Dealing with badly intoxicated and habitually miscreant individuals

RETROSPECTIVE 

Some people in society don't necessarily relate to each other too well, and the stratification is sometimes found between authorities and street people for instance, and between police and drunks. People like Kat Norris are working toward a just society and toward improving the fundamental street-level encounters in a stratified society like the Downtown Eastside of Vancouver because of this crucial communications gap.

The Abbotsford, B.C., School Stabbing Video

The Abbotsford, B.C., school stabbing video: Why we can't look away, but should https://t.co/IxIl1oZ2lj pic.twitter.com/T1VcAqer3s

— CBC News (@CBCNews) November 3, 2016

Kayla Bourque, "Canada's Cutest Psychopath" Back on the War Path

Convicted, in court, and especially in public opinion

Kayla on Facebook

A twisted soul with sunken eyes that wide stare the world, she looks harmless, in fact she looks scared. Kayla Bourque, 23, is being cited overseas in the UK, for example, as "Canada`s cutest Psychopath." She is 5 ft 4, 130 lbs with dark brown eyes and black hair. She was once an innocent but was left by mankind to starve. She was shut out and left alone to weak to cry. Is it any wonder she is now a psychopath? 

British Columbia corrections facility issued a public warning in December 2012 when Kayla finished a jail sentence and was released. Kayla plans to make her home in Vancouver. The Ministry of Justice said of her "She has offended violently against both people and animals and is considered high risk to re-offend." Kayla Bourque was brought up from the age of 8 months in Prince George. Her adoptive mother said she is "articulate and intelligent" but has a "preoccupation with causing harm to others." She is not welcome back into the family home. "Im scared that is she doesn't get enough help,the right help, it will escalate," her adoptive mother told CBC News. Her adoptive father does not see her as a threat to his own safety, but has concerns about the safety of other members in the family. 

In March 2012 Kayla was arrested after a friend reported a conversation where Kayla had told her she had disemboweled a cat then dismembered its body. She also had said she had fantasies about killing a homeless person or perhaps somebody living in residence at Simon Fraser University, where she was a criminology student.

On investigation officers found in her home a seven inch knife, hypodermic needles and a mask. But the discoveries didn't stop there, they also found a written "confession" where she narrates herself torturing and then hanging the family pet, a dog. The most disturbing find must have been a video she made where she takes enjoyment from killing a cat. It is a callous, cruel and sickening act but imagine feeling nothing and not being impacted by this crime. Imagine for a second how it would feel to feel only shallow and deafened emotions to never experience true happiness or love.

It has been proven by many researchers psychopaths have damaged brains. Psychopaths have been found to have a disproportionate hippocampus, the right side being significantly larger than the left. The corpus callosum also often appears bigger than that of a healthy human being. The way that a psychopath's brain transfers information, the speed that information is processed, is generally believed to be the reason why psychopaths fail to feel normal emotions and genuine remorse.

Kayla served six months in jail before her trial, Judge Malcolm Maclean added two months to her sentence when she she confessed to the charges amounting to an eight month sentence. The public are being requested to report Kayla if they suspect her of breaking any of her terms of release. The terms include a curfew which mean she cannot leave her home between 6am-6pm, a ban on accessing social network sites (she may only use the computer to look for a job). She cannot entertain visitors without first making them fully aware of her charges. She cannot enter into a relationship without a fully written confession of her crimes. In total there are 46 terms to her release which will make it difficult for the public to bump into her at all.

Psychopaths are often subject to the nature nurture debate. The real question being are psychopaths born or made? Studies into adoption have found that children can inherit psychopathic traits from their parents, however studies also exist that show a lack of secure attachment in early years can also have a devastating effect.
 
Kayla Bourque is the result of Communist tyranny and she is the victim of an institution. For almost 25 years dictator Nicolae Ceauceseu ruled over Romania with an iron fist. In an attempt to increase the population he banned contraception and abortion. In 1989 he was finally thrown from power but not before his disastrous policies left the country in economic ruination. Poverty stricken families were forced to surrender the children they could no longer feed. They surrendered them to decrepit state institutions and run down hospitals creating a whole generation of abandoned and neglected children. Kayla spent her first eight valuable months in such a place before being adopted by a loving Canadian family.

