The Shocking Truth Behind 40 Missing Women: What’s Really Happening on Canada’s Highway of Tears?

About this episode

This episode discusses the ongoing tragedy of missing and murdered Indigenous women along Canada's Highway of Tears, highlighting systemic issues and challenges faced in addressing these cases.

Send us Fan Mail The Highway of Tears is ground zero in one of Canada’s darkest ongoing tragedies. For more than 50 years, dozens of people – mostly Indigenous women and girls – have been murdered or gone missing along Highway 16 and its connecting routes in northern British Columbia. Despite RCMP task forces and national attention, these cases have been plagued by racism, mismanagement, jurisdictional confusion, and a chronic lack of funding and manpower. In this episode of Box in the Baseme...

People in this episode

Hosts: Arlene, Leah, Bree

Topics covered

• missing persons
• Indigenous women
• true crime
• Highway of Tears
• racism
• law enforcement
• Canada

Keywords

• Highway of Tears
• missing women
• Indigenous
• true crime
• Canada
• RCMP
• racism
• law enforcement

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: RCMP

Places: Canada, Highway of Tears, British Columbia

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