Manitoba events inspired investigation into missing and murdered women in B.C. decades later – Thompson Citizen

August 17, 2016

Obstruction of Justice: The Search for Truth on Canada’s Highway of Tears by former RCMP officer turned private investigator Ray Michalko is not a whodunit. It doesn’t solve the unsolved murders it focuses on but it does paint a picture of why people argue that cases of missing and murdered indigenous women are so numerous in part because of the way they have been investigated – or not investigated – by police with toxic results for the relationship between aboriginal people and those who are supposed to enforce the laws intended to protect all of us.

Though the bulk of the story takes place in northern B.C. along the 700-kilometre stretch of Highway 16 between Prince Rupert and Price – known as the Highway of Tears because of the large numbers of women, mostly aboriginal, who have gone missing or been murdered while hitchhiking along it – Michalko’s own story begins further east, in Manitoba, where he began his career as an RCMP member in Dauphin in 1967 before being transferred to Gillam in 1968 and then to Thompson the following year before being shipped to a rural southern detachment and resigning from the force. He briefly rejoined the force again four years later but soon left a second time, this time for good.

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