Due to the graphic nature of this killers crimes listener discretion is advised this episode in moods discussions of murder, rape, assault, cannibalism and cruelty to animals that some people may find offensive. We advise extreme caution for children under thirteen. It wasn't a date, but the Red headed former seem to wish was he had greeted the young journalist a little too warmly as he took a seat across from her. His smell hit her like a slap in the face. In her words, it was like, if metal brought. The farmer was also an amateur photographer and she had agreed to meet him too

Consider some of his photographs for a newspaper story, a decision the journalist was beginning to regret. There was something unsettling about the way he smirk Jesse revealed each photograph and turn some of the photographs were individual. Portraits others were candid group shots. The subjects were all women, many war lost vacant expressions, the young reporter grew nervous, the man smell was overwhelming and she couldn't shake a sense that something was off She tried to extract herself from the conversation by selecting two photographs she liked, but the farmer kept pressuring her to visit his farm for barbecue. He raised the best pork and Canada. He insisted she just had Try it when she finally insisted upon leaving the cafe he followed her when she went across.

Town, to a diner. The farmer circled the block in his car. It took hours and across bus ride in the wrong direction before she could be sure she lost him. It took fourteen years before she learned how narrowly she escaped the most prolific serial killer and canadian history and that the pork he offered her might have been the ground up flash of his victims, I I'm Gregg pulsing. This is serial killers, a park ass original every Monday we dive into the minds and madness of serial killers.

Today's are second and final episode on Robert Willie Picton. The canadian pig farmer who prayed for decades on downtown Vancouver is most vulnerable women. I'm here with my co host Vanessa Richardson high everyone I parkhurst weird grateful for you are listeners. You allow us to do what we love. Let us know how we're doing reach out on Facebook and Instagram at PAR cast and twitter at PAR cast network, and if you enjoy today's episode, the best way to help us is to leave a five star review where every listening it really does help. We also now have merchandise, had departed ass, dot com, slash, merge for more info nation. Officially Robert Willie Picton began killing and ninety ninety one and continued until he was captured by police in two thousand to, but he suspected of and takes credit for murders that happened as early

as one thousand nine hundred and seventy nine. Last week we delved into Willie Pickton tumultuous childhood of his family's been Cooper PIG Farm. We also cover the rash of disappearing sex workers. Area and police reluctance to investigate what are now believed to be some of Willie's earliest crimes. This week will wrap up our deep dive into the killing sprit of Willie pick and follow the outrageous circumstances that allowed him to operate undetected. Four years will also invest. Eight, the salacious rumour, that some of the meat leaving depict in farm, was locally sourced human Picton Boys Willie and his older brother David were notorious in Vancouver Colombia throughout the Eightys and Ninetys. They ran with biker gangs, operated a chop shop and through huge parties on the Picton PIG Farm where drugs and alcohol flowed freely. There was

David, who really love to party but Willie, was always in attendance at davits Rangers Billy was also a regular at another, near by social, seen, the downtown EAST side, known as the see. The underbelly of Vancouver were a social crisis that last more than three decades was brewing. It's unclear when Willy Pickton began visiting sex workers, although investigators believe it could be as early as one thousand nine hundred and seventy five when Willy twenty six. He likely started seeing sex workers because he had little success with women going. The old fashioned route has recovered last week. Will he wasn't introvert who'd largely cup to himself? He was bullied ass, a child and largely friendless, the only close relations should be really had was with his domineering mother Louise, when we he was twenty nine. Louise grew, sick and frail Willie took care of her changing her diaper and feeding her.

Till she finally passed away later that year in nineteen. Seventy eight sex workers began disappear. Ring from the downtown he sighed shortly after in nineteen seventy nine many police officers and psychologists speculate. The two events are related. Venus is going to take over the psychology here. Just reminder: she's, not a licence psychologist your psychiatrist, but she has done a lot of research for the show, thanks Gregg according to psychologist tamarind, the Clinton Greensburg. It can be a traumatic experience to become a caregiver for one's own parent oftentimes. There Reversal brings up a myriad of experiences from childhood, especially the or traumatic and haunting memories were in the child, felt they had no control for Willie. This could have been constant. Remit.

There is of Louis is verbal and emotional abuse and overall feelings of powerlessness when he was bullied at school, really was not particularly bright and didn't. Have the resources to deal with the complex emotions he was likely experience while caring for his dying mother. This new wave of helplessness might have coastline to seize power. However, he could, in other words, really living trauma might have been the thing that finally made him snap and then escalate to killing the women he paid for sex. Unfortunately, this is where Willie story gets murky between nineteen. Seventy, nine and two thousand to sixty two sex workers went missing from the downtown east side. Willie has alluded to having killed forty nine of them, but he has never identified any victims,

