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It was the larger number of tips from the public on the deaths and disappearances along the Highway of Tears that prompted RCMP to add more officers to the case.

The two members are based at North District headquarters and will be members of the ongoing team of investigators working on the rash of tragedies across the North.

"The two members in Prince George were added due to the volume of tips they were dealing with through Operation E-Pana," said provincial RCMP spokesman Sgt. Pierre Lemaitre. "Obviously a lot of that information is centred in the North, where these members are located."

E-Pana is the operational name given to the Highway of Tears cluster of investigations, which centre on 18 females who have either disappeared or been murdered. Many met their mysterious fate along Highway 16 between Prince George and Prince Rupert.

http://www.princegeorgecitizen.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=122052&Itemid=557
 
Gladys Radek has been hunkered down at her desk for up to 16 hours a day, rallying communities across the country - including Edmonton - to join her on a relay that will "pass a justice baton," across the country.

Next month she and a group of organizers will lace up their shoes for Walk 4 Justice, a trek that will take over two months and raise awareness about the 18 women who have gone missing or been found murdered in the last 30 years on B.C.'s so-called Highway of Tears.

The walk is to begin in Kamloops on June 24 and end in Ottawa on Sept. 11.

Radek said she hopes the event will also draw attention to all of Canada's missing people - regardless of their race or sex.

"We're getting a real outpouring of support, not only from our community but from other communities," she said from Vancouver.

http://www.edmontonsun.com/News/Edmonton/2008/05/10/5527171-sun.html
 
Rle7 said:
Here are some other missing/murdered people along Highway 16 I have noticed in various articles:


The entire Jack family, missing since 8/2/89 from the Bednesti Lake and Cluculz Lake area south of Highway 16. The only case of a family disappearance in Canada.


  • Deena Braem (and here), 16, missing 9/25/99. Her body was found murdered on 12/10/99.
  • Amanda Gore (and here), 20, her body was found unconscious in Quesnal on 4/19/05. She died later in the hospital. An autopsy revealed she died from alcohol poisoning and exposure but her death remains suspicious.
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Thanks for posting about these cases. Shadowraiths you are amazing and I will be checking out your site more. May I ask what got you interested in the Highway of tears cases? I would like to speak more with you. Rle-Did you know that another member of the Jack family was murdered in Edmonton. Her name was Bunny. I have spoken with some of the girls in depth out there in the hunting grounds in Edmonton. I received some weird emails after the RCMP Project Kare website was taken over with many handles posting grusome pics and the website being attacked by angry trolls. I will look for them.
 
Highway of Tears
RCMP step up investigation into 18 dead or missing women along Highway 16 in northern B.C.
http://www.missingpeople.net/rcmp_step_up_investigation.htm

The RCMP announced today it has expanded its Highway of Tears investigation in northern B.C. to include 18 young women who were murdered or went missing since 1969, doubling the number of files being probed.
Investigators met Thursday with families of the murdered and missing women before making the announcement. The expanded probe includes an unsolved murder that took place in Prince George last year and another unsolved murder dating back 38 years.
The geographical scope was also expanded to include unsolved cases along other major highways in B.C., including those leading to Hudson Hope, Kamloops, Merritt, 100 Mile House, and extending as far as Hinton, Alta.
Last year, the police probe listed nine women between the ages of 14 and 25 who were murdered or missing along Highway 16, a desolate two-lane road that runs from Prince Rupert to Prince George and on to Edmonton. It was dubbed the Highway of Tears because of the grief caused by a string of unsolved murders and mysterious disappearances over the years.
There has been speculation that a serial killer has been preying on young women - a large number of the victims were aboriginal - hitchhiking on the highway. The RCMP has always maintained there is no evidence of a serial killer - a position reiterated today.
 
http://row.unbc.ca/people/peebles1.html
Frank Peebles
Frank Peebles is a writer/performer based at his family farm in Francois Lake, B.C. He is the editor of the Lakes District News and was until recently the Arts & Entertainment correspondent for the Prince George Free Press.
It was in Prince George that he worked with producer Mike Callewaert and several collaborative friends (Robin Clegg, Drie Ignas, Ryan Castley, Eric Forster, rock band Nudge, Marion Hunt-Doig) to combine creative writing with music/effects. Together they recorded an album's worth of material, some original and some culled from the Canadian pop-lit repository.
Frank is also a playwright, with his play "Cowboys In the Snow" featured this spring at the Prince George Cowboy Festival.
He continues to steal moments to write creatively when his journalism vocation allows. He can be contacted by calling 250-695-6594 or by email frankpeebles@hotmail.com

Frank Peebles used to write about all the Highway of Tears cases. One of his articles was pulled and cannot be viewed on the internet. I believe I still have that article. Mr. Peebles had apparently joined up on the tree planting website that Nicole Hoar belonged to and that sent chills though me. I can see that Frank Peebles was associated with a Drie Ingas and wonder if Mr. Ignas was related to the late Monica Ignas who was murdered in 1974 along the highway of tears.

