Fred dinenage (narrates): March 22, 1997,
downtown eastside Vancouver, Canada,
her street name was 'stitch'
she was working the corner of Cordova
and princes Avenue.
A 31-year-old mother of two with a serious drug habit,
selling her body was the quickest way
to the next high.
They were doing the best
they could with the circumstances in their lives at the time.
An old pickup truck approached,
the driver flashed some cash and stitch got in.
A straightforward transaction,
a barter, money for sex,
the driver was 47-year-old Robert 'Willy' pickton
who drove stitch seventeen miles east to his pig farm.
Her gut instinct, was just telling her,
"don't go, don't go out there."
They had sex in his filthy trailer
then stitch asked if she could use the phone.
He attacks her.
He puts a handcuff around her left wrist
and stabs her in the abdomen.
She's spirited and she fights back.
A proper fight ensues.
She's stabbed, he's stabbed.
Blood is all over the trailer.
Stitch escaped with four stab wounds,
she was critically injured but alive.
Pickton had been sloppy, this one had got away.
Over the next five years at least 49 other women
wouldn't be so lucky,
making Robert pickton
one of the world's most evil killers.
(Theme music)
1990's port coquitlam, Vancouver,
Robert 'Willy' pickton had spent his entire life
living and working on the family pig farm.
This is a man who is not integrated into society.
He's a man who lives in a trailer in the midst of his farm,
who is trained as a butcher, who in a way rejects society.
His only sexual outlet was with women working the streets
of downtown eastside, Vancouver.
Women who sold sex for survival.
The kind of dynamics of the drug addiction
and the poverty,
and then the risky nature of some of their customers
made them more vulnerable to violence
either from single individuals or serial predators.
Pickton was one of those predators,
who hunted women relentlessly.
Pickton was targeting sex workers
because sex workers are easy to access.
They're going to readily get into your car,
they are going to readily go somewhere with you.
They are out there to be treated
how you want to treat them.
They are worthless, you know, they are less than human.
The pig farm gave him the perfect cover for his depravity.
Women would disappear and hardly anyone noticed.
For society to allow that to continue
for at least a decade unfettered at this farm
that was surrounded by dozens of houses,
it's mind boggling.
It's awful.
This killer's story begins in 1949.
Robert 'Willy' pickton was born on October 24
to Leonard and Helen Louise,
a family of pig farmers in port coquitlam,
on the outskirts of Vancouver.
He was one of three children.
He was the elder of two brothers.
They had an elder sister called Linda,
who had been sent away,
and they didn't think a girl should be brought up on a pig farm
and so Linda was dispatched to Vancouver,
which is about 17 miles away.
The boys are brought up on the farm.
Pickton's mother was very much a workaholic,
she was a very industrious woman.
This had a significant impact on her children
because they had to work in this family business.
So, the children didn't really get much of a chance to be children,
to be carefree, to run around and play
with their friends and that kind of thing.
She was the decisive force in the family.
Leonard was more remote,
some said he was abusive to the boys,
I think he was probably just a victorian father
in a rather old-fashioned sense.
The boys were really less important to their mother than the pigs.
They were certainly not treated particularly well.
There was some suggestion that he was always striving
for approval from his parents and from his brother,
and that he was a fairly weak young boy
with not a lot of confidence.
He struggled in school, he struggled to make friends.
He very much relied on his brother David
for many things in life.
Pickton was known by the other children
at school as somebody
with incredibly poor personal hygiene,
and this is something that his family were...
Were not particularly stringent about either.
So, it was normal in this household to perhaps not wash
and... and not look after yourself
and not change your clothes as much as other people did.
This is something that would have really excluded him
from his peer group.
He's that kid that smells, he's that kid that's not like us.
He has a prized calf that he considers a pet.
He's a child, and he's considering this as his pet.
This isn't livestock.
He comes home from school one day
and finds out his dad has slaughtered his pet calf
and he's just devastated.
He has learned
that I am not going to get close to anything anymore.
I'm not going to love or care for anything
because when I do that, that is going to get taken away.
The boys learned to drive on the farm
when they were still children.
One day pickton's brother Dave accidentally hit a young boy
on a road close to the farm,
he ran to find their mother.
And she disposed of the victim's body in a lake
before he'd even died.
Now, this is a really significant thing
to witness to see as a young person,
because this shows you how not to do things.
It also sends a message out to him
that the other people's lives are not valuable.
Pickton was somebody who was used to death,
he was surrounded by it on the farm, in the slaughterhouse,
but this was the death of animals.
