Highway of Tears isn't a perfect approach to the issue. The contributing factor of poverty in Aboriginal communities and lack of public transportation is given as a reason why so many men and women hitchhiked and continue to hitchhike there. These include systemic racism, as many of victims have been Aboriginal women, providing a reason why the RCMP and many Canadians assigned no importance to them. The documentary Highway of Tears is an attempt to raise the profile of the case/cases, and explore root causes.
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Two serial killers responsible for some of the deaths, American Bobby Jack Fowler and Canadian Cody Legebokoff, have since been identified, but several cases remain unsolved and it seems likely other killers were active in the area. Over 40 women have either been murdered or simply vanished there since 1969, yet the cases escaped national and police attention for years.
The Highway of Tears is a section of Highway 16, which runs through northern British Columbia, specifically between Prince George and Prince Rupert. Made in the last year Canada still had a government refusing to set up an inquiry into the epidemic of missing and murdered Aboriginal women across the country, the documentary Highway of Tears (2015) attempts to shed light on an epicentre of the phenomenon that is still often overlooked. Now find out what First Nation leaders are doing to try and swing the pendulum in the other direction. Aboriginal women are considered abject victims of violence. Viewers will discover what the effects of generational poverty, residential schools, systemic violence, and high unemployment rates have done to First Nation reserves and how they tie in with the missing and murdered women in the Highway of Tears cases. Why haven't the killers been found? Is this the work of one or several serial killers? In Canada, more than 500 cases of Aboriginal women have gone missing or been murdered since the 1960s. None of the 18 cold-cases had been solved since 1969, until project E-Pana (a special division of the RCMP) managed to link DNA to Portland drifter, Bobby Jack Fowler with the 1974 murder of 16 year-old hitchhiker, Collen MacMillen. "Highway of Tears" is about the missing or murdered women along a 724 kilometer stretch of highway in northern British Columbia.
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