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48 Hours

Highway of Tears

48 Hours

CBS News

True Crime, Tv & Film

4.17.8K Ratings

🗓️ 29 May 2016

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Summary

A haunted highway.

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The road's called Highway 16, it's part of the trans-Canadian highway system.

1:24.8

There are places in this road where you will see more bears than you will see cars.

1:30.2

The road can take on kind of a sinister aspect of it.

1:35.6

It's a place that can be a good friend to evil.

1:39.7

The locals know it as the highway of tears.

1:46.7

And it's called that because there's been a series of disappearances and murders of women

1:51.6

and girls that date back four decades and a large number of them are still unsolved.

1:59.2

People know that their sisters and daughters are at risk if they go near this highway and

2:05.5

perhaps wind up hitchhiking for an emergency reason.

2:08.4

The number of victims varies with who you talk to.

2:11.0

The Royal Canadian-Mounted Police Force says that there's 18 victims.

2:16.4

If you talk to the local people, they believe the number is 33, 43, perhaps even more.

2:26.0

And just this week, the Highway of Tears made front-page news again.

2:31.2

Canada's Prime Minister Justin Trudeau committed more than $30 million to a new national investigation

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