Welcome the Vancouver. True Crime podcast.
Hi Mark. I am the host of the show
warning, the content in this podcast.
May be upsetting to some of the listeners due to his dark
subject matter, listener. Discretion is advised.
This podcast series, hunting monsters is also dedicated to
all the victims of predators and my deepest condolences to all
the surviving family members and loved ones who cared for these
people. It's important to remember.
That they are human beings who deserve, not only our sympathy,
but also our understanding, furthermore, none of these women
chose to be victimized or murdered February 23rd, 1995 a
partial skull with an attached. Vertebrae was discovered in a
creek by a man. I would hiking filling up his
water bottle. The creek was situated, just
south of the low heat, highway east of the Ruskin bridge and
Mission British Columbia. The woman's DNA profile has been
provided to every lab across Canada along with the composite
drawing. It has been shared with Interpol
and it's 188 members countries in August 2002.
Bones were re covered during a search of Robert pickton's Farm
in Port Coquitlam. Were confirmed to be genetically
linked to the partial skull. That was discovered miles away
in Mission BC. Here's what the investigators
have been able to determine about Jane Doe.
She was a Caucasian female. Her estimated age was between 20
and 40 years old. Death would have been somewhere
1985, and 1995 missing teeth in the upper.
Right portion of her jaw indicates that she met Of wore
Dentures. It's believed her skull was cut
in half with a power saw. So when Robert pickton's Farm
was searched in August, 2002 bones were recovered.
During the search of the serial killer, Robert pickton's farm
and it was confirmed that not only did they find other human
skulls mutilated in a very similar fashion, to the victim
in Mission BC, but he'll bones ankle bones and a rib bone
belonging to the victim. Mm, were found buried in a pit
behind picked and slaughterhouse.
This victim has never been identified, so the area was
searched by a police dog, underwater divers.
The skull was examined by a pathologist and Corners.
There was no obvious explanation, how it got there,
or who she was on April 4th, 2002, two months, after police
seized Robert pickton's property corporal.
Tim slay, who examined the partial skull.
That was discovered in Mission BC back.
Then, who was now an investigator at the pig farm.
He was very concerned about power failures caused by the
equipment. Used in the massive search were
spoiling and possibly evidence and multiple freezers in
particular. He was worried about an older
freezer tucked away in the corner of a tiny back room.
Umm and pickton's workshop. It was emitting a terrible smell
but it had not been searched yet because pickton's trailer and
slaughterhouse had been deemed the top priority for police at
that point. Heavy objects way down the lid.
So Corporal slay asked RCMP Sergeant Fred necks to prop open
the lid while he's Sean a flashlight inside he could see
two buckets, one inserted, Into the other laying on their sides
he reached into it and look into the top of the bucket unsure to
believe his eyes. Ask Nick what he saw.
It looks like a human head Tim Nick replied it was a horrifying
find and for the first time police found human remains on
the farm inside. The top of the bucket labeled
clout. Was ahead cut into along with
two hands and feet. They were the remains of Andrea
Jose burry when the top bucket was removed, slay found the same
body parts from another woman in the bottom of the pale.
They were all that was left of Serena Abbott's way.
A pathologist at the autopsy the next day, confirmed, the remains
have been treated savagely. The skulls were sown vertically
through the front and back, and then torn apart at the top of
the skull where the two cuts didn't quite meet.
It was an unusual. Trademark made Tim slay, think
of the Jane Doe skull found in Mission BC.
The veteran officer who career was focused on examining human
remains. Crime scenes had never ever seen
any skulls bisected that way, except for that half skull.
Also inside the bottom of the pale was another severed skull.
Two hands and two more feet Mona.
Wilson's remain had been sitting near another bucket holding
animal awful as this was the building where Picton butchered
pigs at pathologist said Abbott's way Jose burry Olson
died of bullets to the Head. James do remains did not have a
bullet damage, but the other half of her skull has never been
found a tool. Mark expert examine the heads of
all for women and then reproduced the cuts by a drawing
them on a plastic skull. The result was shocking.
