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Highway of Tears: Why Girls Vanish and Nobody Is Held Accountable
Highway of Tears: Why Girls Vanish and Nobody Is Held Accountable
A lonely 724-kilometre stretch of Highway Sixteen has swallowed decades of women and girls, with eighteen officially connected cases and advocates saying the true count exceeds forty - why do so many vanish on the road and so few answers follow? What in the landscape, infrastructure, and history makes disappearance routine and accountability rare?
In this episode, we tell how geography, poverty, and institutional history shape the pattern of disappearances along Highway Sixteen and ask what it means that so many files remain…
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