This one kind of baffles me. Deena Lyn Braem was last seen alive hitchhiking to her home in Bouchie Lake from Quesnel on September 25, 1999. Her body was recovered on December 10, 1999 north west of Quesnel near Pinnacles Provincial Park. In 2009 the Vancouver sun reported that 10 years later Deena's death is still a mystery.
Deena was murdered on the highway of Tears. The Highway of Tears dates back to 1998 when the name was used at a vigil in Terrace to pay tribute to five women who at that time had disappeared along the 720-kilometre stretch of Highway 16 connecting Prince George to Prince Rupert.The Prince George Citizen reported that the murders along the highway of tears date back to 1969 and continued in the /70's so it started before and continued after Robert Pickton. The Highway of Tears web site claims the number of murders are up to 40.
The Lonnie Landrud story is bizarre yet he seems so coherent. He claims he witnessed the murder of Deena Braem and claims she was murdered by a police officer. We've talked about means and motive in the past. I see no motive in a cop killing this young girl. We have heard of cops stealing drugs from police lock ups. We heard that sex trade workers claims police officers extrted them into perofming sexua favoyr claiming that if the didn't have sex with the police officer they would arrest them for prostitution. These things are believable but murder?
A New York-based Human Rights Watch released a report claiming that police abuse of aboriginal women in BC included threats, torture and sexual assault. The report also contains troubling and graphic allegations of physical and sexual abuse, including from a woman, identified as homeless, who describes how police took her outside of town and raped her. Rhoad said the woman told her the officers then, "threatened that if I told anybody they would take me out to the mountains and kill me and make it look like an accident."
Rape is believable but murder seems extreme. We know Jim Brown is a freak and the Dianne Rock story raises huge concerns. Obviously not all cops are bad. Yet when we see idiots like bill fordy getting promoted it is clear that there is corruption in the administration of the RCMP. How far that rabbit hole goes is something I simply cannot answer.
Pretty compelling. Why would no one investigate this? Oh that's right, we don't really have anyone who investigates the police...except other police. And that's only in higher profile cases, usually it's them investigating themselves. Not that this on isn't high profile.
ReplyDeleteListen, the RCMP was reluctant to do anything above the Picton problem until it back impossible not to. For all the things the RCMP has swept under the rug to "Maintain Their Right", imagine how happy they would be to investigate a serial murder crew in uniform.....
In BC, the internal RCMP investigations are not handled internally. It's the Independent Investigative Office IIO.
DeleteFor sure. I think they might know a little more about the mid twenties males that have gone missing without a trace in the PG area over the years. I think it's pretty safe to say the highway of tears is more than one person. How can multiple people get away with murder in the same area? Kind of like the BCR cops wife that is missing without a trace. Things that make you go hmmm...
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DeleteBC Rail police that used to police BCR site and railways in PG.
DeleteInteresting. Do you have a name?
DeleteAnita Thorne, she went missing without a trace about 2 years ago. I don't know what they (BCR cops) are called now, but he has been a BCR cop forever and is still a railroad cop.
DeleteHow sad that this case has gone unsolved.
ReplyDeleteThe murders of women have been going on since the 1960s from Kamloops on up. It was not an area you wanted to even drive through at night, for fear your car might break down.
One of those killed outside of Kamloops was the daughter of an RCMP officer. Never solved to the best of my recollection.
Trailrunner and I don't agree on much, but this one, upp we agree.
At one time, an occupation of high spousal abuse were police officers. The stats must still be around from the 1970s and 1980s. In one northern, RCMP detachment, of 10 men, 8 admitted to hitting their wives, one said no, and one said not your business. So would murder of a woman they were not married to be that far a move? Not in my opinion. A police officer would be stupid to murder his wife because, well in a small town it might be noticed she was gone, but a woman not the wife, easy.
If it is alleged a police officer murdered the young woman, it would not surprise me if in fact that were true. There are no details as to how the young woman was murdered, but it doesn't take much sometimes to kill someone, hit them the wrong way, some one falls and hits their head......
