The Farm on Dominion Avenue: Robert Pickton and Canada’s Missing Women
February 5th, 2002. Police walk onto a Port Coquitlam pig farm looking for illegal guns. They find the start of the largest crime scene in Canadian history.
In this episode of A True Crime Podcast, Alexander Lawson tells the story of Robert William Pickton — the farmer neighbours called Willie — and the women who vanished from Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside while institutions looked away. Between 1978 and 2001, at least 65 women went missing. Many were Indigenous. Families marched. A profiler warned there was a serial killer. The warning was dismissed.
Pickton was convicted in 2007 of six…
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