Weekly Roundup: Dec 14, 2K7

Welcome to another NowPublic weekly roundup. This week:The Ice Storm, with our very own Sigourney Weaver (PEP)Turmoil in Algeria, translatedRobert Pickton: guiltyNinja: stealthyTop ten listsNew media interface for...

Quiet Worm

I moved to Vancouver in 2000. More than 60 women in my new town had been disappearing for two decades and the sh*t was just about to hit the fan. One day the morning papers splashed ugly mug shots of some of the...

Pickton: No chance of parole for 25 years

Serial killer Robert Pickton has been sentenced to life in prison without the chance of parole for 25 years for the second-degree murders of six women from Vancouver's Downtown Eastside. "Justice James Williams made the sentencing decision in a New Westminster court after...

Robert Pickton: Serial Killer Found Guilty

Verdicts:Guilty of all six counts of 2nd-degree murders of Sereena Abotsway, Mona Wilson, Georgina Papin, Brenda Wolfe, Marnie Frey,and Andrea Joesbury. He will receive concurrent life sentences.The only question...

DTES: "Disposable Meat" for a Hungry Clientlele

Vancouver's Downtown Eastside (DTES) and the social commentaries from the DTES Ladies of the Evening on the Willie Pickton Murder Trial.  "VANCOUVER, B.C. -- The shadow of Willie Pickton still looms over this...

Canada's Notorious Serial Killer's Trial Coming To A Close.

If ever a case for Capital Punishment, Wally PIckton deserves it many times over. I hesitate to comment further, as I do not believe the man deserves publicity in any form."t long last, the final stage begins in the...

At Alleged Site of Slayings, Cows Show up to Keep Property Taxes Down

by Linda Solomon for The Vancouver ObserverAt a card club in Coquitlam,  players were talking last week about the small herd of cows that had just showed up on  the Pickton Pig  Farm,  the alleged...

America's Most Wanted airs segment on downtown eastside missing women

AMW came to Vancouver in 1999 to film a segment on Vancouver's eastside missing women. John Walsh, the host said it was obvious a serial killer or killers were behind the disappearances of over 30 missing women....

Writing The Pickton File

Stevie Cameron, author of The Pickton File, is one of Canada's leading investigative journalists. Formerly the editor of Elm Street magazine and leading columnist for The Globe And Mail, Cameron turned her attention...

Being First Nations In A White World

Court these days has involved extensive testimony of expert witnesses and the evidence being marked and documented in court. I think the hardest thing to listen to was the discovery of the body parts. Imagining it made me nauseous. I imagine a bullet hit the back of their...

Canada's worst serial killer trial has disappeared from the news

Some Canadian journalists have begun to wonder why the most notorious serial killer trial has nearly disappeared from the all news budgets. I was alerted to this through a listserv frequented by Canadian...

Human remains found on Pickton’s pig farm, Crown tells jury

Neal Hall and Lori Culbert, CanWest News Service Warning: The following story contains graphic details and may not be suitable for some readers VANCOUVER — A police search of Robert (Willie) Pickton’s farm found the gruesome remains of seven women who were allegedly...

Pig farmer admitted killing 49 women, say prosecutors

"A Canadian pig farmer on trial for killing dozens of women and feeding them to his animals told police that he was planning one final murder to bring his tally to an “even 50”, the prosecutor said. At the start of what promises to be a gory year-long trial, Derrill...

Pig farmer accused of being Canada's worst serial killer pleads not guilty

"A pig farmer alleged to be Canada's worst serial killer has pleaded not guilty to charges of murdering women from Vancouver's seediest streets. In court today, Robert "Willie" Pickton, who is accused in the deaths of at least 26 women, softly said "not guilty" as each of the...

Vancouver woman found alive after 27 years

Her name is Wendy Louise Allen, and she has been found alive and living under an assumed name in Ontario.Vancouver Police were convinced she was one of the many women they thought had been killed by Robert "Willie" Pickton, who is charged in the murders of 26 women."The...

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