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Pickton sentencing: Victim impact statements

Some of the victim-impact statements delivered Tuesday in B.C. Supreme Court in New Westminster, B.C., at the sentencing hearing of Robert Pickton for six counts of second-degree murder:

Mona Wilson’s sister

1. Pickton verdict disappoints ex-investigator

   NEW WESTMINSTER, B.C. -- The man who led the RCMP task force that investigated missing women on Vancouver's Downtown Eastside expressed his disappointment Monday about the verdict in the Robert (Willie) Pickton murder trial. Updated 12:40 AM 12/11/07

2. Quotes following the verdict in the Robert Pickton trial

   Some of what was said after a B.C. Supreme Court jury in New Westminster, B.C., found Robert Pickton guilty of six counts of second-degree murder. Updated 10:07 AM 12/10/07

3. Quicksketches of major players in the Robert Pickton trial

   NEW WESTMINSTER, B.C. - Here is a quicksketch of convicted serial killer Robert Pickton: Updated 10:05 AM 12/10/07

4. Legal observers opine on why jury reached second-degree verdicts

   NEW WESTMINSTER, B.C. - They were verdicts that virtually no one had expected. Updated 10:01 AM 12/10/07

5. A list of notorious Canadian multiple murderers

   Robert Pickton's conviction on six second-degree murder counts and his upcoming trial on 20 first-degree counts puts the Port Coquitlam, B.C., pig farmer into an exclusive, notorious group of Canadian multiple murderers. Others include: Updated 9:58 AM 12/10/07

6. Families flee courtroom during Pickton verdict

   NEW WESTMINSTER -- A euphoric Greg Garley cheered after getting the answer he'd been waiting for years -- Robert Pickton killed his foster sister Mona Wilson. Updated 4:31 PM 12/09/07

7. Pickton had dreams beyond his junk-strewn pig farm

   NEW WESTMINSTER, B.C. -- Robert Pickton once had dreams of life beyond his filthy trailer on a junk-strewn property pockmarked with abandoned vehicles, piles of dirt and the remains of 26 human beings. Updated 3:23 PM 12/09/07

8. Families want say if verdict is guilty

   VANCOUVER -- If jurors conclude Robert (Willie) Pickton killed Georgina Papin, her sister wants the trial judge to know that Papin was a beautiful, generous and caring person. Updated 11:55 PM 12/08/07

9. Six counts of second-degree murder

   NEW WESTMINSTER, B.C. -- There were gasps, then muffled cheers as Robert Pickton was found guilty Sunday of six counts of second-degree murder. Updated 11:45 AM 01/15/08

10. Christmas tree symbolic for victims' families

    NEW WESTMINSTER, B.C. -- When some of the media crews arrived Friday to begin another day of waiting while a jury deliberated the fate of accused serial-killer Robert Pickton, they discovered a Christmas tree with lights, a fancy glass tree-topper -- and 26 angels. Updated 12:55 AM 12/08/07

11. Victim Profile: Andrea Joesbury

    Andrea Joesbury was the kind of big sister little sisters dream about. Updated 12:57 PM 12/02/07

12. Victim Profile: Marnie Frey

    Rick Frey never knew what his daughter Marnie would be wearing when she'd stroll through the front door of the family home after a long day at school. Updated 1:20 PM 12/02/07

13. Victim Profile: Mona Wilson

    Blocks away from where she sold herself in the last years of her life, Mona Wilson’s brother tried to sell her in death. Updated 12:31 PM 12/02/07

14. Victim Profile: Sereena Abotsway

    The cold, dark ocean waters of Burrard Inlet offered Sereena Abotsway the spiritual home she sought but never found on the hopeless streets of Vancouver's Downtown Eastside. Updated 1:29 PM 12/02/07

15. Victim Profile: Georgina Faith Papin

    One whiff of sage and Georgina Faith Papin’s memory comes alive for her daughter. Updated 12:28 PM 12/02/07

16. Victim Profile: Brenda Wolfe

    Brenda Wolfe liked country music and jazz, liked to dance, liked a joke. Updated 1:10 PM 12/02/07

17. Vast crime scene a symbol of serial-murder case

    VANCOUVER -- Try to imagine a 17-hectare crime scene. Not one room, or even one building, but an area the size of 17 football fields, a crime scene littered with abandoned vehicles, trucks, machinery, outbuildings, massive dirt piles. Updated 12:19 PM 12/01/07

18. Excerpts from Picton’s defence summation

    Part of the final summation from defence lawyer Adrian Brooks at Robert Pickton’s trial in B.C. Supreme Court in New Westminster, B.C., on six counts of first-degree murder:

    Updated 8:16 PM 11/21/07

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