finally put a name to one killer while seventeen files stayed open?
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