Shadows in the Pines — Willie Pickton Part Three: The Women
By 1999, this was no longer rumor.
The names were stacking.
Women from Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside were disappearing within a compressed window of time. Families were reporting them missing. Friends were organizing their own searches. Bad date lists were circulating. And inside police departments, files were beginning to feel less isolated.
In this episode, we move from suspicion to escalation.
We cover:
• The anonymous tip naming Willie Pickton
• The prior attempted murder charge that never went to trial
• Witnesses who describe women’s belongings inside his trailer
• Accounts of what allegedly happened inside the barn
• The role of people orbiting the farm
• The jurisdictional fractures between Vancouver Police and the RCMP
And finally — the break.
Not because of the missing women.
Not because of the mounting witness statements.
But because of guns.
When police executed a firearms warrant on the Port Coquitlam property, they weren’t expecting to find what was waiting inside that trailer.
Women’s IDs.
Clothing.
Blood-stained restraints.
A collection of hair ties.
Names written down.
An inhaler belonging to a missing woman.
That inhaler changes everything.
This is the episode where rumor becomes physical evidence.
Where suspicion turns into probable cause.
Where the door to the farm finally opens.
Next episode: the excavation.
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