Ramona Wilson, 16, Murdered June 1994; Unsolved

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TAKEN, video.
http://watch.cbc.ca/taken/-/episode-2/38e815a-00b0401f0df

Women have been assaulted, gone missing, and been murdered along British Columbia's Highway 16 for decades. Alberta Williams and Ramona Wilson are two women whose only mistake was getting into the wrong vehicle on the Highway of Tears.

 

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Highway of Tears case began with three teens
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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"We reviewed the files with the view of whether we could identify or say the homicides had been committed by the same person, or whether there was a reason to believe there were three separate killers," Hulan said during an interview last week.
"There was rumour, speculation and media reports in the north suggesting that a serial killer was responsible for these and other files," he explained.
"So part of our mandate was to determine if there was a serial killer responsible and also trying to identify investigative strategies to move those three files forward."
Ramona was 16 years old when she vanished June 11, 1994 in Smithers, after telling her mother she was going to meet some friends and attend a dance in a nearby community. The Grade 10 high school student never made it to her friend's house and her body was found near the Smithers airport, within a short distance of Highway 16, in April 1995.
Roxanne, 15, supported a drug addiction by selling sex in Prince George. She was last seen working the streets on the July long weekend in 1994. Her body was found the following month near Burns Lake along Highway 16.
Leah Germaine was also 15 and working the streets of Prince George when she disappeared on Dec. 9, 1994. Her body was found a few hours later near an elementary school on the outskirts of Prince George, close to Highway 16.
Those three cases marked the birth of Project E-Pana, which was named by one of the investigators after the mythological Inuit god Pana, who cared for souls in the afterlife until they were reincarnated. The operation is now an integrated one, including members of the RCMP and Vancouver police.
But, Hulan said, the officers soon realized that if they were looking for evidence of a possible serial killer, they would have to broaden the scope of their probe beyond three files.

http://www.vancouversun.com/news/highway+tears+case+began+with+three+teens/9903542/story.html

 

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The Lonely Road of Matty Wilson
http://www.ucobserver.org/justice/2004/11/the_lonely_road_of_matty_wilson/
*snippet The first five victims were Aboriginal. Fifteen-year-old Delphine Nikal disappeared in June 1990 as she hitchhiked east from her hometown of Smithers. Four more Native women in their teens -- Ramona Wilson, 15, Roxanne Thiara, 15, Alishia Germaine, 15 and Lana Derrick, 19 -- met with grief during a 16-month stretch starting in June 1994. While police say there's nothing to link the cases, many in northern B.C. believe a serial killer is at large. (Privately some say they hope it's a serial killer: better one killer than six.) Like the missing women of Vancouver's Downtown East Side before the arrest of Robert Pickton, the stories of the missing and murdered Aboriginal women of Highway 16 barely register on the public radar. A national campaign launched last spring by the Native Women's Association of Canada (NWAC) and supported by the United Church hopes to change that. It's called Sisters in Spirit, and it urges the federal government to set up a multi-million-dollar fund to research and document hundreds of missing or murdered Native women. Highway 16 is a prime focus, not only for the cases that are known, but also for suggestions that many more have gone unreported because families don't trust the justice system.
The best-known missing-woman case on Highway 16 is the most recent. On a June afternoon two years ago, friends drove 25-year-old Nicole Hoar to a popular hitchhiking jump-off on the outskirts of Prince George. A summer tree-planter, Nicole told co-workers she was heading 370 km west to Smithers to pay a surprise visit to her sister and attend a music festival during a week off. She spoke to at least one prospective ride -- a man with children who wasn't driving as far as she wanted to go -- before vanishing. She is the lone white woman among the missing women of Highway 16.
Nicole's employer reported her missing six days after she was supposed to have returned to work. Police and volunteers mounted a huge search effort believed to be the largest ever in northern B.C. A dozen RCMP officers and 170 volunteers scoured a 24,000-square-km area between Prince George and Smithers, knocking on doors and covering 8,000 km of roadway, ditches, logging roads, hiking trails and campsites. Helicopters and fixed-wing aircraft searched from above.
After four days the official search was called off. But the huge outpouring of support for the young woman and her family back in Red Deer, Alta., continued for weeks afterwards. Police sifted through more than 1,400 tips. A reward fund grew to $25,000, then $35,000. Art exhibitions and concerts -- even an attempt to set a speedskating world record by friend and 2002 Olympian Steven Elm -- were held in Nicole's benefit. A Web site, www.findnicolehoar.com, still operates.

