accused serial killer Robert Pickton

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Accused serial killer Robert "Willy" Pickton a 57-year-old pig farmer on trial B.C. Supreme Court in New Westminister B.C. Monday January 22, 2007., will be one of the largest, longest, and most expensive trials in Canadian history.

Pickton faces first-degree murder charges in the slayings of six women, who are Marnie Frey, Sereena Abotsway, Georgina Papin, Andrea Joesbury, Brenda Wolfe and Mona Wilson.

Pickton also stands accused in the murders of 20 other women all missing from Vancouver's drug infested eastside, but no trial date has been set on those charges.

He has pleaded not guilty to all of the charges.

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Crown counsel Derrill Prevett told jurors in his opening statement on Monday that police found the skulls of Sereena Abotsway and Andrea Joesbury stuffed inside plastic pails when they searched Pickton's pig farm.
The prosecutor also told the jury that police found the two five-gallon pails with human heads inside two freezers when they were using a search warrant for firearms.
Police had to call in the missing women's task force and get another search warrant before they could launch an extensive search of the property.

In laying out its case, the Crown also said:
-The heads had been cut in half with a saw and the women's hands and feet had been stuffed inside their skulls.
-Joesbury and Abotsway are among six women whom police say were allegedly killed by Pickton, a 57-year-old pig farmer from suburban Port Coquitlam, B.C.
-In the crown's opening statement, Previtt told the jury that DNA analysis had identified the remains of each of the six women Pickton is accused of killing in this trial.
-The remains were found either inside Pickton's trailer or in the ground nearby.
-The search of Pickton's mobile home also found a tote bag that contained syringes and an asthma inhaler belonging to Abotsway.
-In the garbage below Pickton's window, police say they found another four inhalers dispensed in Abotsway's name.
-Swabs taken of blood-stained clothing in the trailer also matched the DNA profile of Mona Wilson, another woman accused of being killed, the prosecutor said.
-Wilson's remains were found in a bag at the bottom of a garbage can.
-In a laundry room of Pickton's trailer, a revolver was found in a zippered gun case. Its barrel was covered in plastic wrap, had an elastic band wrapped around it and had a sexual device fitted over it. The revolver had one spent casing and five other rounds. Forensic evidence detected DNA from both Pickton and Wilson on the revolver.
-Wolfe's lower jawbone and teeth were found in the ground in trough beside the slaughterhouse.

some background
http://www.cbc.ca/news/background/pickton/

Pickton trial
http://www.ctv.ca/servlet/ArticleNews/story/CTVNews/20070121/pickton_trial_070122/20070122?hub=TopStories


Macabre gothic horror-

SMiles

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[narcimund 0]

And the local media here has turned into "All Picton -- All the Time".

I'm going to be listening to a lot of recorded music for the next year.

First Class Citizen Twice Over

[Richards 0]

Guys like Pickton make me wish we still had the death penalty.

My biggest handicap is that sometimes the hole in the front of my head operates a tad bit faster than the grey matter contained within.