Unsolved Murders: Highway Of Tears. (1 Viewer)

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The Highway of Tears murders is a series of unsolved murders and disappearances of young women along the 800 km (500 mi) section of Highway 16 between Prince George and Prince Rupert, British Columbia, Canada from 1969 until 2011. Police list the number of victims at 18, but estimates by aboriginal organizations range into the 40s, largely because they include women who disappeared a greater distance from the highway.

Investigation:
In 2009, police converged on a property in Isle Pierre, in rural Prince George, to search for the remains of Nicole Hoar, a young tree planter who went missing on Highway 16, on June 21, 2002. The property was once owned by Leland Vincent Switzer, who is currently serving a prison sentence for the second-degree murder of his brother. The Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) also searched the property for the other missing women from the Highway of Tears; however, no further actions followed the investigation.

On September 25, 2012, the RCMP announced a link between the murders and deceased United States criminal Bobby Jack Fowler. His DNA was found on the body of Colleen MacMillen, one of the presumed victim. Investigators first compiled a DNA profile of the perpetrator in 2007, but technology available at the time did not yield a strong enough sample. New technologies allowed police to reexamine the DNA in 2012, leading to the identification. Fowler is also strongly suspected to have killed both Gale Weys and Pamela Darlington in 1973. The RCMP believe that he may have also killed as many as ten of the other victims.

Despite identifying Fowler as the killer in these cases, investigators are doubtful that they will ever solve all of the murders. They do have persons of interest in several other cases, but not enough evidence to lay charges.In May 2006, Fowler died at the age of 66 in Oregon State Penitentiary from lung cancer.
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Cody Legebokoff

On November 27, 2010 a Royal Canadian Mounted Police officer observed Legebokoff pull his truck onto British Columbia Highway 27 from a remote logging road. According to a case report prepared by the officer, he suspected the vehicle of speeding and signaled for it to pull over. After being joined by a second officer and approaching the vehicle, the officers say they noticed Legebokoff had blood smears on his face and chin, blood on his legs and saw a pool of blood on the driver's mat. Searching the pickup truck, the officers claim they discovered a multi-tool and wrench covered in blood, as well as a monkey backpack and a wallet containing a children's hospital card with the name of Loren Leslie on it. When questioned about the blood on him, Legebokoff purportedly stated that he was poaching and had clubbed a deer to death because "I’m a redneck, that’s what we do for fun."

The officers arrested Legebokoff under the Canada Wildlife Act and called for a conservation officer. The conservation officer retraced the tire tracks of Legebokoff's vehicle. According to police, the tracks led to the body of Loren Donn Leslie. After his arrest in connection with the death of Leslie, he was linked by DNA to the deaths of Jill Stacey Stuchenko, Cynthia Frances Maas and Natasha Lynn Montgomery.
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Legebokoff was convicted on four counts of first-degree murder on September 11, 2014.
On September 16, 2014, Legebokoff was sentenced to life in prison with no parole for 25 years (November 2035). .B.C. Supreme Court Justice Glen Parrett also added him to the national sex offender registry given the sexual assaults committed as part of the murders and Legebokoff's apparent degradation of the victims' bodies. "He lacks any shred of empathy or remorse," Parrett said of the killer. "He should never be allowed to walk among us again."


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Victims:
1. Gloria Moody 26 Homicide Williams Lake 1969 She was last seen on October 25, leaving a bar in Williams Lake. Her body was found in the woods at a cattle ranch 10 km away.

2. Micheline Pare 18 Homicide Hudson's Hope 1970 Last seen on Highway 20 at the gates of Tompkins Ranch situated between Fort St. John and Hudson's Hope. Two women who had given her a ride had dropped her off there.

