Authorities claim to have found no link between the murders and disappearances that have plagued a stretch of Highway 16 between the towns of Prince George and Prince Rupert in the Province of British Columbia. Obviously, area citizens are not so certain and have taken to calling the stretch of road the "Highway of Tears".

Fifteen-year-old Delphine Nikal was the first apparent victim on June 13, 1990. Nikal was last seen hitchhiking from Smithers to Telkwa and has never been found, dead or alive. Then Ramona Wilson, fifteen, disappeared while also hitchhiking,, this time from Smithers to Moricetown on June 11, 1994. Her remains were not found until almost a year later in April of 1995 near the Smithers airport

1994 would also see two abductions of fiteen-year-old prostitutes from St. George, the first being named Roxanne Thiara. She disappeared after leaving with a customer in July and was alter found dead near Burns Lake. Then in December Alishia Germaine disappeared while plying her dangerous trade and was not seen again until she turned up behind a local school, stabbed to death.

Despite an odd circumstance surrounding her death, Lana Derrick is listed as one of the possible victims. Derrick, nineteen, was last seen in Terrace on October 7, 1995 (another report has her last being seen at a Thornhill service station). Her body has never been found and in a suspicious twist her boyfriend committed suicide the very night of her disappearance, leading one to believe it is possible her had something to do with Derrick's vanishing.

Locals must have been breathing easier when no murders or unexplained disappearances occurred in the next six years. Then on June 21, 2002, Nicole Hoar, 25, went missing after being dropped off at a Smithers service station to embark on a hitchhiking trip. Witnesses report seeing a woman that they cannott positively identify as Hoar getting into a car along Highway 16 on that same day, but thus far no further progress has been announced and Hoar has not yet been found.

According to one local woman young women continue to hitchhike Highway 16 with regularity, despite the well-known dangers.