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MEDIA : Heather Gabriel Chinook,

Inga Monique Hall, Tanya..

MEDIA : It is becoming depressingly familiar - names

of the latest women who police say were murdered

by Robert Pickton

MEDIA : Tanya Marlow Pollack...

MEDIA : Robert Pickton's now charged with murdering a

seventh woman, Brenda Wolfe, who disappeared 3 years ago.

This case is now the largest serial killer investigation

in Canadian history.

NARRATOR: The voice of a killer.

NARRATOR: Words the jury did not hear.

LYNNE ELLINGSON: I really would like to know why he kept

me alive through all this.

Like I think that was more punishment

than actually killing me, right?

NARRATOR: Willie Pickton's closest associates reveal what

they knew, and what they kept from police for years.

MEDIA : Yvonne Bowen, Andrea Borhaven, Wendy Crawford..

ANDY BELLWOODS: Willie was supplying all these people's

wants and needs.

I believe some of the people were helping him...

in a lot of bad ways.

MEDIA : Last month, Pickton was charged with the

1st degree murders of Mona Wilson and Serena Abbotsway.

CPL.FRANK HENLEY: He's unobtrusive, he's quiet,

he's polite.

He fits perfectly the description

of a serial killer.

LISA YELDS: Every human is capable of killing, but I just

really don't think that Willie could do it all on his own.

And to this day, I'm still not sure what

happened on that farm

NARRATOR: A place that harbored horrible secrets,

where a circle of need allowed a cagey killer

to escape capture.

Again and again.

[♪]

NARRATOR: In this part of Vancouver, misery has

a lot of company.

It's the last stop for the dispossessed, the desperate,

the addicted.

And a magnet for those who take advantage of them.

STITCH: I was an addict from downtown eastside.

It's dog-eat-dog down there.

The hotels on the downtown east-side are the size of a

jail cell - A lot of cockroaches, a lot of grub,

a lot of dirt - not a happy place to live.

CONST. DAVE DICKSON [RET]: You've probably got as many as,

you know, three or four thousand drug users in that area.

And that's for the poorest postal code in Canada.

You know, you're talking about a group of people that

probably uses about $200 million a year

in illicit drugs.

ELAINE ALLEN: Downtown Eastside women tend to be

women who are in the survival sex trade.

Their addictions are so out of control.

They are either high when they're making the decisions

about who's car their getting into, or they're so desperate

to get high that they're going through acute withdrawal,

which makes them physically really ill that they're making

bad judgment calls about who's vehicles they're getting

into to turn tricks.

CONST. DAVE DICKSON [RET]: The Downtown Eastside over the

years has been basically a hunting ground for every

predator or pervert in Canada and sometimes out of Canada.

NARRATOR: It would be years before anyone could prove that

a socially awkward bachelor was preying on women

from the Downtown Eastside.

In early 1997, all that distinguished Robert "Willie"

Pickton from the other johns was his rubber boots and

smelly pick-up truck.

PICKTON: Ok, here goes nothing.

NARRATOR: The voice of Willie Pickton.

NARRATOR: From an audio diary he recorded in 1991.

NARRATOR: Willie Pickton was on familiar turf,

cruising the Downtown Eastside.

At the corner of Cordova Street and Princess Avenue,

he set his sights on a thirty-one year old prostitute.

Her street name was "Stitch", a mother of two,

who'd struggled for years to kick her addiction.

STITCH: This pick-up truck pulled over, asked me to go up

to his place and I asked him where it was.

He said "Coquitlam" and I said,

"naw, that's a little too far".

He says "well, I'll give you a hundred bucks" and he goes

"I'll bring you back within an hour and a half."

So I said "Yah, okay".

So then we start driving out and I spotted a women's

brassiere bra on his seat and I picked it up and I said

"who's is this", and he says "oh, just a date

I had last weekend".

And I started getting creeped out.

But I didn't get the opportunity to bail out,

so I followed through.

NARRATOR: Stitch had no way of knowing that her instincts

were dead on-that other women had vanished in recent months.

And that their DNA would eventually be found on

Pickton's property.

The jury never heard Stitch tell her story, and until now

the public hasn't either.

STITCH: We got to his place and we pulled in - he had to

get out and unlock his gate.

I didn't know it was a farm.

It was more of a junkyard.

Beat-up old wrecked cars.

And then we went in.

We went down through the trailer towards the back room

and as we were going through, I remember the kitchen was so

dirty and grubby but I remember this big, large

butcher knife sitting on this table.

Then you go further down and uh, we went into a room where

there was no bed or nothin, just a big roll of plastic -

clear plastic.

And sleeping bag on the floor.

After the room, I asked him if I could borrow his phone, cuz

I wanted to call my boyfriend at that time -and tell him

where I was and that I'm on my way back.

And I was bent over the table looking for the hotel number

where we were staying and I could feel something behind me

and I turned around and it was him behind me and he had

grabbed my left hand and caressed it, and real quickly

he slapped a handcuff on my left hand.

I wasn't sure if he was gonna try and rape me,

try and kill me.

And then the first thing I remembered was that butcher

knife on the kitchen table.

I'm not gonna lie, I tried to kill him.

STITCH: Either I died or he died.

And I fought for my life.

I could just feel this hot stuff runnin down my chest,

runnin down my body, and I knew it was blood.

He stabbed me four times - twice in the abdomen, once on

my rib cage, punctured one of my lungs,

and a cut on my left arm.

I figured I was gonna die walkin' outta here.

MARIA MILLS: I had saw someone coming down the driveway

towards the street.

I thought it was a woman, just because she was quite slight.

As she got closer down towards the end of the driveway,

we heard her saying "Help me, Please help me."

[♪]

MARIA MILLS: She leaned against the window and she had

a large kitchen knife in her hand.

She just kept repeating the same thing, "please help me,

please help me."

What I think affected me the most was when she leaned up

against the car and I saw the handcuffs, because then to me

it wasn't an accident.

It wasn't - she fell through a glass window.

This was something that was serious, and...evil.

NARRATOR: Both Stitch and Pickton were seriously

injured, with multiple stab wounds.

Maria Mills called an ambulance for Stitch...

Pickton managed to drive himself to the same hospital.

An orderly found a key in his pocket.

It fit the handcuff on Stitch's wrist.

NARRATOR: The RCMP investigated.

Pickton was charged him with four offenses,

including attempted murder.

But the prosecutor believed a conviction was unlikely

because Stitch "was a drug user"...

and "credibility would be an issue."

So the charges were not pursued.

Willie Pickton remained a free man.

[♪]

NARRATOR: From Pickton's tape-recorded journal.

