Highway of Tears families meet with RCMP

RCMP investigators met over the weekend with family members of women who disappeared or were found murdered near Highway 16, dubbed the Highway of Tears, or other northern B.C. interior highways.
This was the sixth meeting held with victim’s families and is part of our ongoing commitment to keep the families appraised of any development in the disappearance or homicide of their loved one.
“The RCMP remain committed to the furtherance of Project E-PANA,” said C/Supt. Craig Callens, Deputy Criminal Operations Officer (Contract) for “E” Division, in a press release. “The Coordinated Investigation Team has completed the review phase of the incidents that are encompassed by the project, and are now actively engaged in the operational phase of the investigation. Resources continue to be deployed to the project as a provincial priority in an effort to bring the offender(s) to justice and some measure of closure to the families and loved ones of the victims.”
The investigative review team was formed in 2005. It was created as a result of E Division Criminal Operations ordering the review of a series of unsolved murders and suspicious missing persons cases linked to Highway 16. The mandate of the team was later expanded to include cases linked to other northern and B.C. Interior highways. Investigators from Project EPANA are currently investigating the disappearances or homicides of 18 women dating back to 1969.
Anyone who has any information about the disappearance or homicides of these women is asked to contact the Unsolved Homicide Tip Line at 1-877-543-4822 or Crime Stoppers at 1-800-222-8477 (TIPS).