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Brian Hutchinson on the Pickton Inquiry: Whole story still untold (1)

Near the end of the hearings, with questions still hanging and more tempers flaring, and police and their counsel pointing fingers again, a lawyer for one RCMP witness approached this reporter. “What are we doing here? Look at all of … Continue reading

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Hutchinson: Pickton inquiry under fire to the end

Cameron Ward was not long into his closing submission Monday morning when the fireworks started. Or resumed, for there have been many eruptions, explosions and bitter exchanges involving the lawyer and Missing Women Commission of Inquiry boss Wally Oppal since … Continue reading

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Deadly Dysfunction: Scathing undisclosed details from inside the Pickton investigation

Lori Shenher thought her career as a police officer was over. The reasons: Pickton trauma. Burn-out. Guilt, the result of failure. Anger. For more than two years, from 1998 to 2000, Ms. Shenher had led a Vancouver Police Department unit … Continue reading

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Robert Pickton wore wigs during ‘hunt’ for women, inquiry told

VANCOUVER — Almost two years to the day before police searched Robert Pickton’s now-notorious pig farm, police knew the man was “hunting” for women while in disguise, the missing women’s inquiry was told Thursday. A now-retired RCMP profiler told the … Continue reading

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Hutchinson: Robert Pickton inquiry goes off the rails

Robyn Gervais was offered what must have seemed the biggest assignment of her young legal career. She was asked to represent aboriginal interests at the inquiry called to examine botched police investigations of Vancouver’s missing women and their sluggish pursuit … Continue reading

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Police came close to ‘slam-dunk’ conviction of Pickton in 1998

Serial killer Robert Pickton would probably have been convicted of murder in 1998, four years before he was arrested, if a street prostitute who escaped after being violently attacked had died during care for her wounds, the Pickton inquiry has … Continue reading

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Hutchinson: Pickton inquiry evidence points to failure of individual officers

There are lawyers, dozens of them. New ones arrive almost daily at the Missing Women Commission of Inquiry, called to examine how police investigations did not lead to the timely arrest of serial killer Robert “Willie” Pickton. The inquiry has … Continue reading

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Derogatory comments by detectives, clerk hindered Pickton investigation, senior officer says

Derogatory statements about prostitutes by two police officers and a civilian clerk hindered the work of the Vancouver police investigation into missing women, a senior officer has told the Pickton inquiry. Vancouver Deputy Chief Doug LePard told the inquiry Tuesday … Continue reading

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