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Discretion is advised. February 5th. 2002 please
execute a search warrant for the illegal Firearms at the property
owned by Robert Pickton. He was taken into custody and
police then obtain a second court order to search the farm
as part of the BC, missing woman's investigation, when
personal items, including a prescription asthma inhaler,
belonging to one of the missing women were found the farm was
sealed off by members of The Joint, RCMP Vancouver, Police.
Urban task force following day. Pickton was charged with storing
a firearm. Contrary to regulations
possession of a firearm while not being a holder of a license
and possession of a loaded restricted.
Firearm without a license, he was later released and kept
under police surveillance on Friday.
February 22nd, 2002 Pickton was arrested and charged with two
counts of first-degree murder in the deaths of serene Abbott's
way and Mona Wilson on April 2nd, 2002.
Three more charges were added for the murders of Jacqueline.
McDonald died in Iraq and Heather bottomley.
A six charged for the murder of andreea Jose burry was laid on
April 9th, 2002, followed shortly by a seventh for Brenda
wolf on, September 20th, 2002 for more charges were added for
the slaying of Georgina papen. Should Johnson Helen Hallmark
Jennifer from Winger for more charges for the murder of
Heather. Chinook, Tanya holik, Sherry
Irving Inga Hall were laid on October 3rd, 2002 bringing the
total to 15 making the investigation.
The largest of any serial killer and Canadian history on May 26
2005 while more charges were laid against him for killing.
With of Kara. Ellis andreea.
Moore Haven Debra Lynn. Jones Marnie.
Fry Tiffany Drew Carey call Ski Serra De Vries Cynthia.
Fowler Angela. Jordan Wendy.
Crawford Diana Melnick and a Jane Doe.
Bringing the total number of first degree murder charges 227
excavations on the property. Continued through November 2003,
the cost of the investigation at This point is estimated the 70
million dollars. By the end of 2003 forensic
analysis was extremely difficult because the bodies of the
victims may have been left to decompose or be allowed to be
eaten by insects and pigs on the farm during the early days of
excavations forensic anthropologist brought in heavy
equipment, including 250 foot flat conveyor belts and soil,
shifters to find traces of remains on March 10th.
And for it was revealed that human flesh may have been ground
up and mixed with pork from the farm.
And it was handed out the friends and visitors on the farm
Crown prosecution alleged that he would learn his victims with
the promise of money and drugs and cocaine traces were found
and lot of the recovered tissue samples.
After sex, he would strangle or shoot his victims bizarrely a Or
was found with a dildo on the end, it's believed it was an
improvised silencer. So William pectin became a
person of interest to the police in the early 2001.
When the task force began collecting DNA of women.
Missing from the downtown east side of Vancouver, Pickton was
convicted of killing the following women.
Marnie fry, she was last seen August 30th, 1997, her Jawbone
was found outside picked and slaughterhouse for Gina Faith.
Papen was last seen March 1st 1999 per hand.
Bones were buried in a pig pen under a platform in the
slaughterhouse Brenda and wolf. Last seen March 5th, 1999, her
Jawbone in a debris Pile in a pigpen DNA on a leather jacket.
And pickton's bedroom closet, DNA on a key found near a hand.
Half and lay cuffs one of them. Bearing pickton's DNA was found
in the loft of the workshop andreea.
Jose burry last seen June 5th, 2001 head, hands and feet in a
bucket in a workshop. Freezer DNA on an earring and a
ring in the slaughterhouse DNA. On a black nylon jacket, and
black leather boots, and pickton's bedroom DNA.
May on the bathroom wall and on a pillow case inside pickton's
laundry room, Serena Abbott's way.
Last seen July, 18th 2001, head hands and feet in a bucket in a
workshop. Freezer DNA also inside the
bucket with Joe's berries remains her blood on a Solomon
ski bag. Containing two syringes also
bearing her DNA in Ben's office, an inhaler prescribed to
Abbott's way, inside the ski bag and for other inhalers in the
garbage outside of pickton's trailer among with Revenue,
Canada documents with her name on it.