3 .Gale Weys 19 Homicide Clearwater 1973 (October) Disappeared while hitchhiking from Clearwater to Kamloops. Her body was found in a ditch on Highway 5 south of Clearwater. Bobby Jack Fowler prime suspect

4. Pamela Darlington 19 Homicide Kamloops 1973 (November) Vanished from Kamloops while hitchhiking to a local bar. Her body was found the next day. Bobby Jack Fowler prime suspect

5. Monica Ignas 14 Homicide Thornhill 1974 (December) She was believed to be going home from school when she was last seen on Dec. 13, 1974 in Thornhill, B.C. Her body was found on Apr. 6, 1975, east of Terrace. She had been strangled.

6. Colleen MacMillen 16 Homicide 100 Mile House 1974 (August) Last seen leaving her home in Lac La Hache to hitchhike to a nearby friend's house. Suspect Bobby Jack Fowler's DNA was found on her body in 2012.

7. Monica Jack 12 Homicide Merritt 1978 For 17 years her fate was unknown; In June 1995, forestry workers found skeletal human remains in a ravine off a logging road on Swakum Mountain, about 20 km from where Monica's bike had been located. Dental records and DNA testing confirmed her identity. Police said in 1996 that they had a suspect, but not enough evidence to lay charges.

8. Maureen Mosie 33 Homicide Kamloops 1981 Maureen Mosie, 33, was believed to be hitchhiking from Salmon Arm to Kamloops in the B.C. Interior, when she was last seen on May 8, 1981. Her body was found the next day by a woman walking her dog along a road off the Trans-Canada highway about 16 kilometres east of Kamloops. She had been severely beaten.

9. Shelly-Ann Bascu 16 Missing Hinton, Alberta 1983 Several days after disappearing, personal items including clothing and blood droplets matching her bloodtype were found near the Athabasca River.

10. Alberta Williams 24 Homicide Prince Rupert 1989 The body of Alberta Williams, 24, was found on Sept. 25, 1989, about 37 km east of Prince Rupert, B.C., near the Tyee Overpass. She had been strangled and sexually assaulted.

11. Delphine Nikal 16 Missing Smithers, British Columbia 1990 Delphine Nikal vanished on June 13, 1990. The 15-year-old teenager was hitchhiking east from the town of Smithers, B.C.

12. Ramona Wilson 16 Homicide Smithers 1994 She was hitchhiking to her friends home in Smithers, BC on June 11, 1994. Ramona's remains were found April 1995 near the Smithers Airport.

13. Roxanne Thiara 15 Homicide Burns Lake 1994 She went missing in Prince George on the July long weekend in 1994. She had worked as a prostitute and told a friend she was going out with a customer. She walked around the corner of a building and was never heard from again. Her body was found Aug. 17, 1994, in the bush along Highway 16, six kilometres east of Burns Lake.

14. Alishia 'Leah' Germaine 15 Homicide Prince George 1994 (December) She was found murdered on Dec. 9, 1994, behind Haldi Road Elementary School off of Highway 16 W. outside of Prince George. Leah, 15 years old, part-native was stabbed to death.

15. Lana Derrick 19 Missing Terrace 1995 She was last seen in October 1995 at a service station in Thornhill. Fowler was apprehended (for crimes in USA) in June 1995, and could not have committed this crime.

16. Nicole Hoar 25 Missing Prince George 2002 Fowler was imprisoned in 1996 until his death in 2006, and could not have committed this or later crimes

17. Tamara Chipman 22 Missing Prince Rupert 2005 Last seen in Prince Rupert, British Columbia while hitchhiking east on Highway 16.

18. Aielah Saric Auger 14 Homicide Prince George 2006 The body of Aielah Saric-Auger, 14, was found shortly after she went missing on Feb. 2, 2006. A motorist found Saric-Auger in a ditch on Highway 16 near Tabor Mountain, nearly 20 kilometres east of Prince George.

19. Loren Donn Leslie 15 Homicide Vanderhoof 2010 21 year-old Cody Legebokoff was identified as the murderer

20. Madison Scott 20 Missing Vanderhoof 2011 Went missing after camping.


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Madison Scott:
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charlie4

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I live in Terrace, and I have heard of all of these women, I am glad they caught the bastard. I almost got picked up myself by Prince Rupert. Real life death and violence is terrifying when you live it.
 
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