Ten years ago, the trial of Canada's
most prolific serial killer opened in Vancouver. Det Con Lorimer
Shenher had long suspected the man in the dock, who eventually admitted
to nearly 50 murders, but Shenher's attempts to question him had been
hindered by red tape. He is still haunted by his failure.
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Lorimer
Shenher had been working in his new job as head of Vancouver's Missing
Persons Unit for only two days when an anonymous caller gave him a name -
the name of a man who could be responsible for the disappearance of
women from the city's Downtown Eastside district.
It was July 1998
and Shenher had been tasked with finding out what had happened to 17
women missing from the district, also known as the "low-track", because
it was where people went to buy cheap sex.
All the missing women were sex workers and drug users, and many were from Canada's indigenous population.
Shenher entered the name he had been given, Willie Pickton - or Robert William Pickton - into the police database.
He
saw immediately that his suspect had form. Earlier that year, charges
had been dropped against the 49-year-old pig farmer for imprisoning and
stabbing a sex worker, almost fatall. Click to read complete story
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