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Robert Pickton
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Robert William "Willie" Pickton (born October 26, 1949) Robert Pickton
[2]
of Port Coquitlam, British Columbia, Canada is a former Background information
pig farmer[3] and serial killer convicted of the second-degree
Also known Willie
murders of six women.[4][5] He is also charged in the deaths
as:
of an additional twenty women,[6] many of them prostitutes
and drug users from Vancouver's Downtown Eastside. In Born: October 26, 1949 [1]
December 2007 he was sentenced to life in prison, with no Port Coquitlam, British Columbia
possibility of parole for 25 years – the longest sentence
Conviction: Murder
available under Canadian law for murder.[7]
Sentence: Life imprisonment
During the trial's first day of jury evidence, January 22, 2007, Killings
the Crown stated he confessed to forty-nine murders to an
undercover police officer posing as a cellmate. The Crown Number of 33-49 (convicted of 6, was
reported that Pickton told the officer that he wanted to kill victims: charged with murdering 20 others
another woman to make it an even 50, and that he was caught but these were stayed as he had
because he was "sloppy".[8] already received the maximum
possible sentence)
Span of 1997–2001
Contents killings:
Country: Canada
1 Background
2 Preliminary inquiry Date February 22, 2002
3 Trial apprehended:
4 British Columbia Court of Appeal
4.1 Crown appeal
4.2 Defence appeal
4.3 Decisions of the Court of Appeal
5 Supreme Court of Canada
6 Reaction and aftermath to the court proceedings
6.1 Discontinuance of prosecution of other
counts against Pickton
6.2 VPD management review of investigation
6.3 VPD apology
6.4 Calls for public inquiry
6.5 Transfer to penitentiary
7 Stay of Final 20 Murder Charges
8 Victims
8.1 Alleged victims
9 August 2006 'Pickton Letters'
10 Pickton in popular culture

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11 References
12 Bibliography
13 External links

Background
On February 5, 2002, police executed a search warrant for illegal firearms at the property owned by Pickton and
his three siblings. He was taken into custody and police then obtained a second court order to search the farm as
part of the BC Missing Women 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 Department task force. The following day Pickton was charged with storing a firearm
contrary to regulations, possession of a firearm while not being holder of a licence and possession of a loaded
restricted firearm without a licence. He was later released and was kept under police surveillance.

On Friday, February 22, 2002, Pickton was arrested and charged with two counts of first-degree murder in the
deaths of Sereena Abotsway and Mona Wilson. On April 2, 2002 three more charges were added for the murders
of Jacqueline McDonell, Diane Rock and Heather Bottomley. A sixth charge for the murder of Andrea Joesbury
was laid on April 9, 2002 followed shortly by a seventh for Brenda Wolfe. On September 20, 2002 four more
charges were added for the slayings of Georgina Papin, Patricia Johnson, Helen Hallmark and Jennifer
Furminger. Four more charges for the murders of Heather Chinnock, Tanya Holyk, Sherry Irving and Inga Hall
were laid on October 3, 2002, bringing the total to fifteen, making the investigation the largest of any serial
killer in Canadian history. On May 26, 2005, twelve more charges were laid against him for the killings of Cara
Ellis, Andrea Borhaven, Debra Lynne Jones, Marnie Frey, Tiffany Drew, Kerry Koski, Sarah Devries, Cynthia
Feliks, Angela Jardine, Wendy Crawford, Diana Melnick, and Jane Doe (unidentified woman) bringing the total
number of first-degree murder charges to 27.

Excavations continued through November 2003; the cost of the investigation is estimated to have been $70
million by the end of 2003, according to the provincial government.[9] Currently the property is fenced off,
under lien by the Crown in Right of British Columbia. In the meantime, all the buildings have been demolished.
Forensic analysis was very difficult because the bodies of the victims may have been left to decompose or
allowed to be eaten by insects and pigs on the farm. During the early days of the excavations, forensic
anthropologists brought in heavy equipment, including two 50-foot (15 m) flat conveyor belts and soil sifters to
find traces of remains. On March 10, 2004, it was revealed that human flesh may have been ground up and
mixed with pork from the farm. This pork was never distributed commercially, but was handed out to friends
and visitors of the farm. Another claim made is that he fed the bodies directly to his pigs.[10]

