A preliminary hearing for a northern B.C. man charged with the 1990 murder of a young aboriginal woman from the Yukon has been scheduled for June 4.
Paul Felker, 60, was charged in Fort St. John on Nov. 16 with second-degree murder in the death of 21-year-old Cindy Burk, who was born into the Carmacks First Nation and also known as Tina Washpan.
Cindy Burk, who was from Carmacks First Nation, was killed in 1990 but the suspect was only arrested in 2006.
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Burk's body was found near Kiskatinaw Provincial Park, between Fort St. John and Dawson Creek, along the Alaska Highway, police said.
Police haven't said how she died.
Although she was born in the Yukon, Burk was later adopted by a non-native family and spent most of her life in Saskatchewan. She returned to the Yukon in the late 1980s to reunite with her birth mother and brothers and sisters, police said.
It's believed she was hitchhiking to Saskatchewan when she was killed.
Felker's preliminary hearing date was set in a Fort St. John court this week. He has not applied for bail.
Police have said they do not think Burk's slaying is related to the slayings and disappearances of young women along another northern B.C. highway.
The stretch of Highway 16 from Prince George to Prince Rupert has become known as the Highway of Tears.
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