Dave Pickton Case and Hells Angels

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Several articles have mentioned that the Pickton pig farm was a Hells Angels hangout, and it

just so happens that the Port Coquitlam Hells Angels clubhouse is the largest Hells Angels

clubhouse , membership-wise, in Western Canada and is about three blocks away from Piggy

Palace (the Pickton properties) . One of the bodies found on the farm was that of Stephanie

Lane, who was a stripper at No. 5 Orange, a bar known to be owned by the Hells Angels.

Check out this article revealing that serial killer Robert Pickton and brother Dave Pickton

were Hells Angels bikers. Pickton has been convicted and linked to the disappearance and

murders of 56 Vancouver area women.

"In June, Dave Pickton was notified that the Crown was seeking to subpoena him for this trial,

but that never happened. At the time, Dave Pickton told reporters he had more important

things to do anyway – specifically, attending a Hells Angels rally in South Dakota."

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Pickton 'was kind of Mom's boy'

http://www.thestar.c.../article/281989

Dec 03, 2007 04:30 AM

Rosie DiManno

NEW WESTMINSTER, B.C. - On a lovely fall evening, a 14-year-old boy was hit by a truck

as he walked alongside a rural road.

The driver of that red GMC, himself only 16 and just recently having acquired a driver's

licence, was understandably horrified. In a panic – leaving the victim there, still alive – he

fled home and blurted to his mother what happened.

That woman, as a family friend later told author Stevie Cameron, was Louise Pickton,

domineering and tough-minded mother of Robert "Willie" Pickton – the 58-year-old pig

butcher who now awaits a jury's verdict on six first-degree murder charges.

Dave Pickton was the truck driver, younger and purportedly much more clever brother of the

accused. And Louise Pickton, as portrayed in The Pickton File – indeed, as suggested byoccasional references during this 10-month trial – was one formidable matriarch, two decades

younger than a husband who seemed only peripherally involved in the upbringing of their

three children.

Willie Pickton, it's claimed, actually recounted this story in later years: How his mom drove

to the spot where the injured boy lay, checked him over, then leaned down to push and roll the

youth into a ditch, some 10 feet distant. Then she went back home.

A coroner's report provided to the Star concluded the youth – Tim Barrett – drowned. While

seriously injured when slammed by the vehicle, those traumas, a fractured pelvis and sub-

cranial hemorrhage, would not have caused death.

http://www.thestar.com/News/Canada/article/281989

http://www.thestar.com/News/Canada/article/281989



Louise Pickton was never charged in connection with the incident. Dave Pickton's juvenile

file remains sealed. And Willie Pickton, well, he was just a household observer to events.

It is irresistible to wonder, however, how the dynamics of the Pickton family helped forge his

character, growing up on what was then an isolated farm, the most lumpen of the Pickton

spawn. Like "two peas in a pod," Pickton told investigators of he and his mom. "Cranky" and"different" as sister Linda described Willie in a 2002 interview with the Vancouver Sun.

"Robert, he just adored Mom. He and Mom were so close. Robert was never close to Dad.

Robert was kind of Mom's boy."

Courtroom testimony has been contradictory about Pickton's persona, variously described as

kindly and contemptuous towards sex-trade workers, either a frequent client or someone with

a dim libido.

In fact – apart from what the Crown has alleged Pickton did to the six drug-addicted

prostitutes he's accused of murdering and dismembering – a history of violence againstwomen has more quantifiably been mounted against little brother Dave: convicted in '93 of

sexual assault and investigated in '98 over another assault.

While earlier telling police that each of her limbs had been tied to a corner of the bed with a

bungee cord, and pills shoved into her mouth, the woman afterwards refused to testify against

Dave in court and the investigation was dropped.

Dave Pickton remains, police have told court, a "person of interest" in this case, but there was

never enough evidence against the man to justify charges.

He's never agreed to be formally interviewed.

In June, Dave Pickton was notified that the Crown was seeking to subpoena him for this trial,

but that never happened. At the time, Dave Pickton toldreporters he had more important

things to do anyway – specifically, attending a Hells Angels rally in South Dakota.

This jury has heard that Dave Pickton had "disdain" for prostitutes. Unlike Willie, Dave had

girlfriends, even a long-time common-law spouse who came to live on the farm when she was

17 – pitching in to help with the chores, as commanded by Mama Pickton.

