Research Catalog

Title

On the farm : Robert William Pickton and the tragic story of Vancouver's missing women / Stevie Cameron.

Author

Cameron, Stevie

Publication

Toronto : A.A. Knopf Canada, c2010.

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Details

Description

726 p., [16] p. of plates : ill., maps, ports.; 24 cm.

Summary

Veteran investigative journalist Stevie Cameron first began following the story of missing women in 1998, when the odd newspaper piece appeared chronicling the disappearances of women from Vancouver's notorious Downtown East-side. 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.

Subject

• Pickton, Robert William
• Pickton, Robert William
• Serial murders > British Columbia
• Serial murder investigation > British Columbia
• Serial murderers > British Columbia
• Murder victims > British Columbia > Vancouver > Biography
• Meurtres en série > Colombie-Britannique
• Meurtres en série > Enquêtes > Colombie-Britannique
• Tueurs en série > Colombie-Britannique
• Victimes d'homicide > Colombie-Britannique > Vancouver > Biographies
• Port Coquitlam (B.C.) > Biography
• Port Coquitlam (C.-B.) > Biographies

Genre/Form

Biographies

Note

• Includes index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Part one: The family: The family farm -- Dominion Avenue -- A mother's will -- The Pickton brothers -- Geography speaks -- Cops under fire -- A motley crew -- Prime suspect -- The trials of Kim Rossmo and the growing list of missing women -- Lisa Yelds -- Piggy's Palace -- Maggy Gisle, Cara Ellis and Sandra Gail Ringwald -- Gina and Willie and more missing women -- Sherry Irving and Marnie Frey -- The worst year -- Sara de Vries and Sheila Egan -- A doomed investigation -- Project Amelia: a bad start -- Roommates; Part two: The missing women: What they saw -- What did the police do? -- Closing in on Willie -- Another close call -- Deadly girlfriends -- Rossmo out -- Panic on skid row -- The file review -- Do something -- A newsroom leads the way -- Police on trial -- The last woman -- The rookie cop -- Twenty-four hours -- The largest crime scene in Canadian history -- Scott Chubb; Part three: on the farm: Getting ready for Willie -- Mike Petrie wants the job -- The cell plant -- The Fordy interview -- Don Adam takes over -- Back in the cell -- Taking Willie to the Judge -- In the workshop -- The forensic team -- Talking to the families -- What the dead reveal -- Willie goes to court -- Telling tales: Andy Bellwood, Sandra Gail Ringwald and Gina Houston -- The last witnesses -- The aristocracy of victimhood -- From twenty-six to six -- The jury -- Guilty! But of what?

ISBN

• 9780676975840 (bound)
• 0676975844 (bound)
• 9780676975857 (pbk.)
• 0676975852 (pbk.)

OCLC

• 565930997
• SCSB-11828214

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library