separating rumor from fact, that's another matter altogether as detective judy thomas discovered. ed down the leads. first, the highway of tears. for years, women had been going missing out here. a body occasionally turning up beside the road. a horrifying surprise for passersby. but thomas has investigated those cases and expected no such surprise in wendy's case, was sure of it, in fact. wendy just didn't fit the profile. >> some of the victims we see are hitchhikers, also involved in drugs and organized crime or some of the folks that are sex trade workers. >> so you were able to dispense with that one pretty quickly? >> uh-huh. there was nothing to indicate that she was in any way connected to any of the missing or murdered women along highway 16. >> so said judy thomas, no highway of tears. but wendy could still have left prince george of her own accord. there was, after all, that sighting at the greyhound bus station. but no, said thomas, false alarm. >> with various files, you get a lot of people saying, oh, i saw this person. they're quite adamant. but when i spoke to the w