Mama's dead. Papa's dead. Neither Dave nor Linda has ever attended Willie's trial.Rosie DiManno usually appears Monday, Wednesday, Friday and Saturday.



B.C. police were told years ago of pig farm

Mother says she hopes they find bodies there

Saturday, February 9, 2002

By LEWIS KAMB AND MIKE BARBER

SEATTLE POST-INTELLIGENCER REPORTERS

PORT COQUITLAM, B.C. -- Lynn Frey has made the half-day trip countless times from her

home in Campbell River on Vancouver Island to the avenues of British Columbia's biggest

city.

For the past four years, she and her sister have braved the sleazy streets of Vancouver's

Eastside tenderloin district, questioning the unfortunate women who haunt the streets, in a

lonely search for Frey's troubled daughter.

About two years ago they began hearing from drug users and prostitutes who might have

known Frey's daughter, Marnie, who was 24 when she disappeared in 1997. The bits and

pieces of information seemed to point to an inconspicuous, muddy pig farm 22 miles out of

town.

One of the men who lived at the farm was well-known to girls who work the streets, and in

1997 had been arrested for trying to kill a prostitute, she heard. It was a dirty place on a

potholed road amid a blossoming bedroom community, the girls told her. It was a place many

only heard about and refused to go to even though its hosts threw great parties, lest they be

left with no way back to Vancouver, Frey recalls.

The stories resonated with Frey. The swampy farm was too close to home, blocks from the

home of her own sister. The pig farm seemed eerie to both of them, she said.

"It was like a magnet," alternately attracting and repelling, she said.

Yet when Frey suggested that Vancouver police investigating the disappearances of dozens of

missing women in recent years look at the place, her words seemed to fall on deaf ears. Her

fading hopes were buoyed, though, when a joint police task force of Vancouver police and

Royal Canadian Mounted Police was formed last year to look into the disappearances of 50

women in what is believed to be Canada's most prolific string of serial slayings.

Two days ago, Frey steeled her heart again.

"The task force called me (Wednesday) night to let me know there was going to be something

on the media the next day," Frey said. "I thought nothing of it. I've been in touch with the

police and called umpteen times in the last four years."

On Thursday, images of the pig farm flashed across television screens and newspaper pages

as the task force searched the farm amid speculation of a major break in the case. Frey felt her

heart soar, then crash.

"My heart went to my stomach," she said. "I hope this doesn't sound callous, I don't know



how else to say it, but I am hoping -- I'm willing to believe -- that they will find bodies.

"Over the years you get your hopes up high to find her, only to have them drop like a falling

elevator. I need closure now to carry on with my life. How many times can a mother do this?"

Mothers, fathers, family and friends of many of the missing women have driven to the farmnow under police seal. Like Frey, they believe police waited too long to take their fears

seriously. Some say they also alerted investigators to their suspicions and tips about one of the

farmers, even as the list of missing women grew.

Two brothers, Robert William and David Francis Pickton, and their sister, Linda, own the

farm where they grew up. They became wealthy, by some reports, by selling off parcels for

development. Rows of townhouses border the north of the farm, a golf course flanks the east,

where the nearby Pitt River flows toward the Fraser River. The brothers live on the last 10

acres.

Early yesterday, investigators could be seen shoveling dirt or manure mounds in a plank barnon the property near the confluence of the Fraser and Pitt rivers.

Robert Pickton, 52, was arrested Tuesday on three weapons violations after police served a

search warrant on the pale yellow house. According to the Vancouver Sun, officers found

identification cards and other personal items belonging to two missing women, prompting

another search.

Pickton was released from custody Wednesday, but is due in court on Feb. 28. Police

yesterday declined to say if they know where he is or whether he is under surveillance. Police

also declined to call Pickton a suspect in the disappearances, saying only that he is among

"hundreds" of people still under scrutiny.

Asked at a news conference about the criticism that Vancouver police bungled by not looking

sooner at the Pickton farm, Detective Scott Driemel, spokesman for the department, said any

information gathered years ago was "shared, and whatever could be acted upon was."

