Less Dead: Serial Killer Robert Willie Pickton, Pt 1

In his book, Encyclopedia of Murder and Violent Crime, Eric Hickey
wrote about a type of victim that he called, “the Less Dead”. These
are people that are seen by the media or law enforcement as having
less value than others. Usually sex workers, drug addicts,
houseless people, and sexual or racial minorities. The case we’re
discussing today is about dozens of these types of victims. Women
whose disappearances were ignored or were straight up covered up
because they happened to be addicts or sex workers. One police
officer told a woman’s terrified family that the series of missing
women were “just junkies and hookers. Don’t waste our time.” These
were human beings. With friends and families, hopes, dreams,
stories, lives. The fact that the authorities ignored their
disappearances for so long is one of the worst miscarriages of
justice that we’ve seen in our decades of true crime study. This
killer roamed the streets of Vancouver, like a shark swimming among
a school of fish, unchecked and under the radar, taking almost 50
lives before anyone stopped him. 

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Sources:
Cameron, Stevie. On the Farm: Robert William Pickton and the Tragic
Story of Vancouver's Missing Women. Knopf Canada. Kindle
Edition. 
https://www.nativehope.org/missing-and-murdered-indigenous-women-mmiw?utm_term=mmiw%20statistics&utm_campaign=MMIW+-+Search&utm_source=adwords&utm_medium=ppc&hsa_tgt=kwd-1652454857508&hsa_grp=144380966783&hsa_src=g&hsa_net=adwords&hsa_mt=b&hsa_ver=3&hsa_ad=646853914079&hsa_acc=3651624507&hsa_kw=mmiw%20statistics&hsa_cam=19633980915&gad_source=1&gclid=CjwKCAjwlbu2BhA3EiwA3yXyu8y0N86jvR6NFomqQUWY1AD3h0y48ITuUopInfNw6Tb_MBFkRKbaRhoC0ikQAvD_BwE

The
Guardian: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2005/aug/05/features11.g2


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