Preliminary inquiry
A preliminary inquiry was held in 2003, the testimony from which was covered by a publication ban until 2010.
At the preliminary inquiry it was revealed that in 1997 Pickton had been charged with attempted murder in
connection with the stabbing of a sex worker. The woman survived and testified at the 2003 preliminary inquiry
that after driving her to the Port Coquitlam farm and having sex with her, Pickton slapped a handcuff on her left
hand, and stabbed her in the abdomen. She also had stabbed Pickton. Later both she and Pickton were treated at
the same hospital, where staff used a key they found in Pickton's pocket to remove the handcuffs from the
woman's wrist. The attempted-murder charge against Pickton was stayed on January 27, 1998, because the
woman had drug addiction issues and prosecutors believed her too unstable to testify. The clothes and rubber
boots Pickton had been wearing that evening were seized by police and left in an RCMP storage locker for more

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than seven years. Not until 2004 did lab testing show that the DNA of two missing women were on the items
seized from Pickton in 1997.[11]

Trial
Pickton's trial began on January 30, 2006 in New Westminster.[12] He pleaded not guilty to 27 charges of first-
degree murder in the Supreme Court of British Columbia. The voir dire phase of the trial took most of the year
to determine what evidence might be admitted before the jury. Reporters were not allowed to disclose any of the
material presented in the arguments.

On March 2, 2006, one of the 27 counts was rejected by Justice James Williams for lack of evidence.[13]

On August 9, 2006, Justice Williams severed the charges, splitting them into one group of six counts and another
group of twenty counts.[14] The trial proceeded on the group of six counts. The remaining 20 counts could have
been heard in a separate trial, but ultimately were stayed on August 4, 2010.[15] Because of the publication ban,
full details of the decision are not publicly available; but the judge has explained that trying all 26 charges at
once would put an unreasonable burden on the jury, as the trial could last up to two years, and have an increased
chance for a mistrial. The judge also added that the six counts he chose had "materially different" evidence from
the other 20.[16]

Much of the evidence heard during the voir dire phase of the trial in 2006 was never heard by the jury because
of rulings by the trial judge. This evidence was covered by a publication ban up until August 4, 2010.[17]

Jury selection was completed on December 12, 2006, taking just two days. Twelve jurors and two alternates
were chosen.[18]

The date for the jury trial of the first six counts was initially set to start January 8, 2007, but later delayed to
January 22, 2007.[19][20]

January 22, 2007 was the first day of the jury trial at which Pickton faced first-degree murder charges in the
deaths of Marnie Frey, Sereena Abotsway, Georgina Papin, Andrea Joesbury, Brenda Wolfe and Mona Wilson.
The media ban was finally lifted and for the first time Canadians heard the details of what was found during the
long investigation. In his opening statement, Crown Counsel Derrill Prevett told the jury of evidence that was
found on Pickton's property, including skulls cut in half with hands and feet stuffed inside. The remains of
another victim were stuffed in a garbage bag in the bottom of a trash can and her blood-stained clothing was
found in the trailer in which Pickton lived. Part of one victim's jawbone and teeth were found in the ground
beside the slaughterhouse, and a .22 calibre[21] revolver with an attached dildo containing both his and a victim's
DNA was in his laundry room.[22] In a videotaped recording played for the jury, Pickton claimed to have
attached the dildo to his weapon as a makeshift silencer.[10]

As of February 20, 2007, the following information has been presented to the court:[23]

The items police found inside Pickton's trailer - A loaded .22 revolver with a dildo over the barrel and one
round fired, boxes of .357 Magnum handgun ammunition, night-vision goggles, two pairs of faux
fur-lined handcuffs, a syringe with three millilitres of blue liquid inside, and "Spanish fly" aphrodisiac.
A videotape of Pickton's friend Scott Chubb saying Pickton had told him a good way to kill a female
heroin addict was to inject her with windshield-washer fluid. A second tape was played for Pickton, in
which an associate named Andrew Bellwood said Pickton mentioned killing prostitutes by handcuffing

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and strangling them, then bleeding and gutting them before feeding them to pigs. However, defence
lawyer Peter Ritchie said the jury should be skeptical of Chubb's and Bellwood's credibility.
Photos of the contents of a garbage can found in Pickton's slaughterhouse, which held some remains of
Mona Wilson.

