On June 27, 2010, 25-year old Emma Czornobaj stopped on Highway 30 west of Montreal to rescue some ducks crossing the road. She parked on the left-hand lane, put her blinkers on and proceeded to get out of her Honda Civic to push the ducks out of harm’s way.

On September 3, 2013, Kelli Stapleton published a blog describing an IEP (Individualized Education Program) meeting where it was decided that the district school would not offer services to her 14-year-old autistic daughter named Issy.

On May 26, 2014, 21-year old Valérie Poulin-Collins dressed as a nurse and entered the Trois-Rivières hospital in Quebec where she proceeded to abduct a day-old baby girl called Victoria Boisclair.

English writer Charles Dickens died on June 9, 1870, when he was in the process of writing his last novel Edwin Drood. To this day, the mystery of this character’s passing remains.

Penning a nonfiction novel is quite an endeavor for any writer, especially when it comes to true crime because the stakes are so very high, humanly and legally.

Writer Ann Rule has often been credited with having invented the true crime genre and even if it is not the case, she has surely contributed to boosting its popularity and made a fortune doing it. 

A documentary titled Highway of Tears premiered on March 6th, 2014 at the Human Right Watch Film Festival in Toronto, Canada. The film director, Matt Smiley, announced that additional screening dates will be posted on their official Facebook page ‘Highway of Tears.’