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Tuesday’s press conference of RCMP in British Columbia declared that a U.S. convicted killer has been confirmed to be responsible for one of the murders of “Highway of Tears.” 16-year-old Colleen MacMillen, who died in 1974, never returned after she went hitchhiking on the Highway 97 to meet her friends. Later her body was discovered on a logging road south of Prince George.
B.C. Mounties have announced that Bobby Jack Fowler has been confirmed to be her killer. The officer addressing the press conference, Gary Shinkaruk, stated that police had successfully matched the DNA sample collected from MacMillen’s body to be of Fowler.
Police further disclosed that Fowler lived a major time of his life in the United States. He was charged with several criminal cases in numerous states of the country. He served his prison sentence for murder in Lincoln County, Oregon, until his death in 2006. Fowler is not believed to have any criminal data in Canada up till now.
The official inquiry about the case of 18 missing and murdered women, codenamed Project E-PANA, was initiated in 2006 due to a major public outcry. Later in June 2007, the RCMP forensic lab in Vancouver collected a DNA sample and suspected an unknown male to be the key to the MacMillen case. It was not until 2012, that the investigators re-examined the profile, and a higher quality DNA sample was reconstructed and submitted to Interpol to search in its foreign DNA databases. Shinkaruk announced that “Fowler is responsible for 16-year-old Colleen MacMillen’s murder.”
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