Sunday, March 14, 2004
Robert Pickton : Latest News On The Investigation
Now I am sure everyone has heard about the serial killer Robert Pickton, but this latest news on the investigation just floors me. Just when you think the world couldn't get any sicker, IT does!!!!
“Human DNA may have been in meat processed for human consumption at a pig farm at the centre of the investigation into Vancouver's missing women, B.C.'s provincial health officer confirmed Wednesday. “
When asked if cross-contamination meant human remains found their way into meat processed at the infamous farm, Kendall said:
"It's very disturbing to think about, but there's that possibility of some cross-contamination. But the degree of it or when or how much we really don't know.
Kendall stressed none of the meat would have been sold in stores or been distributed widely. However, meat from the farm was given to friends and associates of owner Robert Pickton.
Pickton, 54, faces 15 counts of first-degree murder in the disappearance of women from Vancouver's seedy Downtown Eastside.
Pickton is not expected to go to trial until late this year or early in 2005.
Police executed a raid on the Pickton farm Feb. 6, 2002.
More than 60 women from Vancouver's gritty Downtown Eastside have disappeared since the 1980s. Most were sex-trade workers and drug addicts.
The charges against Pickton so far are four more than the number admitted to by Canada's most notorious serial killer, Clifford Robert Olson.
Now I am sure everyone has heard about the serial killer Robert Pickton, but this latest news on the investigation just floors me. Just when you think the world couldn't get any sicker, IT does!!!!
“Human DNA may have been in meat processed for human consumption at a pig farm at the centre of the investigation into Vancouver's missing women, B.C.'s provincial health officer confirmed Wednesday. “
When asked if cross-contamination meant human remains found their way into meat processed at the infamous farm, Kendall said:
"It's very disturbing to think about, but there's that possibility of some cross-contamination. But the degree of it or when or how much we really don't know.
Kendall stressed none of the meat would have been sold in stores or been distributed widely. However, meat from the farm was given to friends and associates of owner Robert Pickton.
Pickton, 54, faces 15 counts of first-degree murder in the disappearance of women from Vancouver's seedy Downtown Eastside.
Pickton is not expected to go to trial until late this year or early in 2005.
Police executed a raid on the Pickton farm Feb. 6, 2002.
More than 60 women from Vancouver's gritty Downtown Eastside have disappeared since the 1980s. Most were sex-trade workers and drug addicts.
The charges against Pickton so far are four more than the number admitted to by Canada's most notorious serial killer, Clifford Robert Olson.
