![]() ![]() ![]() Sandy did not report her sister missing until 15 October, thinking at first she might have stayed at a friend's house. Helen worked a number of jobs around this time, including a bus person at the Prince George HBC cafeteria and for a painting company, painting gas stations between Prince George and Terrace. She was living with her sister, Sandy, at the time in an apartment on the 1600 block of Queensway. Left her home in downtown Prince George on the evening of 13 October 1970 and was never seen again. She was last seen leaving her home and walking down Highway 16 after an argument with her mother. The exact date of her disappearance is unknown. E-Pana cases are categorized in the table. ![]() The table below lists all the known women who went missing, were murdered, or died of unknown causes in the Highway of Tears. while Aboriginal organizations estimate that the number of missing and murdered women was higher than 40. According to the RCMP Project E-Pana, the number of victims is fewer than 18. External videoī.C.‘s infamous Highway of Tears, CBC Archives, 2:32, 21 June 2006, reported by Miyoung Lee Īccounts vary as to the exact number of victims. Another factor leading to abductions and murders is that the area is largely isolated and remote, with soft soil in many areas and carnivorous scavengers to carry away human remains these factors precipitate violent attacks, as perpetrators feel a sense of impunity, privacy, and the ability to easily carry out their crimes and hide evidence. Poverty in particular leads to low rates of car ownership and mobility thus, hitchhiking is often the only way for many to travel vast distances to see family or go to work, school, or seek medical treatment. Proposed explanations for the years-long endurance of the crimes and the limited progress in identifying culprits include poverty, drug abuse, widespread domestic violence, disconnection with traditional culture and disruption of the family unit through the foster care system and Canadian Indian residential school system. There are a disproportionately high number of indigenous women on the list of victims. The phrase was coined during a vigil held in Terrace, British Columbia in 1998, by Florence Naziel, who was thinking of the victims' families crying over their loved ones. The Highway of Tears is a 725-kilometre (450 mi) corridor of Highway 16 between Prince George and Prince Rupert in British Columbia, Canada, which has been the location of many disappearances and murders beginning in 1970. ![]()
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