the rest is largely guesswork, although police are fairly certain about a few dozen disappearances being Willie's handiwork for the first of these is Laura MA who was reported missing in August nineteen. Eighty five. She was forty two years like many women living in the downtown east side, area, MA was an indigenous Canadian in Canada. Members of it genus tribes are referred to as aboriginal Canadians or first nations. People average women in Canada suffer from widespread poverty, heightened rates of duty, stick and sexual violence and a lack of educational opportunity in two thousand nine them sing. Women task force would track me down and determine that she was not one of Pickens victims, but it is still worth noting that for twenty four years, on the basis of no evidence other than her ethnicity engender. Mom was classified

by police as a probable sex worker and attic her face appeared on post listing missing drug users when her love sons protested that Laura had never use drugs. They were pointedly ignored by Vancouver police In March of nineteen. Eighty six twin one year old, sex worker Elaine Alan back also vanished from the downtown east side. In July of nineteen, eighty eight to rest an Williams followed. A chunk of human leg. Bone founded upon the same year was later identified as caresses there Four year old, Elaine DUMBO was the next sex workers to vanish in nineteen, eighty nine in August of the same year. Ingrid suit followed her, although she was not a cent worker or attic Ingrid lived with a serious mental illness. Like the other victims, she was stigmatized and therefore uniquely vulnerable

At this point, one might assume that the Vancouver police force would be in an all out panic over growing number of missing sex workers, but that was far from the case. Police maintain that these women led high risk lifestyles and would show up eventually, meanwhile, sex workers crowded in the shelters where they lived and whispered about a serial killer, stalking, Vancouver streets. It became commonplace for women to muse I'm next. If I don't come back tonight, He got me Vancouver sex worker community rallied for police action on the cases of their missing friends, but they were rebuffed at every turn. The Vancouver police. Departments missing persons unit often refused to even take reports of missing sex workers. The prevailing believe among law enforcement at the time was that missing sex workers were probably just on lengthy drug benches or had moved out of town in search of new customers. This prejudice

and continued, even after the arrest of serial killer, Gilbert Paul Jordan, who preyed on native sex workers from nineteen sixty five to nineteen. Eighty eight Ben Cooper police had a pet term for his victims. Jordan s In February of ninety ninety one local sex work hers and their allies held a remember its walk that double does a protest against police inaction. Thankfully it got the attention of the room we'll Canadian mounted police, the mounties created a special team called project eclipse to aid the and Coover police in investigating the women's disappearances, while the Marty's continued in stating in August of ninety ninety one another woman vanished Nancy Clark was twenty five when she disappeared on her older daughters, eighth birth. The Nancy's younger daughter was just eight months. Old

you never would have voluntarily left her girls for loving family told police Nancy. It stopped working the streets for two weeks after she heard about a possible serial killer in the area, but desperate for cash. She returned to her usual sex work schedule on October 23rd, one thousand nine hundred and ninety one project a lips Victoria Police, the eclipse team believed that at least one serial killer was operating on the downtown east side, and there might be as many as two or three they consulted. Five additional profile is all of whom corroborated this belief, criminal profiling was relatively new at the time the Vancouver police didn't think much of the concept they ignored. The Arcy MP profiles, saying Vancouver

didn't have the resources to investigate a serial killer anyway, project eclipse ended with no action taken by the Vancouver Police Department, Willie Picture and, on the other hand, was keeping himself busy. Here. Is older brother David, expanded their farming operation into cock, fighting a brutal practice illegal in Canada. Cock flights were big business for the pittance. Hundreds of people showed up to and drunkenly carouse after the fights in North America, conk fighting is generally viewed as animal abuse. According to the jury, of veterinary pathology quote there. Overwhelming evidence that when animals are abused, people are at risk when people are abused. Animals are at risk, in other words whether they start there. Pattern of abuse with humans or with animals. Violently abusive people tend to harm both a too

thousand and nine study in the Journal of Interpersonal violence, found that about sixty percent of people, who reported witnessing cruelty to animals in their childhood homes also witness child abuse. Or domestic violence Willie had witnessed both as a child. And was now facilitating cock fighting parties as an adult life from the floor. Wasn't all drinking and gambling. The brothers still try to run a legitimate butchering business despite decades of daily practice. Willie never really got the hang of butchering pigs or cattle because of Willie's poor technique. Much of the meat produced by the Picton PIG Farm had an unpleasant stringy texture and grayish color Dave's girlfriend described the ground meat will he gave her as like eating a plate full of earthworms. He also gained a reputation locally for buying sick and diseased animals, but other people wouldn't which her it's unclear, why he felt

to this practice, but it almost certainly affected the quality of the meat. On one occasion, Willie offered a pork roast to some heavy equipment operators working on the farm when they took it home to cook for dinner. They found that the meat was ran, said guests, familiar with Willie's butchery orphan, refused to anything that came from the huge freezers where Willie kept meat to sell. When the Picton boys through parties, they started roasting whole pigs or baby goats for their guests. That way, Willie only headache he'll be animals, but carved them up into cuts of meat. Despite being alone are by nature. Willie seems of genuinely enjoyed throwing parties and showing off his farm just so

