bloodrayne
02-16-2005, 01:08 PM
'Pig Farm' Serial Murder Case - Trial Could Be Delayed Until 2006
Canada - The man at the center of Canada's largest serial murder inquiry could have his trial postponed until 2006.
The notorious 'Pig Farm' case has focused the world's media. The remains of fifteen women have been found at a Canadian farm and the man who owned it now stands accused of being a prolific serial killer.
Fifty-five-year-old Robert Pickton has already been charged with murdering twenty-two women, most of whom were connected with Vancouver's sex trade.
The suspected serial murderer has been in custody since his arrest in February 2002. His fifteen-acre former property has been exhaustively scoured by investigators for the last eighteen months.
After an earlier visit to Port Coquitlam Farm, when Pickton had come to the attention of police in 1997 and was charged with attempted murder - which was later dropped through lack of evidence - police returned to further search the farm. On this occasion they uncovered DNA evidence matching that of a missing local woman. Pickton was arrested on February 22 2002 and charged with two counts of first-degree murder. Three months later three more charges were added, and shortly after that a sixth and seventh. In October 2002, four more charges were added, bringing the total to fifteen.
Police had faced considerable difficulties in identifying some of the remains. Due largely to the transient lifestyle of a number of the victims and the forensic investigation being severely hampered by the advanced decomposition of the remains, which had been exposed to insect activity and partially consumed by pigs.
"We believe that these DNA profiles belong to women who are missing but not yet reported missing to police," said Vancouver police spokeswoman Sheila Sullivan.
Investigators have been working through a list which currently includes sixty-nine names of prostitutes who have disappeared from the Vancouver area over the past two decades.
After more than a year searching Pickton's sprawling farm, police had expanded their investigation in July 2003 to include a roadside marsh in Mission, British Columbia. The task was to involve more than fifty anthropologists and two soil sifters.
It has been ascertained that nearly all the women whose remains have been recovered were linked to vice and narcotics in Vancouver's impoverished downtown 'Eastside' neighbourhood.
Parelleled by the incredible time-span of the murders committed by sadistic serial killer, Frederick West, it has been established that the women in this case disappeared over a period of twenty-five years.
In 2001 a police task force was implemented to investigate the disappearances. Some of the women have been missing since the early 1980s.
Up until the formation of the task force it seems little attention had been payed to the missing women. Police have been criticised by relatives of the dead or missing for not taking their concerns seriously a lot earlier.
The search for the dead has been as painstaking and meticulous as with any private serial killer burial ground thus far uncovered. We have seen it in the snow-covered Des Plaines, Illinois suburb of unincorporated Norwood Park Township, after John Wayne Gacy's arrest. Officers exhumed twenty-nine bodies - all young males - from the portly building contractor's crawlspace. Four more of Gacy's victims had been dumped in the Des Plaines River when the killer's macabre cemetery under his home, was full.
We saw it in the British west country, in Gloucestershire in 1994 when 25 Cromwell Street was taken to pieces. A total of nine bodies were recovered from beneath the cellar floor, patio and back garden of Fred and Rosemary West's home, with still more remains to be unearthed from fields and the couple's previous residence.
Dean Corll's boatshed in Houston, Texas: 27 bodies, young men and boys, all sexually tortured, as with Gacy and West. The grim list goes on.
Investigators have spent nearly two years scouring Robert Pickton's farm, pulling down buildings brick by brick and sifting through tons of soil and debris.
The Pickton case is now the largest serial killer investigation in Canadian history. With the only comparable precedent being that of homicidal paedophile, Clifford Olson, who was convicted in 1982 of murdering eleven children in British Columbia.
A trial date for Pickton has yet to be set. Preliminary hearings were expected to begin in September, though delays could see it as late as 2006. 'The New Criminologist' will be watching.
Pickton is charged with first-degree murder in the deaths of fifteen women though he has been linked with dozens of other disappearances. It is expected that he will be charged with the murder of seven more women, whose identities have not yet been established. Those identified are:
Mona Wilson, 26 when she was last seen in November 2001.
Sereena Abotsway, 29 when she disappeared in August 2001.
Jacqueline McDonell, 23 when she was last seen in January 1999.
Diane Rock, 34 when last seen in October 2001.
Heather Bottomley, 25 when she disappeared in April 2001.
Andrea Joesbury, 22 when last seen in June 2001.
Brenda Wolfe, 32 when last seen in February 1999.
Georgina Papin, last seen in 1999.
Jennifer Furminger, last seen in 1999.
Helen Hallmark, last seen in 1997.
Patricia Johnson, last seen in March 2001.
Heather Chinnock, 30 when last seen in April 2001.
Tanya Holyk, 23 when last seen in October 1996.
Sherry Irving, 24 when last seen in 1997.
Inga Hall, 46 when last seen in February 1998.
Like somethinmg straight out of a horror movie, huh?...From the setting...
Down On The Farm:
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v69/BloodRayne/Pig20Farm.jpg
To the main character...