NARRATOR: Port Coquitlam is one of Vancouver's

ever-expanding suburbs.

In 1994 and 95, the Pickton family made a fortune selling

off parcels of land to developers.

New houses sprouted like mushrooms.

Willie and his younger brother Dave stayed on what was left

of their property.

As they started getting rich, the farm became a revolving

door for the needy and the greedy.

LISA YELDS: Do you know something?

Before Willie and Dave got their money it was generally

a working farm.

After they got their money more people started coming

around, more people started hanging around, and it just

got out of hand because all of the sudden everybody wanted a

piece of the action.

ANDY BELLWOOD: I was just like everybody else that was

hanging around that farm.

We all needed shelter, we needed money, some of the

people needed their drugs, work, or whatever.

It seemed that everybody that hung around that farm all had

a need, all had a want.

LISA YELDS: They call themselves friends but they

basically wanted what they could get out of him for free.

They wanted to borrow money, they wanted vehicles.

They wanted a free ride and not pay him back.

They would give him a, a cock and bull story that they "oh

you know I need ten thousand dollars cause I'm I trouble"

and Willie would be dumb enough to give it to em.

ANDY BELLWOODS: Willie was supplying all these people's

wants and needs for something.

And I believe for some of the people it was helping him

in a lot of bad ways.

NARRATOR: Ways that would allow Pickton

to get away with murder. For years.

[♪]

NARRATOR: In 1997, more than a dozen women vanished from

Vancouver's Downtown Eastside.

But the pattern wasn't clear yet, even to those

who lived there.

NARRATOR: 23-year-old Marnie Frey had drifted

a long way from her roots.

LYNN FREY: Marnie was a very healthy, happy, cheerful, just

a normal average young girl.

You know, went to school, went horseback riding,

went swimming.

Just the average household raising a child.

Happy.

NARRATOR: But Marnie got in with a bad crowd in her

teens....started using cocaine and heroin.

LYNN FREY: The few times we did bring Marnie home she was

so sick she couldn't move.

She had the shakes, she was vomiting she had the runs,

I mean it was like a real, real bad flu.

And I, I just couldn't fathom, anybody being in so much pain.

NARRATOR: August 30th, 1997.

Marnie's birthday.

A day she always got in touch with her family.

LYNN FREY: That night that, on her birthday, I thought well

she's probably out partying...

that's why she hasn't called, I guess she's not coming home.

The next day about the same time, I think it was about a

week, week and a half of her not phoning, I started

getting, having really bad dreams at night

that she was in trouble.

Not that she was dead or that she, something

happ-bad-that...

she was in trouble somewhere, and I could hear her crying

and I could hear her scream and she had a scream like

you'd never forget the scream, she's got a good, loud scream.

NARRATOR: Dave Dickson was a beat cop on

the Downtown Eastside.

After almost two decades in the neighborhood, he was used

to people coming and going.

But he was starting to notice a change in the pattern.

CONST. DAVE DICKSON [RET]: I would wake up in the middle of

the night, you know, with a certain face or picture

of a girl that I hadn't seen for a while.

Or then somebody, you know, the next day would mention to

me that we haven't seen So-and-So for a while.

So that's sort of how it started and

I started to write names down.

There was something happening but I just couldn't say what.

[♪]

NARRATOR: An excerpt from Willie Pickton's audio diary.

LISA YELDS: Willie is simple and in some ways he's not.

There's a possibility that I think he does have some

psychiatric problems.

He is slow in a lot of ways where he's not worldly because

it's from non-exposure.

So like it's an example when he watches TV, which was very

rare he would get into a show so deep and it would be a

fantasy show about something it was like it was almost like

he was picturing himself there and doing it.

That he didn't know the difference at that point

between reality and fantasy.

[♪]

NARRATOR: One person was able to bring Willie out of his

shell, a crack addict he'd first met in the early 90's on

the Downtown East side.

Her name was Gina Houston.

GINA HOUSTON: I always said I was the biggest and best

crack-whore there ever was, but I never,

ever had to put out.

I always got the crack with letting the guy think

he's going to get lucky and always left thinking they got

lucky and not realizing that they got

but didn't get laid.

That's the best way to describe it.

NARRATOR: Gina's methods didn't seem to matter to Willie.

He adored her.

GINA HOUSTON: I believe Willie was in love with me.

I've been told that they figure he has me on a pedestal

so high that they just don't know why.

I still don't know why.

We talked about getting married lots of times.

Um, he really wanted to get married and have the white

picket fence and the family and everything.

Um... one time after the Vancouver City Police auctions

that we worked at, after the, I don't know, last day coming,

when he was driving me home, when I was tired, um,

he'd handed me a ring.

And I don't know, I, in my, I was so tired and so exhausted

and I really don't know what I said to him but I remember

saying, "What the do I want with another ring?"

I knew that it was a big boo boo on my part.

LISA FELDS: I have no idea what hold Gina had over

Willie Pickton but I know she was abusing him and using him,

and he just thought the sun shone out her ass.

And you know it's funny because everybody on the farm

could see that she was fleecing him, and nobody could

convince him otherwise, that she as the wrong person

to be around.

What the two of them had together as friends?

I have no idea.

NARRATOR: It was now months since Marnie Frey's family

had heard from her.

Her stepmother reported her missing to Vancouver City

Police and says the response was anything but sympathetic.

LYNN FREY: I asked the Vancouver city police if they

could contact the Ministry of Social Services and Housing,

when ... to see if her last cheque was picked up or where

she was residing or you know could I get to her apartment

or did she live in a boarding house, where was she living?

But due to confidentiality basically, they didn't tell me

in so many words to shut up or get out, but basically they

told me that there's nothing they could do for me.

NARRATOR: While Lynn Frey was being told there was nothing

police could do, Constable Dickson was

trying to get answers.

CONST. DAVE DICKSON [RET]: Some of them used to get a,

some money from the St. James Social Services.

You know, so I checked with them to see if they'd had any

record of them.

I checked with the different organizations to see if they'd

stayed at some of the shelters.

You know, but literally nothing.

And then the final check, you know, was with the Ministry of

Social Services, you know, to see if they'd picked up their

social assistance cheque.

But when I checked that, you know, I had to actually go to

the office where they were collecting because the

computer would just show that the file had been closed.

So I had to go to the office where they were actually

collecting the cheque and their computers had

a bit more information.

And in every instance it showed the file was closed

because the cheque was never picked up.

And that for me was, was the, you know, the light went on

and I thought, no that's not right.

NARRATOR: In early 1998, more women disappeared.

Kerry Koski in January...

Inga Hall in February.

Then in April, 28-year-old Sarah de Vries.

