Police Have Not Let The Highway Of Tears File Gather Dust

By Ben Meisner

You may be thinking that the investigation into the disappearance of Nicole Hoar, a tree planter who went missing in the Prince George area back in 2002, had grown cold some time ago. That is not the case and as late as a few weeks ago police were talking to a man serving life in a lower mainland jail  for the shooting death of his brother.

Leland,” Chuggie” Switzer was interviewed within days of the young tree planter going missing, again in 2004 and again after he received the life sentence.

Switzer has always maintained that it wasn’t him, although he admits there could have been DNA near where she went missing becausehe stopped near  that spot to relieve himself.

He suggested to the police that a neighbour may be the culprit. He also suggested that another  man  in   his neighbourhood could be responsible for the disappearance of the Jack family. That  family of four went missing after apparently taking a job at a saw mill. They never showed up for work and have never been heard from since. That family disappeared long before Nicole Hoar went missing.

Switzer has also suggested a neighbour may have been involved in a death of yet another woman. They all lived on a small strip of land near Isle Pierre, west of Prince George.

The Highway of Tears group was formed trying to tie the deaths of all the women into one group or individual. It has always however been, albeit quietly, the police position that the deaths of many of these missing women was the work of several people, none connected.

Switzer’s comments at the very least ties some of the missing people into one location a small area of land near Norman Lake, a nearby refuse dump and Isle Pierre. The police are very aware of this fact as they continue this investigation.

To suggest that the cops have dropped the ball and left this investigation alone is very far from the truth. A lot of investigators have been trying to pin someone with the missing women’s file.

I’m Meisner and that’s one man’s opinion.

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