In October 2007, a juror was accused of having made up her mind already that Pickton was innocent. The trial
judge questioned the juror, saying "It's reported to me you said from what you had seen you were certain Mr.
Pickton was innocent, there was no way he could have done this. That the court system had arrested the wrong
guy." The juror denied this completely. Justice Williams ruled that she could remain on the jury since it had not
been proven she made the statements.[24]

Justice James Williams suspended jury deliberations on December 6, 2007 after he discovered an error in his
charge to the jury.[25] Earlier in the day, the jury had submitted a written question to Justice James requesting
clarification of his charge, asking "Are we able to say 'yes' [i.e., find Pickton guilty] if we infer the accused acted
indirectly?"[26]

On December 9, 2007, the jury returned a verdict that Pickton is not guilty on 6 counts of first-degree murder,
but is guilty on 6 counts of second-degree murder.[27] A second-degree murder conviction carries a punishment
of a life sentence, with no possibility of parole for a period between 10 to 25 years, to be set by the trial judge.
On December 11, 2007, after reading 18 victim impact statements, British Columbia Supreme Court Judge
Justice James Williams sentenced Pickton to life with no possibility of parole for 25 years - the maximum
punishment for second-degree murder, and equal to the sentence which would have been imposed for a first-
degree murder conviction. "Mr. Pickton's conduct was murderous and repeatedly so. I cannot know the details
but I know this: What happened to them was senseless and despicable," said Justice Williams in passing the
sentence.[28]

British Columbia Court of Appeal

The B.C. Court of Appeal rendered judgment in June 2009 on two appeals, one brought by the crown
(prosecution) and the other brought by the defence.

Crown appeal

On January 7, 2008, the Attorney General filed an appeal in the British Columbia Court of Appeal, against
Pickton's acquittals on the first-degree murder charges.[29] The grounds of appeal relate to a number of
evidentiary rulings made by the trial judge, certain aspects of the trial judge’s jury instructions, and the ruling to
sever the six charges Pickton was tried on from the remaining twenty.[30][31]

Some relatives of the victims in the case were taken back by the announcement of a Crown appeal, especially
because Attorney-General Wally Oppal had said a few days earlier that the prosecution would likely not
appeal.[32] Although Pickton had been acquitted on the first-degree murder charges, he was convicted of second-
degree murder and received the same sentence as he would have on first-degree murder convictions. The
relatives of the victims expressed concern that the convictions would be jeopardized if the Crown argued that the
trial judge had made errors.[33] Opposition critic Leonard Krog criticized the Attorney-General for not having
briefed the victims’ families in advance.[34]

Oppal apologized to the victims’ families for not informing them of the appeal before it was announced to the

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general public.[34][35] Oppal also said that the appeal was filed largely for “strategic” reasons, in anticipation of
an appeal by the defence. The prosecution’s rationale was that if Pickton appeals his convictions, and if that
appeal is allowed, resulting in a new trial, the prosecution will want to hold that new trial on the original 26
charges of first-degree murder. But the Crown would be precluded from doing so unless it had successfully
appealed the original acquittals on the first-degree murder charges, and the severance of the 26 counts into one
group of six and one group of twenty.[36]

Under the applicable rules of court,[37] the time period for the Crown to appeal expired 30 days after December
9, when the verdicts were rendered, while the time period for the defence to appeal expired 30 days after
December 11, when Pickton was sentenced.[34] That is why the Crown announced its appeal first, even though
the Crown appeal is intended to be conditional on an appeal by the defence. If the defence had not filed an
appeal, then the Crown could have withdrawn its appeal.