What we do know is these murders will not be solved and the killings will continue. it is almost as if it were condoned by society.
Historically First Nations women had little to no value in our European descent culture. when they were rapped, battered, or murdered not many cared. Not much as changed until the change in federal government last year.
Many cases of murder on the Highway of Tears is because there is no reliable method of transportation along the way. Christy Clark and her B.C. LieberaLS DECIDed $250Kk per year for a bus just wasn't worth it.
There is always someone who knows something or has a pretty good idea, but they don't share it with authorities at the best of times. If the "authorities" might be involved, people will simply not talk. However, we can only hope more information comes to light during the Federal Investigation Canada will be having into the murdered and missing First Nations women. Perhaps cases may even be re-opened or investigate with new technology and fresh, unbiased eyes.
"There are no details as to how the young woman was murdered."
DeleteIn the interview he states exactly how he saw the cop murder the girl.
I know of someone who had tried to leave a tip on the Nicole Hoare disappearance on hwy 16. It was not taken seriously because they wouldn't leave a name. Funny how that guy that we thought is in jail for murder and since the killings have slowed, with the exception of Cody legebokoff.
ReplyDeleteThe case of Cody Legebokoff is an e.g. of why some of the murders are hard to solve. who would have thought someone from a "normal" family would have killed 3 women. Had it not been for an officer stopping him because he came from a road not used often, he would have continued to be at large.
ReplyDeleteThe lack of "enthusiasm" from police when people try to leave a tip is not encouraging.
Legebokoff killed 4 women.
DeletePolice constables are human beings. All are capable of horrible atrocities. History proves this beginning with Cain and Abel.
ReplyDelete(On a slight aside, just because they are human, does not mean police should not be held to an higher standard than the rest of the body of a nation or state - in fact, because of their position, police punishment for infractions should be, at least, 3 times that of the normal sentencing solely because of their position of trust!)
When an area or event is advertised and promoted by the media, various individuals are "inspired" (tempted) to commit the same acts ("copycats").
While obviously wanting to report on such occurrences/acts/events, the media have their role of responsibility to play, as well.
Have you met with Lonnie Landrud or the RCMP and discussed this? I have.
ReplyDeleteIn fact I have been investigating the RCMP for years. (They picked the fight with me and I will settle it)
I made it a point to meet Landrud in person when I was out west in 2014. I believed every word he told me but he does not trust anyone particularly strangers for justifiable reasons. Neither do I. However in return I definitely do not trust the neo nazi wackos he hangs out with such as Arthur Topham and Frank Frost. So we are even. However he did send me a statement later in the mail and asked me to put it on the Internet. When I posted it the mindless RCMP paid me visit in the middle of the night me and I responded to their lawyers immediately.
http://davidraymondamos.blogspot.ca/2014/12/fwd-re-murdered-and-missing-women.html
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=16UMaXcYKN8
http://thedavidamosrant.blogspot.ca/2014/02/re-very-ethical-lonnie-landrud-and-what.html
So much for the tough talking Neo Nazis in Quesnel eh?
http://www.radicalpress.com/?p=9892
The RCMP know what I have done about it my concerns thus far and there is more to follow. Check my lawsuit ongoing in Federal Court (T-1557-15) for over a year. If you wish to argue me on the public record intervene. Then if you wish to try to call me a liar, put it in writing and file it with your true name and signature. Otherwise all of this is just hot air in cyberspace to me.
Veritas Vincit
David Raymond Amos
902 800 0369
P.S. Your buddies in the RCMP know why I saved a digital copy of this webpage for my records EH Paul Collister?
Thank You Sir
ReplyDeleteGuaranteed the horse cops killed that poor girl, and you can bet your best pair of shoes that other RCMPigs have murdered other missing women along the Highway of Tears too.
ReplyDeleteI think you can take your clue from the first few paragraphs of H. Thompson's "Hey Rube". He talks about children being kidnapped off of the streets by organized gangs of perverts. These human trafficking organizations include police and even military assets.
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