When we're looking at the hit and run,
this is a human being.
And the fact that his mother shows such contempt for the life
and for the dignity of a human being
is a message that is going to stick with him.
So, all of these things are playing a role
in shaping his value system.
As a teenager pickton spent
over six years as a butcher's apprentice.
By 1970 at the age of 21 he was working full time
on the family pig farm.
In 1978 his father died,
followed by his mother a year later,
leaving the family estate to their children.
Robert 'Willy' pickton
was the only one of the three siblings
who had any interest in keeping the business running.
This farm was not an idyllic beautiful pasture.
It was just absolutely cluttered with old broken-down vehicles
and garbage and debris and outbuildings
that were stuffed full of all sorts of,
you know, derelict things.
Amidst all of this,
Willy pickton lived in a very rundown trailer by himself.
I think it would be fair to say that Willy pickton
wasn't very attractive to women.
I'm not entirely surprised.
He was a messy, ugly, man who stank.
There's no two ways about it.
He's said to have put butter in his hair to smooth it back.
If you look at any picture of him,
he was grubby, stubbly, rather ugly.
He wasn't anybody's idea of a boyfriend.
He wasn't a man for relationships.
He was a loner in every way and knew it.
In 1994, the pickton farm on the outskirts of Vancouver
was prime real estate.
The brothers sold some of their land
for around $2 million.
For pickton, if he wanted a woman,
he now had more than enough money to pay for her.
1995 downtown eastside Vancouver,
known as the poorest zip code in urban Canada,
it was here that Willy pickton found what he was looking for.
Low track is literally the cheapest area of the city.
Vancouver at that time had a number of strolls
for street sex trade workers
and some were very expensive, and others were very cheap,
and these were the cheapest.
These were drug addicted women.
Many of them were engaged in very risky behaviour
because of the nature of the area
and the type of customers they would get.
This was survival sex work.
These women were, you know,
they weren't out there because they enjoyed it.
They weren't out there
because it was a choice for many of them.
They were out there to survive
and to make enough money most of the time to feed
an addiction or just to survive.
Normally prostitutes were very worried about money
because time is money,
are not willing to go great distances to engage in a sex act.
But pickton was actually reasonably wealthy,
and he was able to convince them because again,
they were drug addicted and he offered them money
and was able to get them to come back to his farm.
That was his sexual outlet
because he was paying them.
It was a straightforward transaction,
a barter, money for sex, whatever kind of sex it would be.
In 1996, the younger pickton brother Dave
established a nightclub close to the pig farm,
called piggy's palace good time society.
Piggy's palace was a nicely built,
illegal after hours,
speakeasy or bar where were... were frequented
by people in that area,
but that was his brother's property, not his property.
And they would invite all manner of people to these.
At one point, it was estimated that they have 2,000 people
at a rave on their farm.
It was good time city, we're all going to enjoy ourselves.
There was a lot of anecdotal talk of sex parties,
drug parties, parties where a lot of sex workers would be...
Would be brought to the farm to party later,
kind of, in an afterhours, kind of, club in pickton's trailer.
There was probably quite a lot of all manner of things
going on it was the first time I think
that Willy pickton had felt integrated.
He was in his late 30s.
He's suddenly discovered,
"oh, I've got friends pleased to see me."
I think it gave him something extra.
All those people who turned up to the raves
and the dances and the new year's Eve party
at piggy palace,
they must have thought pickton was pretty alright.
Otherwise, why would they have gone?
On march 22, 1997,
pickton was cruising the downtown eastside
when he saw a 31-year-old sex worker whose street name was 'stitch'.
She had a fairly... fairly heavy cocaine addiction at the time.
They made a deal for $100, for sex,
which is an astronomical sum for the women
in the downtown eastside for any of the sex workers there.
A lot of the women don't like to leave
the downtown eastside.
They're nervous and rightfully so,
but she thought, $100, that is a lot of money.
Her gut instinct,
as they were driving out to port coquitlam
and in pickton's pickup truck, was just telling her,
"don't go, don't go out there."
And she said she was sitting in the truck
and she was sort of looking down at her feet
and he was driving, and he wasn't talking,
he was very quiet.
And she started to think that she wanted to jump out
when the vehicle slowed down.
Pickton brought stitch to his trailer on the pig farm.
Sex duly takes place
but then she asks him for the phone book.
(Eerie music)
He attacks her.
He puts a handcuff around her left wrist
and stabs her in the abdomen.
