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On the Farm

Robert William Pickton and the Tragic Story of Vancouver's Missing Women

Robert William Pickton and the Tragic Story of Vancouver's Missing Women

Robert William Pickton and the Tragic Story of Vancouver's Missing Women

By Stevie Cameron

By Stevie Cameron

By Stevie Cameron

By Stevie Cameron

By Stevie Cameron
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By Stevie Cameron
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Category: True Crime

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Paperback $19.95

Oct 25, 2011 | ISBN 9780676975857

Ebook $14.99

Aug 13, 2010 | ISBN 9780676978650

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Apr 19, 2022 | 1558 Minutes

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    About On the Farm

    Verteran investigative journalist Stevie Cameron first began following the story of missing women in 1998, when the odd newspaper piece appeared chronicling the disappearances of drug-addicted sex trade workers from Vancouver’s notorious Downtown Eastside. It was not until February 2002 that pig farmer Robert William Pickton would be arrested, and 2008 before he was found guilty, on six counts of second-degree murder. These counts were appealed and in 2010, the Supreme Court of Canada rendered its conclusion. The guilty verdict was upheld, and finally this unprecedented tale of true crime could be told.
         Covering the case of one of North America’s most prolific serial killers gave Stevie Cameron access not only to the story as it unfolded over many years in two British Columbia courthouses, but also to information unknown to the police – and not in the transcripts of their interviews with Pickton – such as from Pickton’s long-time best friend, Lisa Yelds, and from several women who survived terrifying encounters with him. Cameron uncovers what was behind law enforcement’s refusal to believe that a serial killer was at work.

    About On the Farm

    Verteran investigative journalist Stevie Cameron first began following the story of missing women in 1998, when the odd newspaper piece appeared chronicling the disappearances of drug-addicted sex trade workers from Vancouver’s notorious Downtown Eastside. It was not until February 2002 that pig farmer Robert William Pickton would be arrested, and 2008 before he was found guilty, on six counts of second-degree murder. These counts were appealed and in 2010, the Supreme Court of Canada rendered its conclusion. The guilty verdict was upheld, and finally this unprecedented tale of true crime could be told.
         Covering the case of one of North America’s most prolific serial killers gave Stevie Cameron access not only to the story as it unfolded over many years in two British Columbia courthouses, but also to information unknown to the police – and not in the transcripts of their interviews with Pickton – such as from Pickton’s long-time best friend, Lisa Yelds, and from several women who survived terrifying encounters with him. Cameron uncovers what was behind law enforcement’s refusal to believe that a serial killer was at work.

    About On the Farm

    Verteran investigative journalist Stevie Cameron first began following the story of missing women in 1998, when the odd newspaper piece appeared chronicling the disappearances of drug-addicted sex trade workers from Vancouver’s notorious Downtown Eastside. It was not until February 2002 that pig farmer Robert William Pickton would be arrested, and 2008 before he was found guilty, on six counts of second-degree murder. These counts were appealed and in 2010, the Supreme Court of Canada rendered its conclusion. The guilty verdict was upheld, and finally this unprecedented tale of true crime could be told.
         Covering the case of one of North America’s most prolific serial killers gave Stevie Cameron access not only to the story as it unfolded over many years in two British Columbia courthouses, but also to information unknown to the police – and not in the transcripts of their interviews with Pickton – such as from Pickton’s long-time best friend, Lisa Yelds, and from several women who survived terrifying encounters with him. Cameron uncovers what was behind law enforcement’s refusal to believe that a serial killer was at work.

