Highway Of Tears Essay Topics

Madison Carlton
Mrs. Luther
English II
13 February 2017
The Highway of Tears
Along the highway 16 just outside of Canada everybody cried and many died. Over 40 women were hunted and killed along the highway in Canada. The Highway of Tears is one of the most tragic unsolved murders this nation have seen because there have been over 40 murders that have gone unsolved since 1969. Ever since 1969 there have been over 40 cases of missing and murdered women along Highway 16 now known as the “Highway of Tears”. In 1969 the first woman went missing. All of the women that were taken were hitchhiking or walking along the highway. “I identify the messages used by the province that target Indigenous women and attempt to construct hitchhiking as a contentious form mobility” (Morton 301). Hitchhiking was not always known as a dangerous act. It was just another way to get from point A to point B, but with the new era of crazy people it has become much more dangerous. “Hitchhiking is a form of contentious mobility because it functions in a different way than the independence of automobility” (Morton 301). One of the first victims was Gloria Moody ashe was from the Williams Lake area and was found dead along highway 97 in October 1969. “Gloria's body was found 10km from Williams Lake

A woman came to the police station and told the officer that someone had tried to kidnap them and that they had written down the license plate number. When the police station ran the plates they found that the car belonged to Jerry Baker. Baker had been charged with multiple sexual assault cases. Baker has been a suspect in many cases in the Highway of Tears murders. He was thought to be involved with the murders of Colleen MacMillen 1969, Pamela Darlington 1973, Gail Ann Weys 1974, and Norma Tashoots 1989. “Is he responsible for four or five (murders) or one? I don’t know,” Leibel said of Baker” (“Unsolved Murders /