She's spirited and she fights back.
A proper fight ensues.
She's stabbed, he's stabbed.
Blood is all over the trailer.
But at that point, he seems to,
kind of, blackout,
and she has an opportunity and she's out the door,
and down the steps
and she is running a couple of hundred metres out
to the main road.
She was able to get away
from him and ran through the farm
and onto the nearest road,
where she stopped a car coming down the street.
And you can imagine,
she was naked with one handcuff dangling
from one wrist and completely covered in blood
and screaming for her life.
They called 911 on the cell phone,
an ambulance met them shortly down the road.
And she was placed in the ambulance, taken off to the hospital.
And she almost died on the operating table a couple of different times,
before they actually managed to save her.
As stitch fought for her life in surgery pickton arrived
at the same hospital seeking treatment,
as he was attended to,
an orderly found a key in his pocket,
it unlocked the handcuffs still attached to stitch.
Pickton was charged with attempted murder,
assault, and the forcible confinement of stitch.
But sadly, for her and for the case,
she had a severe addiction problem.
And eventually, the prosecution withdrew the case against pickton
because she wasn't capable of giving coherent evidence.
Eventually, the case was dismissed.
Pickton had got away with attempted murder.
It reinforces for him,
his beliefs about these women that they are low status,
that they are low value,
that if you hurt them there
aren't going to be any consequences for you,
so they're fair game now.
Stitch had escaped the pig farm alive,
she was one of the lucky ones.
Other women working the downtown eastside,
weren't so fortunate, they had disappeared.
Detective inspector Kim rossmo,
a geographic profiling expert
with the Vancouver police was assigned to investigate.
I was able to obtain data going back about 20 years
on the number of unfound missing persons,
particularly women from the area of interest,
which is our skid road area.
And the answer was we would have zero,
one, or two at the most cases in a year,
until we hit 1995.
Then we began to see a spike that carried on,
and depending on where you draw the cut off,
it was 27 or 28 cases,
which was way too many compared to what we've seen in the past.
This was, to put it scientifically,
a statistically significant spatial temporal cluster,
meaning something was happening
and the next question would be,
you know, what is happening? Why?
What's the cause of this?
On August 30, 1997,
Lynn & Rick frey were at home
in Campbell river on Vancouver island,
waiting for a phone call from their daughter marnie,
it was her 24th birthday.
She called that morning and said,
"oh, do you know what day it is?"
And it was like, "yeah."
She goes, "well, it's my birthday.
"Maybe I'll come home." I said, "great.
"I'll come and get you."
And she said, "no, no, no.
"I won't come out today, maybe tomorrow.
"I'm going to go to a party tonight."
She was a fairly quiet girl,
you know, just typical girl, kind of a little bit,
maybe tomboyish.
She liked the outdoors.
She'd always go fishing, hunting with me,
cutting wood, stuff like that,
you know, like kids like to do.
Very, very much in nature,
an animal lover and animals loved her.
She was already doing the drugs prior to leaving here.
But I didn't realise at the time that it was as bad as it was.
She would come home,
and she looked like she was just tired.
She didn't look like she was all stoned
and needed a rest.
So, then she stayed in Vancouver and every couple of months
I'd go get her and bring her home
and try to convince her to come back to Campbell river.
There was no way she was coming back here.
I know for a fact,
if marnie never got into the drug scene,
she would have never ended up on that farm.
And that's the only reason
she went there was because it was free drugs
and free alcohol, and it was party time.
It was her birthday.
Marnie frey became another missing statistic
from the downtown eastside.
1997 downtown eastside, Vancouver, Canada.
Between 1995 and 1997
at least a dozen women had gone missing,
an unusually high number for the area.
Any effort to explain that cluster
had to account for the following,
why was this occurring now and hadn't occurred before?
Why was it occurring in Vancouver,
but not in other western Canadian cities?
Why were we not finding any bodies?
And finally, why was it only happening to women,
not to men?
In 1998 at least nine more women disappeared from the area.
The Vancouver police missing persons unit
had two or three officers in it trying to deal
with not just the cases in the downtown eastside,
but every person reported missing from the city of Vancouver.
For all intents and purposes,
these cases were not being investigated.
Everyone at the time took the position
that that the victims were sex trade workers,
that they must be transient,
that they must have just picked up and moved on.
On the pig farm life carried on as normal,
it was a busy place for the pickton brothers.
Dave was more social.
He ran the businesses more and Robert was more of an employee.
