CA/Edmonton - Across the country, the bodies of 67 women have surfaced, dumped in remote areas. In all but five cases, their killers remain unknown
More than a decade ago, Cara King went missing in Edmonton. The impulsive 22-yearold “liked to live on the edge,” her mother, Kathy, remembered last month, and “struggled with many, many things.” In her teens, she lost interest in school and got involved with a social circle of older men, eventually getting addicted to cocaine. Sometimes, the drug caused psychosis, which landed Ms. King in and out of psychiatric hospitals. By the time of her disappearance in 1997, she had dropped regular contact with her middle-class family and was on the street, prostituting herself.
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CA/BC/New Westminster - The brutal impact Robert Pickton’s crimes had on the lives of his victims’ families will be laid bare before a B.C. Supreme Court today before the Crown asks that the serial killer not be eligible for parole for at least 25 years.
Pickton, who was convicted on six counts of second-degree murder Sunday, will be handed a life sentence by Judge James Williams but the number of years he must serve before being eligible for parole is up to the judge who can pick a number anywhere between 10 and 25 years.
The jury declined to make recommendations when they returned a verdict in the case on after 10 days of deliberations.
Crown counsel Mike Petrie suggested Monday the Crown will seek the maximum 25 years.
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CA/BC/New Westminster - The jury in the case of a pig farmer accused of being Canada’s worst serial killer was continuing deliberations after the judge clarified a portion of his instructions.
Deliberations were suspended for about two hours Thursday following a question passed on to the judge from the jury, which focused on the possible roles of other people in the crime. The jurors finished their sixth full day of deliberations late Thursday and will resume Friday morning.
Robert ‘Willie’ Pickton went on trial in January on the first six of 26 first-degree murder charges for the deaths of women, most of them prostitutes and drug addicts from a seedy Vancouver neighborhood.
The defense suggested during the trial that others who visited the farm might have committed the murders.
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CA/BC/New Westminster – A lawyer for the man accused of being Canada’s most prolific serial killer opened his defence by telling a jury they will hear evidence in the coming weeks about Robert Pickton’s limited intelligence.
Pickton is being tried in New Westminster, British Columbia, on the first six of the 26 charges of first-degree murder over the deaths of Vancouver women, most of them prostitutes and drug addicts. Read More »
CA/New Westminster/BC – A friend of the man accused of being Canada’s most prolific serial killer changed her testimony Wednesday and said she saw blood in his trailer.
Defense witness Ingrid Fehlauer was asked by defense lawyer Adrian Brooks on Wednesday morning if she had seen anything unusual in Robert Pickton’s trailer and she told the jury that it was only dirt. Read More »
CA/Winnipeg – Winnipeg police say they are dealing with several possible killers, not a single serial killer, after a second sex-trade worker was found dead in a field in the city’s northwest.
Seventeen-year-old Fonasa Lynn Bruyere went missing in August. Her body was found last week in the same field that hid the remains of Aynsley Aurora Kinch, a 36-year-old sex-trade worker whose body was discovered in July. Read More »
CA/Winnipeg – A former police officer who once warned a serial killer was at work in the Vancouver area — but was ignored — says the way the body of teen sex-trade worker Fonessa Lynn Bruyere was found dumped on Winnipeg’s outskirts points to a possible serial killer at work.
Kim Rossmo, a former officer in the Vancouver Police Department and now an authority on “geographic profiling” at Texas State University, said the spot Bruyere was found may be a “cluster dump” for a serial killer. Read More »
CA/New Westminster/BC – Accused serial killer Robert Pickton described how he killed prostitutes after having sex with them and used his pigs to help dispose of the remains, a Canadian court was told on Monday.
Prosecution witness Andrew Bellwood, who lived briefly at Pickton’s farm, testified that Pickton showed him handcuffs and play-acted as he described stroking their hair and telling them everything would be okay, “it’s over now”.
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CA/Westminster/BC – In sensational and gruesome testimony at the trial of accused Canadian serial killer Robert “Willie” Pickton, a former friend told jurors that Pickton admitted to him that he had murdered and butchered several prostitutes before feeding parts of their bodies to pigs in his suburban Vancouver farm.
Canadian media outlets reported that Andrew Bellwood, who worked for Pickton and lived at the farm for three weeks in 1999, testified that Pickton told him that he had strangled numerous prostitutes after luring them to his farm from Vancouver’s troubled downtown Eastside neighbourhood with promises of money and drugs. Read More »
CA/Vancouver – Robert Pickton’s defence confronted the Crown’s star witness on her crucial piece of evidence: That she saw the accused serial killer with a woman’s butchered body in his barn.Defence lawyer Richard Brooks confronted Lynn Ellingsen with a March 2002 statement she gave to police. Read More »
