Posted on 06/15/2012 8:30:01 AM PDT by LibWhacker
This 837-mile route, known simply as The Highway of Tears, strikes terror into the hearts of millions
WITH its breathtaking lake views and snowy mountain backdrop, Canada’s Highway 16 is one of the world’s most picturesque roads.
But this 837-mile route through British Columbia strikes terror into the hearts of millions after a spate of unsolved murders.
To them it is known simply as The Highway of Tears – the hunting ground of a prolific serial killer.
The only hint that it is any different from any other stretch of road in Canada are the Missing Person posters stapled to lampposts.
Towns are far apart and there are long stretches of road that appear deserted.
Sometimes the radio fades out and mobile phone reception is patchy at best.
Logging roads split off everywhere. If someone has bad intentions, they will find a victim.
A killer can go off and drive for an hour and throw a body into a ravine and it would never be found, admits one official involved in the hunt.
More than 40 young women, many of them hitchhikers, have vanished along the remote route in the past 30 years.
Most disappeared on desolate stretch linking Prince George and Prince Rupert.
(Excerpt) Read more at mirror.co.uk ...
Most of these towns exist only because of the sawmill or papermill in these locations. I would not be surprised if it was a truck driver. They travel these roads more than anyone else. The trucker may not be even from BC or Alberta.
I deal with several companies that bring lumber from British Columbia and Alberta into the states west of the Mississippi. It litterally could be someone from Boise that travels up to Prince George and then comes back to the US with a return load.
So the truth is probably that there is likely a serial killer operating in the area, but he’s not responsible for all forty of the victims found in the area.
Many serial killers start in their late teens/early twenties, so even if we are talking about one guy whose career started with the earliest of the murders, he wouldn’t necessarily be that old.
I remember once when I was growing up in Kansas in the 50s, my dad took us on a trip through Colorado. I had never seen a proper hill before, much less a mountain. I went ape****.
We drank raw natural untreated water out of burbling streams that my dad approved. It was delicious. It probably wasn't advisable, even in the 50s, but it was delicious and didn't make us sick.
I live for the wilderness. Or the memory of it. I'd love to take that trip through BC. But the place I'm really dying to see... before I actually do die... is Nahanni. Have you ever been there?
That was my first thought: Bears. Then, Big Foot. Then I chuckled a little bit and came back to bears. It very well could be bears, in at least a few of the cases. Not sure about wolves.
But they don’t mention any men being killed or disappearing along that stretch of road. Bears wouldn’t be that selective in their choice of victims. But then, neither would most serial killers.
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