The pass of the four by sections were nearly identical.
All four appeared to be cut with a power saw.
Corporal Tim slay, the RCMP. CSI expert was called on May
5th. 2002 to the site of the old Piggery, which has been attached
to the slaughterhouse before it collapsed and became a heap of
construction, debris and garbage and bedded in manure, throughout
the old Piggery was a partial jaw bone or several teeth in it.
Slay used it. The brush to clean off the
teeth, and found a dental filling in one.
It belonged to Brenda wolf, two months later, after some half
walls, and a raised platform by the pigpen were torn down
officers Unearthed from the ground.
Some 14 human hand bones. Slay, examine one, bone and
appeared to be hacked by a knife.
The left hand bones were the only proof that Georgina path.
Even had been on the farm and the rest of her body and none of
her personal possessions were ever found to help investigators
with the massive search. The task force hired about 100,
and the Balaji students and graduates to shift through dirt.
Excavating from the deep below, ground level on August twenty
first two thousand to one of the students was monitoring a
conveyor belt which displayed an item plucked from the dirt.
The Curious item caught her eye Was a partial jaw bone with
three teeth. It was the only part of Marnie
Frey to be found on the farm like poppin none of phrase
belongings were ever found on the property, a pathologist
testified that both wolf and Frey, Jaws could have been cut
through the middle, just like the other discovered skulls,
when lab ran tests results on on the discovered bones DNA,
Matched a heel bone and a rib bone.
That was a genetic. DNA linked to the Jane Doe skull
and Mission BC. So where was the rest of her and
what happened to her? The search of the Picton
Brothers to Port Coquitlam properties.
The main Dominion, Avenue farm, and the nearly multi acre lot on
Burns Road. Continued for 20 months, the
Dominion property stretched from pickton's North End of the farm
to his brother's farm house at the South End.
Where police seized sex toys and lotions from Dave, pickton's
bedroom on the burned Rome, Out Searchers focused on The
pickton's Unofficial nightclub piggy, Palace a Smokehouse and
other outbuildings and multiple Vehicles, including a blue
Phantom bus and an odd building, still under construction.
So many items were seized from both properties that they were
sent to a warehouse for storage, some lower priority objects sat
for three or four years before officers had time.
To thoroughly examine them. And if necessary sent them to
one of six, RCMP Labs across Canada evidence, such as hair,
blood semen or other stains was removed from many of the 235,000
item seized by the task force. That created a total of 600,000
exhibits that needed to be tested.
Prosecutors suggested the search was so thorough that police even
looked in the lint tray from pickton's clothes, dryer, and
argued that all the evidence linked to the missing women was
found within 100 meters of pickton's trailer.
It included, seven objects of Abbott's way DNA, including an
inhaler, roughly 40 things with Wilson's DNA.
Them inside. A blood splattered motorhome
about eleven items mostly from the trailer or slaughterhouse
with Jose burry DNA such as jewelry and an address book,
three objects with wolf DNA included, a leather jacket and
pickton's bedroom closet. No personal possessions were
found bearing DNA of pathan or Fray DNA evidence linking Picton
to one of his victims included, a dildo attached to a revolver,
which bore Wilson's DNA. The main question remains, how
was Robert Pickton? Able to murder women repeatedly
yet and visibly without detection at this poor Coquitlam
property for so many years. Geron Willie, pickton's trial.
Ingrid Fuller, made an interesting admission during
cross-examination at the BC Supreme Court and newest
Minister while being questioned by picked his defense lawyer.
Earlier further said, the only thing she found in pickton's
trailer was dirt but later under cross-examination by prosecution
she admitted she hadn't told the truth.
What she really saw. While cleaning the trailer was
lots of Blood on the carpet. When Crown lawyer, Michael
Petrie asked her explain the apparent, inconsistency, in her
testimony to the court. She said that she's been told it
to of Robert pickton's defense lawyers that she wouldn't be
asked about the blood when she testified Ingrid.