Mona Wilson. Last seen December 1st, 2001,
head hands and feet in a bucket and a pigpen DNA belonging to
her and Pickton on a dildo attached to a 22 caliber
revolver in his laundry room. Large blood stains on a foam
mattress bed platform and walls in a motor home on the farm
other strange things that were found a blow-up sex doll bearing
picked and DNA found in his bedroom.
And also human remains were mixed into the pig feed as well
forensic, experts spent the next two years.
Shifting through three hundred seventy thousand cubic meters of
dirt and manure looking for further human parts and Bone
fragments. Robert Pickton who like to be
known as Willie was a regular customer of Street.
Sex workers on the downtown Eastside several locals
described him as weird and slow and tended to keep a low profile
after pickton's February 22nd. And to arrest, he was videotaped
in his cell. A jury saw portions of the tape
when he was speaking to his cellmate an undercover officer.
But what was edited out was shocking?
When the cell mate was briefly removed Pickton, stripped off
all of his clothes and masturbated and his jail cell.
Despite having been told, there was a security camera in the
ceiling. The British Columbia corner
office have quoted the situation at the Pickton Farm as the scene
of a massacre family, says the description came at a meeting
between family and the missing women and police Crown
representatives and others involved in the investigation of
the farm of the Prime Suspect Robert William Pickton.
They said this is like a massacre.
Rick fry, whose daughter Marnie has been missing since 1997 as
he recalled the private meaning, then they said that I knew the
lady, I was sitting next to had a hard time coping with that.
I know other people behind got up and left.
Other people were breaking down. They had to go out and compose
themselves, and come back and listen to the rest of it.
The rest of the for our mean, including a warning that
relatives of missing, women should not expect to receive the
bodies of their Loved ones. Only fragments fragments was one
of the big key words will be finding fragments said Mr. Frey,
what they found so far, is what they got on the surface.
Nothing underneath they have some pretty good ideas where to
dig, but he said the corn or staff were sensitive.
They were compassionate people, they had hell of a time saying
what they were trying to say families.
Also, got shown photos of materials, gathered from the
farm, including Clothing, jewelry handbags to see if they
could identify the items belonging to their missing
relatives, according to neighbors, and many witnesses.
Willie Pickton would bring back sex workers from the downtown
Eastside to his property. Neighbors witnessed cockfights,
all hours on the farm and they would run their dump trucks.
To the early mornings, police investigators confirmed by July
1999, that Willie Picton held illegal cock fights on his
properties. Attended up to 40 people who
made bats, almost every weekend and that summer Gina.
Hudson said, the pig farmer, was a nice caring, man, who liked to
help single mothers and wouldn't hurt a soul, especially
prostitutes instead, she said he befriend a lot of them and he
kind of felt sorry for them and he does give the money.
He gives him 20 bucks here there.
Go buy themselves, something. Well, I mean, obviously they get
dope. But he says that they need
cigarettes and tampons and condoms.
And he'd rather give them a couple bucks than to see them
work. Hudson and her husband said that
the police had single out their friend because of the false
accusations by a woman with a drug problem, they know, but
soon as she gets a little heroin or a little coat and can't get
no more drugs, she goes right off.
Houston says, I've been hauled into serious crime units up
tents time over this crackhead, then he picked in doesn't give
her money for dope. She phones and says that he
slaughtering hookers and bearing them on the prowl.
Property, Houston insists the allegations by the woman she met
at a transition house are baseless this chick watches him
slaughter a few pigs, and then she went and phone them.
She said she describes in detail how he Slaughters and skins them
and cuts them. So she phones a police up and
tells him, she watched him. And and I doing this one night,
and she was just, and it was just a pig.
She said, it was one of the Missing hookers from the
downtown Eastside according to his friend, Picton stabbed The
Prostitute and 1997 and self-defense he got the bomb end
of the deal because that incident with the hooker that he
brought back here that stabbed him, Houston said, they dropped
the charges against him because all the stab wounds on him were
on. In the back, he defended himself
and ended up stabbing her eyes, Picton trucks, being seen Around
the downtown Eastside, Houston, claimed that she and one of her
friends borrowed it for the last six months.
