House of Mystery Matt Smiley - Highway of Tears (Season 1, Episode 6)
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House of Mystery

Matt Smiley - Highway of Tears (Season 1, Episode 6)

Podcast Episode | Talk-Show

The Highway of Tears case consists of numerous unsolved murders and disappearances of women on Highway 16, with a majority of the victims being Aboriginal. The documentary explores the possible effects of systemic racism on the ...See moreThe Highway of Tears case consists of numerous unsolved murders and disappearances of women on Highway 16, with a majority of the victims being Aboriginal. The documentary explores the possible effects of systemic racism on the investigation, beginning with the Canadian Indian residential school system and including the popularity of the song "Squaws Along the Yukon" by Hank Thompson in the 1950s. The film covers the Robert Pickton murders and examines the possible roles killers Bobby Jack Fowler and Cody Legebokoff played in the Highway of Tears. It also references an earlier 2006 documentary, Finding Dawn. The film ends with a note that then-Prime Minister Stephen Harper did not support an inquiry into Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women in Canada. See less