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Between 1978 and 2001 at least sixty-eight women, mostly drug-addicted prostitutes, disappeared from a ten-block area of Vancouver's impoverished Downtown East Side. (Most of these women disappeared in 1997 or later.) On February 6th, 2002, police obtained a search warrant for a pig farm in nearby Port Coquitlam owned by Robert Pickton. Several weeks later Pickton was arrested on murder charges in the deaths of two of the missing women, with more charges being made over the next few years as the pig farm and another property were excavated and more evidence was recovered.

It is important to remember that, although Pickton has been charged with 27 counts of first-degree murder as of October 2005, under Canadian law he is innocent until proven guilty. Because of the massive amounts of evidence in the case, it has not yet come to trial.

Beyond these simple facts lie a host of questions. Lawsuits have been filed over the slow pace of police investigation of the missing women. There have been speculations that the disappearances of women at the fringe of society were not taken seriously by the police or media until forced by public pressure. There is also the balance between massive public interest in this sensational case, and the right of the accused to a fair and unbiased trial, and a fear that police may use an eventual conviction or confession as an excuse to close unrelated cases

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