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Scumbag Pickton is suspected in the disappearance of 63 woman in all, mostly prostitutes and drug addicts, from the streets of the Downtown Eastside section of Vancouver since 1983. He is awaiting trial charged with 15 counts of murder. If he is found guilty of those charges, he will be Canada's most savage serial killer that ever lived.
The sufferings of the women can only be imagined. Not one body has been found intact, and a wood chipper and Scumbags pigs are believed to have devoured much of the evidence, leaving behind mostly microscopic traces of DNA.
The task of the investigators is also complicated by the fact that the Picktons sold soil to businesses around British Columbia, as well as a good deal of adjacent land in recent years to develop condominiums, which now over look the crime scene. |
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He has been formally charged with the murders of 15 missing women. In December the Crown announced plans to lay another seven first degree murder charges against him. In November, the task force wrapped a 21 month excavation of the Port Coquitlam farm owned by the family. In January of 2004, investigators found the remains of 10 more women at the farm. |
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Scumbag was escorted without handcuffs or leg irons into the prisoner's box, removing his jacket, folding it and neatly placing it on the empty chair beside him before sitting down. The pig farmer, head tilted left, looked straight ahead, his hands folded in his lap as though at a job interview. The light beard that covered his face during earlier court appearances made by video was gone. The receding, stringy brown hair that reached his shoulders now rested on the collar on an open necked dress shirt under his grey sweater. |
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He sat calmly in court behind newly installed bullet proof glass yesterday, apparently oblivious to the fixed stares of the families of his alleged victims. The 45 minute hearing focused on legal arguments to do with the fight with the provincial government over funding of the defence. There were no details of the case againt him, who is accused now of killing 15 of the 63 women--who are missing from Vancouver as far back as the late 1970's Most expect the munber of charger to increase.
Police were first told four years ago about a likely connection between the missing women and the pig farm, but police didn't begin searching the property until February. They find that even more inexplicable considering that he was charged in 1997 with attempted murder and aggrivated assault after an alleged knife attack on a protitute at the site. |
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Piggy's Palace |
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Seven or so years ago, a longshoreman, who asked not to be named and currently lives in an apartment building in Sunrise Hastings, Vencouver, went with an old friend/coworker from the railway, to a Halloween bash at Piggy's Palace. He described the night to a reporter. He arrived at the party at about 9:00pm. It was dark and raining and muddy. and there were lots of motorcycles, old cars and a big pig roasting on a spit. There were kids in costumes, some dressed as witches. The little kids were running around, and playing in the dark. There wasn't much light. There were lots of women, who looked like hookers. The party spilled all over the grounds and there were people in the house and in the trailer doing the wild thing. He recalls walking by a shack with a 40-watt light bulb hanging over the door and machinery was running inside. Here he got a death chill. The hairs raised on the back of his neck and his feet froze to the ground. He didn't want to be there anymore, so he left and walked home.
The longshoreman's account is by no means exceptional, many who visited Piggy's Palace had similar impressions. It was wild, people were doing drugs and eating roasted pig. He was about to eat the pig, but when he saw Robert "Scumbag" Pickton tearing apart the pig with his hands, which were drity, he said he decided not to. |
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