Fowler was a neighbor of the pig farmer.
Sister is the former common-law wife of pickton's brother Dave
Pickton. She lived across the street from
the Pickton farm from 1994 to 98.
She said that Pickton was a knowledgeable mechanic a
proficient Builder, and had a good memory.
She insisted. She never saw any women who
resembled or acted, like prostitutes.
She described herself as a good friend.
She first met Willie as a young girl, and later worked at the p
and B Salvage, the Surrey based demolition company that Willie
and his younger brother. Dave owned.
She also Clean this trailer a half dozen time during the six
month, period in 1996 and 1997. Her brothers have also worked
for the pickton's who are family, friends, Fowler said,
she visited picked and regularly and the 90s making social calls
as frequently as four times a week arriving.
Sometimes, after 5 p.m. and staying for several hours,
Sometimes Late into the night, we would find a place to set and
we would just talk she said during Conversations were mostly
about animals Picton bought at the auction or plan to bid on.
It was a platonic relationship. Would you say he was your best
friend? Crown prosecutor Petrie asked, I
wouldn't say best friends. I'd say good friends, she
replied. She didn't disagree with Petry
suggestion that the farm was often very dark and isolated at
night. It was scary when you agree, he
asked. Yeah, she answered Willie's
trailer. It's pretty isolated.
He continued its at the back of the property.
Yeah. She said, Petrie then asked her
if she's seen any employees of pickton's brother topsoil and
demolition business hanging around on the farm after work.
Yes, she replied explaining some of the crews did maintenance on
the machinery and on vehicles, and the often stayed as late as
10:30 p.m. Petrie seem to have difficulty.
Understanding why she spent so much time over there.
She like pickton's company. She replied. we talk one-on-one
just about cover anything she said, He's a pretty smart guy,
Petrie asked, he talks about a lot of things.
Few moments later, she replied. Yes, but before agreeing that
their conversations were essentially just chitchat
Petrie, then asked her forgive me if this sounds indelicate.
But did you have a crush on him? Petrie asked?
No, she said you seem to be going over there an awful lot
but not talking about matters of great substance.
But you're there for very long periods of time, according to
your evidence Petrie continued, she insisted.
She never saw any women who acted like prostitutes or anyone
doing drugs on the farm. Did you see any women's clothing
anywhere on the property? Petrie honest.
And some of the cars he bought at the police auction.
She answered also in a brief outline provided to jurors at
pickton's trial. Victims lawyer said that And a
focus on his IQ to explain his statements to police who will
testify about his mental capacity defense lawyer.
Adrian Brooks said, picked in failed grade to entered a
vocational program in school and his mother's will stipulated
that he wasn't going to receive his share of his inheritance
till age. 40. Robert Pickton was too dim to
laugh at a punchline and had a limited vocabulary, but he
wasn't exactly a moron. His former sister-in-law
testified Sandy the closest relative to testify at pickton's
trial. She said she used plain clear
words when they talked nothing too.
Elaborate, she noticed that Picton had trouble understanding
jokes. The testimony prompted.
Prosecutor. Mike Petrie to wonder if she
meant Pickton. Was a bit of a moron?
I wouldn't use those words. She replied Petrie continued.
Petrie asked her, how often as an office administrator for the
brothers, sir, eBay, salvage company.
Did she see picked in at the Port?
Coquitlam Farm, she agreed. It was infrequently, but another
businesswoman who dealt with Picton on a regular.
This is offered a much harsher assessment of pickton's language
skills. He spoke like a hillbilly.
Audrey testified, she also called Pickton backwards.
Not as intelligent as most of us picked and slurred.
