Highway of Tears: Mystery of the 800-mile stretch of Canadian road where up to 43 women have gone missing in 30 years and could be victims of serial killer

• No suspect has been found in disappearances stretching back decades
• Remote wilderness creates danger for hitchhiking young women

By Daily Mail Reporter

PUBLISHED: 23:00 GMT, 9 June 2012 | UPDATED: 23:51 GMT, 9 June 2012

It has been dubbed the Highway of Tears.

Mystery surrounds one of the remotest stretches of highway in Canada after nearly 50 women are believed to have gone missing there in the past 30 years.

Many believe that the disappearances along Highway 16, which runs between Prince George and Prince Rupert in British Columbia, are the work of a twisted serial killer who preys on young women.

But police have never identified a suspect in the case, and some say the women were simply victims of Canada's harsh and remote wilderness.