S3 Ep17: Silence on the Highway of Tears: What Happened to Alberta Williams?

Strange and Unexplained with Daisy Eagan

True Crime, Society & Culture, Science

4.1 • 10K Ratings

🗓️ 17 August 2023

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Summary

Alberta Williams was a promising young woman who’s life was taken from her without warning in the summer of 1989. Despite some promising leads, witnesses remain silent, investigations remain deadlocked, and Alberta’s family remains without closure. As decades pass, Alberta’s case has become one of the ever-growing number of Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls cases that remain unsolved today.

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0:00.0	Strangers, have you heard Obsessed Fest is coming back?
0:05.7	Last year's Obsessed Fest was so epic, and this year is going to be even more epicer.
0:11.9	New true crime podcasters are being added to the lineup all the time.
0:15.9	You can keep up with the planning and check out highlights from last year at the Obsessed
0:19.9	Fest Instagram account.
0:21.5	There's gonna be live shows, panels, games, karaoke, Q&As, meet and greets, cocktail
0:27.0	hours and merch, merch, merch, and in case you didn't know, it's not just Obsessed Network
0:32.0	shows.
0:33.0	We've got the best true crime podcasters from all over the world joining us for one incredible
0:38.0	weekend.
0:39.0	So make sure you get your tickets and book your hotel room now at ObsessedFest.com and
0:44.2	join us October 20th through the 22nd at the Omni and Dallas, Texas.
0:48.7	I can't wait to see you there.
0:58.0	You know how we usually start these episodes with questions?
1:02.7	Well, that was the only one because it's no great revelation to point out that there
1:08.0	is a huge coverage gap in the media when it comes to missing women.
1:13.0	Do a quick scan of Netflix's true crime documentaries and you'll see thumbnail after thumbnail
1:18.1	of pretty white women.
1:20.2	One might think after seeing this that white women are most in danger of being kidnapped,
1:25.2	hurt or killed, but the statistics tell a different story.
1:29.8	Why does our culture seem so horrified and fascinated by one story, yet wholly indifferent to
1:36.3	the other?
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