Unlike some of the others who'd gone missing,

Sarah had vocal advocates.

Among them, the family who'd adopted her as a child.

And a former john from the Downtown Eastside who'd grown

emotionally attached to Sarah.

[♪]

WAYNE LENG: It was a strange relationship, it's not a

relationship I've ever had before like that, I was madly

in love with her and I know that she wasn't madly in love

with me but I know that she loved me as a friend she came

to trust me you know and I meant a lot and she shared all

of her poetry with me.

She shared her writing with me, uh, her sketches,

all of that sort of thing, and her life.

In my estimation the Vancouver Police Department really

dropped the ball on the missing women issue.

We had no idea at that time how many women

had gone missing.

And as far as they were concerned it seemed, they were

transients and they moved on to other cities.

You know, that sort of thing.

They did not pay a lot of attention to it.

They didn't seem to be interested.

When Sarah went missing I had decided probably about 3 weeks

to a month later that, uh, I was gonna start a

poster campaign and that's what I did.

I thought that that was the only way to get something out

there to get people to take notice and so I started

printing up a pile of posters and I started giving them out

to friends of Sarah's and to other people.

And I continued this week after week after week.

NARRATOR: Sarah de Vries name was added to the

growing list of missing women that

Constable Dave Dickson was compiling...

CONST. DAVE DICKSON [RET]: And it took me a few months,

to finally come up with a list of 31 names.

And when I did the checks on all the different names,

I came to the conclusion that there was something happening

but I just couldn't say what.

My concern was these girls had literally dropped off

the face of the earth.

And I got the bad feeling that there just wasn't something,

you know, quite right about that.

NARRATOR: Constable Dave Dickson believed he'd gathered

enough evidence about missing women to take his concerns up

the chain of command.

STAFF SGT. DOUG MACKAY-DUNN [RET]: It was about June of 98.

Dave came to me in the office.

And he told me he was concerned that there

was women were missing.

I talked to my wife who was a nurse-who is a nurse working

in the city jail and also at 222 Main Street.

And I asked her if - because she does triage,

I asked her have you noticed any of your quote "girls"

that suddenly aren't there any more.

And she said "yeah, I noticed a couple of girls

I haven't seen in a time".

So that sort of underscored David's argument.

NARRATOR: Mackay-Dunn decided to share what he'd learned

with Detective Inspector Kim Rossmo,

an expert in statistical analysis and on serial killers.

D.I. KIM ROSSMO [RET]: The argument that these women

were just missing to me did not make much sense.

One of the, um analyses I thought would be valuable -

would be to go back twenty years and find out how many

unfound missing women we had from that area over time.

In other words, let's establish a base rate, see

what is normal, rather than just our theories

or our conjectures.

When I did that, I found that for the years 1978 to 1994, we

had zero, one, or two missing women unfound.

NARRATOR: According to Rossmo's analysis, the number

of women missing in the previous 2 years was

statistically significant.

The numbers had spiked dramatically.

D.I. KIM ROSSMO [RET]: Something is happening.

Why is it happening post-1995 but not before.

Why aren't any bodies being found, and why only women?

NARRATOR: Rossmo would later claim that some of his bosses

did not re-act quickly enough to the possibility

of a serial killer.

The brass' response also disappointed Constable Dickson.

CONST. DAVE DICKSON [RET]: There were some attitudes at the

table that, you know, we don't have any evidence of anything

happening, we don't have any crime scenes or we don't have

any bodies or comments like, you know, most of them have

probably just moved to other cities.

Some of the comments were upsetting.

You know, and somebody said that you can't say they're

related but I came back with, well you can't say they're not

related, but I said they at least deserve to be looked at.

NARRATOR: The department's official position: there was

no real proof the missing women were dead, no physical

evidence on which to base a homicide investigation.

Instead, they assigned an extra officer to

the missing persons unit.

But the '90s were a time of severe cutbacks,

so from the start, the unit was under-resourced

and overwhelmed.

DAVE YELDS: Willie had a real, kind of weird

sense of humour, really.

He'd go in there if he was slaughtering pigs that night.

He'd grab, I mean, pig guts or pieces of the pig

and chase you around with it.

LISA YELDS: What he did, is he um, cut the, um, penis off and

made a belt around the skin and he'd tie it

around his waist.

My ex-husband was bending over and he walked up

and goosed him with it.

DAVE YELDS: And he'd do that just to bug me all the time.

GINA HOUSTON: You know when everyone says your inner

child; well his inner child did come out.

And he, um, liked toys and stuffed animals and this is

one of the ones he bought for my daughter Keisha.

It used to have, um a voice box and even though the

batteries were dead and the voice box turned off, when

Keisha got upset or whatever it would still laugh it

sounded just like Willie and it would bring,

it would humour her.

Somebody stole the voice box out of him though, but...

Keisha calls this her Willie bear.

And it does, when it laughs it sounds just like Willie.

It's so cute.

And piggies.

He always bought the kids piggies.

This one...

NARRATOR: Months went by and Wayne Leng heard nothing from

his friend Sarah de Vries.

His tip line had become a magnet for freaks and hoaxes.

But one call sounded genuine.

WAYNE LENG: I got this one particular call from this

fellow named Bill, who told me this crazy story about

a pig farmer named Willie.

And he knew somebody out on the farm there, a woman out on

the farm he didn't name her but he did say that she was a

friend of Willie's and she cleaned for Willie

and this sort of thing.

And that she had told him that Willie in his mobile home had

woman's clothing and woman's identification, some clothing

with blood on them.

And that somebody should check this guy out cuz

he's really weird.

There might be something going on out there.

NARRATOR: The caller was Bill Hiscox.

His connection to the farm was Pickton's friend, Lisa Yelds.

BILL HISCOX: A lot of the things that I heard from Lisa

happened when I wasn't there but she was finding stuff that

just wasn't making sense: ID's clothing, stuff like that,

that Willie had told her just to burn and get rid of that

they, it meant nothing to him basically.

I started getting a little, a little antsy and she looked at

me and she just basically said to me

"Bill, I think this is where all the women are going".

And I says you know what man, who's gonna make the call here

because if that's the truth man and that's what's really

going on someone's gotta stop this, somebody needs to stop

what's going on here.

And she said "well, I'm not gonna do it".

I said "well I'm gonna do it then" and I don't care at

whatever cost I'm gonna do it.

NARRATOR: So police went to Lisa Yelds, hoping to verify

Hiscox's statement.

And she denied everything Hiscox had said.

LISA YELDS: The reason I didn't say much to the cops,

and they make take it as stonewalling, is for one,

I hate cops.

And two, I didn't see anything.