 

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Has any one else noticed that the highway has a great number of Airports close by all the missing people on the Highway?
This could mean that he flies in to a new Airport every time, Murders and then flies out from another Airport?
So this leads to an assumption that the murderer might be hiring cars at one Airport, and dropping them off at another.

The chances are that he probably grew up in the area, but doesn't live there any more. Because 30 years is a long time for this to be ongoing. I would also summise that the murderer is not the original killer, but perhaps a sibling that was introduced to it by a Parent and very much so possibly abused themselves. The sad thing about people abused in their youth is that they quite often become the abuser themselves later on in life. I would look back 30 years at people with abusive behavioural offenders all over the past 30 years.

Also people requesting freedom of information to be released about Highway had their requests denied and information was deleted.
http://www.documentcloud.org/documents/2475478-ir-f15-03-accessdenied-22oct2015.html#document/p1

Q&A: Tim Duncan explains why Highway of Tears emails were allegedly deleted


The Information and Privacy Commissioner is conducting an investigation

http://www.cbc.ca/player/play/2668316707/

Flying in and out, hiring and driving the Highway to an alternate Airport, sounds like the sort of thing a Government Official might do a lot.
But that's just suposition.

It seems that the Government has done a lot to cover this up and the murder timeline occurrs every 3 months - occassionly six and in the beginning once a year in October.

VANCOUVER - A list of the 18 women and girls whose deaths and disappearances are part of the RCMP's investigation of the Highway of Tears in British Columbia. They were either found or last seen near Highway 16 or near Highways 97 and 5:
— Aielah Saric Auger, 14, of Prince George was last seen by her family on Feb. 2, 2006, and her body was found eight days later in a ditch along Highway 16, east of Prince George.
— Tamara Chipman, 22, of Prince Rupert was last seen on Sept. 21, 2006, hitchhiking along Highway 16 near Prince Rupert.
— Nicole Hoar, 25, was from Alberta and was working in the Prince George area as a tree planter. She was last seen hitchhiking to Smithers on Highway 16 on June 21, 2002.
— Lana Derrick, 19, was last seen in October 1995 at a gas station near Terrace. She was a student at Northwest Community College in Terrace.
— Alishia Germaine, 15, of Prince George was found murdered on Dec. 9, 1994.
— Roxanne Thiara, 15, of Quesnel was found dead in August 1994 just off Highway 16 near Burns Lake.
— Ramona Wilson, 16, of Smithers was last seen alive in June 1994 when she was believed be hitchhiking. Her body was found 10 months later.
— Delphine Nikal, 16, of Smithers was last seen in June 1990, when she was hitchhiking from Smithers to her home in Telkwa.
— Alberta Williams, 24, disappeared in August 1989 and her body was found several weeks later near Prince Rupert.
— Shelley-Anne Bascu of Hinton, Alta., was last seen in 1983.
— Maureen Mosie of Kamloops was found dead in May 1981.
— Monica Jack, 12, is the youngest victim. She disappeared in May 1978 while riding her bike near Merritt. Her remains were found in 1996.
— Monica Ignas, 15, was last seen alive in December 1974 and her remains were found five months later.
— Colleen MacMillen, 16 was last seen alive in August 1974, when she left her family home in Lac La Hache, B.C., with a plan to hitchhike to visit a friend. Her remains were found the following month. In October 2012, the RCMP announced DNA evidence led them to believe Bobby Jack Fowler, who died in an Oregon jail in 2006, killed MacMillen.
— Pamela Darlington, 19, of Kamloops was found murdered in a park November of 1973. The RCMP say they suspect Bobby Jack Fowler was responsible for Darlington's disappearance, but they don't have conclusive proof.
— Gale Weys of Clearwater was last seen hitchhiking in October 1973 and her remains were found in April of the following year. The RCMP say Bobby Jack Fowler is also suspected in her death.
— Micheline Pare of Hudson Hope was found dead in 1970.
— Gloria Moody of Williams Lake area was found dead in October 1969.

Could the Murderer be in a position of power to delete relevant information?

