Episode 3.17 // Silence on the Highway of Tears: What Happened to Alberta Williams?

Alberta Williams was a promising young woman who’s life was taken from her without warning in the summer of 1989. Despite some promising leads, witnesses remain silent, investigations remain deadlocked, and Alberta’s family remains without closure. As decades pass, Alberta’s case has become one of the ever-growing number of Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls cases that remain unsolved today.

SOURCES:

• Alberta Gail Williams (1965-1989) - Find a Grave Memorial

• The Murder of Alberta Williams - The Hue and Cry

• National Inquiry… Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls - Public Hearings - Sep 27, 2017

• Prince Rupert - Google

• Who Killed Alberta Williams - Episode 1 Transcript - Connie Walker and Marnie Luke - 2016

• Who Killed Alberta Williams - Episode 2 Transcript - Connie Walker and Marnie Luke - 2016

• Who Killed Alberta Williams - Episode 5 - Connie Walker and Marnie Luke - 2016

• Alberta Gail Williams - Missing and Murdered - CBC

• Body Identified - Police Beat - Terrace Standard - Sep 27 1989

• Highway of Tears - Don Sabo -The Canadian Encyclopedia - Jun 6, 2016

• Missing and Murdered Indigenous… - Jennifer Brant - The Canadian Encyclopedia - Mar 22, 2017

• Who Killed Alberta Williams - Episode 3 Transcript - Connie Walker and Marnie Luke - 2016

• 4,000 March for Missing Women - Sam Cooper - The Province - Feb 15, 2010

• RCMP in British Columbia - Project E-PANA

• 20 Year Anniversary Alberta Williams - The Province - Aug 26, 2009

• Who Killed Alberta Williams - Episode 6 - Connie Walker and Marnie Luke - 2016

• Who Killed Alberta Williams - Episode 8 - Connie Walker and Marnie Luke - 2016

TRANSCRIPT:

Alberta Williams.pdf

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