Defence appeal

On January 9, 2008, lawyers for Pickton filed a notice of appeal in the British Columbia Court of Appeal,
seeking a new trial on six counts of second-degree murder.[38][39] The lawyer representing Pickton on the appeal
is Gil McKinnon, who had been a Crown prosecutor in the 1970s.[40]

The notice of appeal enumerates various areas in which the defence alleges that the trial judge erred: the main
charge to the jury, the response to the jurors’ question, amending the jury charge, similar fact evidence, and
Pickton’s statements to the police.[41]

Decisions of the Court of Appeal

The British Columbia Court of Appeal issued its decisions on June 25, 2009, but some parts of the decisions
were not publicly released because of publication bans still in place.[42][43][44]

The Court of Appeal dismissed the defence appeal by a 2:1 majority.[45] Because there was a dissent on a point
of law, Pickton was entitled to appeal to the Supreme Court of Canada, without first seeking leave to appeal.[46]
His notice of appeal was filed in the Supreme Court of Canada on August 24, 2009.[47]

The Court of Appeal allowed the crown appeal, finding that the trial judge erred in excluding some evidence and
in severing the 26 counts into one group of 20 counts and one group of 6. The order resulting from this finding
was stayed, so that the conviction on the six counts of second degree murder would not be set aside.[48]

Supreme Court of Canada

On June 26, 2009, Pickton's lawyers confirmed that they would exercise his right to appeal to the Supreme Court
of Canada. The appeal was based on the dissent in the British Columbia Court of Appeal.[49]

While Pickton had an automatic right to appeal to the Supreme Court of Canada based on the legal issues on
which Justice Donald had dissented, Pickton's lawyers applied to the Supreme Court of Canada for leave to
appeal on other issues as well. On November 26, 2009, the Supreme Court of Canada granted this application
for leave to appeal. The effect of this was to broaden the scope of Pickton's appeal, allowing him to raise
arguments that had been rejected unanimously in the B.C. Court of Appeal (not just arguments that had been
rejected by the 2-1 majority).[50][51][52]

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On July 30, 2010, the Supreme Court of Canada rendered its decision dismissing Pickton's appeal and affirming
his convictions.[53] The argument that Pickton should be granted a new trial was unanimously rejected by the
Justices of the Supreme Court of Canada.[54]

Although unanimous in its result, the Supreme Court split six to three in its legal analysis of the case. The issue
was whether the trial judge made a legal error in his instructions to the jury, and in particular in his
"re-instruction" responding to the jury's question about Pickton's liability if he was not the only person involved.
Writing for the majority, Madam Justice Charron found that "the trial judge's response to the question posed by
the jury did not adversely impact on the fairness of the trial". She further found that the trial judge's overall
instructions with respect to other suspects "compendiously captured the alternative routes to liability that were
realistically in issue in this trial. The jury was also correctly instructed that it could convict Mr. Pickton if the
Crown proved this level of participation coupled with the requisite intent."[55]

Mr. Justice LeBel, writing for the minority, found that the jury was not properly informed "of the legal principles
which would have allowed them as triers of fact to consider evidence of Mr. Pickton’s aid and encouragement to
an unknown shooter, as an alternative means of imposing liability for the murders." However, LeBel J. would
have applied the so-called curative provision[56] so as not to overturn Pickton's convictions.[55]

Reaction and aftermath to the court proceedings

Discontinuance of prosecution of other counts against Pickton

B.C. Crown spokesman Neil MacKenzie announced that the prosecution of Pickton on the 20 other murder
charges would likely be discontinued. "In reaching this position," he said, "the branch has taken into account the
fact that any additional convictions could not result in any increase to the sentence that Mr. Pickton has already
received."[57]

Families of the victims had varied reactions to this announcement. Some were disappointed that Pickton would
never be convicted of the 20 other murders, while others were relieved that the gruesome details of the murders
would not be aired in court.[58]

VPD management review of investigation

The Vancouver Police Department issued a statement that an "exhaustive management review of the Missing
Women Investigation" has been conducted, and the VPD intends to make the Review available to the public
once the criminal matters are concluded and the publication bans are removed. In addition, the VPD disclosed
that for several years it has "communicated privately to the Provincial Government that it believes a Public
Inquiry is necessary for an impartial examination of why it took so long for Robert Pickton to be arrested."[59]