B.C. government destroyed records on Highway of Tears after request to access them, former staffer says

http://news.nationalpost.com/news/b...er-request-to-access-them-former-staffer-says

http://www.slideshare.net/YoussoufHosh/highway-of-tears

This may might take a full Independent Inquiry that excludes Law services, Transport and Freedom of Inforation Services from being involved. As they are amongst the most outstanding areas where the murderer might be hiding. If you notice in the interview with Tim Duncan, he never named the Supervisor that deleted the files. I can understand that as there is probably an Investigation underway and revealing such information would preventing him from getting a fair trial, or for that matter being able to be charged. Bu the problem here is definitely within the Governmental Departments themselves so should under no circumstances be investigated by their own internal Investigations team.

I still don't believe that Ramona Wilson was a Victim of this killer. I think she died from tragic misadventure with quite possibly her friends from the Resturaunt she worked at during the Stanley Cup Riot. She might have died at one of her friends place, then taken out to Highway 16 and placed there because of it's reputation. She probably died as a result from injuries obtained from the 3,000 people strong riot. Either sustained by the rioters, or the police themselves.

I would be interested to know how many of her ex friends are now suffering from a Mental illness. Such as Manic depression, Drug abuse, Alcoholism and delusions.


VANCOUVER - The RCMP's highest ranking member in British Columbia warned the provincial government last year that cutting the force's budget would hamper its ability to investigate missing and murdered women along the so-called Highway of Tears.
The Mounties launched their E-PANA task force in 2006 to determine whether a serial killer was operating along the Highway 16 corridor in the province's north. It was eventually assigned 18 cases involving women or girls who vanished or were found dead in the region.
http://www.huffingtonpost.ca/2015/0...rs_n_6614244.html?utm_hp_ref=highway-of-tears

Thank you for this post Tombo. I also think that he grew up in the area, was abused and has abusive behaviour patterns.i also am of the understanding that other members of his family have abusive behaviour patterns that are documented on the Internet. Possibly cyberstalking, harassment and accusations of being a predator. I believe that he has family ties to Pennsylvania, New Jersey and New York. I see the same family member name connected to these place and Smithers and the warnings about them online.

 

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Highway of Tears and perhaps a Runway of Tears too? speculation.

 

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I notice that some MSM articles state that Ramona Wilson was hitchhiking and some say that she wasn't actually seen hitchhiking at all. Apparently her family wonder if she was taken right in town somewhere. I wonder if since she was not seen after leaving her home on Railway Avenue that maybe she got into a vehicle at the end of her driveway by someone she knew. Maybe someone from her neighbourhood. Maybe even a neighbour or someone who was once a neighbour?

I don't know if this article has been posted here yet.
http://hazlitt.net/feature/death-and-afterlife-ramona-wilson
Railway Avenue just after 9 p.m. It was a hot summer Saturday night in Smithers, a small town in northern British Columbia, and the hazy orange sunset promised another scorcher of a day to follow. Ramona, 16, had spent the evening at home, with her mother and brother, eating takeout lasagna and watching [FONT=inherit !important][FONT=inherit !important]TV[/FONT]. Now she was headed out, wearing pink and white high-tops, to meet some friends at a dance a couple of towns away.[/FONT]
Two major arteries run through Smithers. The first, the line that was once known as the Grand Trunk Pacific Railway, was pounded into the ground right behind the Wilson home, bearing freight trains from Memphis and Chicago and Detroit across the prairies and over the Rocky Mountains, through the thinly populated [FONT=inherit !important][FONT=inherit !important]B.C.[/FONT] interior, to the port town of Prince Rupert on the coast. The second, shadowing it, is Highway 16, a northern leg of the Trans-Canada officially known as the Yellowhead. It diverges from the main route in southern Manitoba and angles slowly north through Saskatoon, Edmonton, and Jasper before crossing the mountains into [FONT=inherit !important][FONT=inherit !important]B.C.[/FONT][/FONT] There, it zigzags through the area’s industrial hub, Prince George, and then travels more than 700 kilometres through farmland into deepening forests and rising peaks before dead-ending at the Prince Rupert ferry terminal.[/FONT]
Winding west from Prince George, Highway 16 links a series of small communities—logging and sawmill towns, mostly, and First Nations villages: Vanderhoof, Fraser Lake, Burns Lake, Houston, Telkwa, Smithers, Moricetown, Hazelton, Terrace and, finally, Prince Rupert. Short hops up and down the highway from town to town are built into the local social calendar—on this night, there were dances and barbecues drawing Smithers residents to Hazelton and Moricetown —and young people without a ride of their own often stick out a thumb to get where they’re going. Odds are, the driver who picks them up and drives them deeper into the evergreen-dense hills won’t even be a stranger.

