B.C. family of woman murdered in early ’70s makes emotional plea for tips

KAMLOOPS, B.C. – Sisters of a 19-year-old woman who was murdered in the early 1970s have made an emotional appeal to the public for information that could solve the crime.

A day after police said they believed Bobby Jack Fowler was a “strong suspect” in the death of 19-year-olds Gale Weys (WAYs) and Pamela Darlington, Weys’ two younger sisters asked people to recall tips from four decades past.

Denice Weys and Dianne Weddell say they had given up hope the crime would ever be solved and that their “open wound” resolved.

Police on Tuesday announced they had linked Fowler, a dead Oregon convict, through DNA to the death of Colleen MacMillen, a 16-year-old murdered in 1974.

Fowler was also named as a suspect in the Weys and Darlington deaths on Tuesday and RCMP Staff Sgt. Wayne Clary says since then, investigators have already received 50 phone calls to a tip line, as well as numerous emails.

The deaths are part of an investigation known as E-Pana that has tried to determine whether one or more serial killers have been working B.C. highways, including Highway 16, known as the Highway of Tears. (CHNL)