His words had trouble pronouncing words properly when
it came to the family business. Willie was the worker, a slave,
kind of thing. And Dave was the boss, she moved
in with her younger brother. Dave picked in, in 1973, living
in the family's farm house, they separated in 1978, she remained
part of the families in her Circle, visiting the farm with
kids, working for Dave, and the 1980s and becoming an office
administrator for the Brothers, salvage, company, and P and be
used building materials in 1996, both brothers, were directors of
the various family-owned companies.
She said his financial duties were not very complicated.
He had difficult reading some words in written documents but
she did remember him speaking about the women who stayed with
him had drug problems. Dave picked and brother was
considered by police to be a person of interest in the
missing woman's investigation. RCMP Sergeant.
Dan Alma said on the witness stand he wouldn't rule out.
Dave's involvement and disappearance and murders of
women. RCMP inspector.
Don Adams testified that Dave told officers the morning after
his brother, so rest in February 2002, I know it's over for
Willie. I know there's bodies.
Adam said, Dave pointed out a spot day was convicted of a
sexual assault. In the early 90s and suspected
in another violent sex attack in 1999.
The woman in the alleged 19, 99 incident said her limbs were
tied to Four Corners of days bed.
With bungee cords, police found, bungee cords and the bedroom.
I had a fear of the victim, didn't want police to
investigate or lay charges. RCMP staff sergeant Wayne Clary.
Then second in command, at the missing woman's task force,
testified, August, 7, 2007, that Lynn Allison was arrested
because of the information. She gave police and August 1999
about seeing a butchered body and picked and slaughterhouse Le
Nelson testified that she's been living on the farm doing odd
jobs for pickton's for a couple of months.
When one night her and Picton went out, cruising Vancouver's,
downtown Eastside. Looking for sex workers for
Picton. She said they brought one woman
back to the Port Coquitlam. Lynn Allison told the court
while the woman and picked and went in one room, she went into
another and God. Hi choking.
Back tears Lynn Allison described how she was woken up
by a noise in a bright light coming from the Barn.
Door were picked in slaughtered pigs and went to look, I saw a
body it was hanging, will he pulled me inside behind the
door? He walked me over to the table.
He made me look and told me if you say Anything you'll be right
beside her. When told the court that the
woman was hanging in the barn, she was the woman that they
picked up earlier that evening, this woman that we had picked
up, was at my eye level. There were her feet, like her
legs were, like I saw red toenail polish on this black
shiny table. I don't know what it was but
there was lots of blood. And oh hair black hair asked by
the crown. If she noticed the person's
face, Le Nelson said no, not her face, but it was her hair like
she had long black hair and that's what was laying on the
table. Iram.
Just remember her toes. What was Picton doing to the
woman? There was knives with blood on
him. She said, and he was full of
blood himself. The woman was Georgina.
Papen disappeared in March 1999, later, that night said that, she
took a cab and went and got drugs.
She stayed with her friends and left Vancouver, out of fear.
She told the jury, she was introduced to Picton by a woman
named Gina Hudson. A close friend of Pickton, the
two women met in the halfway house, whirl in Houston, was
escaping, an abusive relationship.
A ship Willie Pickton, eventually offered Lynn
Ellingson to work at his farm. He had her clean up, the trailer
and drive his trucks said, Picton new.
She used drugs and helped her obtain them.
That Casanova was another suspect.
In the case Casanova, had been arrested on suspicion of 15
killings. Including those of five of the
Six. Women Pickton was convicted of
murdering a band saw with human DNA was found in Pat casanova's
home. Casanova, used Willie pickton's
bed to have sex with some of the missing women police said there
was not enough evidence to charge has against Casanova.
So, Pat Casanova was a man who butchered pigs with Robert
Pickton. He also paid for sexual favors
with the women at the Port. Coquitlam Farm, Pat Casanova
told the Supreme Court that a woman he knew as Performed oral
sex on him and pickton's bedroom.
He identified her and the photographs on the poster board,
showing the 48 missing women who went missing and from
Vancouver's, downtown Eastside, he pointed out photo number
three, which was identified as Andrea Joe's burry, one of the
six women's whose remains were discovered at the pig farm that
Casanova, also admitted to having sex with other women.