Outwardly it seemed as though Dave controlled Robert to a large degree,
but those that were quite close to both of them said
that a lot of times it would actually be the other way around.
There was a lot of people coming
and going on the farm,
people who would come to pick up pork
from the pig business.
Just a lot of people coming and going from that property.
Running the pig farm was a bloody business.
Pickton would slaughter and butcher his pigs on site.
He disposed of the carcasses at a meat rendering plant
where small local suppliers disposed of animal waste
with no supervision or paperwork.
He seemed to have a fairly big heart
in terms of people he would try to help out
if someone had been released from jail
and was looking for work, he took in a lot of people to...
To work for cash under the table on the farm.
Some of those people would stay on the farm with him,
sometimes he had a spare room in his trailer
that people could stay in.
He helped a lot of his friends financially
in 1999 one of the friends Willy pickton helped
was Lynn ellingsen.
Lynn was a crack addict
who lived and worked on the farm for several months.
The job gave her a place to stay
and ready cash to satisfy her drug habit.
Ellingsen knew pickton regularly brought sex workers
back to the farm.
She was also aware that women continued to disappear
from the downtown eastside.
But it became very clear
when you started looking into the backgrounds of these women,
that they were entirely not transient,
that they had very small worlds that they lived in.
They worked a certain section of a street.
They picked up their social assistance checks on the same day.
They always picked up,
you know, their methadone or their harm reduction drugs
on the same day.
They always maybe phone their mum on mother's day
or their daughter to wish her a happy birthday.
And in every single one of these cases,
that regular routine by these women just stopped.
It just stopped.
And when you started to look into it,
it became clear that these women
had not picked up and moved on, that they were actually missing.
So, there were a number of problems,
but probably the biggest was the fact
that no bodies had been found.
That's how a murder investigation typically proceeds.
A body's found, it's analysed.
There's forensics that are obtained possibly DNA,
but there've been no bodies,
which was very problematic and very challenging.
No hard evidence made it easy for people to make decisions
that focused on other crime problems.
You combine this with budget cuts that the police agencies were facing
and other murders that took up time and attention and this,
like some other cases, it just, kind of,
fell between the cracks,
even though the available intelligence and evidence pointed
towards a serial killer.
On march 2, 1999,
pickton was cruising downtown
when he saw 34-year-old Georgina papin
working on the streets.
Pickton paid her well to get in the truck
and return to the farm with him,
where they were joined by Lynn ellingsen.
The three of them partied hard,
ellingsen got high and fell asleep.
When she woke up there was a light on in the slaughterhouse,
she went to investigate.
Lynn looked through the door and saw a dead woman,
pickton was gutting her like a pig.
The woman looked like Georgina papin.
Pickton turned to ellingsen, threatening,
"if you say a word about what you've seen,
"you'll end up like she is."
He's effectively butchering his victims.
Time after time, he would kill a sex worker.
He would have sex with them
and then he would kill them and then he would dismember them.
Lynn kept her word and did not report
what she had seen to the police,
but she did tell some of her friends,
and they didn't stay quiet, one of them called the police.
Right away, we wanted to investigate this.
What happened there was,
they brought lynne ellingsen in for an interview,
completely unprepared.
They were unprepared,
they spent virtually 12 minutes with her
to talk to her about this information.
Ellingsen gave the police nothing and was released.
Once she had been questioned in this interview,
she went to him and she said,
"you need to pay me more now
"because I want to take a cruise,
"and the police are breathing down my neck,
"so you need to pay me more."
Women continued to disappear,
31-year-old Brenda wolfe was known as a street enforcer,
she protected the women working the downtown eastside.
Brenda had been an addict who worked the streets
before turning her life around.
She went missing in February 1999.
The fact that police didn't have any leads
would have made pickton feel invincible.
He would have been following these stories in the local media.
He would have been watching the local news
and scanning the local papers to just see
if there was anything about it in there.
When he realised that there wasn't
that reinforces his views about sex workers,
these women don't matter.
They're low status, that they disappear,
and nobody really gives a damn.
The victims of serial killers are more likely to be people
on the fringes of society,
marginal groups and in particular prostitutes.
So, while serial killers are rare,
this was hardly a surprising conclusion.
And... and given the data there wasn't really anything else
that could explain the problem of the missing women.
The way he treated these victims
as if they were pieces of meat really
is outstanding for me.
Here's somebody who...
Who treats the bodies of their victims
as if they are the bodies of... of dead animals.
This is the contempt that he feels for people,
so this is pure evil,
the decision, the choice to do this time and time again.