long as nobody entered his private spaces uninvited. It was one of the few things that could set Willie into a rage locals thought of Willie as a friendly host, albeit a bit of an oddball. Additionally, he garnered a reputation as a skilled mechanic. Bikers and professional drivers would bring him their broken down vehicles and would soon be back on the road he could fix just about any at a fraction of the cost. Willie Picton also had one ongoing, close friendship with a woman. Her name was Lee so yells and she first met Willie in nineteen sixty two when she was five years old LISA who was born to a white Father and chinese mother, was abandoned by her parents as a small child and raised by whenever chinese grandparents. She was a sad lonesome child with few friends,

because at each five she remembers visiting the picked in families farm, so her grandparents could purchase Meet Willie, then aged thirteen I noticed the small sad girl and gave her a sack of hot dogs to take home. It was an act of kindness that she remembered nearly thirty years later when she next saw him. Lisa was, by that point, a hardened biker with a deep distaste for the police LISA reconnected with William the early. Ninety nineties, after her son became friends with Willie's nephew. The boys were drinking and driving together, while under age in Nepal LISA called Willie. He found the two teens returned them home safely and endeared himself to his childhood friend all over again Willie, wasn't everybody's type, but neither was LISA. She was foul mouthed, hard

thinking and a chain smoker. She had no fear of any of the works that made Willie and unappealing friend to most, if he stank as ya did she ordered him to shower his occupation. Didn't care so any concern. In fact, she often joined him. Slaughterhouse, while he killed animals, she chopped the meat. There was no sexual relationship between William LISA. They sometimes cuddled together in bed, but it never win any farther than that. Nevertheless, friendship with LISA yelled was probably the closest thing really ever had to love. There were other, women. He had ongoing relationships with include A woman named Tanya, who was for a time his roommate, but none of the others entered the barn to help him slaughter his livestock. Although an unfortunate few, we discover what he was really doing with his meat writer,

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provided by the royal Canadian mounted police investigated. The disappear says of women under downtown east side, but their findings adjusting a serial killer was active in the area were ignored after the failure of project eclipse to provoke any action from Vancouver police. The mounties backed off but in nineteen. Ninety two, the missing women crisis resurfaced thanks to the efforts of dedicated journalists in the area. This time the police Warren to be allowed to overlook it. On June, ninety. Ninety two Kathleen widely vanished. She was thirty, nine unknown to the police after her send a rest for soliciting an undercover officer. Kathleen was black five feet, two inches tall and known for her plucky disposition.

Like most of the other missing women. She was a drug user on October, sixteenth. Ninety ninety two forty year old Elsie Sebastian was next to just here she was a member of the budget at first nation and had for adult children who loved her dearly. Despite her ongoing struggle with addiction, They asked over and over four Vancouver police to list Elsie S a missing person, but were told quote forty year old native women. Don't go missing on April fifteenth one. Ninety three Teresa Luis trip disappeared. She was thirty one. She was small weighing just one hundred eleven pounds very little. Is known about her life or the circumstances of her disappearance. She was the fifteenth woman to disappear from the downtown each side since nineteen? Seventy nine? Sixteen was Lee Minor, who failed to come home for Christmas and ninety ninety three

it was reported missing. In February of nineteen. Ninety four seventeenth on August, nine heat of ninety. Ninety four was set ten year old, Angela Arsenal who boarded a bus after a day with her boyfriend in downtown Vancouver and was never seen again. Vancouver police were under pressure once again from the community. It was getting harder and harder to ignore the disappearances of these women. Despite their stigmatized social positions, then Ninety ninety five five more women disappeared in one year, Catherine Gonzalez Catherine night Dorothy thence, Diana MEL Neck and a fifth woman whose skull found emission slow and never identified both cat friends came from large families, both survived abuse and wit, Stu alcoholism in their childhood homes, both became homeless, turning to sex work for survival, but both kept in close contact with

families phoning regularly until they disappeared nineteen. Ninety five Dorothy was a native women. Of nine children, remembered for her cooking skills and warm personality. She two's struggled with addiction, so did Diana a private school girl who grew up writing horses and listening to heavy metal, music, Dorothy and Diana grew up in strikingly different circumstances, but heroin brought them to the same place, and the city downtown east side. When Diana vanished. She had no idea. She just inherited a fortune. She would have found out about her share of her mother. Six million dollar estate had she attended her scheduled court hearing December twenty seventh nineteen. Ninety five She was a no show, and two days later, her family reported her missing these

me too, women are still suspected of being among Willie Pickens first victims. Until this point he had kept off police radar. Although interesting me, it was a series of four unrelated murders, the finally put police attention, Unwilling Picton in ninety. Ninety five for sex workers were murdered under downtown east side. Their names were merry linger, Tracy Lodge a day, Victoria, Yunker and Tammy Pipe. Their deaths became known collectively as the valley murders. These vulnerable women had few friends in life, but in death they found a powerful lie Kim Pemberton a reporter with the Vancouver son who refuse to let the issue of the downtown east sides missing and murdered. Women fall out of the papers. Time and again, she confronted the Vancouver police about their lackadaisical attitude towards