You give a cop an inch, they take a mile.

They turn around, take the story twist it ten ways to

Sunday and blow it up.

So then you're sitting in a pile of [beep] which you didn't

even say in the first [beep] place,

and they're twisting it in your face.

NARRATOR: Only Yelds knows exactly what she did

or didn't see in the trailer.

What is certain - Hiscox's hearsay was not enough

for a search warrant.

Police needed an eyewitness account from

Lisa Yelds to get one.

Without a warrant, a search would be illegal.

DET. RON LEPINE [RET]: Any evidence that is found to be

obtained illegally would not be admissible.

And you know your chances of getting a conviction

then so fall to zero.

The average Joe can meander onto somebody's property and

look in a window and see something but a policeman,

if he steps onto somebody's property, he has to have

grounds for doing that.

NARRATOR: The Hiscox tip was intriguing, but it was

one of many possibilities.

If the women had been murdered,

was a single killer responsible?

Or several different predators?

Homicide detective Ron Lepine was assigned to draw up

a list of possible suspects.

DET. RON LEPINE [RET]: So we're looking at people who have

shown violence towards prostitutes or maybe even

violence towards women in general.

NARRATOR: There was no shortage of criminals fitting

that description.

Dozens of men had been convicted for attacking or

killing prostitutes.

There were dozens more who'd been charged

but not convicted...

Like Willie Pickton.

CONST. DAVE DICKSON [RET]: We had a whole wall of names,

you know, and, and some people had actually

killed women before and gone to jail for it.

You know, so I mean there was other people that

I thought were better suspects.

NARRATOR: As police struggled to narrow the scope of their

mission, women continued to disappear.

NARRATOR: In early 1999, Willie Pickton was on

Vancouver Police radar, but he was one of many.

NARRATOR: New faces were joining the ever-changing

circle of need on the pig farm.

The latest addition - an unemployed fisherman fresh out

of treatment for his heroin addiction.

Andy Bellwood had met a friend of Gina Houston in rehab,

who introduced him to Willie.

ANDY BELLWOOD: He was a, he seemed to be a very generous

caring person that seemed to understand my situation that,

um somebody that you would grow very close

to very quickly.

Especially, you know in a time of desperation,

which I would call in my life.

Um, Finishing 6 months of treatment, I was feeling

pretty down and out at that time, and uh,

you know desperate to get back onto my feet.

He offered me, you know, odd jobs, you know,

"I'll pay you 50 bucks to clean up this scrap metal".

Or you know, "give me a hand fixing my pick-up truck", and

it never amounted to much-50 to 100 dollars here and there.

Just sporadic.

We spent hours, talking and talking, and talking.

It was a relationship that grew very, very quickly and it

seemed to grow very close.

I think he trusted me.

NARRATOR: While Bellwood was staying in the trailer,

Pickton continued to play white knight to the

down-and-out, taking in another addict,

who'd been kicked out of a women's shelter

for using drugs.

She'd also met Pickton through Gina Houston.

LYNN ELLINGSON: I thought it was great.

I thought it was great to be on the pig farm at the,

at the beginning, um, it was too good to be true.

You know, like ah I only had to do, you know, I didn't

really have to work that hard to make that much money, you

know, I'm used to busting my ass to to try and make my ends

meet by the end of the day.

And, um, you know, I just had to sit and talk on the phone

and take faxes and I thought it was great to have this kind

of money, and now having this kind of money, um, of course

my addiction was becoming a high habit a day.

Instead of, you know, opposed to a 20 rock a day, well he's

giving me a couple hundred dollars a day, so, I'm using a

couple hundred dollars a day.

It got to the point that I was always high now.

NARRATOR: Andy Bellwood had been staying at the trailer

for a month, when his relationship with

Pickton took an ominous turn.

ANDY BELLWOOD: So I was sitting in this chair watching

TV and Willie'd come through the door behind me, proceeded

into the bedroom, sat on the corner of his bed and

he continued to start a conversation with me as,

"Andy, do you want to get a hooker?

Let's go get a hooker."

And I just sat in the chair looking at him saying,

"No, I don't want to get a hooker, Willie, I'm not into

getting hookers."

"Come one Andy, let's get a hooker."

"No, Willie, I don't want to get a hooker."

Tried to keep contact with the TV.

Willie got up from the corner of the bed and he says,

"Andy", he says, "you know what I do with hookers?"

And he grabbed three items like this, one being

a leather belt, and a piece of wire of some kind,

and a pair of handcuffs.

He preceded onto his knees onto the bed, and pretended

there was a woman in front of him, stroking their hair.

He motioned with his left hand grabbing an arm that wasn't

really there and then with his other hand he pretended

to slip on handcuffs.

Once he got the handcuffs on, he grabbed his belt and he

motioned about getting this belt on their neck, stroking

their hair, saying, "It's was all going to be alright and

was gonna be all over now".

He got up from the bed sat back down and looked at me and

said, "do you know how much people bleed?

You wouldn't believe how much people bleed."

He says after that, he says that "I take them to the barn,

hang them and gut 'em".

I think that he thought that I was deep enough in my

addiction that I would probably go along with it.

And if I went along with it part way well then maybe

I'm already partway, now I'm going to go all the way....

NARRATOR: Four days after that conversation, Bellwood got

a surprise visit from two of Pickton's associates.

ANDY BELLWOOD: ..and they said, "We want to speak

to you in the trailer."

And I thought, oh ok, sure why not?

I didn't think anything of it.

I hadn't done anything wrong.

I followed them into the trailer, and as soon as I sat

down Lynn Ellingsen's boyfriend hit me.

They said "you had stolen equipment out

of Willie's trailer".

"What are you talking about?

I never stole anything out of your trailer."

I think it was just a scare tactic to scare me away from

ever opening my mouth about what happened between me

and Mr. Pickton.

NARRATOR: Bellwood wanted nothing more to do with the

farm and its secrets.

He didn't want to attract police attention either.

So he caught the next ferry to Vancouver Island, convincing

himself that justice would somehow take

its course without him.

ANDY BELLWOODS: If he is actually killing people,

the police will catch him because people don't kill people

without getting caught, really not my mind ever thinking at

the time that he could be a serial killer

or anything like that.

And I took you know people's advice, don't look back,

keep going, move on and forget about it.

NARRATOR: What Bellwood didn't know, police already had

Pickton on a list of possible suspects based on his run-on

with Stitch in 1997.

Information from Bellwood could have put Pickton

higher on that list.

DET. RON LEPINE [RET]: Had that information come forward

absolutely, that would be critical at the time.

And we were looking for anything along that line,

I assure you.

