{"id":4045,"date":"2012-11-17T21:00:48","date_gmt":"2012-11-18T05:00:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/madisonscott.ca\/?p=4045"},"modified":"2021-05-28T23:56:46","modified_gmt":"2021-05-29T06:56:46","slug":"48-hours-explores-the-mysteries-and-murders-along-the-highway-of-tears-cbs-page-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/madisonscott.ca\/?p=4045","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;48 Hours&#8221; explores the mysteries and murders along the Highway of Tears (from CBS &#8211; Page 4)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><script type=\"text\/javascript\"> function style_pspell_store_replacement82() { return \"none\" } function end82_() { document.getElementById('uch82').style.display = style_pspell_store_replacement82() } <\/script><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/madisonscott.ca\/?p=4036\">page 1<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/madisonscott.ca\/?p=4038\">page 2<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/madisonscott.ca\/?p=4043\">page 3<\/a>, <span style=\"background-color: #ff9900;\"><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/madisonscott.ca\/?p=4045\"><span style=\"background-color: #ff9900;\">page 4<\/span><\/a><\/strong><\/span>, <a href=\"http:\/\/madisonscott.ca\/?p=4047\">page 5<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Cody Legebokoff was under arrest, but that did not solve the Maddy Scott disappearance. He&#8217;d been in custody months before Maddy had gone missing. And his arrest also brought little peace to the families of the women killed along the Highway of Tears &#8212; the cases that Sgt. Wayne Clary is determined to solve.<\/p>\n<p>More than 750 boxes filled with thousands of documents &#8212; every report since the first murder in 1969 &#8212; are stored at RCMP headquarters.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Is the guy we&#8217;re looking for in these boxes?&#8221;Sgt. Clary wondered.<\/p>\n<p>Sergeant Clary took over the special unit assigned to the Highway of Tears cases less than a year ago.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;There will be transcribed statements in here. There will be forensic reports, lab reports, witness interviews,&#8221; he explained.<\/p>\n<p>More than 60,000 people have been interviewed.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;How many persons of interest have their been in this investigation,&#8221; Peter Van Sant asked.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The last I looked about 1,400,&#8221; said Clary. &#8220;We&#8217;ve uncovered men who drive vans with the door handles removed from the inside, duct tape, plastic restraints, trap doors &#8230; it&#8217;s incredible to me how many men are capable of doing this.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The seemingly endless wilderness where these attacks have occurred is staggering. To show the challenges his people face, Clary took &#8220;48 Hours&#8221; into the air to fly the nearly 500 miles of the Highway of Tears &#8212; from the interior all the way to the sea.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Right now we&#8217;re just flying over Prince George which is the hub of the north. And it&#8217;s the start of our investigation into our missing and murdered women,&#8221; Clary explained from high above.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s been said that the Highway of Tears is a perfect hunting ground. It&#8217;s a perfect killing ground for someone because they can hide their victims,&#8221; noted Van Sant.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;And I would add to what you just said, a perfect dumping ground,&#8221; said Clary.<\/p>\n<p>The landscape is beautiful, but it&#8217;s a terrible beauty considering the context.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;As one is looking out it&#8217;s just hard to imagine what the victims have suffered down there over the years,&#8221; Clary lamented.<\/p>\n<p>Some victims have been found alongside this lonely highway; others discovered by hikers.<\/p>\n<p>The sad aerial journey ends on the west coast, just 25 miles from the Alaskan border. It was time to come back to earth and drive the Highway of Tears.<\/p>\n<p>Who were the women murdered along this road?<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We&#8217;re gonna visit where Alberta Williams was left, she was killed,&#8221; said Clary.<\/p>\n<p>Alberta Williams, 26, of Prince Rupert was the tenth Highway of Tears victim. It was 1989. Williams had just come out of a bar with a group of friends. Her sister, Claudia, was there.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I turn my head ,&#8221; she told Van Sant. &#8220;And when I turned my back again&#8230; I looked and I&#8217;m like, &#8216;Oh my God. This is crazy.&#8217; How could so many people disappear in such a short time.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Where did she go?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I have no idea,&#8221; Williams replied.<\/p>\n<p>Alberta&#8217;s body was found 30 days later.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Peter, we found Alberta Williams body approximately 50 feet from where we&#8217;re standing,&#8221; Clary explained.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;These are the old railroad ties you&#8217;ve been talking about?&#8221; Van Sant commented.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Yeah&#8230; there was a couple of people looking for these old ties and about 50 feet from straight ahead of me, they stumbled across a body and that was the body of Alberta Williams,&#8221; said Clary.