The Highway of Tears (And Maybe Hope)

This episode of Stuff You Should Know tackles the heartbreaking story of the Highway of Tears, a remote stretch of highway in British Columbia where dozens of women and girls, predominantly Indigenous, have been murdered or gone missing since the late 1960s. Josh and Chuck trace how communities and families fought for decades to get authorities to take these cases seriously, explore the systemic issues of underfunding, police neglect, and media bias that allowed this crisis to persist, and look at what's being done today to try to bring justice and safety to the area. It's a sobering but important listen that sheds light on a larger pattern of violence against Indigenous women across North America.