It would give us stronger grounds to go for that

all-important search warrants that we required, and ah, and

more of that sort of thing would have

certainly assisted us.

NARRATOR: Bellwood claims that Lynn Ellingsen was present

at the beating.

She denies it.

Whatever the truth, the beating apparently

didn't scare her.

A few days after Andy left, she went downtown with Willie

to pick up a hooker...

A choice that would have horrific consequences.

NARRATOR: Willie Pickton was looking for a prostitute on

the Downtown Eastside.

He'd brought his latest houseguest along for the ride.

LYNN ELLINGSON: I remember him stopping and this, this girl

came up and, um, he leaned over me, and propositioned

her, she looked at me and she said

"are you going back there?",

and I said "yah, I'm staying out there".

So she goes "okay well, as long as

you're gonna be there, I'll go".

She got in the truck.

We had all of our drugs now and we got some booze,

and we're happy, right?

We're nice and dry and, and Willie says

"Well, which one first"?

So, they went down to the room and, um, I went down to my

room, and for some odd reason, something was telling,

like brought me out of my room.

I didn't hear a word or anything, so I - I walked

right down to the door and I opened up the door and there

was nobody in the room, there was just clothes in the room.

And all I remember was seeing a light out of the corner of

my eye, there was a light on in that barn, and that was the

barn where he butchered his pigs.

LYNN ELLINGSON: So I, um, I started walking towards the barn

....And, um, I walked right up to the barn door, and

I pushed the door open, and that's when I seen the woman -

she was already hanging.

He pulled me inside the, inside the door behind,

right where the freezer used to sit, behind the door.

And he made me stand at the table and tell me that if

I said anything, that I'd be right beside her.

It was almost like my whole body froze.

And I just remember, um, being very scared.

"What am I going to do?"

And the first thing that, that came out was: "Don't worry,

I won't say a word, like whatever you do,

I just need money for drugs".

NARRATOR: On the Downtown Eastside,

more women had vanished.

Brenda Wolfe was one of them.

But it would be another year before anyone reported

her missing.

If she had gone to the farm, nobody noticed.

Ellingsen's description of the woman she and Pickton picked

up seems to best match Georgina Papin.

Dark hair.

High cheekbones.

She, too, disappeared in early 1999.

At that time, officers assigned to the missing

women's case were drowning in a flood of possible suspects.

DET. RON LEPINE [RET]: The list was growing, I would say

close to around 100 of, of potential people.

And the amount of, you know, prostitutes that were being

found to be missing was growing.

And it became, it started to mushroom.

NARRATOR: And public pressure exploded...

Hundreds turned out for a memorial to

those who'd disappeared.

One unforgettable face in the crowd - Sereena Abbotsway,

back on the street after being beaten almost

to death by a bad john.

She was pretty sure she'd be able to see

the next one coming.

MEDIA: Are you worried some stranger picking you up?

Like what if there is somebody going around murdering

all these girls?

Aren't you worried about the next trick

involved might be him?

SEREENA ABBOTSWAY: Yah, but I always go on

my 6th sense, yah.

If I don't like the way the guy is,

then I won't go with him.

NARRATOR: By now, the missing women were getting a lot of

media coverage.

Even 'America's Most Wanted' did a story.

The show's host posed alongside politicians and

police to publicize a reward.

HOST: And if there is a cunning serial killer in this area

or somebody that has been able to

abduct women over a period of time, like the Green River

killer in Seattle, and dispose of bodies, then this is this

is a way to get some information.

NARRATOR: Publicly, police continued to emphasize that

there were no bodies...

no concrete evidence of murder.

MEDIA: In the Case of these missing Woman,

we don't have a suspect.

In fact we don't have a crime.

MEDIA: We have no evidence whatsoever of

any crime being committed.

NARRATOR: But behind the scenes that very same week,

Vancouver Police were working with RCMP

on a possible breakthrough.

NARRATOR: In the summer of 99, Vancouver Police received a

tip from an associate of Willie Pickton.

An informant who claimed he'd heard a disturbing story

from Lynn Ellingsen.

DET. RON LEPINE [RET]: He's telling us what

Ellingson had said.

And basically he's saying that she said she saw, you know,

stumbled into the barn and saw something hanging on the, on

the hook and she didn't think it was a pig and that, you

know, and that Pickton was in there and he was cutting away

at the, whatever the object was on the, on the hook.

NARRATOR: But the informant, Ross Caldwell,

had a credibility problem.

DET. RON LEPINE: The problem with Ross was is he was

obviously he was an old time drug addict.

He was, uh, fighting, struggling with the addiction

and his thought process was not exactly

in a chronological order.

NARRATOR: Lepine believed Caldwell was

telling the truth.

But he had to persuade the informant to make an official

statement at the RCMP headquarters in Coquitlam-

because Pickton's property was on their home turf.

NARRATOR: That's when things went off the rails.

DET. RON LEPINE [RET]: He was in one of his periods of time

where he was literally higher than a kite.

And we brought him in and attempted to interview him and

it was an absolute total disaster.

An embarrassment, because he, just, he basically

he was all over the map.

He just couldn't concentrate.

NARRATOR: As far as the RCMP was concerned,

Cauldwell's credibility was zero.

CPL. FRANK HENLEY: After watching Ross' interview,

to be perfectly honest, I was left with a bad feeling that,

that day that he, that he wasn't telling the truth.

DET. RON LEPINE [RET]: So from a credibility point of view,

you know, he was going down in flames.

And, ah, so it was not a highlight of you know,

my career, to see your, your, witness who you felt, you

know, was being, you know, helpful, and, uh, suddenly his

credibility's going down.

And you know, everything he had done was just sort of

going down with it.

NARRATOR: Police had another problem.

Yet again, they needed an eyewitness account in order

to get a search warrant.

Their only hope was Lynn Ellingsen.

She'd moved off the farm, but Corporal Henley tracked her

down and persuaded her to come in for an interview.

CPL. FRANK HENLEY: She immediately recognized the fact

that it was Ross Cauldwell that had told us this,

and went off on what a liar he was,

and it wasn't true, and I don't know

why he's doing this to me and you know, Lynn was just - she

was not, she was just not gonna talk to anybody...

and just absolutely vehemently denied ever, ever, ever having

seen anything like that and she just point-blank said to

me, you know, "I'm f'in leaving here, that's it,

I'm done, and we had no reason to hold her.

We couldn't hold her there against her will.

She wasn't charged with anything.

NARRATOR: Ellingsen's uncooperative behavior got

Henley thinking.

Something she'd said before the interview took on new

meaning and would haunt him for years.