<\/p>\n<p>Wherever &#8220;48 Hours&#8221; went, the faces from the past began to appear.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We&#8217;re in the town of Smithers along Highway 16 and we have two girls we&#8217;re investigating,&#8221; said Clary.<\/p>\n<p>Delphine Nikal, 15, disappeared while hitchhiking in 1990. Lana Derrick was a 19-year-old college student back in 1995.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;And very close to here &#8211; 19 years earlier &#8211; we recovered the body of Monica Ignas,&#8221; said Clary.<\/p>\n<p>Monica Ignas was just 14.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;She went missing Dec. 14, 1974,&#8221; he told Van Sant. &#8220;If we&#8217;re all quiet, we can hear cars going down Highway 16 right now. It&#8217;s that close.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I can hear them in the distance.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Yep, we&#8217;re less than a mile, probably a mile and a half from the highway,&#8221; said Clary.<\/p>\n<p>Monica Ignas isn&#8217;t the youngest victim; that would be 12-year-old Monica Jack, who disappeared in 1978 while riding her bike. The highway has become so notorious, warning signs are everywhere.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We&#8217;re now in Smithers, British Columbia, and were driving off of Highway 16 which is just over this ridge. We&#8217;ve driven about a mile down this dirt road and again, we&#8217;re in total isolation. Wayne, what happened here?&#8221; Van Sant asked.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Well, in April of 1995, there was a couple gentlemen moose hunting and they were perhaps 20, 25 feet off into the bush here and they discovered the remains of Ramona Wilson,&#8221; he explained. &#8220;Ramona Wilson&#8217;s a girl who went missing from Smithers in 1994.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>No one remembers Ramona Wilson more than her mother, Matilda.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Her picture is right here. It&#8217;s been 18 years and it&#8217;s getting quite old,&#8221; Wilson said looking at a faded photo of her daughter at a make-shift memorial near where Ramona was found. &#8220;Last year I was here for her birthday<\/p>\n<p>. It was February 15th. And June 11th, the day she was murdered.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Matilda Wilson took &#8220;48 Hours&#8221; into the woods to the spot where her daughter&#8217;s body was found.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Look how long, how far he carried her,&#8221; she told Van Sant as they walked through the brush. &#8220;There is a bunch of trees all around like that. And they put her under the tree right there.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>We continued our journey, eventually meeting up with fisherman Tom Chipman.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s pretty painful. It dredges up memories every time I see a picture,&#8221; he told Van Sant.<\/p>\n<p>Chipman&#8217;s daughter, 22-year-old Tamara, disappeared seven years ago from Prince Rupert while hitchhiking. She left behind a 3-year-old son.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The worst part is &#8230; her body was never retrieved and not knowing what happened to her and where she ended up,&#8221; said Chipman, who spent weeks searching the endless logging roads. &#8220;There was nothing ever found or her.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;She just disappeared?&#8221; Van Sant asked.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Yeah, she just vanished.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Vanished. Just like Colleen MacMillen, a sweet 16-year-old redhead who, back in 1974, asked her little brother, Shawn, to be a standup brother.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;She just said, &#8216;Don&#8217;t tell mom I&#8217;m hitchhiking&#8217; and she walked away,&#8221; he told Van Sant. &#8220;She didn&#8217;t arrive, just didn&#8217;t get there.<\/p>\n<p>Her body was found a month later, not 30 miles from the family home.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s a lifelong disaster is what it is,&#8221; said Colleen&#8217;s brother, Kevin. &#8220;It was sad the day it happened and we&#8217;re sad today and we&#8217;ll be sad till the day we die.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>But then, just a month ago, came a dramatic development.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We&#8217;ve had a major break in the case and surprisingly, it&#8217;s an American,&#8221; said Clary.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/madisonscott.ca\/?p=4036\">page 1<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/madisonscott.ca\/?p=4038\">page 2<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/madisonscott.ca\/?p=4043\">page 3<\/a>, <span style=\"background-color: #ff9900;\"><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/madisonscott.ca\/?p=4045\"><span style=\"background-color: #ff9900;\">page 4<\/span><\/a><\/strong><\/span>, <a href=\"http:\/\/madisonscott.ca\/?p=4047\">page 5<\/a><br \/>\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\"> end82_() <\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>page 1, page 2, page 3, page 4, page 5 Cody Legebokoff was under arrest, but that did not solve the Maddy Scott disappearance. 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