Women who are brought to the farm under cross-examination.
Pat Casanova said, Dina Taylor arranged to bring him women for
sexual favors including Angel. It Was Dina Taylor who made the
arrangement to bring Angel to the farm.
Defense lawyer Adrian Brooks asked, yes sir, Pat Casanova
replied. Casanova told the court.
He did not kill any of these women and never saw anyone else
harm women at the farm. Neither the defense asked
Casanova boat Lynn Ellingson. The other picked an associate
who was arrested but not charged.
Brooks asked, Ellington talk to Casanova about getting the
hundred thousand dollar reward for information leading to
arrests. She wanted that award Brooke
said, yes, sir replied, a raspy voice Casanova.
Who speaks using a prosthetic device.
Because his vocal cords have been removed.
That Casanova Who Sold pork mostly to customers in the
Filipino Community originally told, Crown prosecutor David
privett. He did not deal with picked and
between 1997 and 1999 before his Throat operation him and picked
and had a falling out and picked and told them he wanted out of
the pig business Casanova. Said he later changed his mind
and the 18 year long business relationship renewed he said he
would do pigs again. Correct Brooks asked and his
cross-examination. It was Dave that ran the
property Brooks said, that's what I know.
Casanova said on the second day on the stand Casanova.
And he spent more time on the farm than he previously stated
his claims of working at the farm Saturday and Sunday.
Evenings and again, on Monday mornings contradicted, his
statements made at the Picton preliminary hearing in 2003.
Brooks suggested that Casanova was at the farm on Fridays to,
in order to remove pigs to be roasted from the cooler.
You don't want people to know how much you were at the farm.
Brooke said, The reason why I have nothing to do there.
Casanova said at one point during the line of questioning
Casanova seen baffled, he turned his language interpreter for the
first time in the preceding Brooks continued.
I suggest you were at the farm virtually every day.
I disagree. Casanova said that Casanova told
Crown prosecutor. Darrell perret, he never saw any
women harmed at the farm. Where he helped Picton butcher
pigs on weekend. Evenings, did you see any women
being killed? Brevet asked no sir.
No, sir Casanova said. Well, did you kill any women?
Previewed asked. No sir Casanova said, did you
see any human remains on the property?
No, sir, prove. It then asked if Casanova saw
any human remains in the freezer where the pork was stored at the
farm. No.
Our he denied helping anyone dispose of human remains at the
farm. Casanova was a short man who
wears glasses. His voice is raspy, his vocal
cords have been removed. He has a prosthetic vocal
device, he speaks and halting deliberate manners pressing his
thumb and forefinger over a hole in his throat.
He went into detail. How the two men butchered pigs
inside the slaughterhouse at the Port.
Coquitlam, Farm Saturdays and Sunday evenings.
Sometimes working past midnight. Night and resuming their work
Monday morning. Casanova said he never stayed
overnight instead, returning to the farm, the following day to
work. They could butcher 2225 pigs in
a week and he said, police later discovered human remains inside,
some of the freezers at the farm, the jury were told a
bandsaw seized from casanova's home.
Was found to contain unidentified human DNA.
His DNA was also found on a freezer, where human remains
were discovered, as well as night vision, goggles seized
from the farm. Robert, Willie pickton's friend
Dena Taylor said, she wanted to kill a woman named Andrea.
She just kept saying, she wanted to kill the bitch testified Gina
Houston Taylor was arrested, but never charged.
He's since said in June 2001 she went to visit Pickton in his
trailer, no one was there. But the trailer was a very very
clean Houston said This new person, he hired to do that.