CPL. FRANK HENLEY: I was telling her, "you know, I know you

wouldn't do something like this Lynn, you're not that

kind of girl, you know, and such a horrific thing I'm sure

you wouldn't let that happen to another woman, you know you

would, you would come forward", and I was describing

the body, you know I'd been to autopsies and the fact that,

you know, bodies are dissected is really, you know, it's

really not a pleasant thing to sit through,

not a pleasant thing to see.

And it, it just sort of slipped out in the

conversation, and I have to say at that time it kind of,

it kind of even went over my head, that she said words to

the effect of that's gross, it's yellow and it's gross.

... and it wasn't until after her performance at Coquitlam

detachment and the ride back to Surrey that it dawned on me

that nobody would know that human fat is yellow unless

they've seen a body, unless they've seen

an eviscerated body.

NARRATOR: Henley persuaded Ellingsen to agree

to a lie detector test.

But on the day it was supposed to happen, she disappeared.

Years later, she'd admit she had a strong motive not to

tell police what she knew about Willie Pickton.

LYNNE ELLINGSON: Well by having the knowledge of the

barn incident, I did, uh, I did blackmail

him a couple of times.

I phoned him up, you know knowing that I was hurting

again for drugs, now my addiction went

right out of control.

And I'd phoned him up and, yeah, I blackmailed him.

CPL. FRANK HENLEY: I think it's safe to say that if Lynn had

have taken that test, if the polygraphist had have been

able to actually control her and it was a proper test, and

she was in the proper mindset, I think the polygraphist would

have been able to tell whether she was telling the truth or

not about what she saw.

And of course, if that had happened and she had have had

told the truth at that time of course it would have changed

the course of history.

But that's hindsight.

Only defense lawyers are armed with hindsight.

Never the police.

DET. RON LEPINE: It would have been a totally different game.

I suspect we could have found the grounds to legally enter

that property and get on the property and I suspect it

would have, it would have changed big time.

NARRATOR: And Willie Pickton would likely have been

arrested 2 years earlier.

During that time, eleven more women would disappear.

NARRATOR: Pickton was put under surveillance

- a joint operation between Vancouver Police and the RCMP.

DET. RON LEPINE [RET]: Surveillance was put on him but

he was what we would classify as an inactive target.

He wasn't going anywhere.

He wasn't doing anything.

NARRATOR: If Pickton had picked up a prostitute while

under surveillance, police would have had

an even bigger problem.

DET. RON LEPINE [RET]: Morally, there's no way that we could

ever gather evidence by that way because we would just

simply have to go and we could not allow ah, a prostitute to

get in the car with him because, you know, we could

lose him and then, you know, she's at, her life's at risk,

and morally we could never allow that.

NARRATOR: On one occasion, police did spot Pickton with

someone in his truck.

When they pulled him over, it turned out to be his friend

Gina Houston's 13-year-old daughter.

The surveillance operation was blown.

NARRATOR: The investigation into Pickton stalled.

The wider investigation into other suspects continued.

And more women disappeared.

Then a bizarre turn of events.

Pickton suddenly showed unannounced up

at RCMP headquarters.

NARRATOR: Police had visited Willie Pickton's farm on

several occasions, but whenever they showed up,

Pickton wasn't around.

Then suddenly...

Pickton showed up at the Coquitlam RCMP station

unannounced...

on his time and his terms, catching the police

interviewers by surprise.

He brought along a friend for back up.

Gina Houston had lots of experience

dealing with police.

GINA HOUSTON: When Willie and I went to um the RCMP station

for that six and a half hour interview, they had nothing.

They just had concerns.

They'd been watching Willie.

Obviously they didn't find enough

to do anything about it.

NARRATOR: According to Gina Houston, Pickton was a model

of cooperation, just trying to clear up a misunderstanding.

GINA HOUSTON: He said, "I want this all to stop."

Anytime, day or night, he said, "just phone when you're

at the gate so they can stop the machine

so you don't get hurt".

You can come anytime, day or night, whenever you want, get

all the DNA samples you want.

Please do I want this all to stop.

Please come, please do it, I'd like this to stop.

I'd like it to all be over with."

NARRATOR: Police did visit the farm that same week.

Pickton invited them into his trailer.

But there was nothing suspicious in plain view.

Another dead end.

And now, other suspects were making headlines.

Police arrested Barry Thomas Neidermeyer for assaulting

several prostitutes and revealed he was also being

investigated in connection with the missing women.

NARRATOR: Another person of strong interest was

Robert Yates, an American who just been arrested for

murdering prostitutes in Washington State.

REPORTER: Authorities say they have definite evidence linking

Yates to nine homicides in all...

DET. RON LEPINE [RET]: You have to look at the big picture.

You can never just cast a blind eye to one part of the

investigation and focus only on one area because that will

come to bite you when you go into court and they'll always

ask the question, "well, you said you did this to this

person, did you do the same thing with that person?

And if the answer starts to be "no, I only did it to this

guy, those are the only questions we ever asked this

guy, we never asked that of anyone else", then you just,

you're putting, you're setting yourself up for, for disaster.

NARRATOR: On the farm, Willie now had another frequent

visitor from the Downtown Eastside.

DINAH TAYLOR: Well I asked him if I could like rent a place

off him, something like that and he says "yeah no problem".

So I stayed out there not to often, off and on cuz you know

at that time I was in the methadone program so at that

time I was doing heroin and crack cocaine and

I was always, like, in places back and forth back

and forth you know.

Willie always sort of didn't want me to come downtown and

hang out with people that do drugs he was like really

protective in that way.

Mostly Willie was trying to help me get off the street and

get off drugs and be a good person.

NARRATOR: Meanwhile, the whole investigation

was going nowhere, fast.

Vancouver police admitted they were no closer to finding most

of the missing women than they'd been two-and-a-half

years earlier.

VICKI: Frustrating for you because you're nowhere,

really, with this.

LORI SHENHER: You know, two-and-a-half years of

working on it and all I'm at - the place I'm at now is that

now I know just a lot more places they're not.

But I have- I am no closer to, like you know people ask

me to speculate-you can't, I don't know.

NARRATOR: After a year of virtual paralysis,

Vancouver Police admitted they needed help.

They called the RCMP.

Finally, an official joint task force was created.

Codename: Project Evenhanded.

The mandate: an in-depth review of everything on file.

Thousands of tips and hundreds of persons of interest.

NARRATOR: In the following months,

more women disappeared.

ELAINE ALLAN: It's hard to talk about all the women

I knew that went missing.

I knew 20 women who went missing.

And it's a, that's a lot of women.