And that's why it's been seen around down there.
She was the one driving. It Pickton was charged in 1997
with the attempted murder of a van coover, sex worker, whose
name is been changed under protection ban, as we call her
mrs. Anderson.
He is also charged with unlawful confinement, assault with a
weapon, aggravated assault. Police alleged that on April 8,
1997 picked and picked up Miss Anderson on the downtown
Eastside took her to his poor Coquitlam pig farm where he
stabbed her repeatedly with a kitchen knife leaving the woman
on the brink of death. She was able to escape and press
charges against him, the charges were dropped and January 28th. 8
February 9, 2002. According to his lawyer Robert
Pickton, one of the owners of the pig farm being investigated
by the Vancouver, missing, woman's task force is shocked
and flabbergasted that he's been named a person of interest.
In the case, the lawyer Peter Richie was acting on the behalf
of Picton representing them in various business interests
including home demolition business and a used buildings.
Apply company and the farm. I spoken, Richard said breaking
the silence in the behalf of their family.
They spoke to me yesterday. The family is shocked by this
and is trying to assist. The police Richie said the
family was willing to allow the use of any farm equipment.
To assist police adding, they are concerned about underground
digging because of the wires and gas line and the various soils
stored and certain way Richie previously represented Didn't in
the 1997 when he was charged with the attack on a Vancouver,
sex worker, February 8, 2002, Wayne Lang, and his Grassroots
search for Sarah DeVries. He set up a hotline for tips in
which 1998 received a call from a man calling himself Bill who
said, Sara was dead. This man couldn't give me any
more information than Bill told me a prostitute.
He knew was taken into a big pig farm at Port Coquitlam, where
she was badly. Assaulted Lang said, what's
more. The Prostitute has told Bill
that she seen numerous items of women's clothing and pieces of
woman's ID all over the place. Lang received several other tips
about a dangerous farmer called Willie, which he passed along to
The Vancouver, Police Department.
We were all concerned because they didn't seem anybody.
To take this guy seriously. We were, we never heard wherever
they actually did searches of Willie's Place or whatsoever,
but we knew he had lots of land and he was fairly well off at
seen another poor Coquitlam, property dub, piggy Palace
Picton and his brother through several large parties which
would constitute as an illegal bar in 1996 to city of Port
Coquitlam. Went to court seeking an order.
Against the brothers about their piggy Palace, good time society
and bar them from holding any more parties on the property in
an affidavit filed with the court in 1998 for Coquitlam.
Fire chief, Randy Shaw said he toured the property with Dave
Pickton and September 1998. Found a building that appeared
to be a dance hall. Observed, a commercial type of
kitchen. A pub type bar, raised
entertainments, Age a dance floor sound lighting system.
Tables chairs capable of accommodating a group in the
excess of 150 persons. The affidavit stated a neighbor
named Betty remembers a Runnin that she had with Picton and
another man when he stole her dog in 1997, she was on Parole
and living at her parents home, five blocks away from the Picton
Farm in Port Coquitlam Pickton, and his buddy encountered Betty
will call her Betty out. Outside a nearby grocery store.
They targeted me. They invited me to the farm to
party Betty recalled. I didn't say one word to them.
She said, adding she went inside the store and left her three
month old puppy outside. When she returned minutes later,
the dog was gone. Her name and phone number was on
the dog's collar, she recalled and then the phone calls began
when she got home. She went to the Pickton farm
that night with her dad to retrieve the dog from the Ford
pickup truck, they took down the license plate.
She said, she said she went to the police and reported the
matter, but the police wouldn't even take the license plate down
cops completely patronize me. She said they made me feel.