That day did a spectacular job. Considering the girls who
usually did it. Radix, Houston said few hours
later, he stand received the first of two or three phone
calls, from Dina, Taylor, who was enraged that she's received
less money from Pickton, then Andrea the woman who cleaned the
trailer. Houston said, Taylor wanted
Houston to come and pick her up along with Andrea and bring them
bring her to pickton's farm. The three had smoked crack
together. She identified that woman as
andreadd Roseberry who disappeared in June 5th, 2001,
who was reported, missing June 8 2001.
He soon recalled. That Andrew was very polite and
well-mannered soft-spoken a gentle person.
Andrea, gotten Houston's car with Dina Taylor.
They drove around smoking, crack cocaine.
Her hands feet and head were later.
Found inside a plastic bucket inside the freezer at the
pickton's farm. Dina Taylor was arrested on
suspicion of Murder in the missing woman's case.
But never charged Pickton asked repeatedly to speak to Dina
Taylor when he was being interrogated on the day of his
murder arrest. Robert Pickton friend Gina
Houston testified, he told her in a conversation, but bodies
buried at the farm and said that Dina, Taylor was responsible for
three or four of them. Picton also said he's not a
murderer that a female acquaintance of his was
responsible for, at least some killings.
Picton blamed. The murders of sex workers,
whose bodies were found on his Pickton pig.
Farm ondina Taylor, who spent time at his property, his
friend. Gina Houston, pulled the cord,
under questioning by pickton's lawyer, a friend of pickton's
for more than a decade said, Picton made the comments and
February 22, 2002, the conversation that happened after
the police raided the farm before he was formally charged
with any murders. The police informant who's
information LED investigators to Robert pickton's Farm.
Testified that the serial killer told them a good way to kill.
Someone is to inject them with windshield washer fluid or
radiator fluid. Scott chub one of the crown star
Witnesses said in the comment came while he and Robert Pickton
were not working on the farm pulling nails from boards.
Scott chub, who worked on the Pickton property in Port
Coquitlam. Periodically between 1993 and
2001 testified that the accused. He testified that Lynn Ellingson
a woman who lived in a separate room in his trailer had been
Healing from him, Lynn Ellingson had been apparently, been
evicted from the trailer after three months.
And picked him. Wanted Scott Chubb to talk to
her about the money. He wanted me to go talk to her
for a thousand dollars, and I didn't know what he meant by
docking. It could have meant multiple
things when he was talking to me, he was mentioning me.
The idea that if you wanted to go talk to her, He was trying to
give me an idea of how to get rid of a person.
He said he was telling me, That if you want to get rid of
someone, you could take a syringe full of windshield,
washer fluid or radiator fluid inject, that person with that
substance and kill them Picton. Then told them an OP Topsy would
be probably not be done on a junkie, because if the RCMP
found a body with needle track marks, the police would simply
consider the death an overdose January 2000.
A video was shown of serial killer, Robert Pickton and a
female friend trying to fool RCMP interrogators by claiming
that Willie Pickton, the pig butcher was pray, not the
predator and the bloody knife fight in 1997 with a sex worker.
The January 2000 video shown for the first time at the missing
woman's Commission of inquiry suggest RCMP officers might have
let picked an off-the-hook by allowing his longtime friend
Gina Houston to accomplish him and answer questions for him on
video. RCMP Constable Ruth, your quit
and John cater aspect. And what happened in his trailer
on the Night of March 23rd, 1997, when you and a sex worker,
had a big altercation. I mean, everything has been
dropped. The problem is, she could have
been charged picked and says, yeah, she attacked him, Houston
added. And when the statement was given
they dropped it, it was a terrifying event for me picked
and claimed while hugging himself in the quarter and an
ear. Fetal position at times.
Rocking on his chair, his palms appear to be block with dirt.
He was wearing a baseball cap and a grungy sweater picked and
tells the officer, he picked up the woman victim, Miss Anderson
in Vancouver and promised her $100 for sex.
Picton says that after the woman shot, herself up with drugs.
She went into kitchen found a 6-inch butcher.
Knife on the table and started to attack him.
Why had it there? I don't even know picked and
says, I cook, you know, I do pigs, whatever.
