Robert Pickton: The Final Chapter [2]
1/26/20261 hr 13 min
[Part 2 of 4] The Pickton brothers become officially wealthy, and open the infamous party venue known as Piggy’s Palace. There’s an alarming spike in vulnerable women vanishing from the Downtown Eastside - but two would live to tell their stories.
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CONTENT WARNING: this series includes graphic details that will be distressing for many listeners to hear, including mention of sexual assault, residential schools, Indigenous issues, child abuse and suicide.
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First 90 secondsEric Crosby0:00
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Kristi Lee· Host0:18
This is part two of a four-part series pieced together primarily from the public record, including court documents, newspaper archives, the final report of the Missing Women Commission of Inquiry, and On the Farm by the late investigative journalist Stevie Cameron. We left off in the early to mid-1990s as women kept disappearing from Vancouver's Downtown Eastside, and police continued to resist the idea of a serial predator. Meanwhile, Robert Pickton regularly disposed of his barrels of waste and remains at a rendering plant right next to the Downtown Eastside. An employee of that rendering plant would later remember seeing large chunks of meat floating in the waste, but there was no scrutiny or oversight. A woman named Nancy Clark disappeared from Vancouver Island at the exact same time that both David and Robert Pickton were working there on a demolition job. Her DNA would later be located on the farm,