I was harassing Picton, she recalled Pickton was very, very
quiet. Lurked in the shadows while she
dealt with pickton's. Buddy at the farm who was loud
and very aggressive. She said she lived a few blocks
from the pickton's farm growing up and was fearful of Of the
men. She saw on the farm, I felt
danger my own backyard, she recalled April 1st, 1997 Pickton
was arrested and charged with attempted murder and assault
with a weapon. Forcible confinement, aggravated
assault, the charges initiated a crown prosecution victim
appeared at his bail, hearing on April 8. 1997 bail was granted
for $2000, a trial was set for five days, February 2nd through
the 6th and 9th. 98 on January 26 1998, the criminal justice
branch of the ministry of the Attorney General entered, a stay
of proceedings for the four charges.
Basically means the charges were dropped.
So this is a transcript of an interview of March 23rd. 1997,
an interview of Miss Anderson by to RCMP officers, constables
Cason, and Constable Stratton the interview took place four
days after the incident while miss Anderson was stolen the
Hospital interview began at 10 a.m. and lasted an hour and 12
minutes. Several times Miss Anderson
expressed, discomfort and pain. She has undergone surgery in the
days before the interview prior to this interview of police.
Miss Anderson has spoken with the social worker at the
hospital, wrote about the assault.
Miss Anderson stated. She was hitchhiking on her way
to the Princeton hotel located at Victoria Drive and Power.
Street in the downtown Eastside approximately 11:45 p.m. on
March 22nd 1997, Picton picked her up at Cordova and Princess
Street in a red pickup truck. Picked it offered her 100
dollars for a blowjob. If she agreed to go in
Coquitlam, she resisted pickton's request to go to Port
Coquitlam but eventually she agreed when picked and promised
to bring her back to the down. Down east side within a few
hours by 2 a.m. during the interview Miss Henderson,
expressed concern that she might be at fault because she agreed
to go with him. She had never seen Pickton
before the drive from the downtown Eastside 2935 Dominion
Avenue in Port Coquitlam, took between 30 and 50 minutes.
She noted, that Picton took a longer route.
He was going to the end of the freeway United Boulevard, then
back Tracking to Port Coquitlam. He was driving slowly, not
speeding. En route to his property.
She wanted him to stop, so she could use a bathroom, but Picton
would not stop. She told investigators, but now
I know why he wouldn't pull in. He didn't want no one to see me
cuz I wasn't expected to get out of there.
I'm sure I wasn't. I just wanted to get a just
wanted to get that in when she arrived.
Left at the Pickton trailer on the property.
He refused to pay her until after the ACT.
Picton pulled out a quilt on a carpet.
There was no bed in a room. It was at this point in the
property. It was at this point in the
interview that Miss Anderson said I know it, I know there's
broads on that property, an apparent reference to the
missing. Women Picton would not let Miss
Anderson use his phone. After the ACT, he would not let
her near the phone when she went to the bathroom and when Came
out. He started she started looking
in the phone book to get the number of the car door of a room
where she had paid to stay that night with a friend victim
grabbed her hand and stroke it. As if it was to trick her then
put a handcuffed on her wrist. She had not seen Picton, get the
Cuffs. When asked what Picton said,
where his demeanor has changed at that point.
Miss Anderson said, he might have said, you little Bitch or
something like that and his expression did not change.
Miss Anderson told the investigators that her first
thought after he handcuffed her was.
What's this guy doing? Is he a psycho or what?
And then I just, I just like, I seen red, I went ballistic.
She agreed that she was fighting for her life.
Miss Anderson describe how picked and slapped the cuffs on
me and they continue to fight. She spotted a knife and Picton
across his jugular. She said that he was trying to
handcuffed her with the other side of the handcuffs.
Even though he's been cut, Miss Anderson kept trying to convince
Picton to Let Her Go. Eventually he agreed to let her
go. Miss Anderson, kept trying to
convince Picton to let her go and eventually he agreed to let
her out of the trailer. He appears to be dizzy.
At this point, he opened the door then went into a room at
the back of the trailer. Or Miss Anderson told him to
stay there. While she went outside, when she
tried to exit, he put her in a headlock.
She still had the knife at this time.
There was some confusion, whether Pickton may have gotten
the knife away from her inside. However, if he did, she got it
back and convinced him to back away once they were outside and
got into the truck. Miss Anderson told the
investigator that she thought this is it.
