Predator’s Playground: How Vancouver Became a Hunting Ground — The Chelsea Poorman Investigation, Part 3

In this final part of our investigative series into the death of
Chelsea Poorman, we pull back the curtain—not just on one
suspicious case—but on a terrifying pattern playing out across
Vancouver and the broader West Coast of Canada.


This is not just about Chelsea.


This is about systemic rot,
institutional neglect, and a city that has
quietly become a predator’s sanctuary—a place
where women can disappear without headlines, and bodies can be
found in wealthy neighborhoods with no justice in sight.


Chelsea Poorman was 24 years old.


She vanished after a night out in downtown Vancouver and was
discovered nearly two years later—her remains hidden on the patio
of a $10 million Shaughnessy mansion.


Despite forensic red flags, digital anomalies, and physical
barriers that made her presence at the location implausible, the
Vancouver Police declared her death "not suspicious."


But the data tells a different story.


When we analyze the clusters of missing and murdered Indigenous
women—Chelsea Poorman, Noelle O'Soup, Tatiana Harrison, and
others—we find geographic, temporal, and investigative overlaps
that are impossible to ignore. Predators are operating in and
around Vancouver, emboldened by low clearance
rates, jurisdictional confusion, and a
lack of media scrutiny.


This is not theory.


This is pattern.


We look at the Hemlock Valley Killer, Robert
Pickton, the “Boozing Barber,” and hundreds of high-risk
predators who were quietly documented by authorities and then
ignored. Many of them used the Downtown Eastside like a hunting
ground—because they could.


Because they were allowed to.


Predators share information.


They migrate to jurisdictions with weak
investigations.


They exploit our digital blind spots and take advantage of dark
tourism, drug crises, money laundering networks, and communities
already torn apart by addiction and poverty.


In this episode, I lay out a forensic
roadmap—based on FBI gold-standard investigative
frameworks—that could and should have been followed in Chelsea’s
case.


The kind of roadmap that might have saved her, and could still
help others.


We also discuss a horrifying truth: Canada has become a
country of performative progressivism—talking
reconciliation and equity on the world stage, while ignoring the
bodies of Indigenous women found right in our backyards.


This episode isn’t just a conclusion.


It’s a call to action.


Call to Action:


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To Chelsea’s family: May you one day find justice.