THE FARM
Undated aerial photo of the Pickton's farm in Port Coquitlam taken
several years before police seized
the farm in 2002. At the time of this photo there was more green space
on the farm, and fewer
dirt piles left behind by the family's topsoil business.
(Staff Sgt. Bloomquist/Supreme Court)
INITIAL STAGES
Feb. 10, 2002: View of the southern entrance to the Pickton
farm on Dominion Ave. in Port Coquitlam.
The BC SPCA and animal
trailers arrive, removing animals from the site. Cows, pigs, sheep,
goats and llamas were taken away.
Chain link fences have been set up around the property and police
officers patrol all access points.
(Stuart Davis/Vancouver Sun)
THE SEARCH
Feb. 7, 2002: Coquitlam RCMP and members of the Missing
Women task force search the former
pig farm on Dominion Road in Port
Coquitlam.
Robert Pickton, listed as one of three owners of the property, is a
person of interest in the ongoing
investigation into the disappearance
of 50 women. Dominion Road and media vehicles are in the
foreground,
the house, barn and vehicles -- including the RCMP command motorhomes
-- are in
the middle. A development project is at the top left.
(Ian Lindsay/Vancouver Sun)
THE NEIGHBOURHOOD
Feb. 7, 2002: Coquitlam RCMP and members of the Missing
Women task force search the former
pig farm on Dominion Road in Port
Coquitlam. This wide shot shows the surrounding development
and the
Carnoustie Golf Course.
(Ian Lindsay/Vancouver Sun)
ANOTHER VIEW
Feb. 7, 2002: This is the area at the north end of the
Pickton farm, close to new housing construction.
(Ian Lindsay/Vancouver Sun)
THE FARM A YEAR LATER
Jan. 31, 2003: Robert Pickton farm, a year after the search
began.
(Glenn Baglo/Vancouver Sun)
THE TRAILER
April 2003 court evidence: Layout of Robert Pickton's mobile
home trailer on his farm.
EVIDENCE TRAIL
A photo entered in to evidence in the murder trial of Robert
William Pickton in Port Coquitlam: Pickton's
cluttered office, with the stuffed head of his pet horse Goldie in the
upper left hand corner.
'GOLDIE'
Pickton's cluttered office. Prominently displayed on the wall is
the stuffed head of his pet horse Goldie.
THE TRAILER
An open desk drawer in Pickton's office in the trailer. Police
officers testified they found
a .22-calibre bullet inside a drawer in his office.
SEREENA ABOTSWAY
A close up of the silver bag police found in Pickton's messy office
room, which contained an asthma
inhaler prescribed to missing woman
Sereena Abotsway, whom Pickton is accused of killing. A police
officer
is holding the asthma inhaler. The Crown says her DNA was found
on two
syringes in this room as well.
SILVER BAG
A close up of the silver bag police found in Pickton's messy office
room, which contained an orange
asthma inhaler prescribed to missing
woman Sereena Abotsway, whom Pickton is accused of killing.
The bag
also contained some shoes and some books. The Crown says her DNA was
found
on two syringes in this room as well.
THE KITCHEN
Kitchen in the trailer, looking into the laundry room where police
found a loaded .22-calibre revolver
with a sex toy attached to the
barrel. The Crown says the toy bore the DNA of Mona Wilson and Pickton.
The Crown also says a pillow case with Andrea Joesbury's DNA on it was
found in this room.
PICKTON'S BED
The headboard of Pickton's bed, where police offices testified they
found faux leopard-skin handcuffs
and jewelry. Also inside Pickton's bedroom police found other sex toys, some
items with women's
names on them, a flare gun with a barrel adapter
and some ammunition.
OUTSIDE THE TRAILER
The exterior of Pickton's trailer, which had old chairs and
appliances sitting on a deck outside
the main door. The Crown says
police found four asthma inhalers and Revenue Canada
documents made
out to Sereena Abotsway, one of the women Pickton is accused of
killing,
in a garbage can outside his bedroom window.
THE SLAUGHTERHOUSE
WARNING: Graphic content. Inside the slaughter house,
which was located beside Pickton's trailer.
In the photo is a freezer,
a closet, two tables and a hook. A Crown witness testified that she
saw
Pickton butchering a woman in this building. The Crown also
contends that Mona Wilson's partial
remains were found in this
building.
The Vancouver Sun
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