 

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Published on Oct 17, 2016 The story of one young woman, Ramona Wilson, who went missing along the highway in 1994 as told by her mother Matilda Wilson. The immersive documentary transports the viewer to Matilda’s home and then on to the notorious highway. More on The Current:

http://www.cbc.ca/radio/thecurrent/fe...
[video=youtube;Q-gRYS3LXvA]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q-gRYS3LXvA[/video]

 

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Keeping things tidy might have been a sign respect for her belongings. (It is known to be a Teen Hang out) So a friend might have done it, probably a Female. A male wouldn't do it.

Remember this might not have been a singular Person. It could be Two People, A Gang, A Mob, Or A Riot!

And It just so happen's on this particular day in Vancouver B.C. The Stanley Cup Riot occurred.
http://beta.images.theglobeandmail.com/archive/01289/Report_on_the_1994_1289365a.pdf

The only way to determine if keeping things tidy is a trait of the offender is by doing a State-wide Police search to see if there had been any other murders where the clothes had been folded and placed aside. To me it seems to be a sign of respect. You rarely kill people you respect, they die on you. Also a murder is more likely to take something small as a trophy. Nothing was mentioned, and I don't think she was raped.

Any way, after the State-wide Police search determine how far a part each murder was. Determine an axis from each of the known murder locations, which will get a rough idea of where the murderer is operating from.

Remember also, she was know for skipping school, and her friend said she didn't stay at her place for the sleep over that night. So she had plan's that she knew her parents wouldn't approve off.

It's possible she might not have been murdered, but dying off wounds inflicted upon her by a 3,000 strong Stanley Cup Riot of Young People and Police that occurred on that day in Vancouver. Wounds that could have been inflicted by either the Mob, or the Police.

I don't think it was a Murderer or Serial killer. I think it was more, an adventure of a young whimisical heart. She was known to skip school occassionally, so probably had her hang outs. She also had a part time job, so she knew people her friends weren't aware off. Whereas most parents aren't really aware of anyone in their child's life, except for their school friend's. I'd say she was probably out there, experimenting with drug's and alcohol, with her 'other friend's. (the one's from work.) As young people do.

The Question's I would like to verify.....
1.) Was she there (At the riot)?
2.) Was she there with friend's? (The Riot)
3.) Where those friend's from work?
4.) Was she hurt?
5.) If so by whom? (The Crowd, or The Police)
6.) Did her friend's take her hurt from the Riot to the Forest to avoid the Police and try and help her?
7.) Were her cloth's removed so that her friend's could get a proper idea of her injuries and supply treatment?

I think the kid's wih her panicked when she died, quite possibly from Police over-zelousness. Who could they report it too? Not enough has been said about her injuries to be sure that it was a murder, no rape was reported. Perhaps even some of her friends folded her clothes and placed them near her, as they cried and left her. These kids would be about 30 Now, all quite possibly ex - staffers of the resturaunt she worked in. All holding this secret that might be destroying their lives.

It could be she died as a result of the riot and was left in the Forerest as a dead weight is hard to move, and the kids with her where confused as to what they could do.
Something to think about. The police wouldn't claim the blame for her deah even if Forensic evidence showed she died from a .... say Baton Blow. So I think this is set to remain unsolved, whilst (perhaps) those that tried to help her and she died on might well be suffering mental trauma.

I very highly doubt she was at the Riot in Vancouver. Vancouver is 100's and 100's of km from Smithers where she lived and her remains were found.

 

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I don't think she would have got into a car with a stranger. I read somewhere that her sister stated that Ramona wouldn't just get into the car with anyone. Maybe she knew the person who killed her? Maybe not necessarily good friends but at least acquaintances. Her remains were found near the airport but also near a local party area. Definitely someone local who knew the area and the surrounding area.

 

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Billboards along Highway 16 to honour missing, murdered Indigenous women, girls - BC News

Four new billboards featuring messages of hope will be placed along Highway 16, also known as the Highway of Tears.

www.castanet.net

 

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Episode from Taken, a 2016 Canadian true crime doc series, featuring Ramona Wilson's & Alberta William's cases. Made by Aboriginal Peoples Television Network: