• Highway of Tears: Mystery of the 800-mile stretch of Canadian road where up to 43 women have gone missing in 30 years and could be victims of serial killer
  

   
  • No suspect has been found in disappearances stretching back decades
  • Remote wilderness creates danger for hitchhiking young women

• It has been dubbed the Highway of Tears.
  

  Mystery surrounds one of the remotest stretches of highway in Canada after nearly 50 women are believed to have gone missing there in the past 30 years. 

  Many believe that the disappearances along Highway 16, which runs between Prince George and Prince Rupert in British Columbia, are the work of a twisted serial killer who preys on young women.

  But police have never identified a suspect in the case, and some say the women were simply victims of Canada's harsh and remote wilderness.

• An 837-mile stretch of Highway 16 that cuts through the Rocky Mountains in British Columbia has gained infamy as the scene of possibly dozens of disappearances over the past three decades.  Now known as the “Highway of Tears”, this area of Canadian wilderness has raised many questions, and very few answers.  What is happening to these women?  Where did they go?  Why have so many of the missing women received so little attention?  Is there a cover-up involved? Or, is it merely a lack of compassion mixed with racism that has allowed this string of disappearances to endure for thirty years?

• Highway of Tears cries out for public shuttle bus

   

  People often forced to hitchhike along the notorious highway, says tribal council chief
• Nearly 18 months after Missing Women Commissioner Wally Oppal urged that a public shuttle bus begin running along the notorious Highway of Tears, local mayors and First Nations leaders say they’ve yet to see any action from the B.C. government.
• n his November 2012 report, Oppal recommended that the province immediately implement an “enhanced public transit system to provide a safer travel option connecting Northern communities, particularly along Highway 16,” where 18 women have been murdered or gone missing in recent decades.

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