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Highway of Tears Facts Point Away From Serial Killer

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An RCMP insider says it is simplification to suggest that all the murders and missing women along Highway 16 from Prince Rupert to Edmonton are the work of  a serial killer. "We definitely have suspects in a number of those missing women cases" he said, "but police work isn’t like the movies where we find out who did it in a half hour. We may have a good idea of who did it, but trying to get sufficient evidence to bring that person to trial is another matter." 

Most people, who commit murder he said, don’t want to be caught. 

There have been two missing persons reported in this area over the past few weeks.  14 year old Aielah Saric-Auger hasn't been seen since Thursday February 2nd near the First Litre Pub, and 24 year old Crystal Lee Okimaw of Prince George who was last seen  at a local women’s shelter. 

Nine women have gone missing along Highway 16 since 1990.  The two most famous disappearances are that of the entire Jack family,  and the June 2002  disappearance of Nicole Hoar of Red Deer. In spite of a large reward offered by her family and other groups, no one has been charged in her disappearance, nor have her remains been found . 

Our  insider says  "We are 75% sure of the identity of the body we found east of Tabor on Highway 16" he said , "now would you release the name based on that information or would you want to make an absolute identification before saying who it is?"

Police officials from two groups have been looking at the case of the missing women from here to Edmonton he said, there are two different groups of police investigators, a special task force in Edmonton and another here in BC, but to suggest the missing persons are all as the result of one, or one group of people, is not true, "In some of the missing people cases we have a good idea who did it, we just need more evidence." 



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