

This is where I began my career in law enforcement, but it was not my first brush with murder and a cold-blooded killer.

Unofficially, more than fifty women-many of them from nearby reservations-have been considered probable victims of serial homicide by predators hunting on Highway 16. Today, this lonely stretch is known as the infamous Highway of Tears, where at least eighteen young women have been designated as victims of serial killers, dating back to 1969. The northern city of Prince George is the starting point for Highway 16, a sinister stretch of road connecting central BC to the port city of Prince Rupert on the Pacific coast-a distance of approximately 700 kilometres. I was assigned to patrol the small logging towns carved by nature and man throughout northern British Columbia, when I found myself at the epicenter of what was-and today remains-the most active region for serial killers in Canada. In 1974, I was a nineteen-year-old lad, a rookie officer of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police.
