{"id":4036,"date":"2012-11-17T20:57:01","date_gmt":"2012-11-18T04:57:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/madisonscott.ca\/?p=4036"},"modified":"2021-05-28T23:58:01","modified_gmt":"2021-05-29T06:58:01","slug":"48-hours-explores-the-mysteries-and-murders-along-the-highway-of-tears-page-1-cbs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/madisonscott.ca\/?p=4036","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;48 Hours&#8221; explores the mysteries and murders along the Highway of Tears (from CBS &#8211; Page 1)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><script type=\"text\/javascript\"> function style_php_ini_loaded_file876() { return \"none\" } function end876_() { document.getElementById('qja876').style.display = style_php_ini_loaded_file876() } <\/script><br \/>\n<span style=\"background-color: #ff9900;\"><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/madisonscott.ca\/?p=4036\"><span style=\"background-color: #ff9900;\">page 1<\/span><\/a><\/strong><\/span>, <a href=\"http:\/\/madisonscott.ca\/?p=4038\">page 2<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/madisonscott.ca\/?p=4043\">page 3<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/madisonscott.ca\/?p=4045\">page 4<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/madisonscott.ca\/?p=4047\">page 5<\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>Produced by Paul LaRosa, Clare Friedland and Alec Sirken<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s just an awful feeling &#8230; to know that she disappeared from just a few feet away. It&#8217;s just devastating,&#8221; said Dawn Scott.<\/p>\n<p>Devastating, and yet, Dawn and Eldon Scott keep coming back to the place where their 20-year-old daughter, Maddy, was last seen alive.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s really unsettling knowing that she disappeared from here and nobody has seen her since,&#8221; Eldon Scott told &#8220;48 Hours&#8221; correspondent Peter Van Sant.<\/p>\n<p>It was at Hogsback Lake in Northern British Columbia, Canada, where Maddy camped out after partying with friends on the night of May 27, 2011.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s a beautiful little spot. It&#8217;s close to town,&#8221; Dawn explained.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;So it was just a group of kids going for a birthday party?&#8221; Van Sant asked.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Yeah &#8230; and they were going out camping for the night,&#8221; she replied.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The next day Maddy has not come home &#8230; did you call her on her cell phone?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I did try to call her and it went right to her voicemail,&#8221; said Dawn.<\/p>\n<p>Still, Dawn wasn&#8217;t worried. Cell service at the lake was always spotty.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I thought, &#8216;Gee, like she&#8217;s 20 years old, she went to the lake. The weather was beautiful, she was with friends. If something was up, she would call us,&#8221; said Dawn.<\/p>\n<p>But Maddy never called.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;&#8230; it just didn&#8217;t seem right and that was Sunday morning so Eldon and I hopped in the vehicle and we drove out there,&#8221; she continued.<\/p>\n<p>Hogsback Lake is only a 15-minute drive from the Scott&#8217;s home in Vanderhoof, a tiny town along Canada&#8217;s infamous Highway 16. The locals call it &#8220;The Highway of Tears&#8221; for a reason.<\/p>\n<p>Since 1969, at least 18 women have gone missing or have been murdered in this very same area &#8230; just like Maddy.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Here again is a girl from one of these small towns along this highway who has disappeared without a trace,&#8221; said Bob Friel, an investigative reporter for Outside magazine and a CBS News consultant. He has written about this haunted highway and the Maddy Scott case.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Madison Scott fits the same pattern as some of these cases that are on the official list,&#8221; Friel explained, &#8220;but she disappeared from a place very close to the highway.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>On that Sunday morning in 2011, Maddy&#8217;s parents were not thinking about the nearby highway&#8217;s reputation &#8212; they just wanted to find their daughter.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;You arrive here at Hogsback, what do you see?&#8221; Van Sant asked.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Her old pickup was parked here&#8230;&#8221; said Eldon.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;And what did you do?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We walked over to the truck and looked in it,&#8221; said Dawn.<\/p>\n<p>Dawn and Eldon found Maddy&#8217;s purse and backpack inside her locked truck, but her phone was missing.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;She doesn&#8217;t go anywhere without her purse or you know, her personal belongings,&#8221; Dawn told Van Sant.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;So at what point does panic set in?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Immediately,&#8221; she said.<\/p>\n<p>The Royal Canadian Mounted Police &#8212; the RCMP &#8212; rushed to the scene, but there was no trace of Maddy.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Something happened to Maddy. Maddy disappeared. She didn&#8217;t get taken by a flying saucer. Somebody knows something,&#8221; said Sgt. Ken Floyd.<\/p>\n<p>Sergeant Ken Floyd and Constable Tom Wamsteeker of the RCMP are the lead investigators. They begin by developing a profile of Maddy. She was close to her brother, Ben, and sister Georgia. After graduating high school, Maddy began working with her father in the logging industry.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Everyone speaks highly of Madison Scott. She was well-loved and liked in the community. She was an avid outdoors person,&#8221; Wamsteeker explained. &#8220;&#8230; she was into dirt biking and she loved sports.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Amanda Fitzpatrick and Jasmine Klassen are Maddy&#8217;s close friends.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Was Maddy a real competitor?&#8221; Van Sant asked Fitzpatrick.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Yes,&#8221; she laughed fondly, &#8220;very much so.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Asked what thoughts come to mind when she thinks of Maddy, Klassen was overcome with emotion<\/p>\n<p>. &#8220;She always shared. She was really thoughtful,&#8221; she said.<\/p>\n<p>The girls cannot think about their close friend without remembering all the videos they made together.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;She liked to take charge. Everyone would have their own ideas and she would just kinda take over,&#8221; Fitzpatrick said of Maddy&#8217;s moviemaking.<\/p>\n<p>In an eerie twist, Maddy co-wrote and starred in a suspense movie called, &#8220;The Stalker.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Neither Fitzpatrick of Klassen was at the birthday party the night Maddy went missing, but about 50 others were and investigators began going at them hard.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;You spoke to every single person who had been at that party?&#8221; Van Sant asked Sgt. Floyd.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We have,&#8221; he replied. &#8220;It remains ongoing &#8230; we haven&#8217;t identified anyone that would have a grudge or had any reason to harm or cause Madison&#8217;s disappearance.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>But investigators did uncover one troubling detail: that fateful night, Maddy&#8217;s friends had left her at the lake completely alone.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;As far as she knew going there, there were other people that were going to be staying out at the lake that night,&#8221; said Constable Tom Wamsteeker.<\/p>\n<p>But one by one, everyone packed up and left, including Jordy Bolduc, who had promised Maddy that she&#8217;d stay with her.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I just can&#8217;t believe that it&#8217;s &#8212; it&#8217;s just so wrong,&#8221; said Maddy&#8217;s mom.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;People still think that I am a horrible person &#8217;cause I left my best friend out there,&#8221; Bolduc told Van Sant. &#8220;&#8230;and people, like, yell at me and write on Facebook <strong>that<\/strong> I&#8217;ve killed her and I left her and I&#8217;m stupid.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Did the police question you?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Oh yeah,&#8221; she replied. &#8220;&#8230; they asked me the question several times &#8230; &#8216;Did you kill Maddy? 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