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Pig farmer now faces 15 murder charges
Wed 02 Oct. 2002
PORT COQUITLAM, B.C. - RCMP have laid four new charges of first-degree murder in B.C.'s ongoing missing women's investigation.
The additional counts announced Wednesday in a video-link court appearance bring to 15 the number of women Robert (Willy) Pickton is accused of killing.
Pickton was charged with killing Heather Chinnock, Tanya Holyk, Sherry Irving and Inga Hall, four more of the 63 women missing from Vancouver's Downtown Eastside.
The list of missing women dates back to 1978, but 38 of the 63 women have disappeared in the last six years.
Pickton, 52, now faces four more charges than the number admitted to by Canada's most notorious serial killer, Clifford Olson.
Pickton has previously been charged with killing Georgina Papin, Patricia Johnson, Helen Hallmark, Jennifer Furminger, Mona Wilson, Diane Rock, Sereena Abotsway, Andrea Joesbury, Heather Bottomley, Brenda Wolfe and Jacqueline McDonell.
All were drug-addicted prostitutes who disappeared from the poverty-stricken neighbourhood since 1996.
The Port Coquitlam pig farmer has been the focus of an intensive investigation on his property since February, in which police have recovered dozens of DNA samples of suspected victims.
BCTV News on Global says police have found unidentified DNA from still more potential victims.
The aunt of Jason O'Donaghey, who has been missing from Vancouver's downtown eastside for a decade, says police told her last week they are investigating the unidentified samples in connection with several other missing-person cases.
Pickton's trial is due to go to a preliminary hearing in November, after what has become the largest and likely most expensive crime-scene investigation in Canadian history.
The budget in the case for 2002 alone exceeds $20 million, and police say they expect to continue combing the properties owned by Pickton and two siblings into next year.
Should anyone from the public have information regarding the homicide or disappearance of a Vancouver street trade worker, please phone Crime Stoppers at 604-662-TIPS (8477) or the Missing Woman Tip line at 1-877-687-3377.
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