a rash of disappearances and homicides Kim didn't make yourself popular with the police. She called them out publicly for their lack of care for murder, victims who had worked in the sex trade or use drugs, and finally, the Vancouver police were forced to begin investigating the possibility of a serial killer in the area, but they looked in all the wrong places, starting with Seattle, from nineteen eighty two until nineteen eighty four the Green River killer, murdered sex Girls in Seattle area, thanks police initially thought the same. Serial killer must have relocated to Vancouver to carry on his killing spree. The theory made some sense. Both murderers had a taste for sex workers and an early green river killer, suspect Gary Lee on Ridgeway, had been frequently seen and Bank Hoover. It's likely that Ridgeway, who later confess to being the Green River killer, was responsible for some of

disappearances and murders in Vancouver. But when early dna testing appeared to rule Ridgeway, Ouch has the Green River killer police for the first time turned to Willie picked in as a pulse, suspect. The Picton brothers were already well known as local troublemakers before Willie's name came up in connection with the valley, murders, they'd, never been suspected of murder before, but their loud parties in association with criminal biker gangs made them stand out two investigators, although he hated police Willie voluntarily. A dna samples to major crimes, investigators working out the valley, murders, it wasn't a match. After Willie, past nineteen. Ninety five dna test. He ceased to A priority for law enforcement. He was

formerly eliminated as a suspect, but the cops moved on to other leads and Willie feeling immune to prosecution. After escaping arrest moved on to newer crimes, the Picton brothers even seem to tie the public by finding a charitable organization in nineteen. Ninety six called the Piggy palace Good Times society its headquarters. The bar the men bought with proceeds from the sale of some land. It stated mission was to host and razors on behalf of worthy groups for the palaces Grand opening Willie shaved, which was a rarity in reality, the piggy palace good time. Society was more like a tax exempt venue for the usual Picton pig form, debauchery strippers, Hell's angels and even off duty police officers,

frequent in the huge parties thrown at the palace. Not only had the cops, let Willie off the hook for murder. They were now partying and drinking with him also in ninety. Ninety six three women disappeared from the downtown east side. Francis young Tanya, Marlowe Halleck and Bolivia Williams, when Tony S family tried to report her missing the Vancouver police replied, your daughter is just out having fun. Don't waste are I'm telling you sister called the missing persons department nonstop for the next two days until they finally agreed to take a report, but like the rest of the disappearances around that time, it was not investing many of the women who disappeared and ninety ninety five and ninety ninety six lived or had lived at the Vernon Rooms, a boy meeting house in Downtown east side that cater to sex workers. Willie Picton was

regular there. He was also known at the story: a hotel where slightly higher dollar sex workers ply their trade. That's where Tracy Brian first met Willie Picton. According to the book on the farm Robert, William gin and tragic story of Vancouver missing women he'd seen him in the area before the local sex workers talked about their clients and she'd heard of Willie nothing good, but nothing so terrible. We would make her think twice about accepting his money for sale. One day and ninety ninety six Willie Approach Tracy and asked her for oral sex. They agreed on a price of forty dollars and trace He got into Willie's truck the smell hit, Tracy like a runaway freight train, but trucks stank like dead animals like manure and like something else. She couldn't put an aim to. As of now wasn't disgusting enough when

Tracy and Willie got back to his trailer on the pig farm. It was so messy they couldn't even get into the bedroom. Tracy performed oral sex in Willie's cluttered kitchen then began getting ready to leave. Willie pulled on his pants and promise to drive her home. Suddenly Willie became angry he accused Tracy of stealing his wallet while his pants were down before she could defend herself or even flee. He was on her grabbing, her by the shirt collar in his hand, was a butcher's knife, its unclear, whether Willie, actually believe Tracy had taken his wallet police speculate that he would fabricate lies. It allowed him to work himself into a rage and attack the women in his trailer Tracy, struggling with everything she had. Finally, she broke free of lilies grip, but not before his sharp knife had cut tube

offer shirt. Tracy ran out of the trailer in fear for her life when Willie outside. After her he was no longer angry. He quietly asked Tracy they get into his truck. So he could bring her back to the downtown east side. She had no whether way to get home besides why King for many miles, so she agreed, as he drove Tracy Home Willie, told her that he liked to help young sex workers in withdrawal. He would find them on the street and take them home Willie was angry that so many of them went back to heroin after he tried to help them. Willie told Tracy. That advocates who relapsed quote don't deserve to, if Tracy herself was inadequate. Although Willie didn't know it she'd had

any relapses of her own. It made for a chilling ride back to the downtown each side. Tracy didn't bother to call the cops about the assault she knew. The Vancouver police would do nothing about the physical assaults of sex worker. She was just glad escaped with her life. She was one of very few women to see Willie's dark side and survive it. Most. Women who saw Willie's butcher knife found their lives ended like one of his pigs strung up on a meat hook in the barn. Around this time, Willie's closest friend LISA yelled moved away. She had been the only person besides Willie, who regularly set foot into the slaughterhouse without LISA. Looking over his shoulder, Willie was free to spend even more time attacking women and he was lonely, especially with a piggy palace, taking up more more updates time, leaving Willie to my farm day.

