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Highway of Tears

The new IACHR report on the Highway of Tears

January 14, 2015 By Alice

The new IACHR report on the Highway of Tears can be found here. It “is just one more reason for a national inquiry, said Prince George lawyer Mavis Erickson of the international body’s report. “It’s such a dismal picture, but I think that the Inter-American Commission has done a good job in bringing the issues […]

Filed Under: Cold Case News Tagged With: British Columbia, Canada, Crime Scene, Fist Nation Women, Highway of Tears, IACHR, Investigations Division, Unsolved Homicide, Victim

Tamara Chipman: Highway of Tears disappearance

September 22, 2010 By Alice

On the fifth anniversary of the disappearance of Tamara Chipman, one of many women to go missing along B.C.’s “Highway of Tears, Canada,” police are pleading for help from the public. Tamara Chipman, 22, was last seen on Sept. 21, 2005, five kilometres east of Prince Rupert. She was hitchhiking to Terrace along Highway 16 — on […]

Filed Under: Missing Persons Tagged With: Canada, E-Pana, Forensics, Highway of Tears, Tamara Chipman, Unsolved Homicide

Highway of Tears Revisited

June 11, 2010 By Alice

It is called: the Highway of Tears. Why? Because at least 18 women, many of them native, have disappeared from or have been found murdered along B.C. highways over the past 40 years. And there is still no progress in these cases. In “Cold Case Re-Investigations For All!” you can read about the fears that […]

Filed Under: Missing Persons, Unsolved Tagged With: Canada, E-Pana, Highway of Tears

E-Pana and cold case re-investigations

March 17, 2010 By Alice

E-pana or the Highway of Tears

In my post “Cold Case Re-Investigations for All” I might have given you the idea that there is discrimination going on in the E-Pana a.k.a. “Highway of Tears” investigations. While plowing through other articles, I found this one by Neal Hall from the Vancouver Sun. It describes the cold case re-investigations being done at this moment. […]

Filed Under: Cold Case News Tagged With: Canada, E-Pana, Highway of Tears

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In March 2015, the Connecticut State Supreme Court ordered a new trial for Richard lapointe. On Oct 2, 2015, International Wrongful Conviction Day, Richard was set free. The judge ruled that he cannot be retried for the 1987 rape-murder of Mrs. Bernice Martin. Richard Lapointe died on Aug 4, 2020 of Covid19 complications.

In 1987, someone killed Bernice Martin. I hope that she will not become a forgotten file.
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