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Detail of a poster with photographs of missing women is displayed during the Missing Women Commission of Inquiry public forum in Vancouver, B.C., on Wednesday January 19, 2011.

Detail of a poster with photographs of missing women is displayed during the Missing Women Commission of Inquiry public forum in Vancouver, B.C., on Wednesday January 19, 2011. (Darryl Dyck/ The Canadian Press)

Pickton’s unnamed victims far from forgotten

‘Investigation has never stopped’ for clues to the identity, whereabouts of 16 additional women the serial killer claims to have slain

Missing Vancouver women, from left, Diane Rock, Heather Bottomley and Jacqueline McDonnell are shown in these undated police handout photos.
Timeline
The murdered and missing

A closer look at the marginalized women who were killed or believed to have been murdered by serial killer Robert Pickton

A woman sits in a park in Vancouver's downtown East side with her belongings strewn around in a makeshift camp, Thursday, September 4, 2008
Aftermath
Vancouver's Downtown Eastside

Take a tour through Vancouver's gloomy Downtown Eastside as sex worker Sue Davis highlights some of the positive changes in the area.

Christie Blatchford
Push for Pickton public inquiry is inevitable

But it wouldn’t reveal much that is new about how police and justice systems work

Media vehicles line the road in front of Robert PIckton's farm in Port Coquitlam, B.C., on Feb. 7, 2002.
Interactive
The Pickton Farm

Tour the Pickton property and follow evidence heard in court

An exhibit from the Pickton trial, a poster board of 48 missing women shown to Pickton during the 11 hours interview on day after he was arrested. Names of those identified in court: #1 Sereena Abotsway; #3 Andrea Joesbury; #4 Mona Wilson; #17 Georgina Papin; #26 Marnie Frey; #48 Brenda Wolfe.
From the archives
The Pickton trial

Audio slideshows, features and interactive content from the time of the trial

Jail video
Pickton's cell conversations

A video of serial killer Robert Pickton’s jail conversation with an undercover police officer in 2002 has been released.

Robert Pickton is shown in this undated television image. BCTV-Vancouver/The Canadian Press
From the archives
The Pickton Archives

Read selections of the Globe's past coverage of Pickton and the trial

RCMP investigate spate of fires including one at Robert Pickton’s farm

Investigators treating blazes as suspicious

Vancouver museum pulls exhibition showing portraits of missing and murdered women

Artist left ‘upset and sad’ by decision to axe show

Coroner’s certificates place missing women’s deaths at Pickton farm

‘There was a finality about it,’ says brother of Dawn Crey, whose body has never been found

RCMP seek public's help in identifying woman linked to Pickton farm

Half of the woman’s skull, with the vertebra attached, was found on Robert Pickton’s farm in 1995

Mounties acknowledge shortcomings on Pickton case

E-mail to Vancouver police refers to ‘a lack of analysis of the available information’

Public inquiry to review police handling of Pickton case

Vancouver Police Department, RCMP welcome independent probe

Pickton case informants share $100,000 reward fund

Money split depending on impact of information

Women's lives could have been saved, Pickton informant says

Woman says she spoke to RCMP about what she had heard was going on at the Port Coquitlam pig farm, but ‘it didn’t seem like they cared’

RCMP arrogance cited in bungling of Pickton case

Reluctance to co-operate with other police forces played a role in allowing pig farmer to go on killing, critics say

Vancouver police to open books on Pickton probe

Internal report expected to shed light on missed opportunities and leads not followed in serial-killer case

Robert Pickton's sole survivor makes a new life

The only woman to escape serial killer wants to remain anonymous and leave the past behind

Internal police strife delayed Pickton arrest, former officer says

Resentment toward then-police-profiler Kim Rossmo hampered probe of missing women, Doug Mackay-Dunn says, urging an inquiry into the police investigation

Revelations about Pickton’s 1997 arrest fuel calls for inquiry

Evidence disclosed that attempted-murder charge was dropped and he continue to kill

Woman survived Pickton attack by cutting his jugular, court heard

Serial killer had been charged with attempted murder, then released, before killing spree came to light

Why judge ruled against Pickton ‘confession’

Then-suspect did not make statement about bones voluntarily, judge decided

Why the Pickton trial dealt with 6 murder charges, not 26

Judge felt one trial for all would be too overwhelming; defence argued that prosecutors would have to prove that women were really dead

Pickton legal saga ends as remaining charges stayed

The conclusion of legal proceedings prompted release of a wealth of material related to the case that had been under a judicial embargo

Supreme Court rejects Pickton’s bid for new trial

Serial killer got a fair trial, judges say in unanimous ruling

Police apologize to families of Pickton's victims

Vancouver force regrets ‘that we did not catch him sooner’

Crown admits sole-killer focus an error in Pickton trial

Prosecutors tell Supreme Court the blunder doesn’t change Pickton’s guilt, but defence argues Crown’s change of tack late in trial vastly unfair

Supreme Court reserves judgment on Pickton conviction

Lawyers argue before Supreme Court of Canada in an attempt to overturn convicted killer’s convictions for a string of Vancouver murders

Mass murderer Pickton wrongly convicted, appeal lawyers say

Murderer of six women argues trial judge erred in a response to jurors' question

RCMP lays foundation for six new Pickton charges

Crown says it won't add victims' names until appeal is heard

Defence failed to challenge judge at trial, Crown argues

Lawyers, now disputing instructions to jury, did not want clarification then, hearing told