Dr. Elinor Ames researched and compiled a report "The Development of Romanian Orphanage Children Adopted to Canada." During her study she found that 72 percent of adoptive parents she researched believed their child's emotional, behavioral and social problems to be the most worrying issue. In her report she recommended that "All adoptions of orphanage children should be considered by parents and adoption officials to be special-needs adoptions."

The importance of attachment to a parent or caregiver in the first years of life cannot be underestimated. It might not look like much but when a parent looks into a baby`s eyes they are connected. The baby learns about the world around them at this point the brain is making connections of almost 1000 synapses a second. This attachment is in my opinion the most powerful force in the world. The matter of whether we should fear Kayla may be debatable, however the public should be made aware of the basis for her affliction. 

Riot in the city of $1 million bungalows

 The near-end-game riot in the streets of Vancouver, B.C., happened in the city of $1 million bungalows. It happened in the most expensive most-liveable city in Canada. A lot of people around the country may think Vancouver Police Department dropped the ball on this one, and the riot went out-of-control on their ill-conceived watch.

Well, let me say from experience, VPD does not look good with a smile on its face, with the high-fiving hockey fans, and mixing with the unhinged in society. It appears VPD should stick to working with a snarl on its face. They were tricked by the honour of hosting the Olympics, lulled into a false security about the nature of large crowds.

During the Olympics with the billion dollar security budget, police walked shoulder-to shoulder with world visitors, and  it worked like a charm, except none of the world visitors had any axes to grind. This time, VPD went along with festivities in a similar fashion to those amazing scenes of last year. As it turned, they were overwhelmed by the way it was arranged. They will know better next time, since this was the second Vancouver hockey team to blow a Stanley Cup final, at home, thus the repetition in whole affair becomes rather undignified.

Maybe this time it`s not entirely about hockey. Vancouver has a lot of pent-up rage, and organized anarchist cells know it. By every appearance this chaos was arranged in a carefully staged manner, and the fact is, according to Police Chief Jim Chu, VPD, hockey losses weren`t to blame at all. He may be right, since at least one `cell` was caught on a CTV camera standing inside Hudson Bay Dept Store, not looting, talking on cell phones, and ultimately inviting looters through the windows. The CTV camera captured what looked like masked plotters in a Hudson Bay Store that was ultimately ransacked, with these being seen in masks at mid-escalation.

According to CBC TV News, the first car was set afire around 7:30 P.M. a couple blocks from the arena downtown where the game was still in progress, but over for the Canucks. By 8 o`clock police acted to declare the assembly unlawful, and began a belated effort to disperse the 100,000 people in the streets. This seems to be the general timing of the anarchist plot. The crowd incitement occurred well before the game was over, and centred on areas near the site of the game at Rogers Centre, around the large public TV screens.

The incitement moved immediately north from the rink to the always-crowded Granville Street outdoor mall. It appears here, after dusk, that the CTV live camera footage showed a group of five or six masked men inside the Hudson`s Bay. If these were anarchists, they have begun to incite people into stores for the crush of lootings. This action spread. One London Drugs store alone reports over $1 million in damage and losses. Elsewhere at the same time, cars were flipped and set afire.

By this time, anarchy had reign over the streets, and smashing of windows and looting of stores continued full scale. It becomes obvious that a large amount of organization went into creating this amount of chaos. The mainstream media and bloggers, twitter pics, and Youtube videos immediately flooded into the public eye, which was showing clearly that police were engaged in containment and dispersal was laborious, and combative. Over a dozen police officers were treated for injuries. .

Vancouver citizens are nothing if not unpredictable, but, usually in the most delightful ways, but this time, add to the mix an organized element of chaos, and the underlying social unrest went beyond palpable. Something needs to be said about the VPD. They are an awesome police force. They deal with a myriad of social problems including a restive blend of ethnicities, and a constant background noise about all the drugs in the spectrum.

VPD deals with the worst neighbourhood crisis in the world and does it with more humanity than the situation appears to invite. The Downtown Eastside is a crisis-zone that VPD has managed very well. They work hard, they put up with endless mayhem, and they are tough, real tough, but fair. The whole situation is under surveillance, and they know only too well, sometimes you have to stand back, watch, and hope for the best.

