The Highway of Tears

Along a 724-kilometer stretch of Highway 16 in northern British Columbia, Canada, dozens of women and girls — predominantly Indigenous — have gone missing or been found murdered since the late 1960s. The remoteness of the highway and systemic failures in investigating crimes against Indigenous women allowed the killings to continue for decades. Some cases have been solved, but many remain open, and the total victim count is disputed, with some estimates exceeding 40.