Robert Pickton — Part Four: The Outcome
Podbean Description:
The search of the farm expands.
What began as a firearms warrant becomes one of the largest and most expensive crime scene investigations in Canadian history.
In Part Four of our Robert Pickton series, we walk through the excavation of seventeen acres in Port Coquitlam — the slaughterhouse, the freezer, the buckets beneath it, the pig pens, the industrial grinder, and the rendering plant connection that triggered nationwide fear.
Investigators recovered fragments.
Human tissue on hooks.
A severed head identified as Mona Wilson.
Dismembered remains stored beneath a freezer.
A jawbone in a pig enclosure.
Human DNA inside an industrial meat grinder.
Nearly 200,000 DNA samples.
Roughly 600,000 exhibits logged.
A $70-million investigation.
Twenty-seven women identified.
We examine the undercover cell recordings where Pickton bragged about numbers, competition, and wanting to “beat the boys in the States.” We read the names of the women identified. We walk through the verdict, the second-degree convictions, the parole ineligibility ruling, and the Crown’s decision to stay additional charges.
We also examine what this case exposed — systemic failures, jurisdictional breakdowns, and the disproportionate vulnerability of Indigenous and marginalized women in Canada.
And we close with the factual timeline of Pickton’s 2024 death in custody following an assault inside Port-Cartier Institution.
This episode is heavy.
It is direct.
And it centers the women whose lives were taken.
Listener discretion advised.