VPD apology

At a press conference, Deputy Chief Constable Doug LePard of the VPD apologized to the victims' families,
saying "I wish from the bottom of my heart that we would have caught him sooner. I wish that, the several
agencies involved, that we could have done better in so many ways. I wish that all the mistakes that were made,
we could undo. And I wish that more lives would have been saved. So on my behalf and behalf of the Vancouver
Police Department and all the men and women that worked on this investigation, I would say to the families
how sorry we all are for your losses and because we did not catch this monster sooner."[60]

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Calls for public inquiry

British Columbia Attorney General Michael de Jong announced that a decision on whether to hold an inquiry
would be made soon.[57]

Certain of the families of Pickton's victims have called for a public inquiry into the handling of the case.[61] Last
week, Vancouver Police Deputy Chief Doug LePard apologized for the department's failure to catch Pickton
sooner, admitting mistakes were made. Police also revealed they believe there are at least 16 other missing
women for whose deaths Pickton is responsible.

B.C. Premier Gordon Campbell said Thursday a decision on whether to call a public inquiry into the Pickton
investigation would be made by the provincial cabinet in the coming weeks.

Both the VPD and the RCMP support a public inquiry, as does Vancouver mayor Gregor Robertson.[62][63]

The RCMP said that it continues to investigate the deaths of missing women, with a task force including 51
staff.[64]

As well as families of the victims, several newspapers called for a public inquiry. A Toronto Star editorial noted,
"Now that the legal wrangling is over, there is a bigger question to confront: how did the Port Coquitlam pig
farmer manage to lure vulnerable women — many of them prostitutes from Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside —
to their deaths for 14 years before police arrested him?"[65] The Winnipeg Free Press argued, "the families of all
victims deserve fuller answers".[66] Others argued that a public inquiry would be a wasted expense: "Better they
take the millions of extra public dollars it would all cost and put it into actual stepped up services to help the
street workers and addicts, who still ply their trade on the downtown eastside, get the real medical and
psychological help they need."[67]

Transfer to penitentiary

During a court hearing on August 4, 2010, Judge Williams stated that Pickton should be committed to a federal
penitentiary; up to that point he had been held at a provincial pretrial institution.[58]

Stay of Final 20 Murder Charges

Pickton had faced a further 20 first degree murder charges involving other female victims from Vancouver's
Downtown Eastside.[68] On February 26, 2008, a family member of one of the 20 women named as alleged
victims told the media that the Crown had told her a trial on the further 20 counts might not proceed.[69]

On August 4, 2010, Crown prosecutors stayed the balance of the pending murder charges against Pickton,
ending the prospect of any further trials.[70][71]

The 20 charges were formally stayed by crown counsel Melissa Gillespie shortly after 4 p.m. during a British
Columbia Supreme Court hearing at New Westminster.[15]

Most (but not all) of the publication bans in the case were lifted by the trial judge, James Williams of the British
Columbia Supreme Court, after lawyers spent hours in court going through the various complicated bans.[72]

On August 6, 2010, various media outlets released a transcript of conversations between an RCMP undercover

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operator and Pickton in his holding cell. While the RCMP censored the undercover officer's name throughout
most of the document, his name was left uncensored in several portions of the document that the RCMP released
to the public. This uncensored version was available to the public, through Global News, CTV, and the
Vancouver Sun, for about an hour before being pulled an re-edited. It is not known the extent of the damage this
mistake caused the undercover officer. [73]

Victims
On December 17, 2007, Pickton was convicted of second-degree murder in the deaths of six women:

Count 1, Sereena Abotsway[74] (born August 20, 1971), 29 when she disappeared in August 2001.
Count 2, Mona Lee Wilson[75] (born January 13, 1975), 26 when she was last seen on November 23,
2001. Reported Missing November 30, 2001.
Count 6, Andrea Joesbury, 22 when last seen in June 2001.
Count 7, Brenda Ann Wolfe[76], 32 when last seen in February 1999 and was reported missing in April
2000.
Count 16, Marnie Lee Frey[77], last seen August 1997.Vancouver Police Missing Persons Case #98-209922.
Count 11, Georgina Faith Papin, last seen in 1999.

