The Highway of Tears

“A young girl stands beside Highway 16 with her arm and thumb raised high. A car or truck pulls over, she hops in for a ride, never to be seen alive again. For more than a decade, young women have disappeared or have been found slain along Highway 16 in northern BC. A disturbing pattern of disappearances was first noticed between 1988 and 1995. Young girls mostly aboriginal in origin and aged 15 to their early twenties vanished after being seen hitchhiking along the highway.”

I believe this case had not reached the media for a couple reasons, one being because they were in fact Aboriginal. However, two major reasons I believe is because of the lack of evidence they had on this case, and to keep it on the down low from the rest of the population. Of course many people would take this route, it is a highway, but bringing it to the people’s attention that are around this place would scare them from it. These girls were taken and killed after hitchhiking down this road, ( as it says in the quote ) so it is a possibility that no one knew they were missing for a while, thinking they were at the destination they were headed. Although, if it was lets say a white person who had gone missing, I think we would have been more likely to hear about it rather than if it was an aboriginal, therefore it does show some inequality when comparing it with other similar happenings.

I found this article that is fairly recent, Aug 28, 2009. You may want to read some of the comments as well, they are also quite interesting.

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With all the articles that are recent concerning this case, it seems as though the media is keeping people up-to-date on this topic.

(Sorry guys, I lost the website that went along with the first quote, oops!!)

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~ by brandigee on November 20, 2009.