Serial killer Robert William Pickton, a pig farmer who butchered women as if they were animals, has grabbed headlines across the country for almost a decade. We have learned more than many want to know about this wretched man and his depraved killings. But we still do not have a final reckoning. The questions remain: Who did he kill? Could he have been stopped sooner? Why did he do it?
Three years ago, bestselling author Stevie Cameron, who is well known for her writing on politics and on former prime minister Brian Mulroney, shifted to true crime to start a conversation about Pickton. As his trial began in 2007, she came out with The Pickton File, a highly personal account of her efforts to piece together what happened.
With On the Farm: Robert William Pickton and the Tragic Story of Vancouver’s Missing Women, released this summer after his conviction on six murders was upheld by the Supreme Court of Canada, Cameron has taken herself out...
Robert Matas is a journalist, formerly of The Globe and Mail, based in Vancouver. He has written extensively about the missing women of Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside, the Robert Pickton trial and British Columbia’s Missing Women Commission of Inquiry.
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