Finding and Testing the Evidence
The Search continues for 20 months, and police find the partial
remains of six victims and an unidentified
woman. They also discover
dozens of personal possessions linked by DNA to four of the six
victims,
all of them within 70 metres of Pickton’s residential
trailer. Police also find evidence linked to
potential suspects other
than Pickton.
THE PIGPEN
Port Coquitlam, B.C. - Feb. 7, 2002: Robert William Pickton
heads into a pig pen on his farm in this 1996
still from Global BCTV
News footage taken during a story about a property tax complaint.
THE PIGPEN
WARNING: Graphic content. Photo of Pickton's pigpen,
where Georgina Papin's hand bones were found.
THE SLAUGHTERHOUSE
Interior of Pickton's slaughterhouse.
THE SLAUGHTERHOUSE
Interior of Pickton's slaughterhouse: A door that may contain the
DNA of Mona Wilson
and Pickton's friend Pat Casanova.
THE FREEZER
WARNING: Graphic content. A court artist's drawing
depicts heavy items sitting on the lid of a freezer,
in which police
found human remains, at the back of Pickton's workshop.
(Felicity Don/Special to The Vancouver Sun)
THE SLAUGHTERHOUSE
Police drawing of Pickton's slaughterhouse (Site B), pigpen and
freezer room (Site B North),
and the foundation of the former piggery,
which had collapsed years earlier.
(Courtesy of Supreme Court of BC)
BURNS ROAD PROPERTY
Garbage pile on the Picktons' Burns Road property.
Robert Pickton trial evidence - photos from a package titled Exhibit
#77 - Specific Photos.
THE EVIDENCE TRAIL
One of several inhalers seized during the police search of the
Picktons' two Port Coquitlam properties.
Pickton trial evidence - photos from a package titled Exhibit #77 -
Specific Photos.
THE EVIDENCE TRAIL
A tube of lubricant found in the basement of the Picktons'
farmhouse, in a plastic bag wtih nylon
straps and a battery-operated
dildo.
Pickton trial evidence - photos from a package titled Exhibit #77 -
Specific Photos.
THE EVIDENCE TRAIL
A .22-calibre bullet lodged in an exterior wall of the basement of
the Picktons' farmhouse.
Pickton trial evidence - photos from a package titled Exhibit #77 -
Specific Photos.
THE EVIDENCE TRAIL
An inhaler is one of many things that were dug out of the ground
when Pickton's farm was excavated by police.
Photo introduced as evidence in the Pickton trial.
THE EVIDENCE TRAIL
WARNING: Graphic content. A police ruler placed
beside a red stain on some fabric seized
during the search of
Pickton's two Port Coquitlam properties.
Photo introduced as evidence in the Pickton trial.
THE EVIDENCE TRAIL: DNA
Apr. 2, 2007: DNA suitable and unsuitable hair. Images
entered in court by lab technologists who examined
the evidence seized
from Robert Pickton's farm for biological evidence such as blood,
semen, DNA and hair.
(Courtesy New Westminster Supreme Court)
THE EVIDENCE TRAIL: DNA
Apr. 2, 2007: Presumptive and confirmatory blood tests.
Images entered in court by lab technologists
who examined the evidence
seized from Robert Pickton's farm for biological evidence
such as
blood, semen, DNA and hair.
(Courtesy New Westminster Supreme Court)
THE EVIDENCE TRAIL: DNA
Apr. 2, 2007: Presumptive test for semen. Images entered in
court by lab technologists who examined the
evidence seized from
Robert Pickton's farm for biological evidence such as blood, semen,
DNA and hair.
(Courtesy New Westminster Supreme Court)
THE EVIDENCE TRAIL: DNA
Apr. 2, 2007: Human and animal hair. Images entered in court
by lab technologists who examined the
evidence seized from Robert
Pickton's farm for biological evidence such as blood, semen, DNA and
hair.
(Courtesy New Westminster Supreme Court)
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