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On the farm : Robert William Pickton and the tragic story of Vancouver's missing women / Stevie Cameron.
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- ISBN: 9780676975857 (paperback)
- Physical Description: 726 pages : illustrations, maps ; 23 cm
- Edition: Vintage Canada edition.
- Publisher: Toronto, ON : Vintage Canada, 2011.
- Copyright: ©2010
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| General Note: | Includes index. |
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NATIONAL BESTSELLER ⢠Stevie Cameronâs investigative tour de force about one of North America's most prolific serial killersânow widely regarded as a true crime classic.
Verteran investigative journalist Stevie Cameron first began following the story of missing women in 1998, when the odd newspaper piece appeared chronicling the disappearances of drug-addicted sex trade workers from Vancouver's notorious Downtown Eastside. It was not until February 2002 that pig farmer Robert William Pickton would be arrested, and 2008 before he was found guilty, on six counts of second-degree murder. These counts were appealed and in 2010, the Supreme Court of Canada rendered its conclusion. The guilty verdict was upheld, and finally this unprecedented tale of true crime could be told.
Covering the case of one of North America's most prolific serial killers gave Stevie Cameron access not only to the story as it unfolded over many years in two British Columbia courthouses, but also to information unknown to the police - and not in the transcripts of their interviews with Pickton - such as from Pickton's long-time best friend, Lisa Yelds, and from several women who survived terrifying encounters with him. Cameron uncovers what was behind law enforcement's refusal to believe that a serial killer was at work.