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    About Stevie Cameron

    A woman of many talents, Stevie Cameron is a successful author, investigative journalist, commentator and humanitarian. Her investigative reports have been published by the Globe and Mail and Maclean’s, among others, and her award-winning books have brought scandals to the… More about Stevie Cameron

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    A woman of many talents, Stevie Cameron is a successful author, investigative journalist, commentator and humanitarian. Her investigative reports have been published by the Globe and Mail and Maclean’s, among others, and her award-winning books have brought scandals to the… More about Stevie Cameron

    About Stevie Cameron

    A woman of many talents, Stevie Cameron is a successful author, investigative journalist, commentator and humanitarian. Her investigative reports have been published by the Globe and Mail and Maclean’s, among others, and her award-winning books have brought scandals to the… More about Stevie Cameron

    Product Details

    Category: True Crime

    Paperback | $19.95
    Published by Vintage Canada
    Oct 25, 2011 | 768 Pages | 6 x 9 | ISBN 9780676975857

    Category: True Crime

    Ebook | $14.99
    Published by Knopf Canada
    Aug 13, 2010 | 768 Pages | ISBN 9780676978650

    Category: True Crime | Audiobooks

    Audiobook Download | $24.95
    Published by Vintage Canada
    Apr 19, 2022 | 1558 Minutes | ISBN 9781039005747

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    Praise

    NATIONAL BESTSELLER

    “Rich with detail. . . . Should you buy this book and read it? Definitely.”
     — Neil Boyd, The Globe and Mail

    “Stevie Cameron, who brought the art of political investigative journalism in Canada to new heights over the last three decades, has distinguished herself and her profession once again… [On the Farm] will surely remain a classic for generations of crime readers to come.”
     — Winnipeg Free Press

    “On the Farm is the book you were hoping for… A hard-hitting look at the botched police investigations of Pickton.”
     — The Vancouver Sun

    “No writer knows this story better than Cameron… [On the Farm] will go down as the definitive resource on the Pickton affair.”
     — Maclean’s

    “Stevie Cameron has written yet another great book exposing, as is her wont, the ‘comfortable establishment’ in our country of indifference to societal ills that might be expensive nuisances to deal with.”
     — The Tyee

    Awards

    British Columbia’s National Award for Canadian Non-Fiction NOMINEE 2011

    Arthur Ellis Award for Best Non-Fiction FINALIST 2011

    Charles Taylor Prize for Literary Non-Fiction FINALIST 2011

    Table Of Contents

    Maps
    Author’s note
     
    Part One: The Family
    Prologue: Jane Doe
    1. The Family Farm
    2. Dominion Avenue
    3. A Mother’s Will
    4. The Pickton Brothers
    5. Geography Speaks
    6. Cops under Fire
    7. A Motley Crew
    8. Prime Suspect
    9. The Trials of Kim Rossmo and the Growing List of Missing Women
    10. Lisa Yelds
    11. Piggy’s Palace
    12. Maggy Gisle, Cara Ellis and Sandra Gail Ringwald
    13. Gina and Willie and More Missing Women
    14. Sherry Irving and Marnie Frey
    15. The Worst Year
    16. Sarah de Vries and Sheila Egan
    17. A Doomed Investigation
    18. Project Amelia: A Bad Start
    19. Roommates
     
    Part Two: The Missing Women
    20. What They Saw
    21. What Did the Police Do?
    22. Closing In on Willie
    23. Another Close Call
    24. Deadly Girlfriends
    25. Rossmo Out
    26. Panic on Skid Row
    27. The File Review
    28. Do Something
    29. A Newsroom Leads the Way
    30. Police on Trial
    31. The Last Woman
    32. The Rookie Cop
    33. Twenty-Four Hours
    34. The Largest Crime Scene in Canadian History
    35. Scott Chubb
     
    Part Three: On the Farm
    36. Getting Ready for Willie
    37. Mike Petrie Wants the Job
    38. The Cell Plant
    39. The Fordy Interview
    40. Don Adam Takes Over
    41. Back in the Cell
    42. Taking Willie to the Judge
    43. In the Workshop
    44. The Forensic Team
    45. Talking to the Families
    46. What the Dead Reveal
    47. Willie Goes to Court
    48. Telling Tales: Andy Bellwood, Sandra Gail Ringwald and Gina Houston
    49. The Last Witnesses
    50. The Aristocracy of Victimhood
    51. From Twenty-Six to Six
    52. The Jury
    53. Guilty! But of What?
     
    Aftermath
    Acknowledgments
    Photo Credits
    Index

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