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my name is why we're doing I'm a producer with the CBC i live in Prince George I was raised along the so-called
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high wave to us I did know two girls associated with the highway of tears I did go to school with Lana Derek and I
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actually went to school with her in elementary school we both went to junior high together senior high together and
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she disappeared I thought well when we were both in our first year of college is when she disappeared I also knew
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Tamara chipman Tamara shipment is actually the daughter of my father's friend a co-worker they go commercial
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fishing together Lana Derek is it's a mystery she she basically she was last seen at a service station just outside
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of terrace she was bashed when she first went missing you know first thing I thought all they'll find her it's
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probably who knows I didn't know where that wealth nope was she ran away maybe she was off with some boyfriend went to
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Vancouver who knows you just didn't know but then you're a year went by and another year and their annual searches
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every year where the community get together and trying to find Lana Darren and you know every year you think that
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maybe they might find her and then after a while you realize well I realized she
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wasn't coming home she's gone Tamara chairman yeah she disappeared her body was never found it was she was last seen
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hitchhiking from wagon remember like I say her dad was completely devastated her dad fishes my dad at the both
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commercial fisherman despite numerous searches despite ground searches help of the community her disappearance I mean
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there are many rumors as to what may have happened to her but no one knows what happened to marriage hitman where
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her body is if there is a body no one knows where she is I've driven this highway hundreds of times I really have
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from one end to the other and on every trip you'll see a young woman hitchhiking and and sadly people will
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look at the the women and say what are they doing the crazy what are they doing it are they mad at the crazy well flip
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around for a second video like it for d with no grocery stores they don't have any money they you know we take for
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granted going to the store up the street to go get milk and vegetables well guess
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what where do they have to go to get the groceries we're not going to get it in their community they have to leave their
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community to go get it so I mean it's easy to point the finger and blame these young women for hitchhiking but the fact
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of the matter is if i want to go from community to community and i don't have a car then I've to take the bus you know
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the bus cause a lot of money and if I'm gonna go get some fresh produce well I'm
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not going to spend fifty sixty eighty a hundred dollars to get to a city that go
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get some so I mean fact of the matter is the women are yeah they're taking risks
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but it's hard to blame them when there's nothing there to protect them