Had a bigger vision for the picked and family brand than a successful pig farm in a single bar. He didn't think much about his little brother left alone with the animals or what will might be doing with all his new found privacy on the night of March, twenty second nineteen. Ninety seven Willie drove to the downtown east side with sex. I his mind and something else too something that satisfied him in a way. Sex alone couldn't Willie found his target. Almost immediately Wendy Lynn ICE Tedder, a thirty year old woman addicted to heroin and cocaine. Wendy didn't want to go back to Willie's farm with them,

but he offered her one hundred dollars for oral sex. It was more than she was likely to make on the street in the downtown east side living with a two hundred dollar per day. Drug habit. Wendy didn't have the luxury of turning down that kind of cash she hopped into the filthy truck. She wanted to get high before having sex with the disgusting pig farmer. So Wendy asked Willie to stop at a gas station about two minutes from the farm. She said she had. Use the restroom, but will he refused to stop when they reached Willie's trailer? It was filthy inside just like it had been when Tracy was there, but this time there was a pathway through the junk just wide enough to reach the bedroom. Wendy followed Willie. He had no bed or blankets just a sleeping bag on the floor, but he paid in cash and agreed to use a condom. Small

Wendy and Willie have intercourse for about five minutes after the sex was over. When do you let herself into Willie's bathroom and try to shoot up on the toilet, but she was distracted and missed your vein wasting the drugs according to on the farm. When do you want me to call boyfriend stew, but Willie refuse to let her use his phone. He did allow Wendy to look at a phone book. Get the number of the Cordova rooms, the city, tell where she stayed with Stew, Willie promise to take Wendy to a gas station with a pie, found on the way home while Wendy was distracted by the phone book Willie slipped up behind her? He was holding one of his favorite tools, a pair of handcuffs surreptitiously. He coughed her left wrist. When Wendy turned and saw the eager hungry, look and will eyes she knew she was face to face with a kiss

It was a moment for fight or flight Wendy chose to fight. She bit kicked scratched punched and slapped, giving as good as she got with the handcuffs dangling from one rest. She edged backward into Willie's kitchen. There was a butcher knife on the kitchen table. Wendy got her hands on it, but in her state of panic, she accidentally grab dead by the blade with blood dripping firmer poem, Wendy slashed, Willie's, cheek slicing it open. He howl pain. They continue to struggle making their way out of the trailer as they tussled over the knife. Both Wendy and Willie were losing blood fast, Willie PIN Wendy against his truck she saw the knife in his hand. Then she saw

His eyes closed, really fainted from blood loss before he could deliver the final blow, but Wendy was badly weakened herself. He had slashed her belly, leaving her partially disavowed, but her will to live with strong Wendy dragged herself to her feet and ran from the farm leaving Willie to bleed into the dirt. When we returned Wendy's desperate cries for help echo on a deserted road, hi. It's Gregg that I'm beyond excited to tell you about. Another fetching show from par cast, therefore, legged full of love and oftentimes.

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car kept on driving, but it stopped just down the road and reversed towards Wendy in the car was a kindly elderly couple who believed Wendy story. Even after finding her covered in blood and holding a knife, they called nine one, one from Anti and for Willie who she explained was back on the farm with multiple stab wounds, even in her grave condition. Wendy insisted on telling the couple exactly what happened to her. She didn't want Willie to get away with it. Wendy was admitted to the royal colombian Hospital at two a m on March, twenty third nineteen. Ninety seven, her injury were so severe. Doctors, words, whether or not she'd make it through the night, but thankfully she pulled through by Monday the twenty fourth of March Wendy felt well enough to tell police every detail of her.

And her with Willie. This should have been the end of Willie picked and killing career, but once again, then Coover police focused on their prejudices against sex workers and attics. Instead of catching a serial killer, police were slow to take action and operated from the belief that the fight might have been a mutual dispute, not at attempted murder willing for his paw It was badly hurt. He had more than one hundred stitches, mostly on his arm back throat and jaw. When he had even stabbed him so hard in the mouth that she sliced off the tops of multiple teeth. He couldn't eat a morsel, but his brother Dave wasn't about play nurse. She called LISA, yells and begged her to come home to take care of Willie Dave awkwardly