"We're not about to go back and defend ourselves for something that happened years ago," he

said, adding that resource constraints and time needed to track thousands of leads complicated

early investigation efforts. But authorities are now "aggressively pursuing the investigation,"

he said.

Other officials said they have been diligent, but it takes time to examine hundreds of tips to

determine what was hearsay and what was legally actionable, and that it is difficult to track

down prostitutes and drug users who live a transient lifestyle, often using different names.

While the list of 50 missing women dates back to 1983, most dropped out of sight in the

1990s, including 31 since 1997.

Last fall, the new task force said the missing persons cases were being treated as multiple

homicides. While task force members have consulted King County investigators looking into

the Green River slayings of 49 women -- many of them prostitutes -- between 1982 and 1984,

police in both countries see no link.



Neighbors say Pickton and his younger brother, David, sometimes threw late night parties and

pig roasts in a makeshift, unlicensed nightclub known as "Piggy's Palace."

Over the years, the brothers raised fewer pigs, instead selling fill-dirt and gravel from the farm

and dabbling in building demolition, friends said.

One woman who declined to giver her name said she has known the brothers for more than 10

years and often joined them for outings to a biker bar in Burnaby. The brothers rode Harley-

Davidson motorcycles and mingled with biker gangs, she said.

She described David Pickton as generous and friendly, but said "Willy" was creepy.

"He kind of kept to himself, hanging out back there in the piggery all the time," she said.

Willy, a tall, thin man with a halo of long and curly dirty blond hair, once showed the woman

how he boiled pigs in a large vat, she said.

"It kind of freaked me out," she said.

Friends and relatives of the missing women say they became aware of Robert Pickton after his

name surfaced in 1997, when a prostitute and drug addict accused him of trying to stab her to

death during an encounter at the farm in 1997. Pickton was charged with attempted murder,

aggravated assault and unlawful confinement, but charges were later dropped. The woman,

who had run screaming from the farm in handcuffs, reportedly refused to testify. Her

whereabouts is unknown.

Those who know Pickton, who was also seriously wounded during the incident, have a

different version of the attack. They say a prostitute pulled a knife and tried to rob Pickton,

slashing him across the chin.

Yet those who tried to point police toward the farm over the years believe authorities missed

their chance to stop the disappearances.

"They dropped the ball on this," said Wayne Leng, a B.C. native who now lives in California.

His friend, Sarah deVries, is one of the missing women. He said he first told Vancouver

police about a pig farmer known as "Willy" in mid-1998, after a man told him about an

assault of a prostitute, and of finding women's clothing and identification at the farm.

"I think that more women would be alive today if they would have acted sooner," Leng said

yesterday.

That authorities knew of tips and Pickton's past run-ins with the law years ago, but did not key

in on the pig farmer until now "really pisses me off," said Carrie Kerr, a 28-year-old Maple

Ridge woman whose sister went missing in 1997.

When Kerr's older sister, Helen Hallmark, a drug user and known prostitute, didn't show up

for Christmas that year, "we knew something was wrong," Kerr said. "They knew about this

guy for years, and they didn't do anything about it," she said. "How many women are dead

now because of it?"



Frey, meanwhile, wonders what might have happened to her daughter. The tale of Marnie's

slide into prostitution, and the battles to save her, is a familiar one to the victims' families she

has met.

"Marnie was a very loving person. If a stranger walking down a street needed 50 cents and

that was all she had, she'd give the last 50 cents in her pocket," her mother said.

"Marnie got mixed up with the wrong people, started doing cocaine, then heroin. She was 19

or 20 when it started. When she got on heroin, she went to the streets of Vancouver to support

her heroin habit, and started living that life. We couldn't stop her."

Frey said her daughter, however, worried about her family and called several times a week to

let them know she was OK. That stopped almost five years ago.

Frey and her husband, Dean, a commercial fisherman, kept their doors open to their daughter

and waged a battle over the years for her life.

She came back home several times, thin, sick, vomiting, determined to clean the toxins from

her body.

Once she made it into drug treatment in Victoria.

Always she bolted in less than a week, surrendering to heroin. Marnie's body would ache

from withdrawal, her mother said, the shakes, vomiting, her bones aching. Her family's heart

ached, too.

"The doors were never closed and they still are not," her mother said.

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