Case overview
There is a disproportionately high number of Indigenous women on the list of victims, hence the association with the Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women (MMIW) movement. The first investigation by RCMP that tried to look at Highway of Tears as linked cases was opened in December 1998. [1]
To date, a number of people have been convicted in cases related to the Highway of Tears. Fowler died in prison and has never been charged in the deaths of any of the Highway of Tears victims. Another factor leading to unsolved disappearances is that the area is largely isolated and remote. [2]