This horrible looking man with greasy hair,
stubble,
who stank all the time,
was in fact butchering,
and that's the only word for it, entirely innocent women.
There is something profoundly chilling
about that because he showed no sign whatever of wishing to stop.
With no bodies or evidence, pickton had no reason to stop.
Downtown eastside Vancouver, Canada,
with limited official response,
family and friends took the initiative to search
for the missing women.
Lynn and Rick frey had not spoken to their daughter marnie
since the day of her 24th birthday,
over three years ago.
So, I'd go to Vancouver
and it's about a 45-minute drive from where my parents live,
and I'd drive to Vancouver and park the car,
and go looking for her.
And I'd walk up and down the streets,
look in back alleys.
You know, anybody on the street
that was not doing the floppy chicken or,
you know, too stressed out on drugs,
I'd ask them if they've seen her,
and I'd have a picture of marnie in my hand,
and I'd say her name was kit or kit Kat
because they didn't know her by marnie.
The frey's weren't the only people searching
for loved ones.
By January 2001, the number of missing women
had risen to over 60,
yet still no bodies or remains had been found.
But this number could no longer be ignored.
Finally in April the Vancouver pd
and the royal Canadian mounted police force
launched a joint missing women's task force.
100,000-dollar reward for information
was posted and the task force received
over 12,000 calls,
so, one of the problems with such an investigation
is information overload.
But one of the names that came up
and I heard about it was Willie pickton,
a pig farmer who lived out in the suburbs
of Vancouver in coquitlam or port coquitlam
and he had attacked a prostitute from the downtown eastside
earlier on and had been charged with attempted murder.
So, he was a suspect.
And that was the only entry on pickton's criminal record
that I saw when I was alerted to him as a suspect.
And I ran him through the police computer,
and all I saw was attempted murder and assault,
forcible confinement and the charges were stayed.
So, that's what prompted me
to start to explore him as a suspect.
Because of his attack on stitch the police
had brought pickton in for questioning.
Oh, no, no, I don't drink.
I don't smoke. I don't use drugs.
And everybody says "how come your eyes are so frickin' bloodshot,"
they says. I turned around,
I didn't take the knife away from her,
I did not take knife away from her.
I aimed it to her and I knifed it twice.
I did do that. I admit I did that.
That's one thing, I didn't... shouldn't have done.
You've never taken any other prostitute
back to the trailer?
Not since this incident.
No.
But before that incident?
No.
He'd co-operated and they found no reason
to detain him further.
Nobody has any evidence to the contrary yet.
No one has done anything to rule pickton out.
That was always my assertion from the beginning,
is that he's our best suspect
until either we have a better one,
or we categorically rule him out.
In June 2001,
22-year-old Andrea joseberry was in a methadone programme,
close to kicking her drug habit.
Her pharmacist reported her missing
when she stopped collecting her prescriptions.
These people were mothers, they were daughters,
they were sisters.
They were people who could have turned their lives around
and had this man not taken away
that opportunity to do so many of them would've done.
31-year-old Serena abbotsway
was a popular character on the streets,
a few weeks after Andrea, Serena also vanished.
In November 2001,
pickton stopped on the corner of main
and Hastings to talk to 26-year-old Mona Wilson.
He offered her free dope and booze if she came out
to the farm with him.
When they arrived pickton led Mona
to a camper Van behind the barn.
They had sex, then argued.
Pickton pulled out a .22 calibre revolver
and shot her in the head.
(Gunshot fires)
He took her body and dumped her in a trash can.
(Intense music)
When the police finally realised
that there could be a problem here
and they began looking for possible suspects,
including pickton.
As bad as this was in the beginning,
they eventually did a really good job
on trying to piece the bits
and pieces together once it became confirmed
that we actually had a series of murders.
On February 1, 2002,
the missing women's task force caught a break,
a truck driver who had worked on the pickton farm
told the police there was an illegal firearm
in Willy pickton's trailer.
A search warrant was quickly obtained,
and a young rookie policeman turned up
on the farm unannounced.
He got into pickton's trailer with the search warrant
and came across very quickly, not guns,
but identification with women's names on them.
They radioed the missing women taskforce
who just immediately said,
"get off the property, shut it down.
"Control the scene but don't...
"Don't spend one more minute inside that trailer."
In Canadian law you can't go on a fishing trip
on someone's property.
If your purpose is to be there to find a handgun,
you can't all of a sudden take a serial killer investigation
and run with it.
