Highway of tears

DVD 2015

"'Highway of Tears' is about the missing or murdered women along a 724 kilometer stretch of highway in northern British Columbia. None of the 18 cold-cases since the 1960's had been solved, until project E-Pana (a special division of the RCMP) managed to link DNA to Portland drifter, Bobby Jack Fowler with the 1974 murder of 16 year-old hitchhiker, Colleen MacMillen. In Canada, over 600 Aboriginal women have been reported missing or been murdered...

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British Columbia, Northern Social conditions

British Columbia. Missing Women Commission of Inquiry

Cold cases (Criminal investigation) British Columbia, Northern

Discrimination in law enforcement British Columbia, Northern

Highway 16 (B.C.)

Homicide investigation British Columbia, Northern

Indigenous peoples, Treatment of British Columbia History

Indigenous women British Columbia Social conditions

Indigenous women Civil rights Canada

Indigenous women Crimes against British Columbia, Northern

Missing persons British Columbia

Missing persons Investigation British Columbia, Northern

Missing persons Investigation Law and legislation British Columbia

Murder victims British Columbia, Northern

Murder victims' families British Columbia, Northern Interviews

Police Complaints against British Columbia, Northern

Police services for minorities British Columbia, Northern

Police-community relations British Columbia, Northern

Royal Canadian Mounted Police British Columbia, Northern

Women Crimes against British Columbia, Northern

Yellowhead Highway