They Shelved the Charge, He Kept Killing: The Robert Pickton Case
The Charge They Shelved: The Vancouver Missing Women Case
Between 1995 and 2002, some 65 women vanished from a few blocks of Vancouver's Downtown Eastside, and the DNA of 33 of them was later found on one Port Coquitlam pig farm. Why did the Crown shelve an attempted murder charge against the farm's owner in 1998, when a survivor's account was backed by a handcuff on her wrist and the key in his pocket? Why was a police profiler's 1998 serial killer warning blocked inside his own department? And how did 19 more women disappear in the four years between that stayed charge and the arrest?
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