Roxanne Thiara, 15, Murdered November 1994; Unsolved

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Age 15, disappeared in November 1994 from Prince George. Her body was found just off Highway 16, near Burns Lake.

http://www.ubcic.bc.ca/files/PDF/highwayoftearsfinal.pdf
 
On the July long weekend in 1994, Roxanne Thiara, who was walking the streets as a sex-trade worker, told a friend she was going out with a customer. Roxanne walked around the corner of a building and was never seen alive again.

Roxanne's body was found Aug. 17, 1994, dumped in the bush along Highway 16, six kilometres before the community of Burns Lake.

Roxanne was raised by a loving foster family in Quesnel and did well in school until the rebellious teenager ran away at age 15 to Prince George, where she started selling sex to survive.

Her biological father, Roland Twan, a friendly man with an honest air who works odd jobs and is trying to stay sober, reconnected with Roxanne when she was 12.

"She was a happy kid. Happy, very outgoing, friendly. A very nice person," Twan recalls. "She was so good-looking. A beautiful girl."

http://www2.canada.com/nanaimodailynews/news/story.html?id=2334742
 
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Roxanne Thiara



15 years old, from N/A, murdered in 1994
Roxanne Thiara,15, was last seen in Prince George, British Columbia in July 1994. She was found dead off Burns Lake along The Highway of Tears one month after she disappeared. "Roxanne had been missing for over a month before we were even notified that she was missing," her aunt, Carla Bruyere said. "I wasn't notified until they actually found her [body]." The case is being investigated by Project E-PANA, a task force dedicated to unsolved murders with links to Highway 16 between Prince George and Prince Rupert, otherwise known as The Highway of Tears, in British Columbia.
[h=6]Do you have more information on any of these cases?[/h][h=3]CBC needs you[/h][h=4]Contact us by email at mmiw@cbc.ca or anonymously viaSecureDrop.[/h]CBC News continues to investigate missing and murdered indigenous women and girls in Canada, looking at the unsolved cases and telling the stories of the families and communities.

http://www.cbc.ca/missingandmurdered/mmiw/profiles/roxanne-thiara
 
Thiara's remains were found in August 1994 on Highway 16, between Prince George and Prince Rupert.

The 725-kilometre section of highway has also been tied to many cases of missing and murdered Indigenous women.

Thiara was one of more than a dozen women whose deaths were examined by an RCMP task force ordered to look into the possibility that a serial killer, or more than one killer, was active in the province.
 
2010
''It began with three teenage girls who were killed in the span of six months in 1994: Ramona Wilson, Roxanne Thiara and Alisha (Leah) Germaine.

In the fall of 2005, B.C.'s Unsolved Homicide Unit, which also falls under Hulan's command, was asked to examine the three cold cases because RCMP behaviour-science experts -- also known as profilers -- had looked at those files and found some similarities.''
 
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I recently came across this article about a kidnapping survivor from the Highway of Tears. She was good friends with both Roxanne and Leah, who were both murdered and found on the Highway in 94. This kidnapping case was a couple of years earlier but she kind of fits the same victim profile as a couple of the others in the area. It would be interesting to know her story. I haven't found anything so far in that regards though. Has anyone else found anything about her story? I would be curious to know if there were any similarities to some of the others.
 

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