Robert Pickton:
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v69/BloodRayne/picton1.jpg
Almost stereotypical...
Canada - The man at the center of Canada's largest serial murder inquiry could have his trial postponed until 2006.
The notorious 'Pig Farm' case has focused the world's media. The remains of fifteen women have been found at a Canadian farm and the man who owned it now stands accused of being a prolific serial killer.
Fifty-five-year-old Robert Pickton has already been charged with murdering twenty-two women, most of whom were connected with Vancouver's sex trade.
The suspected serial murderer has been in custody since his arrest in February 2002. His fifteen-acre former property has been exhaustively scoured by investigators for the last eighteen months.
After an earlier visit to Port Coquitlam Farm, when Pickton had come to the attention of police in 1997 and was charged with attempted murder - which was later dropped through lack of evidence - police returned to further search the farm. On this occasion they uncovered DNA evidence matching that of a missing local woman. Pickton was arrested on February 22 2002 and charged with two counts of first-degree murder. Three months later three more charges were added, and shortly after that a sixth and seventh. In October 2002, four more charges were added, bringing the total to fifteen.
Police had faced considerable difficulties in identifying some of the remains. Due largely to the transient lifestyle of a number of the victims and the forensic investigation being severely hampered by the advanced decomposition of the remains, which had been exposed to insect activity and partially consumed by pigs.
"We believe that these DNA profiles belong to women who are missing but not yet reported missing to police," said Vancouver police spokeswoman Sheila Sullivan.
Investigators have been working through a list which currently includes sixty-nine names of prostitutes who have disappeared from the Vancouver area over the past two decades.
After more than a year searching Pickton's sprawling farm, police had expanded their investigation in July 2003 to include a roadside marsh in Mission, British Columbia. The task was to involve more than fifty anthropologists and two soil sifters.
It has been ascertained that nearly all the women whose remains have been recovered were linked to vice and narcotics in Vancouver's impoverished downtown 'Eastside' neighbourhood.
Parelleled by the incredible time-span of the murders committed by sadistic serial killer, Frederick West, it has been established that the women in this case disappeared over a period of twenty-five years.
In 2001 a police task force was implemented to investigate the disappearances. Some of the women have been missing since the early 1980s.
Up until the formation of the task force it seems little attention had been payed to the missing women. Police have been criticised by relatives of the dead or missing for not taking their concerns seriously a lot earlier.
The search for the dead has been as painstaking and meticulous as with any private serial killer burial ground thus far uncovered. We have seen it in the snow-covered Des Plaines, Illinois suburb of unincorporated Norwood Park Township, after John Wayne Gacy's arrest. Officers exhumed twenty-nine bodies - all young males - from the portly building contractor's crawlspace. Four more of Gacy's victims had been dumped in the Des Plaines River when the killer's macabre cemetery under his home, was full.
We saw it in the British west country, in Gloucestershire in 1994 when 25 Cromwell Street was taken to pieces. A total of nine bodies were recovered from beneath the cellar floor, patio and back garden of Fred and Rosemary West's home, with still more remains to be unearthed from fields and the couple's previous residence.
Dean Corll's boatshed in Houston, Texas: 27 bodies, young men and boys, all sexually tortured, as with Gacy and West. The grim list goes on.
Investigators have spent nearly two years scouring Robert Pickton's farm, pulling down buildings brick by brick and sifting through tons of soil and debris.
The Pickton case is now the largest serial killer investigation in Canadian history. With the only comparable precedent being that of homicidal paedophile, Clifford Olson, who was convicted in 1982 of murdering eleven children in British Columbia.
A trial date for Pickton has yet to be set. Preliminary hearings were expected to begin in September, though delays could see it as late as 2006. 'The New Criminologist' will be watching.
Pickton is charged with first-degree murder in the deaths of fifteen women though he has been linked with dozens of other disappearances. It is expected that he will be charged with the murder of seven more women, whose identities have not yet been established. Those identified are:
Mona Wilson, 26 when she was last seen in November 2001.
Sereena Abotsway, 29 when she disappeared in August 2001.
Jacqueline McDonell, 23 when she was last seen in January 1999.
Diane Rock, 34 when last seen in October 2001.
Heather Bottomley, 25 when she disappeared in April 2001.
Andrea Joesbury, 22 when last seen in June 2001.
Brenda Wolfe, 32 when last seen in February 1999.
Georgina Papin, last seen in 1999.
Jennifer Furminger, last seen in 1999.
Helen Hallmark, last seen in 1997.
Patricia Johnson, last seen in March 2001.
Heather Chinnock, 30 when last seen in April 2001.
Tanya Holyk, 23 when last seen in October 1996.
Sherry Irving, 24 when last seen in 1997.
Inga Hall, 46 when last seen in February 1998.
Like somethinmg straight out of a horror movie, huh?...From the setting...
Down On The Farm:
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v69/BloodRayne/Pig20Farm.jpg
To the main character...
Robert Pickton:
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v69/BloodRayne/picton1.jpg
Almost stereotypical...