You have to back out
and get a proper warrant specific to what you found.
A new warrant was obtained, and detectives entered the trailer.
They found identification with women's names on it,
transit cards, notebooks with women's names on it.
They found garbage bags full of women's clothes
in a closet in his trailer.
His trailer was just literally strewn
with the personal effects of women.
Within a few days on February 5, 2002,
the pickton pig farm
became the largest crime scene in Canadian history.
Robert Willy pickton was detained
and brought in for questioning by the police,
while a search of the farm got underway.
The discovery of all those remains
all over the place must have been truly horrifying.
I can't believe that the officers
who actually searched
could have thought that they were going to be dealing
with someone who had killed on this kind of scale.
..What girls you remember...
Have ever been out to your place?
I don't know.
There's so many people coming in and out of my place,
I don't know.
Has she ever been to your place?
Her name's Mona.
She's pretty, that's all I gotta say.
Pickton told the police nothing, so they changed tactics.
Pickton is put into a cell
while on remand with an undercover policeman
and proceeds to brag about what he's done.
He's prompted by the undercover officer.
Pickton's jail cell confession to the murder
of 49 women had to be corroborated with hard evidence.
Forensic investigators continued meticulously searching the pig farm.
By February 22, 2002,
there was enough evidence to identify remains
of Mona Wilson and Serena abbotsway.
Pickton was charged with their murders.
Two months later another five counts of murder were added.
The Canadian police forces spent $70 million Canadian dollars
on searching the farm.
They had archaeological experts, more than 100.
They dug a huge area.
All it did was to confirm what they by then already knew,
that pickton was killing on an industrial scale.
On march 11, 2004,
Canadian health officials made a shocking statement.
As a result of information that we recently received from the rcmp,
we have reason to believe that there is a strong possibility
that some of the product from the pickton farms
and how much the rcmp do not know,
may still be sitting in some people's freezers
in the lower mainland.
Cross contamination could mean that that human remains
did get into or contaminate some of the pork meat that was produced.
After 22 months the forensic investigation
of the pig farm revealed identifiable remains
of 20 more women.
Pickton was charged with 27 counts of first-degree murder.
The trial began on January 2, 2007,
with pickton pleading his innocence.
You know, the trial judge had a very fine line to walk here.
He didn't want to allow any evidence that was going to permit Canada's
worst serial killer to walk.
So, he had to find a way
that he was going to be able to avoid future appeals,
to not have charges thrown out.
The judge reached an agreement
with pickton's defence team to sever the charges
and split the trial into two.
The first trial would focus on the six women
where fully identifiable remains had been found.
The second trial would focus on the 20 women
where only partial evidence was available.
One count of murder was dismissed.
One of the witnesses for the prosecution
was pickton's former friend, Lynn ellingsen.
Who said she walked
into the slaughterhouse late one night
and testified that she saw what appeared to be a human body
on the slaughterhouse table.
It was very chilling testimony in the trial.
That was, I'm sure,
very important for the jurors to hear.
On December 9, 2007,
after a very long trail,
the jury return
a very interesting verdict.
They find pickton not guilty of first-degree murder
but guilty of second-degree murder.
Now, I've always wondered whether or not
that jury felt that pickton was not working alone,
that that was the reason they didn't convict him
of first-degree murder because he ticked every single box.
Pickton was sentenced to life in prison
to serve 25 years without the possibility of parole.
The supreme court of Canada denied his right to appeal,
and the government of British Columbia made the decision
not to proceed with the remaining 20 counts
of first-degree murder.
Logically, it made sense.
But I can tell you emotionally,
it was devastating to the families of those 20 people who,
for years, generations, felt ignored by the justice system.
They felt ignored by police,
that no one believed them
when they said that their loved ones were missing.
And they just didn't get that day in court.
He did it because he could get away with it.
He did it because he worked out a way
of dealing with the bodies.
This is a man who deserves nothing but contempt.
There is nothing about Willy pickton that is admirable
and there is everything that is despicable.
Marnie frey was one of the six women
whose remains were fully identified.
I never liked the word closure
because there is no such thing as closure,
but we had to have like a ceremony just to say that,
you know, the searching for her has come to an end and.
It was kind of a sad kind of a thing,
but it was something we felt we should we...
Should do.
Robert pickton was a monster,
preying on women who lived on the fringes of society.
He exploited their desperation to fulfil his own sick desires.
How many women died or how they died
on that pig farm is still unknown,
the only man with the answers is Robert pickton,
one of the world's most evil killers.
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