kiara
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posted on January 29, 2004 12:39:08 PM new
This story has been very high profile here for almost two years now but mostly mentioned by tabloid TV in the US until now when CNN has brought it to everyone's attention.
Many sex trade workers have gone missing from the streets of Vancouver and remains were found on a 10 acre pig farm not too far from there.
These women were invited to parties at the farm and there have been rumors that the women were killed and then fed to the pigs. The search continues.
Pickton, 53, is officially charged with 15 counts of first-degree murder, and prosecutors have told the court that seven more counts are ready to be filed. Police allege he is the deadliest serial killer in Canadian history.
Investigators appealed for help identifying the remains of the three women whose names remain a mystery. Police have collected DNA from relatives of 64 of 65 women known to be missing to help identify remains found at Pickton's property.
http://edition.cnn.com/2004/WORLD/americas/01/28/pig.farm.murders.reut/
This link shows pictures of some of the women that have been identified.
http://www.missingpeople.net/pig_farm_killings.htm
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Twelvepole
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posted on January 29, 2004 12:40:32 PM new
Wow and in BC no less...
AIN'T LIFE GRAND... 
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bunnicula
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posted on January 29, 2004 05:39:06 PM new
Shades of "Hannibal"!!!
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Censorship, like charity, should begin at home; but unlike charity, it should end there --Clare Booth Luce
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Helenjw
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posted on January 29, 2004 05:50:12 PM new
Shades of hannibal
In kd and kiara's canada!
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plsmith
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posted on January 29, 2004 05:58:04 PM new
I remember when this gruesome news first became public. Right from the start the fact that a pig farmer had been arrested for the murders made it worse. The way my mind is wired-up, you see, I could not read about Pickton without replaying in my mind the most shocking scene from the movie, "Deliverance".
I'm sorry that Canada won't be able to do more than house, feed, and clothe this monster for the rest of his life...
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ebayauctionguy
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posted on January 29, 2004 06:00:29 PM new
That mad cow disease must be spreading around up there in Canada.
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gravid
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posted on January 29, 2004 06:16:19 PM new
Wow- And I assume he managed to do this without a handgun?
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kraftdinner
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posted on January 29, 2004 06:56:11 PM new
Wise guys.
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Fenix03
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posted on January 29, 2004 08:25:22 PM new
Pat - I wonder what the first thing we thought of means. You thought of Deliverance. I thought of Snatch where the organized crime boss kept a pen of pigs tht he fed his enemies to.
...that and a report I read about a lawsuit against a movie studio that was shooting in Vancouver that wanted the prostitutes and panhandlers that normally used the location they were shooting at for work to be compensated for lost wages.
Krafty - It is a horrible story. Please don't think I am minimalizing it. My mind usually goes in 5 different directions at once. Thank you for the link.
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If it's really "common" sense, why do so few people actually have it?
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plsmith
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posted on January 29, 2004 08:52:11 PM new
Fenix, I never saw (or even heard of) "Snatch" and my exposure to pigs (outside this chatboard) has been rather limited. "Charlotte's Web" (Wilbur) hardly seemed applicable; the heinousness of that scene in "Deliverance" and its reference to pigs sprang up without any coaxing whatsoever. Perhaps it says something about the universality of evil, and has very little to do with swine...
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Helenjw
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posted on January 29, 2004 08:57:33 PM new
LOL!
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kiara
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posted on January 29, 2004 09:00:17 PM new
I remember the night that this story first broke on the news. I just happened to be eating pork chops for dinner. I seldom eat them but they were those thin faster frying ones.
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trai
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posted on January 29, 2004 09:04:06 PM new
LOL, now thats funny.
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kiara
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posted on January 29, 2004 11:43:23 PM new
I didn't write that to be funny, trai. I just found it strange as I seldom eat any pork.
What's sad about this case is that some women had reported to the police about different things that had happened at "Piggy's Palace" and they weren't taken seriously because they were prostitutes and the killings continued.
We were discussing the homeless and street people here a few weeks ago. This is an example of how one or more of them can just disappear and no one looks for them. Some of these women had young children too.
It makes me wonder if Willy Picton did all the murders himself or if there were others involved or some that knew what he was doing.
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Fenix03
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posted on January 30, 2004 01:19:21 AM new
Prostitues seem to all too often be the victims of serial killers. Look at the Green River Killer and the Hillside Stranglers, Dayton Leroy Rogers, just to name a few.
They are easy victims. They willingly get into a strangers car and end up at the persons mercy. They are often rarely reported missing because they have no or are estranged from their families.
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If it's really "common" sense, why do so few people actually have it?
[ edited by Fenix03 on Jan 30, 2004 01:43 AM ]
[ edited by Fenix03 on Jan 30, 2004 01:49 AM ]
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