the two hundred dollars to care for Willie for a few days and to wash away the pools of blood still curing and his trailer reluctantly LISA agreed when she arrived The farm Willie had a story ready. A sex workers had tried to rob him. He said, when he resisted she stabbed him. Lisa yields was the paranoia type as fond ass. She was of Willie. His story was hard to believe, even if it was the account the police were investigating. She started looking around his trailer while she cleaned up and when she found gave her a reason to doubt her old friend Willie had a stash of id cards and other personal effects belonging to women. She never met. Lisa debated what to do with this collection turn it over to the cops who she hated or

nor it possibly had a serious cost. The decision was almost taken away from LISA on April eighth, one thousand nine hundred and ninety seven about two weeks after LISA arrived at. The trailer Willie was arrested for attempted murder. Although police at first investigated the possibility both parties were at fault in the education, both Willie's, an Wendy's injuries, matched up with Wendy story and not with Willie's, but luck was with Willie. Wendy was too terrified to face him again, especially after she heard the Dave picked and hired a private investigator to look into her own background, with an eye towards discrediting her at the trial. Wendy was in show the charges were: dropped. Willie was free to return to his farm and keep on killing cases of missing women continued to skyrocket, Kelly little

indigenous canadian Trans woman disappeared on April twenty third. Ninety ninety seven next was JANET Henry also a first nations woman age, thirty, seven in August former cheer Peter Helen, Hallmark, vanished later the same month, Jaclyn Murdoch a member of the business carrier nation also disappeared throughout. All of this, clear whether or not Dave knew exactly what Willie was doing on the farm. He has always denied it, but many victims, families believe Dave, was complicit at the very least Dave was aware that really needed a steady supply of sex workers at the far then, in September of nineteen. Ninety seven Dave started recruiting sex workers for Willie

met Renate bond on the downtown he sighed and offered her one hundred dollars defined a woman to give Willie oral sex, Renate dude of Dave requested. So he began coming to her every time really wanted sex each time or not a procured, a sex worker. She would get cash and drugs as a finder's fee. Dave asked for losers women who wouldn't argue about going so far out of town for a job, Renate, was so used to the revolving door of the downtown he sighed. She never noticed that the girls she talked into two Willie's farm never seemed to return one such woman, Sherry Irving, was twenty. Four year old indigenous women who had been crashing with Granada Shield, Renate money when she didn't return from Willie's place. Renate assume, Sherry had kept Willie's money for herself and skipped town Marny frame.

A young attic and sex worker with a criminal record disappeared on September, twenty fourth, nineteen. Ninety seven Marny likely felt sorry for Willie. She carried fondness for vulnerable human beings. She would give her belong. Things away to others who seemed to be in need, even if that left her with nothing until her disappearance money was in close contact with her family. She was the mother of a five year old girl, Brittany, who was being raised by Marty's parents, when she stopped checking to see how Britney was doing her family knew something terrible had happened, we dont know exactly how he did it, but Willie killed Marny. He Lord to the farm. Maybe she was one of the attic see promised to help then became enrage when she relapsed, maybe she

just another sex workers hired for the night and then like Wendy handcuffed when she turned her back after she butchered Marnie, maybe even with the same night, he tried to use on Wendy, Willie, buried part of her job and some of her teeth on the farm. The rest of the remains were likely put through a meat cried her, then possibly sold or given away as ground pork. To vanish was Cindy Felix, who was born into a wealthy family but brought down by addiction. Her family had kept in touch with her when she abroad we stopped calling day new immediately. She must be dead, We know even less about what happened to her, but she will

it will ease farm long enough to leave traces of her dna behind, perhaps her body to went through the grinder. But this time he didn't bother to keep a jawbone as a memento December, twenty fourth, nineteen. Ninety seven will we took a break from murder to play prank he drove to the downtown east side with two piglets and his truck and turn them loose Unhasting street. Then Willie spent the rest of the day watching the piglets race frightened around the neighbourhood. He particularly enjoyed watching the cops chase after them, but he was back at killing before long. Just after Christmas Carry coastguard disappeared after killing carry at the dawn of ninety. Ninety eight Willie felt invincible he kept

and the Vancouver police kept burying their heads in the sand. After a thorough review of case files on Vancouver missing women, the cops publicly announced that they didn't believe a serial killer was on the loose in Vancouver. That was good news for the local serial killer, of course, Willie again wrapped up his activities after the report made the news in early April of nineteen. Ninety eight Sarah Jane De Vries, inadequate and sex worker well aware of the missing women crisis, wrote a poem about the murder, as reported in on the farm. It read in part, woman's body found beaten beyond recognition. You Scipio Coffee, taking a drag. If you smoke turning the page, taking a bite of your toast just another day,

Just another death: a few days later, she disappeared, like Cindy's body Sarah's remains, were never recovered. Only traces of DNA were left behind too in a limited way. Explain her last moments. Sarah the forty eight to to go missing from the downtown east side. Since nineteen. Seventy nine next was Inga Hall, making it forty, nine local reporters had been pressuring Van Hoover Police for years about the missing women crisis without results. Now they again wrapped up their reporting and in Vancouver police insisted through a spokesperson that there was