Alleged victims

Pickton also stood accused of first-degree murder in the deaths of twenty other women until these charges were
stayed on August 4, 2010.

Count 3, Jacqueline Michelle McDonell[78], 23 when she was last seen in January 1999. Vancouver Police
Missing Persons Case # 99-039699.

Count 4, Dianne Rosemary Rock[79] (born September 2, 1967), 34 when last seen on October 19, 2001.
Reported missing December 13, 2001.
Count 5, Heather Kathleen Bottomley[80] (born August 17, 1976), 25 when she was last seen (and
reported missing) on April 17, 2001.
Count 8, Jennifer Lynn Furminger, last seen in 1999.
Count 9, Helen Mae Hallmark[81], last seen August 1997. Vancouver Police Missing Persons Case #98-226384.
Count 10, Patricia Rose Johnson[82], last seen in March 2001.
Count 12, Heather Chinnock, 30 when last seen in April 2001.
Count 13, Tanya Holyk, 23 when last seen in October 1996.
Count 14, Sherry Irving[83], 24 when last seen in 1997.
Count 15, Inga Monique Hall[84], 46 when last seen in February 1998. Vancouver Police Missing Persons Case #
98-047919.

Count 17, Tiffany Drew, last seen December 1999.

Count 18, Sarah de Vries[85], last seen April 1998.
Count 19, Cynthia Feliks[86], last seen in December 1997.
Count 20, Angela Rebecca Jardine[87], last seen November 20, 1998 between 3:30- 4p.m. at Oppenheimer
Park at a rally in the downtown Eastside of Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. Vancouver Police Missing
Persons Case # 98.286097.

Count 21, Diana Melnick[88], last seen in December 1995.

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Count 22, Jane Doe —charge lifted; see below.

Count 23, Debra Lynne Jones[89], last seen in December 2000.
Count 24, Wendy Crawford, last seen in December 1999.
Count 25, Kerry Koski, last seen in January 1998.
Count 26, Andrea Fay Borhaven[90], last seen in March 1997. Vancouver Police Missing Persons Case # 99.105703.
Count 27, Cara Louise Ellis[91] aka Nicky Trimble (born April 13, 1971), 25 when last seen in 1996[92].
Reported missing October 2002.

As of March 2, 2006, the murder charge involving the unidentified victim has been lifted. Pickton refused to
enter a plea on the charge involving this victim, known in the proceedings as Jane Doe, so the court registered a
not-guilty plea on his behalf. "The count as drawn fails to meet the minimal requirement set out in Section 581
of the Criminal Code. Accordingly, it must be quashed," wrote Justice James Williams. The detailed reasons for
the judge's ruling cannot be reported in Canada because of the publication ban covering this stage of the trial.

Pickton is implicated in the murders of the following women, but charges have not yet been laid (incomplete
list):

Mary Ann Clark[93] aka Nancy Greek, 25, disappeared in August 1991 from downtown Victoria.
Yvonne Marie Boen (sometimes used the surname England)[94] (born November 30, 1967), 34 when last
seen on March 16, 2001 and reported missing on March 21, 2001.
Dawn Teresa Crey[95], reported missing in December 2000. Crey is the main subject of a 2006
documentary film about murdered and missing Aboriginal women in Canada, entitled Finding
Dawn.[96][97]
Two unidentified women.

After Pickton was arrested many people started coming forward and talking to police about what was going on
at the farm. One of these witnesses that came forward was Lynn Ellingsen. Ellingsen claimed to have seen
Pickton skinning a woman hanging from a meat hook years earlier; she did not tell anyone about this out of fear
for her life[98]. This fear would seem justified, especially after Wendy Eistetter's incident in which she was
stabbed by Pickton, managed to get away and even tell police, yet right before trial all charges were dropped and
nothing happened to Pickton[98].

August 2006 'Pickton Letters'

In August 2006, Thomas Loudamy, a 27-year-old Fremont, California resident, claimed that he had received
three letters from Robert Pickton in response to letters Loudamy sent under an assumed identity.

In the letters, Pickton allegedly speaks with concern about the expense of the investigation, asserts his
innocence, quotes and refers to the Bible[99] [100], praises the trial judge, and responds in detail to (fictional)
information in Loudamy's letters, which were written in the guise of Mya Barnett, a 'down on her luck' woman.