Um, the climate inside the centre was like that every

night that there was always this fear we knew there was

some monster out there, knew there was some evil dark force

that was at work and the likelihood of someone going

missing, just not showing up was so probable that ya, when

I would say goodbye sometimes to women at the centre I often

just didn't know if I'd ever see them again.

NARRATOR: Meanwhile, Lynn Ellingsen's adamant denials

from two years earlier continued to haunt

Corporal Frank Henley, even though he was working

in another department.

CPL. FRANK HENLEY: It just still eating at me that

I had been unsuccessful with Lynn.

And if you are a cop, you can't stand it.

You gotta know.

We're just nosy, that's why we do what we do.

And, and I, I just, I just needed to know, I needed to go

meet this guy, that, that, you know, rumour had it, had cut

this woman up his pig farm.

NARRATOR: Even though he was not assigned to the case,

Henley asked his superiors if he could pay Pickton

an "unofficial" visit.

CPL. FRANK HENLEY: Drove over there, drove into the yard.

I said, you know, "I'm looking for Willie Pickton", and he

said "I'm Willie Pickton", and I said "well, I'm Frank

Hanley, I'm with the RCMP homicide unit",

and he didn't flinch, didn't bother him at all, right?

CPL. FRANK HENLEY: Sort of worked that into, you know

"how come the police are interested in you Willie?"

like "what's going on?"

And he actually told me about this guy and this girl that

had been trying to blackmail him and told me this sad story

about how he had been so good to them and helped them out

and done things for them, gave them a place to stay,

gave them a job when they had no money.

CPL. FRANK HENLEY: Well, I suggested to Willie sort of at

the end of our, our little informal chat that if there

was a problem with the police that we could arrange for him

to take a polygraph.

And he gave me this stock answer that, uh, that you

generally you get when you make that suggestion to, to

certain people that, uh, "yah, yah, I'll think about that,

maybe, maybe, yah."

And that was it.

So, I mean, it did not go anywhere.

And I said, "well, you know thanks Willie, thanks for

talkin' to me", you know, "and I hope we get this cleared

up", and I extended my hand and he shook my hand and it

was just - like, I don't know if it's a man thing, I know

it's not just a cop thing - I'm sure it's just

a man thing.

It was the wettest, limpest, grossest thing I've ever felt

from another man in my life, it just,

it just creeped me out.

CPL. FRANK HENLEY: He's unobtrusive, he's quiet,

he's polite, you know the way he lives, he's messy and you know

like all of these things that the FBI profilers

over the years had, had set out.

And I thought to myself, you know he fits perfectly the

description of a serial killer.

NARRATOR: 22-year-old Andrea Joesbury was making progress

breaking her addiction.

Her pharmacist reported her missing after she'd missed her

methadone treatment several days in a row.

PHARMACIST: It kind worried me so I tried to find out

what happened.

So on the third day I went and looked for her and, ah,

she's not there.

NARRATOR: Andrea was an acquaintance of Dinah Taylor,

who was hanging out at Pickton's place.

Taylor doesn't deny that she and Joesbury

were at the farm together.

But today, she refuses to say Andrea's name.

DINAH TAYLOR: I know people are trying to accuse me for

the person you're talking about but it ain't true and

I ain't gonna take no rap or anything I don't know nothing

and I don't want to know anything.

Like I'm not trying to cover my ass or Willie's ass, or

anybody's ass I just don't know nothing and I don't want

to talk about this person or that person so

subject is now closed.

Thank you.

NARRATOR: Sereena Abbotsway was a neighborhood character.

When she vanished, everyone noticed.

Two years earlier, she'd told police her sixth sense would

keep her out of trouble.

SEREENA ABBOTSWAY: If I don't like the way the guy is,

then I wont go with him

NARRATOR: Sereena's disappearance was the latest

chapter in a long story of heartache for her foster

parents, Dutch immigrants who'd rescued Sereena when she

was abandoned by their birth mother.

ANNA DRAAYERS: Sereena and her siblings were found in

downtown Vancouver, the three of them in a room, actually

the baby was in another room.

And so they finally opened the rooms up and found the kids,

like the youngest one sat in her own feces, the two older

ones, Sereena was the only one who was walking around.

The brother could not walk at all because he was tied down

with his legs to the crib.

NARRATOR: Gina Houston claims that she saw Sereena on

Pickton's farm, hanging out with Dinah Taylor.

GINA HOUSTON: Sereena came there to get off drugs and

I walked in the trailer one day and Serena and her were

shooting up and smoking crack.

And they told Willie that they weren't doing any drugs.

I went back to the barn to tell Willie that they were and

he goes, "No they're not."

And I go, "Yeah they are Willie."

But by the time Willie had gone in there they'd had it

all cleaned up.

NARRATOR: Sereena Abotsway is another victim that

Dinah Taylor refuses to talk about.

DINAH TAYLOR: What you just said, that didn't even happen.

I never, ever shot up at all.

Like now this is, this thing is gonna be finished ASP now,

because this happened like yesterday, I'm not here to

give a confession to anybody, so this thing is now over.

See ya.... Over.

Over.

It's over.

No I don't wanna talk no more.

NARRATOR: Those who'd hoped the new police task force

would make a speedy breakthrough, were in for a

brutal wake-up call.

Project Evenhanded had made a startling discovery.

At least a dozen more women were unaccounted for.

Some had been reported missing long ago, and should have been

on the list much sooner.

The original Vancouver city police investigation came

under attack as flawed, short staffed,

and plagued by infighting.

NARRATOR: As the Task Force grappled with the new

information, two more women disappeared.

Dianne Rock.

Age 34.

And 26-year-old Mona Wilson.

NARRATOR: The same week Mona was reported missing,

Gina Houston says she heard something odd during a phone

conversation with Pickton.

GINA HOUSTON: There what sounded to be a knock or

something and Willie said, "Hang on."

And he said hello or come in or something, there were a

couple of feminine voices and a masculine voice.

I couldn't say at the trial that it was two women and one

man because I wasn't there to see.

But what sounded like two females and one male.

And Willie had said hang on for a sec, he was talking a

bit and all of the sudden I heard Willie say,

"not here no, don't do that."

Um, It sounded like a fight or something had broken out.

There's, um, you know a bit of screaming and scuffling, and

Willie's um, still with the phone saying, um, what's he

saying, "no not here, stop", or something, um.

Then all of the sudden the phone went dead.

NARRATOR: Police admitted they were still swamped with

suspects, including America's infamous Green River Killer,

who now had a name and a face.

A few days earlier, Gary Leon Ridgeway had been arrested

near Seattle.

He would eventually plead guilty to murdering 48 women

in the '80s and '90s.

NARRATOR: Gina Houston says a few days after her phone chat

with Willie, she went to the farm, to pick up a pig he'd

butchered for her.