I'm history. He got Now she apologized and
begged please. Let me go.
She offered him a thousand bucks.
He said, yeah. Okay.
But she didn't believe him. She thought he would just say
that to shut me up picked and got the knife back and stabbed
her in the stomach abdomen. He put the knife in me and then
he lifted it up. Once she was stabbed, he thought
I'm done. I'm stabbed, I'm going to die.
Then there was a all of a sudden, she felt Him go limp,
she got the knife back by grabbing it, which is how she
cut her hand at this point. They're both too weak to do
anything. Miss Anderson could not recall
if Picton said anything during this part of the altercation
picked and collapse. Like he had no more energy.
She told investigators that she slid out from under him and ran
about the truck and stood on the other side of the truck and
stared at him for a couple. A second and then she could see
him slowly going down. She just bolted, Miss Anderson
made her escape by running through the property.
All the way to the end of the property.
She didn't, she had to stop and catch her breath along the way.
She climbed the fence to get out at the end of the road.
There was two houses. She chose one with the light on,
then no one answered. She tried to pop.
Open the window. And again, and she was yelling
for help. She ran down a Stairway.
She Put her elbow through a living room window.
She tried to bang on other windows.
A car. That was that was driving by
backed up and stopped. Miss Anderson walk towards a
car, Miss Anderson still clutching the knife which he
dropped when asked to do so. By the driver, she begged the
driver and companion to take her to the hospital.
The couple helped her into the car, called 911 and drove her to
meet an ambulance on the way they flagged.
Sergeant buraq who was a responding to the call.
Corporal Connor than of the RCMP serious crime section Coquitlam.
Detachment was a lead investigator of the 1997, picked
an incident. Police seized evidence from Miss
Anderson and Picton. They include closed bandages,
handcuffs handcuff, key police undertook, a search of pickton's
trailer and truck and pursued a search warrant evidence.
Gathered various items that were seized including three
hairbrushes. A sleeping bag, condoms various
items with blood on it. Blood samples were taken from
the wall in the trailer. Other forensic evidence,
including photographs of blood transfer patterns blood.
Cast-off patterns, is also taken evidence was also gathered from
pickton's truck including a woman's bra and numerous blood
samples police interviewed Then shortly after the incident.
But no formal interview was taken police undertook, short
interviews with pickton's nice and brother Pickton was
interviewed. While in hospital, it was the
one and only time Miss Anderson was interviewed.
While in hospital, it was a one and only time she was
interviewed by police. No formal statement was taken.
Corporal Connor, Constable Cason, Constable Strachan
Believe. Miss Anderson was being truthful
about the events. Although Corporal Connor.
Never met Miss Anderson, the transcript of this interview
upon its summary is base. As the only interview, the
police took for Miss Anderson, there is no evidence that she
received the transcript or signed her interview on March
29th. 1997. Corporal Connor sent out a on
March 29th, 1997. Corporal Connor sent out a
bulletin to all Lower Mainland. Metro Vancouver RCMP.
Detachment least form them of the offense and advised that
picked and should be considered a dangerous to sex trade workers
on April 1st. 1997. Corporal Connor completed the
request to Crown counsel concerning the incident, and
recommended three charges against picked an attempted
murder, assault with a weapon and unlawful confinement and
March and March 1997. Police knew enough about Miss
Anderson to ascertain. She was a vulnerable witness and
secure, living arrangements, had experienced violence and
concerned for her safety. There was clear limitations to
the investigations, they included.
The fact that Miss Anderson was only interviewed once while she
was in hospital and in pain, there was no follow-up, done
regarding Miss Anderson's remark, during the interview,
especially comments about there being broads on that property
and the formal statement was not Not taken from Miss Anderson
pick one short interview while in hospital.
There was a number of additional reasonable steps that were not
taken by Coquitlam. RCMP.
For example, further inquiries into pickton's activity would
have led to information that Pickton was engaged in other
illegal or troubling activity. Furthermore, there was no
evidence that police took any steps to find out about picked
and by, for example, interviewing neighbors.