The news of the letters' existence was broken by The Vancouver Sun, in an exclusive published on Saturday,
September 2, 2006, and as of that date, neither law enforcement nor any representative of Pickton has verified
the authenticity of the letters. The Sun, however, has undertaken several actions to confirm the documents'
authenticity, including:

Confirming that the outgoing stamps are consistent with those of the North Fraser Pretrial Centre (NFPC),
where Pickton is being held;

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Confirming through a representative of Canada Post that the outgoing stamps are not forgeries; and
Confirming that the machine (identifiable with a serial number included in the stamp) used to stamp the
envelopes is the machine used by the NFPC.

Loudamy claims not to have kept copies of his outgoing letters to Pickton, and as of September 4, 2006, no
information on their existence has been forthcoming from Pickton or his representatives.

Loudamy has a history of writing to accused and convicted criminals, in some instances under his own identity
(as with his correspondence with Clifford Olson), and in others in the guise of a character he believes will be
more readily accepted by the targets of the letters. Loudamy, an aspiring journalist, claims that his motivation in
releasing the letters is to help the public gain insights into Pickton.[101]

Pickton in popular culture

The Seattle punk band The Accüsed wrote a song about Pickton called "Hooker Fortified Pork Products" on
their 2005 Oh Martha! album. The song's "protagonist" is named "Willie P" (Pickton is generally referred to as
Willie by those who know him) and "B.C. backyard butcher" who is said to have "been cruising the east end" (a
reference to Vancouver's downtown east side.) The song describes how the hookers are thrown into a wood
chipper. It includes a portion that is spoken in a caricature of a hillbilly accent which begins with the words
"well howdy eh'!" ("Eh" is common in comic impressions of Canadians). It describes the pork products as being
"chock full of heroin and AIDS."[102]

The German psychobilly band Mad Sin wrote a song about Pickton called "Pigfarm". The song was released on
their 2007 album "20 years in Sin Sin".

A 2007 episode of CSI: Crime Scene Investigation titled "Leapin' Lizards" includes a passing reference to a
Canadian "farmer" who fed his murder victims to his pigs.

A low-budget American horror movie, Killer Pickton (2005), was released in Australia in 2007, and then
promptly withdrawn from release after legal complaints by the Canadian government.

In 2009, the television series Criminal Minds featured an episode set in Sarnia, Ontario, which followed a case
where a large number of victims were killed and their bodies were fed to pigs. Most of the other elements of the
crime, however, were significantly different from the real case. In Canada, the episode aired with an additional
content warning stating that this specific episode might upset some viewers, due to the storyline being closely
tied to actual events.

The book Swastika by Michael Slade used Pickton as the basis for one of its characters, a Vancouver serial killer
who fed the remains of his victims to pigs.

Quebec rock band EXtério wrote a song entitled "Le seigneur des agneaux" which can be translated as "The lord
of the lambs" and filmed a music video about Robert Pickton in 2009.

References
1. ^ "Who is Robert Pickton"
(http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story
/RTGAM.20071130.wpicktonsketch1130/BNStory
/specialPickton/home) . 2007-11-30.
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story
/RTGAM.20071130.wpicktonsketch1130/BNStory
/specialPickton/home. Retrieved 2008-11-10.
2. ^ "Crown Says Will Prove Robert Pickton Murdered,
Butchered and Disposed of 6 Women"
(http://redorbit.com/news/international/810355