Oh serial killer. In the downtown east side, the newspaper articles did produce one led bill, his Coxe, who one July twenty Eightth nineteen eighty eight called victim. Sarah Jane De Vries, grieving best friend Wayne Lang to chat bill had seen a newspaper interview with Wayne Lange. I couldn't help feeling for him calmly, bill related stories, he'd heard from a friend, LISA Yells, who had helped build, get a job and the picked far bill, told Wayne him LISA yelled had both seen women's ideas, purses and clothing and Willie's trailer. They were suspicious bill said, bill had gone to the Vancouver police with information several times, but they did nothing about it. Not even while women continued to disappear, Finally, in April of nineteen, ninety nine, the Vancouver police finally responded offering

a one hundred thousand dollar reward for information on the missing women. Meanwhile, a young named. Lynn. Ellingson was working for the picture, far keeping the books and doing odd jobs. She was a drug addict, but the Picton didn't mind. In fact they sold her drugs themselves. She lived on site with them and was treated like family one spring evening when we took Lynn with him to the downtown east side, where he intended to find himself a date. They picked up a young woman with short dark hair. She was willing to come back to the farm for the night Lynn and the young sex workers got along well. They smoked crack together until Willie got impatient and asked the sex workers to join him in his bedroom. Lynn went back to her own room and smoked more crack. Sometime later, she was hi to remember exactly when Lynn saw light on in the bar. It was this

a barn where Willie Judas butchering it seems strange in a drug addled haze. She got out of bed and drifted towards the bar to see what might have happened The first things she saw were to human legs, with toenails painted red dangling above the ground by the time Lynn realised what the strange tat blow must be. Willie had her by the arm he dragged her inside the barn and forced her to look at the sex workers. They picked up earlier now dead and hanging from the same meet hook. He used for pigs and cattle Lynn, one to run, but Willie had a tight grip on her bicep. He was telling her over and over again that the woman was like a pig, so he was just butchering her like a pig, her body was split, Open Willie was scooping out. Her and trails into a bucket Lynne was surprised by the yellow color of the woman's at so different from

white animals that she'd seen before we dont know if Willie ever aid any of his victims himself, but his butchering ritual was reminiscent of cannibalism. Therapist Karen Highland says that for a tiny fraction of the population, cannibalism can become addictive, for people with cannibalistic fantasies who act on those desires, the rush of fantasy fulfilment releases, a burst of dopamine a narrow transmitter associated with intense pleasure. This could drive one to seek fulfilment of that fantasy over and over again, whether or not Willie himself was a cannibal. Heed it makes human remains in with his farms meet. Perhaps for him the fantasy of cannibalism was less about consuming women himself than about the power of tricking someone else into it. Willie told Lynne that if she ever told anyone would she had seen she

would go on the meat hook to Lynn crying insisted that she wouldn't tell she just wanted drugs and booze. She didn't want any trouble. Perhaps Willie was already stated for the night, or maybe he felt bonded to learn and away. He let her go without a fuss. He even called her can she went back. Town got drunk in high and tried to forget, but try, though she might Lynn, could never get the site of the dangling painted toes out of her mind in May of ninety ninety nine, but police established a new missing persons review unit headed by detected constable warmer shiner. Unlike most of the other police officers in Vancouver, detective shiner, had a strong reason to sympathise with the sex workers who had gone missing and turned up murdered. Law eimer is Trans man,

during his early years, is a police officer when he was still As a woman, detective shiner worked under cover, he often dressed as a sex workers for prostitution, stings, having lived the occasional night in the life of a Vancouver sex worker, detective, Shane or hated, seeing their cases swept under the rug for years, he'd been quietly advocating on behalf of the missing women, but was told by his mosses that the victims had probably just wandered off on their now. Finally, he was being given his own unit and his own resources to investigate the case. All immediately detective shiner started receiving tips about Willie Picton. There were enough. Sources coming forward and enough women missing that shit. With certain that Picton Farm would be the key to unravelling his entire case. Unfortunately, without the cooperation

the royal Canadian mounted police. He couldn't serve a search warrant under the canadian system. The Arcy MP would have to assist in order for the search to be legal and the mounties weren't interested sure they made some half hearted attempts to help on one occasion when they went to visit the Picton Farm Dave told them. It was a bad sign and for a search because he was too busy farming. He asked to come back later in the year and they left without argument. Detective shiners bosses were equally uninterested in helping, in fact they seem to think trainers. Special investigation unit was useful for exactly one thing: keeping the media pacified, while Vancouver police pursued business as usual Shane or Bela to post traumatic stress disorder from the guilty felt about being unable to bring the missing women home, he couldn't sleep. He could hardly eat at the end of two thousand detective Shane around

