SERIAL KILLER: Highway of Tears
Loren Donn Leslie was only 15-years-old when police discovered her remains on a lonely logging road off Highway 16 in British Columbia. Since the late 1960s, women and girls have gone missing from the communities that surround Highway 16, or been found murdered along the desolate 450-mile stretch of road known as the Highway of Tears.
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Episode Source Material
- Wikipedia – Highway of Tears
- CBS News: Highway of Tears: The victims and the missing
- CBS 48 Hours: Highway of Tears
- Huffington Post: Cody Legebokoff Trial Hears Victims’ DNA Found On Suspect’s Belongings
- VICE News: Life and death along Canada’s Highway of Tears
- National Post : Christie Blatchford: Canada’s youngest serial killer was moved to medium security. As usual, officials won’t say why
- CTV News: Murdered BC teen knew her suspected killer
- New York Times: Dozens of Women Vanish on Canada’s Highway of Tears, and Most Cases Are Unsolved
- CBC: Deceased US convict linked to three BC cold cases
- Vancouver Sun: Serial killer Cody Legebokoff just another garden-variety predator
- Vancouver Sun: DNA evidence linked alleged serial killer with four victims, Crown tells trial
- Maclean’s Magazine: The country boy at the heart of four murder investigations
- Canada.com: Blatchford: Accused serial killer Cody Legebokoff’s testimony leaves little mystery in murders
- Globe and Mail: Prime target: How serial killers prey on indigenous women
- Oregon Live – Dead inmate a possible suspect in as many as seven Oregon homicides, more in Canada
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