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81. ^ Helen Mae Hallmark
(http://www.missingpeople.net/women/helenh.htm)
82. ^ Patricia Rose Johnson
(http://www.missingpeople.net
/remembering_patti.htm)
83. ^ Alleged Pickton victim schooled in Comox
Valley-Oct 2002 (http://www.missingpeople.net
/alleged_pickton_victim_schooled-oct_2002.htm)
84. ^ Inga Monique Hall (http://www.missingpeople.net
/women/ingahall.htm)
85. ^ Missing woman's DNA located, Police say Sarah
(http://www.missingpeople.net
/missing_woman's_dna_located_sarah_devries_identified-
86. ^ Pictures provide the clues to a daughter's lost life
(http://www.missingpeople.net
/pictures_provide_the_clues_to_a.htm)
87. ^ Angela Rebecca Jardine
88. ^ Diana Melnick (http://www.missingpeople.net
/women/diana.htm)
89. ^ Debra Lynne Jones-last seen Dec 21, 2000
(http://www.missingpeople.net/debra_lynne_jones-
last_seen_dec_21,_2000.htm)
90. ^ Andrea Fay Borhaven
(http://www.missingpeople.net/women/andrea.htm)
91. ^ Cara Louise Ellis last seen in 1997
(http://www.missingpeople.net/cara_louise_ellis.htm)
92. ^ Task force adds four missing women-Nov 20, 2003
(http://www.missingpeople.net
/task_force_adds_four_missing_wom.htm)
93. ^ Canadian Press (2006-10-12). "RCMP: Pickton
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suspect in death of Victoria woman" Kensington Publishing.

(http://www.ctv.ca/servlet/ArticleNews/story
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94. ^ Yvonne Marie Boen-Mar 28, 2002
(http://www.missingpeople.net/2002-2
/yvonne_marie_boen-mar_28,_2002.htm)
95. ^ Pickton farm yields 23rd woman's DNA-Jan 16,
2004 (http://www.missingpeople.net
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96. ^ de Vos, Gail (January 11, 2008). "FINDING
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Bibliography
Stevie Cameron: The Pickton Files: Knopf Canada: 2007: ISBN 067697953X

External links
R. v. Pickton, Full text of Supreme Court of Canada decision available at LexUM
(http://scc.lexum.umontreal.ca/en/2010/2010scc32/2010scc32.html) and CanLII (http://www.canlii.org
/en/ca/scc/doc/2010/2010scc32/2010scc32.html) (July 30, 2010)
R. v. Pickton, decision of the Court of Appeal for British Columbia (http://www.courts.gov.bc.ca/jdb-txt
/CA/09/02/2009BCCA0299cor1.htm) (June 25, 2009) (defence appeal)
R. v. Pickton, decision of the Court of Appeal for British Columbia (http://www.courts.gov.bc.ca/jdb-txt
/CA/09/03/2009BCCA0300cor1.htm) (June 25, 2009) (Crown appeal)
R. v. Pickton, decision of the Supreme Court of British Columbia (http://www.courts.gov.bc.ca/jdb-txt
/SC/07/18/2007BCSC1808.htm) (December 13, 2007) (ruling re: re-instructing the jury)
R. v. Pickton, decision of the Supreme Court of British Columbia (http://www.courts.gov.bc.ca/jdb-txt
/sc/07/00/2007bcsc0078.htm) (January 16, 2007) (ruling re: media application to access and publish
exhibits #1)
Robert William Pickton Trial Information (http://www.ag.gov.bc.ca/courts/other/pickton/index.htm)
(Court Services, Ministry of Attorney General)
Covering The Trial: Former Sex Trade Workers Work As Citizen Correspondents For Orato
(http://www.orato.com/pickton-trial)
CBC Backgrounder (http://www.cbc.ca/news/background/pickton/)
Crime Library's article on Robert Pickton (http://www.crimelibrary.com/serial_killers/predators
/robert_pickton/robert_pickton_jump_page.html)
Vancouver Eastside Missing Women (http://www.missingpeople.net/home.html)

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BBC Article on Pickton (http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/6285449.stm) (2007-01-21)

Excerpts from 'The Pickton letters' (http://www.missingpeople.net/the_pickton_letters.htm)
Pat Casanova testimony (http://therunagatesclub.blogspot.com/2007/06/casanova-butcher-blows-
his-cover.html) , June 4–6, 2007
History of Sex Work in Vancouver (http://www.sfu.ca/community/sexwork.htm) (downloadable PDF book
written by sex workers)
PDFs of the Pickton letters (http://www.canada.com/topics/news/national
/story.html?id=758d4b02-2cc7-451a-9b3d-e15db3d16f2e) obtained by The Vancouver Sun.
Retrieved from "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Pickton"
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