And anyways I turned around and she sliced a big chunk off my
face picked and runs his fingers across his throat.
Under both arms to demonstrate where he was slashed and says,
she stabbed him right in the jaw, knocking out two teeth.
And, again, in the back, I did take the knife away from her and
night after twice, picked and said, that's one thing, I
shouldn't have done. Picton goes on and says he went
to the police station to report the incident before driving
himself to the hospital. He insists, he's never before
brought a prostitute on his trailer and never did it again.
Picked and denies to the officer that he offered to pay an
associate to bring Miss Anderson from the downtown Eastside back
to the farm. So he could finish her off.
Picton said he handcuffed Anderson after she attacked him.
He is asked why he keeps handcuffs in the trailer if
someone breaks in. What do you do?
Gina Houston says for him. Gina Houston.
Testified her continued affection for Willie Pickton.
She said it was his close friend, Dina Taylor, killing the
women on his property. Picton picked up Tracy, bohlen
and 1996 after they had sex picked and came after her.
Picton came at her with a knife, accusing her of stealing his
wallet. She walked out of his trailer.
He came after her a few minutes later and drove her back
downtown, she said Picton picked on the worst off women and the
neighborhoods making friends with them winning their trust,
by promising them, helping them to get clean but he only gives
them one chance. They go back on the dope while
then they don't deserve to live. They're useless, they're better
off dead when she was asked. Why do you think she survived?
She simply said, because she was in high a sex trade worker,
testified today at the missing woman's inquiry that she
believed she was assaulted and raped by serial killer Robert
Pickton. Two decades ago, Susan Davies
were called, she called 911 three times report the matter.
But police never showed up. She said she waited on the
corner for hours for police to take her statement.
But finally she left because she was so cold.
It was like a blizzard, she recalled.
There was snow everywhere. I had a hop over a snow bank and
get into the car. Davis told the inquiry
commissioner Wally opal. She said the incident occurred
somewhere around January 1991. Davis said the man was driving a
beat-up station wagon and took her to a location where he
punched her in the face and raped her at knifepoint.
She recalled, he had thin hair and smelled terrible.
She said, she called 911 to report to police and was
transferred to a police officer said he would meet her at second
and Main Street. She phoned the officer twice
more, he never showed she finally left.
She said, the incident was a reflection of anchor replacing
difference and violence against sex, trade workers.
It was a common experience for sex trade worker.
She said, that's one of the reasons why there's been a
traditional distrust of police, but admitted, there's been a
change in attitude in The Vancouver, Police Department,
especially among the younger Officer who try to make sure
women working the streets are safe.
Davis 43 has been an advocate for decriminalizing Street.
Prostitution to make it safer. She said she's been a sex trade
worker for 25 years. You have no way of protecting
yourself. She recalled about getting into
a car for stranger. She said, endure sex work is
safer because you can screen your clients and you have
control over your working environment.
Street sex workers, used to rent Hotel.
Rooms and Vancouver's downtown Eastside for $20 an hour.
She recalled. Most Street sex workers, only
make enough money to survive and pay for drugs.
Davis said, Street sex workers are preyed on by drug dealers.
Everything you earn is a property of drug dealer.
She testified she said, drug dealers, don't want street
workers to die, they just want them to pay their debts.
But occasionally, women get pushed out.
Windows Davis said, The inquiry is examining, why Pickton wasn't
caught sooner. So to be continued, I'm going to
continue on with the picked and series.
I still have a lot more research to disclose and I want to get
more into the women's stories in the next Pickton podcast in
between it just to give me a break from Picton subject
matter. Myself and researching it, I'm
going to do a Vancouver, beautiful and ugly because I get
a lot of requests for those and I really appreciate again.
Again all the positive and great feedback.
I've been getting it means the world to me.
So thank you very much. This is called I am.
It is it was written by June Austin.
I am confident strong and efficient each morning.
I awaken refreshed and energized.
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