Tino arteaga biography of alberta williams

In , year-old Alberta Gail Williams above and her sister Claudia were sharing an apartment in Vancouver, Canada. Although they enjoyed living in the city, they both decided they wanted to spend some time in a more rural area. That summer, Alberta and Claudia made the decision to travel to northern British Columbia, where they hoped to find seasonal work.

Claudia was with her sister on the evening Alberta disappeared. As reported by the Durham College Chronicle , Alberta and Claudia were among hundreds of indigenous people who were hired as seasonal workers at the local fish cannery. As they routinely worked up to 15 hours a day, the workers often met after work to socialize. On the evening of August 26, , Alberta and Claudia were standing outside a since-closed bar called Popeye's, talking with some of their co-workers and friends.

Claudia said," One minute we were talking and laughing, I turned my head to speak to my boyfriend and turned back, and she was gone, just gone. Although there was some disagreement about the color of the vehicle, Durham College Chronicle reports everyone who witnessed the incident said Alberta Williams got into a truck with her uncle Jack and another man who was only described as a "non-native.

To this day, her murder remains unsolved. Durham College Chronicle reports Alberta Williams was physically and sexually assaulted before she was killed.

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Her naked body was then dumped in the brush along Highway 16, which is commonly referred to as The Highway of Tears. The Highway of Tears is a stretch of highway in British Columbia , where an unusual number of women, who are primarily indigenous, have gone missing or were found dead. In , the Royal Canadian Mounted Police formed a task force which is solely focused on solving crimes committed against women along the Highway of Tears.

Alberta Williams is one of 18 women on the task force's list.