VANCOUVER—A driver’s licence belonging to Ashley Simpson, who vanished two years ago near Salmon Arm, B.C., has been found 1,200 kilometres north at a remote truckers lodge on the Alaska Highway, StarMetro has learned.The discovery is the first piece of physical evidence connected to the St. Catharines, Ont., woman since she disappeared in April 2016, but it hasn’t shed much light on what happened to her. How the licence surfaced so far from where Simpson disappeared remains a mystery.The ID was found Oct. 9 inside the tank of a sewage vacuum truck used by the Sasquatch Crossing Lodge in Pink Mountain, B.C. The motel and work camp caters to truck drivers, roughnecks and other oil-and-gas workers on the Alaska Highway, about two hours northwest of Fort St. John.Simpson is one of five women, featured in a joint Toronto Star/StarMetro investigation published Oct. 3, who disappeared in B.C.’s north Okanagan Valley during a roughly two-year period. Police believe Simpson and at least two others met with foul play. Only one of those women — 18-year-old Traci Genereaux — has been found. Her body was discovered in October 2017 on a farm outside Salmon Arm following an intensive police search. No one has yet been charged in connection with her death or the disappearances of any of the other women.Canada-wide, there are approximately 7,000 cases where a person has been missing for at least three months. The majority of those cases go back decades, the earliest of which dates from around 1914, according to the RCMP. But even in the past 10 years alone, about 1,800 people across the country have gone missing and remained missing.Read more:Their daughters vanished — and parents say police stopped looking. Now desperate families are searching on their own Human remains found on B.C. farm identified as missing womanB.C. mom erects billboards to help find daughter, missing for 25 yearsNearly a quarter of those cases are from B.C. Adjust ...
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