to be transferred off the missing women case. He was totally disillusioned, depressed and de moral I see in January of two thousand one. According to Detective Shiner Vancouver police pulled another public relations. Stunt they establish Joint operation, with the r c m p to review all of the missing women's cases, but instead focusing on the suspect right in their backyard. They prepared a list of one hundred known sex offenders in the province It was on the list, but was no more a priority than the other. Ninety nine. It seemed as if Willie Picton would never be caught detective Shane or felt like he was losing his mind. He couldn't understand how is colleagues were unable to see the next step. That seems so obvious to him. The Picton pig

arm had to be searched months and years dragged on with no progress, women kept disappearing. Then. Finally, on February fifth of two thousand too, r c m p officer showed up at the gates of the Picton PIG farms, but he wasn't there to find missing women. He was there to find a missing unlicensed gun, believed to be an Willie Pickens. Possession more effort was made to find an inanimate firearm, but to find over fifty missing women It was sheer coincidence that when the young Mount he searched the farm for the firearm, he founded inhaler with one of the missing women's names on it. Finally, police took investigating Willie Picton seriously. The varying next day, they served a search, warrant and began taking the farm apart officer,

swarmed the Picton PIG Farm, looking in every nook and cranny for evidence, and they found it bones and teeth buried all over the proper, Some of the women skulls had been cut in half for burial, their hands and feet stuffed inside. Human remains were found in a garbage bag. A woman's jawbone was buried right next to the barn, where Willie did as butchering Picton kept everything and investigators found a purse belonging to Sarah De Vries inside the purse was a used condom which tested positive for Willie Picton DNA, but the worst find of all was in Willie's. Freezer were investigators discovered packages. Ground meat, they were positive dna match for victims in the hall and Cindy Felix. After the fact, it came out that Marny Fray was, so ground up with other meat and served at one of the Pickens Barbecues and horrific Lee

of her cousins later realized. They were at that party unlikely concern loomed their own family member. When detective Shane or heard about the search he was so overwhelmed by the news. All he could do was weep. Finally, the victims would have their voices heard, but it had to In far too long on February, twenty second Willie Picton was rested and charged with two counts of murder, but the investor nation was only just beginning: investigators, roared onto the property, with heavy equipment in June, digging up the whole farm in search of more evidence. Now that police were finally on the case, they wanted to do it right the x.

Basin, took twenty one months ending in November two two thousand to three to allow ample time for evidence. Gathering, Willie and trial didn't begin until January. Twenty second, two thousand seven. By that time, he stood charged with twenty seven counts. Of first degree. Murder procedural reasons. The judge hearing Pickens case decided to split it into two trials. One with six victims conclusively proven dead and the other with twenty victims, whose personal effects were found on Will his farm but whose bodies were not recovered. The six.

Damn homicide trial was heard first on December, ninth, two thousand seven: a jury of his peers found Robert William Picton guilty of six counts of second degree: murder for the killings of serene Abbas way. Moaningly Wilson, Andrea Jos, bury Brenda and Wolf Marny Lee Fray and Georgina faith. Potman Willie Picton was sentenced to life in peace. And without the possibility for parole for twenty five years. He appealed his conviction all the way to Canada's Supreme Court where his sentence was upheld, he will become eligible for parole on February twenty second, twenty twenty seven Willie Picton was unpredictable and irrational in the free world and he's been the same way behind bars on one occasion when he was told a camera had been placed in his cell to record him. He responded by stripping completely naked

masturbating in January of two thousand eighteen, the documentary vote so. The serial killer was released, featuring previous Lee unseen two thousand to footage of Willie Picton confessing to cellmate, who was in fact an undercover police officer in the chilling video Picton brags about using a rendering plant a machine usually used to safely disposed of animal waste. After butchering to dump his victims, then killer meds that he was caught before he could kill fifty women. He says quote: I was going to do one more make it an even fifty. That's why I was sloppy about it. I wanted one more make the big five when he's not confessing to his crimes, Willie denying them in two thousand. Sixteen. Willie released a self published book, accusing the royal

canadian mounted police of a grand conspiracy against the Picton family. The book, which is riddled spelling errors and incongruities was hand written by Willy behind bars in it. He denies killing anyone at all. We will probably never know exactly how many women Willie picked in actually killed or when is killing spree began, but Willie for all is notoriety, is just one small part of the story, the bigger store Is the ongoing crisis of Canada's missing and murdered indigenous women? The canadian Broadcasting Company CBC actively monitoring more than two hundred fifty unsolved cases in which police do not suspect foul play, but where the women's relatives insist, they have fallen victim to violence for his part, detective

Nor was forced to take long term medical leave from police work after the Picton case destroyed his health in two thousand seventeen he was interviewed by the BBC. He replied quote: people think this police accountability in Canada, but there are a lot of mechanisms that the government has to oversee their work. Without that accountability, I do think a killer like picked. It could get away with it again. Thanks again for tuning in two serial killers, we'll be back money. With a new episode. You can find more of it it was a serial killers as well as all the park. Ass other shows on Spotify or anywhere you listened upon, casts several of you have asked how to help the shell and, if you enjoy the show, the best

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