The Highway of Tears (And Maybe Hope)

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  Welcome to Stuff youf Should Know, a production of iHeartRadio.

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  Hey, and welcome to the podcast.

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  I'm Josh, and there's Chuck, and Jerry's here too.

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  And this is stuff you should know.

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  The man.

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  This is a bummer edition.

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  Yeah, the zero laughs edition.

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  Because we're talking about the highway of Tears and there's no other way around it.

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  This is just a devastating topic.

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  Yeah, we should tell people.

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  I mean, the highway of Tears is fairly famous.

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  It's kind of been in the news and in pop culture, I guess, for a while,

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  I guess at least since the 90s, but really in the early 2000s, I think is when it picked up.

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  Regardless,

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  it is a stretch of desolate highway that runs from in British Columbia up in Canada from,

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  from the port city of Prince Rupert all the way into the interior to Prince George.

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  And It's, I think 720km, almost 450 miles, and it's known as Highway 16 officially.

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  But the stretches of this highway are so desolate,

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  so remote and so sparsely populated that it has become a haven for murderers who pick people up,

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  mostly women,

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