And so on The possibility and the value of additional and more
thorough. Search of the trailer was not
fully canvas by the RCMP. In addition, Corporal, Connors
message, warning, that Pickton was a potential danger to women
particularly women engage in the sex trade indicates, that he did
not consider this an isolated event.
There was serious limitations on the initial investigation, Of
the Anderson assault Coquitlam, RCMP in 1997, from 1997, onward,
a reasonable person would have come to the conclusion that Miss
Anderson may had had important evidence about missing women or
at least evidence worthy of further investigation.
In fact Miss Anderson told police that picked and told her
that he went to the downtown Eastside once a week to pick up
sex workers. The likelihood that the assault
on Miss Anderson was not a one-off was clear and thus the
likelihood that the assault on Miss Anderson was not a one-off
was clear unreasonable that the investigation was not pursued
more fully at that time. The evidence together with the
early incidents of a sexual assault referring to pickton's
were crucial facts could ever completely.
Where'd the crown prosecutor who approved the charges against
Pickton? Was Richard Romano who became a
Provincial Court judge in 2005? He was called as a witness to
testify about his role in the crown decision to stay the
charges against Picton on January 26. 1998 a week before
pickton's five-day trial was to begin Brown and poor Coquitlam
and 1997, who approved charges against Picton after After
reading the RCMP report to Crown counsel he recalled police
recommended charges of attempted murder and assault with a
weapon. An unlawful confinement for
pickton's knife attack on a sex worker from the Vancouver's
downtown Eastside Romano were called, he added an additional
charge, aggravated assault and red flag the file.
He said he red-flagged the file. The file had a red cover it.
Tells the assign trial crown that the case needed Advanced
preparation Romano said the job of an administrative Crown is to
handle about 2,000 charges approvals a year and to assign a
prosecutor to the cases about three to four months before
trial. He said he assigned, the Pickton
case to prosecutor Randi Connor because she was very confident
and aggressive. Senior Crown, he assigned
Connor, he felt that the Email, complaintant would feel more
comfortable with the female Crown?
I was very confident in her decision making and judgment or
a man who said, of the prosecutor, I would assign it to
her again. He added, but Romano said, he
had no independent recollection of his meeting with Connor on
January, 26 1998, when Connor decide to stay the charges
against Picton Connor. Testified that she decided to
stay the Just because of victim who is being called Miss
Anderson to protect her privacy attended a meaning a week before
the trial and she was high on drugs.
Connor require recalled Anderson nodding off and could not
articulate the evidence. So she stayed the charges
against Picton. After his arrest in 1997, picked
and killed 19 women before he was arrested in. 2002 Romano
said, he knew Anderson was a sex worker, but didn't know.
Oh, she was a drug addict of though.
He felt there was a strong possibility.
She was an addict. I anticipated there was going to
be some problems with the complaintant, Romantic told the
commissioner inquiry Wally opal. That's why he red flagged.
The case he said the enquiry is probing, why Picton wasn't
caught sooner. The charge of State against
Picton. Stemmed from a 1997 knife attack
on Miss Anderson, who picked up by pectin in Vancouver and was
taken to his poor Coquitlam Farm.
When he tried to handcuff her on her wrist.
She feared for her life, she grabbed a kitchen knife and
slashed, his neck picked, and got the knife, and repeatedly
stabbed the woman once picked and loosen his grip on her.
She ran to the street flag down a passing car.
She died twice and hospital but was revived both, she and Picton
were treated at the same Hospital Eagle Ridge and
Coquitlam where a nurse used, the key found in pickton's
Pocket to remove the The handcuffs on the woman's wrist.
The attempted murder charges against Pickton was stayed on
January 27th 1998, the clothes and rubber boots.
Picton had been wearing that evening was seized by police and
left an RCMP storage locker for more than seven years.
Not until 2004, did it lab testing show DNA of two missing,
women were on items seized from Pickton and 1997.
Kara, Ellis, DNA was found on pickton's jacket andreea bore
Heaven. DNA on his boots clothing, that
was seized after the 1997 knife attack but it was forgotten in a
police storage for seven years. The testimony of Sandy Cameron a
civilian clerk with The Vancouver Police Department.
