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Date Posted: 19:49:13 02/08/02 Fri
Author: Anonymous
Subject: Pig Farm Horror

PORT COQUITLAM, B.C. -- Task force detectives investigating the disappearance of 50 Vancouver women descended on a rambling pig farm yesterday.

The Vancouver Sun reported that sources said police earlier found personal identification and other items linked to at least two of the missing women.

Convoys of police vehicles hauled in 30 officers from the Vancouver missing-women task force, plus forensics scientists and backup equipment, leading the missing women's families to hope for a major break in the case.

But despite the task force activity - backed up by more than 20 more officers from Coquitlam RCMP and Vancouver city police - cops remained tight-lipped about what they were expecting to find. Within minutes of arriving, crime-scene detectives whisked away a woman's black purse found under a bush near the perimeter fence.

Task force spokesman, RCMP Const. Catherine Galliford, said the search warrant being executed was one taken out by the detectives hunting for the missing women.

On Tuesday, a separate search warrant was taken out by Coquitlam RCMP, and Robert William Pickton, 52, was charged with firearms offences.

Galliford said no suspects were in custody in relation to the missing-women task force's search warrant.

"This search will be round-the-clock, 24-7, and we don't know if it will last for days or months," she said, as fire trucks brought in emergency lighting so parts of the farm could be lit up at night. Portapotties were also trucked in to the site, indicating police are expecting a long stay at the farm.

Originally, the pig farm consisted of 11 hectares of land, but only four hectares remain. The rest was sold to developers building a new subdivision.

The missing-women task force was formed when the number of women who'd disappeared - most of them drug-addicted prostitutes - reached 50.

Speculation a serial killer was at work was discounted for years by police, who were accused of not taking the problem seriously enough. Since the early 1980s until the late 1990s, no trace was ever found of any of the 50 missing women, although Galliford said yesterday police have details on hundreds and maybe thousands of potential suspects.

Edmonton police haven't been contacted about the Vancouver cases, said spokesman Dean Parthenis.

"There's no link out here that we're aware of," he said.

As police officers supervised workmen erecting 1,200 metres of wire fencing around the perimeter, the activity shocked residents in the new subdivision, some of whom moved into their homes within the last year.

David Bruce watched investigators in all-white overalls from outside the fence. "The fence is right there, where they were about to lay the next foundations," he said.

One householder worried what was under his house, if this turns out to be where the missing women ended up.

"My house has only been here for 18 months, and the women have been going missing for eight years," he said.

Homes in the new streets in the subdivision all had police guards last night, preventing anyone from getting into the pig farm area. Strange sights greeted the scores of onlookers who flocked to the pig farm throughout the day.

Just inside the perimeter is an old car completely crushed by a block of stone weighing several tons. As far as the eye can see are huge mounds of earth and massive piles of rubble, some apparently to be used as foundations for new homes, and some obviously the result of demolition work.

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Re: Pig Farm Horror -- Anonymous, 23:27:06 04/06/02 Sat