GINA HOUSTON: When I went down to the farm after the

incident, when I heard the scuffle on the phone, I walked

into the piggery and just something was not right.

And I turned around behind me, and the freezer behind the

door which never has anything on it, has a blanket over it

with brand new tools laid out, like just so precise.

In all the time I'd been down there never, ever has this

ever been.

Especially not no clean towel or brand new tools, you know

what I mean?

So I started walking over to the freezer and I went to go

put my hand and something told me to stop, and I turned

around and I looked at Willie and there was like a tear in

his eye and he's like, shaking his head, "don't", you know,

"don't".

NARRATOR: Pickton may have gotten away with murder for

many more months - even years.

But police were about to get a tip, setting off a chain of

events that would break the case wide open.

NARRATOR: At the beginning of 2002, Willie Pickton was just

one of forty top-priority suspects in the case of the

missing women.

A tip from a former farm employee was about

to change that.

Like many other Pickton associates, Scott Chubb's

history was less than squeaky-clean.

SCOTT CHUBB: I spent almost ten years of my life in jail.

I did juvi time, provincial time, federal time.

I have a very colourful past but and I admit to it 100% but

that's not where my headspace is at today and,

you know, I'm over it.

NARRATOR: Chubb told police there were illegal weapons on

Pickton's property, hoping he might get paid for his tip.

SCOTT CHUBB: I never seen him actually use the gun on the

property, right?

I mean, I'd seen the guns on the property and stuff and,

and you know I'd even asked to use them to shoot em on the

property and never had a problem -"Yeah go ahead" he

said, you know and didn't have an issue with it, but I mean

as far as what he would, what his intentions and what he was

doing with the guns I wouldn't know.

I wouldn't know.

NARRATOR: Chubb's tip-off was not related to the missing

women, but his eyewitness report gave police grounds to

get onto Pickton's property legally, when he wasn't

expecting them.

This time, they found women's clothing, ID, syringes and an

asthma inhaler with Sereena Abotsway's name on it.

NARRATOR: Now they had grounds to scour the entire farm for

evidence of murder.

LISA YELDS: The last time I seen Willie he was very

stressed out.

It looked like he had lost weight.

He looked very, very tired, very haggard.

And he asked me this question, he goes, "If I end up in

jail," he says, "will you come visit me?"

I says, "Willie, you're not gonna go to jail what could

you have possibly done to go to jail?"

I think he knew what was going to happen to him, that he was

in really, really big trouble and he didn't know what to do.

POLICE OFFICER, MEDIA : The Missing Women's Joint Task

Force is announcing that Robert William Pickton age 52

years, of Port Coquitlam, was charged today with two counts

of first-degree murder.

STAFF SGT. DOUG MACKAY-DUNN [RET]: When I heard that Pickton

was arrested and they were setting up a crime scene,

I was asked about this.

I said it's going to be one of the most horrendous crime

scenes ever investigated, the individuals involved in that

investigation are going to have nightmares

till the day they die.

Nobody is ever gonna be the same again.

MEDIA : ... a police search of Pickton's farm revealed body

parts severed heads and hands.

It sparked the largest investigation

in Canadian history.

ANNA DRAAYERS: As much as we've been told she was found

in a bucket in the freezer.

They found her head, two hands, and two feet.

The rest was not there.

NARRATOR: In the same freezer as Sereena Abotsway's remains

were those of Andrea Joesbury.

On other parts of Pickton's property, investigators found

bones and teeth matching Mona Wilson, Brenda Wolfe, Georgina

Papin and Marnie Frey, along with DNA and belongings linked

to more than two dozen other women.

"STITCH": When I found out he was finally arrested,

I happened to be up in a hotel room with a

girlfriend of mine.

And, um, we just happened to see it on TV, and it was like

my heart stopped and I just looked at the TV and I said to

her "lookit, there's that trailer I was at."

It was a whole new feeling from what he had done to me to

find out he was the guy killing all these girls.

MEDIA : It is becoming depressingly familiar - names

of the latest women who police say were murdered

by Robert Pickton.

MEDIA : Heather Gabriel Chinook, Inga Monique Hall,

Tanya Marlow Holyk and Sherry Lee Irving...

REPORTER: With today's four new charges, an unhappy

historical moment for Canada

POLICE SPOKESWOMAN: This case is now the largest

serial killer investigation in Canadian history.

CONST. DAVE DICKSON [RET]: I didn't feel very

good at all, actually.

You know, probably the one time in my career that I had

to go talk to somebody.

You know, because I had some difficulty with it, cuz when

I, I guess I finally realized what was happening, you know,

it wasn't a good feeling at all.

And only because I'd gotten close to the women.

You know, so I didn't feel good about it.

I guess I felt good because, you know, they'd found the

person responsible, you know, but it wasn't a good feeling.

NARRATOR: Police arrested three people who'd spent time

at the farm, but none of them were ever charged in

connection with the missing women.

DINAH TAYLOR: See ya. Over. Over.

NARRATOR: Dinah Taylor.

DINAH TAYLOR: It's over.

NARRATOR: A farm employee, Pat Casanova, who'd helped Pickton

butcher pigs and admitted to using prostitutes

on the property.

And Lynn Ellingsen.

After she was arrested, she finally decided

to tell the truth.

She had seen a body hanging in the barn.

Now, she became the prosecution's star witness.

NARRATOR: Pickton was charged with 26 murders in all.

The judge believed a jury would be confused by more than

2 dozen charges.

So he split the case into two separate trials.

NARRATOR: The jury found Pickton guilty in the first

6 murders, but with a twist that stunned investigators.

MEDIA : For the death of Serena Abbotsway,

Robert Pickton is guilty of second degree murder.

Mona Wilson, second degree murder, Andrea Joesbury....

the jury found Pickton guilty of second degree murder,

not first, because it wasn't convinced he planned

the murders.

NARRATOR: Second degree murder for Pickton.

Twenty more charges still on the books and nobody else on

trial, a disappointing result for many of

the victim's families.

ELAINE ALLAN: Do I think he acted alone?

I think he acted alone most of the time but I don't think he

acted alone all of the time.

ANDY BELLWOOD: I feel that Willie recruited people

in helping him.

I think that Willie acted on some of the killings alone and

I think he acted on some of the killings

with other people.

I feel there's other people involved, I think there's a

lot of evidence pointing towards other people involved.

LISA YELDS: Willie needs to go to jail for what

Willie did wrong.

So if he's guilty of X number of murders, or disposal of

bodies, he needs to go to jail for that.

But if there's other people involved,

they need to go to jail for that.

Not Willie Pickton.