The enquiry had also heard testimony but Cameron when she
worked at the VPD, missing persons unit being rude and
making offensive comments to family members of pickton's
victims when they try to report their loved ones missing.
The enquiry heard about how camera would make judgmental
comments to families about allowing their daughters of
become drug addicts and work. The streets as prostitutes,
there was also a panel of major crime witnesses to discuss the
failures. That VPD that a serial killer
was responsible for dozens of women who were reported missing
police said at the time without anybody's or crime scene, there
was no evidence of a serial killer despite credible tips.
The Vancouver Police about Picton starting in 1998.
The crown file about the vicious knife attack in 1997 was
accidentally destroyed acting Regional Crown.
Andrew MacDonald testified, at the missing woman's inquiry
McDonald said that the pickton's criminal file was ordered
destroyed on August 31st 2001 and it was Hmong 50 boxes.
Is of crown files that were mistakenly destroyed by a mobile
shredding truck service that how is on contract to dispose of
files? Prosecutor Randi Connor who
handled the case, explain? Why the charges against Picton
were dropped on? January 26 1998?
She decided to enter a stay of proceedings against Picton
because Anderson was too high on heroin, to be coherent days
before the trial was a start. She was in terrible condition, I
couldn't put her on the witness stand.
Connor said, what I was presented with was a person in
very bad shape, she cared about the victim feeling, she was very
vulnerable, but felt Anderson's drug, addiction undermined
charges approve feeling, she was very vulnerable, but Anderson's
drug addiction. Undermine charge approval
standard the substantial likelihood of conviction.
She said she entered a stay of proceeding to leave. door open
if the woman cleaned up her drug use and was in better shape to
testify Late in 1998, task force.
Detectives got their best lead yet.
From a 38 year. Old Bill, Hitchcock widowed two
years earlier his cock turned to drugs and alcohol.
After his wife died. Rescued from the downhill Slide
by, then his foster sister, who found him a job at p and be
salvaged and Surrey owners were Robert Willie Pickton and his
brother. Dave Picton, his cock picked up
his paycheck at the Brothers Port Coquitlam?
Pig farm described by his cock as a very creepy.
Looking Place patrolled by a vicious 600-pound bore never
seen a pig like that. It would chase you and bite you.
He told police it was running out with dogs on the property.
His stock has grown concerned about picked in after reading
newspaper reports on Vancouver's, missing women,
Robert Pickton was a pretty quiet guy.
Hard to strike up a conversation with.
I don't think he had much use for me.
Men picked and drove a converted bus with deeply tinted windows
Hicks. Cock told authorities it was
Willie's pride, and joy. He said he wouldn't part with it
for anything. Willie used it a lot.
The brothers also ran a supposed charity, the piggy Palace, good
time, Society registered with the Canadian government in 1996
as a non-profit society and tended to organize coordinate,
manage operate, special events functions dances shows.
Exhibition on behalf of service organization Sports
organizations and other worthy group, according to his cock,
the special events convened at piggy.
Palaces was a converted building at the hog farm were drunken
Raves that featured entertainment by an
ever-changing cast of the downtown Eastside straight, sex
workers. The stabbing had crystallized
Bill hiscox suspicions about Robert Pickton.
Aside from the assault, his cock told police that there are all
the girls that are going missing all the purses and ID that were
out on his trailer and stuff. He frequents a downtown area all
the time for girls. So to be continued, we're going
to start working our way up to the events of 1998 and get more
into the actual investigation Witnesses people who have
contacted the police. And I'm also going to get into
the friends effect and so as you well know and many people have
suspected he could not have done all this by himself.
So we're going to look at all the different possibility.
His friends, his enablers his cohorts and will continue.
You on with that. So I appreciate you listening
very much and the first podcast of the series that I released
yesterday is doing amazing, most downloads in 24 hours and any
other podcast that I've had. So I appreciate the interest.
Thank you so much and I'm going to leave on some positivity and
we'll talk next time. Thank you so much.
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