Quotes of The Week: 'They Hoped a Serial Killer Would Jump Out at Them'

July 7, 2012 — -- intro: Check out this week's craziest and most buzzworthy quotes from ABCNews.com

quicklist: 1title: "They put 50 people in front of computers and hoped that a serial killer would jump out at them."text: Highway 16 in Canada has become known as the "Highway of Tears" because dozens of women have disappeared along its route. Many of them have been killed, most of them First Nation indigenous peoples. The police have shown little interest in solving the crimes.

Official police statistics list 18 women in all, 17 of whom are First Nation, as much of the indigenous population in Canada is called. Amnesty International assumes, however, that there are considerably more. Not a single case has been solved.

Six years ago, the Royal Canadian Mounted Police formed a special commission to look into the Highway 16 cases. They invested $11 million (Canadian) to investigate the murders, but without success.

"They put 50 people in front of computers and hoped that a serial killer would jump out at them," said private detective Ray Michalko, who was once a member of the Mounties. Data was collected and profiles were created. The only thing that is not being done, Michalko says, is real detective work.

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quicklist: 2title: "If I was Obama, I would be embarrassed to come here."text: The last time Samuel Wurzelbacher, a plumber from Ohio, attended an Obama campaign rally four years ago, he earned the nickname "Joe the Plumber" and became an icon of Sen. John McCain's 2008 presidential campaign when he questioned then-candidate Obama about his tax plan.

But as President Obama's bus tour rolled through Wurzelbacher's northern Ohio district this week, Wurzelbacher said he'd steer clear of any Obama events and let his fellow Ohioans answer his questions in the 2012 race.

"As of right now, I don't have any desire to go there," Wurzelbacher, who is now running for Congress on the Republican ticket, told ABC News. "His ideology and mine are completely different, and I have no real reason to listen to him speak."

Wurzelbacher has staked much of his campaign on opposing Obama's policies, which he claims have made life harder for middle-class residents in his district by placing more regulations on the private sector, raising taxes and kicking the can down the road on America's big problems, such as the debt and deficit.

"If I was Obama, I would be embarrassed to come here," Wurzelbacher said.

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quicklist: 3title: "There are no [public school] programs to support [children who are more advanced]."text: After scoring in the 99.9th percentile of standardized tests, discovering a supernova and helping in the discovery of an exoplanet, a 9-year-old boy is working toward his college degree.

At 4 years old, Tanishq Abraham was inducted into the Mensa genius society. He has published articles in the Peninsula Astronomical Society and contributes to Zooniverse, an online program for discovering and categorizing astronomy research. In kindergarten, Tanishq began the Stanford EPGY program for gifted students. He skipped first grade and began fourth- and fifth-grade math classes in the second grade.

Now, Tanishq is homeschooled, but a teacher from the school keeps track of his progress. He also takes courses online and attends science and history classes in addition to giving guest lectures at American River College in Sacramento.