Writing The Pickton File

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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 away from politics and white collar crime in 2002 when the case of Vancouver's missing women took its own turn with the arrest of Robert "Willie" Pickton. Horrified by the lack of attention case had received, she didn't hesitate when Knopf Canada asked her to write a book about Vancouver's missing women.

For the next five years, Toronto-native Cameron would adopt Vancouver as her western home, immersing herself in the underbelly of society from which the women disappeared. Cameron says while the legal aspects of the case are fascinating, The Pickton File is really about the women themselves and what it was like to investigate the cracks they fell through. Here, Cameron tells Orato about her discoveries and the journey that culminated in The Pickton File...a journey that is still unfolding as the Pickton trial drags on.

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