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On the Farm: Robert William Pickton and the…
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On the Farm: Robert William Pickton and the Tragic Story of Vancouver's Missing Women (2010. Auflage)

von Stevie Cameron (Autor)

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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.… (mehr)
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Titel:On the Farm: Robert William Pickton and the Tragic Story of Vancouver's Missing Women
Autoren:Stevie Cameron (Autor)
Info:Knopf Canada (2010), 763 pages
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I am a true crime junkie and this was a tough read - not, it turns out, for the grisly details (although there are a few of those, too) but for the relentless, depressing litany of women's lives falling apart and then being taken from them, and the police doing nothing about it. I found the trial almost worse than all the rest of it, though. The verdict the jury handed down is embarrassing.

But this is an outstanding book - detailed, meticulous, unceasingly sympathetic. With more than sixty missing women connected to the case, it could have been painfully dull, but Cameron treats each of those women with respect and paints a vivid picture of their lives and personalities. And, despite the outcome of the legal case, she gives a pretty good picture of Pickton, too (as unappealing as it is). ( )
  jen.e.moore | Mar 16, 2016 |
This book was amazing and amazingly heartbreaking. Where the book Butcher by Gary C. King tried to find Robert 'Willie' Pickton's past, this book takes an extensive look at every single victim and humanizes them to the reader. It was touching and all the more heart wrenching to read. But these kinds of books are NECESSARY to read. Evil exists in our world. This time some kind of unrelenting evil took over the Pickton farm. The Pickton Farm is an evil unto itself. And the reason we must look at places like these is to warn our daughters and sisters of the evils that lurk behind the supposed most harmless of looking people. ( )
  Danie_Jorgenson | Sep 16, 2013 |
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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.

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