Here is more on the reporter Peebles.

http://adidem.org/cgi-bin/coranto/viewnews.cgi?id=EEFEAkZuVZncMiJTYe&tmpl=ccases
R. v Peebles et al.

October 3, 2005


Frank Peebles, a reporter for The Prince George Citizen, managed to avoid breaching a publication ban on the prior conviction of an accused, and the fact that his new trial was for an offence he was alleged to have committed while on parole. Unfortunately, he, his editor, and his paper were convicted of contempt, and received fines of $1000, $1000, and $10,000 respectively.

The Court picked up from R. v. Froese, and R. v. CHBC Television, and reiterated the test for contempt as including an examination of whether the publication created a real and substantial risk to the fairness of the accused's trial or the proper administration of justice. The risk must be real, as opposed to remote or hypothetical, and must be substantial, not trifling. The burden of proof is beyond a reasonable doubt.

In this case, the publication led to a mistrial. There was no likelihood that evidence of the prior conviction would have been admissible at trial.

See: R. v Peebles et al.
 
http://northword.ca/april-2007/private-investigator-moved-by-highway-of-tears
Travelling the highway of tears When Michalko first became seized by the Highway of Tears case last winter, he generated theories and an action plan that included about 350 people to talk to.

In February 2006, Michalko placed an ad in northern community newspapers, inviting anyone with information on the Highway of Tears murders to contact him. And the phone started to ring: in fact, about 50 tipsters got in touch—arguably more new action than the RCMP have generated in years.
These days, Michalko spends about 40 hours a month on this case. He’s reviewed past media coverage, assessed the landscape and identified more than 760 places between Prince George and Prince Rupert where a body could have easily been disposed of, blanketed the area with information flyers. He’s conducted several trips to northern BC to interview tipsters and “persons of interest”; these conversations have led to contacts with federal prison inmates.
Michalko believes more than one killer is responsible, and says he is currently following leads on Ramona Wilson, whose body was found in 1995 near the Smithers Airport, and Tamara Chipman and Nicole Hoar, who vanished from Highway 16 in 2005 and 2002 respectively.
So far, no cigar. But his investigation has generated a wave of media attention and renewed public and police interest in these cases.

Got a tip for Ray Michalko? Call him at 604.831.5585
For more information on the Highway of Tears disappearances,
visit www.highwayoftears.ca
 
PRINCE GEORGE, B.C. - .

RCMP investigators descended on a two-hectare property west of Prince George on Thursday in connection with what they called a "historical homicide."

http://ca.news.yahoo.com/s/capress/090828/national/prince_george_search

Please let this be a possible break in these cases. My thoughts and prayers go out to the families at this time and always.

Thanks Ray M. I knew you could make a difference.
 
A five-acre property on Pinewood Road near Isle Pierre, 50 kilometres west of Prince George, is being combed for key evidence in an unsolved homicide case believed to be linked to the disappearance of Nicole Hoar. She was a 25-year-old treeplanter from Red Deer, Alta., who was last seen hitchhiking to Smithers on June 21, 2002.
Ms. Hoar's parents are reportedly en route to Prince George

http://www.princegeorgecitizen.com/...r-property-owner-39person-of-interest-39.html
 
RCMP officers have occupied a five-acre area near Prince George, B.C., to look for the body of 25-year-old Nicole Hoar of Red Deer, Alta.

Hoar, a tree planter, was last seen in June 2002 as she hitchhiked from Prince George to Smithers, B.C., along Highway 16 to surprise her sister

http://www.canada.com/news/Police+search+property+Alberta+woman+remains/1938686/story.html

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Eighteen women have disappeared along the stretch of road between Prince George and Prince Rupert, earning it the ominous name, Highway of Tears
 
ISLE PIERRE (NEWS1130) - Police searching a two hectare property near Prince George for the remains of 25-year-old Nicole Hoar have now narrowed their search on a well. A neighbour tipped police off the property owner - Leland Switzer, who's in jail for killing his brother two days after Hoar went missing -- had poured diesel down the well and lit it on fire.

http://www.news1130.com/news/local/more.jsp?content=20090830_084106_10504
 
The remains of a person discovered in a gravel pit near Prince George, B.C., are not those of a young Red Deer woman who disappeared seven years ago, a police official said Wednesday.

Const. Gary Godwin of Prince George RCMP said the remains were identified as a woman but they are not releasing the identity at this time.
“They were definitely that of a human,” he added.

He said the remains were not those of hitchhiker Nicole Hoar, 25, of Red Deer who was last seen outside of Prince George in June 2002

http://www.albertalocalnews.com/red...those_of_missing_Red_Deer_woman_67202157.html
 
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