Winnipeg Free Press

• 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

  I Lisa Bigjohn, went through the great loss of losing my sister. It has affected my life a lot. I now live in a dark world.

  Because of this person’s actions, my life has totally changed. I am not the same person I used to be. A part of me is still out there searching for her. Sometimes I see someone that looks like her and it shocks me. I can’t shake the manner of her death.

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• Pickton verdict disappoints ex-investigator

  By Lori Culbert 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. <Continued>

• 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. <Continued>

• Quicksketches of major players in the Robert Pickton trial

   NEW WESTMINSTER, B.C. - Here is a quicksketch of convicted serial killer Robert Pickton: <Continued>

• Legal observers opine on why jury reached second-degree verdicts

  Greg Joyce And Stephanie Levitz  NEW WESTMINSTER, B.C. - They were verdicts that virtually no one had expected. <Continued>

• 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: <Continued>

• Families flee courtroom during Pickton verdict

  By Stephanie Levitz and Greg Joyce 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. <Continued>

• Pickton had dreams beyond his junk-strewn pig farm

  By Greg Joyce and Stephanie Levitz 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. <Continued>

• 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. <Continued>

• Six counts of second-degree murder

  By Greg Joyce and Stephanie Levitz NEW WESTMINSTER, B.C. -- There were gasps, then muffled cheers as Robert Pickton was found guilty Sunday of six counts of second-degree murder. <Continued>

• 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. <Continued>

• Victim Profile: Andrea Joesbury

  By Dirk Meissner / THE CANADIAN PRESS Andrea Joesbury was the kind of big sister little sisters dream about. <Continued>

• Victim Profile: Marnie Frey

  By Alison Auld / THE CANADIAN PRESS 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. <Continued>

• Victim Profile: Mona Wilson

  By Stephanie Levitz / The Canadian Press Blocks away from where she sold herself in the last years of her life, Mona Wilson’s brother tried to sell her in death. <Continued>

• Victim Profile: Sereena Abotsway

  By Dirk Meissner / THE CANADIAN PRESS 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. <Continued>

• Victim Profile: Georgina Faith Papin

  By Stephanie Levitz / THE CANADIAN PRESS One whiff of sage and Georgina Faith Papin’s memory comes alive for her daughter. <Continued>

• Victim Profile: Brenda Wolfe

  By Steve Mertl / The Canadian Press Brenda Wolfe liked country music and jazz, liked to dance, liked a joke. <Continued>

• Vast crime scene a symbol of serial-murder case

  By Greg Joyce 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. <Continued>

• Excerpts from Picton’s defence summation

  The Canadian Press 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:
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