VPD has learned from mistakes in the past, Ron Paul, Willy Pickton, gang violence, endless drug mayhem, and the city can be proud of that police force for keeping the VAST MAJORITY safe and sound. Chief of Police Jim Chu said it best, calling the rioters thugs. He told media, "There was a group of people, that were criminals and anarchists that were bent on causing this destruction. They came prepared. They had incendiary devices, They had weapons. They had a plan. They had objectives."

Over 100 arrests already ensued. More arrests and lots of jail sentences will be forthcoming, and convictions will be a slam dunk because so much of this was captured on film. Retribution will be harsh as it should be. I do think VPD will come in for sharp criticism. I don`t think they shoulder all the blame, even if their laissez faire tactics were flawed. It was only the grace of God that spared hundreds upon hundreds of serious injuries. Some of the cars could have BLOWN SKY HIGH.

In the aftermath Vancouver Mayor Gregor Robertson made the rounds of public appearances to thank Vancouver citizens for an extraordinary clean-up campaign that took place right from the crack of dawn. People came down with brooms, bags, cans and elbow grease to remove the vestiges of the night`s mob-savagery. Is this the last time you watch hockey on TV? Do you love the game, the hype, the talent, the energy? You may wonder if Vancouver fans understand the game enough to really enjoy it for what it`s worth. Then remember, Canadian cities and hockey riots have a long, glass-shattering history. Nobody died in this one, so that`s one thing to be thankful for.

Women of diverse ages and backgrounds meet death and danger in Vancouver area parks

The past couple years have borne witness to a lack of safety for women in Vancouver-area parks, awareness of which was raised to frightful new heights in late September 2010 with the murder of 15-year-old Laura Szendrei. She was a Grade 10 student at Burnsview Secondary School in Delta, B.C., who died in hospital early Sunday morning, September 26, 2010, succumbing to injuries from a severe blow to the head.

The lethal attack took place only a few hours earlier, on Saturday, September 25 in a park next to the school she attended in North Delta. The attack which became fatal occurred in broad daylight at 1:30 p.m. while she was walking through the woods on the way to meet friends. Szendrei's friends were near the park and heard two loud cries for help and ran in that direction, arriving seconds after the attack to find her laying on the ground.

Delta Police Force told media they are looking for a 'person-of-interest', and said, "As a result of initial investigative efforts Delta Police are looking to speak to a person who may have information that may further our investigation." The person of interest was described as a young male seen leaving the park at about the same time as the attack, walking swiftly while preoccupied with a cell-phone. "Is he a suspect? No," said a police spokesperson, "We're not certain if there's information this individual may have that could further our investigation, but that's something we want to appeal to the public."

Wendy Ladner-Beaudry was an avid jogger, a mother of two young daughters, who entered Pacific Spirit Regional Park (adjacent the UBC campus) where she was attacked and murdered April 3, 2009, and the body was discovered by a hiker the same afternoon. Ladner-Beaudry was co-chair of the BC Games Society and was well-known as an avid promoter of sport and fitness for women in the province, and she was the sister of former Vancouver councilor and mayoral candidate Peter Ladner.

Her husband Michel Beaudry said in the days after the murder, "She was a loving wife, a dedicated mother, a consummate professional and a source of joy, love, and inspiration to everyone she met,." The murder of Ladner-Beaudry remains unsolved while she was posthumously inducted into the B.C. Sports Hall of Fame this year.

This unsolved murder was preceded by another earlier in the spring of 2009, when a 43-year-old woman named Tammi-Lynn Louise Cordone was found in West Vancouver's Lighthouse Park. Her body was found lying near a tent that was set-up close to Juniper Point. Cordone had apparently been living as an itinerant in Lighthouse Park, a 74-hectare park off Marine Drive where camping was not permitted. Initially investigators treated Cordone's death as 'suspicious', then the investigation turned to homicide.

A relative of Cordone from Thunder Bay, Ontario, where Cordone was from, said the family received few details about the attack, and told the Vancouver media, "All we know about what happened was she was a good kid." This investigation is being handled by both West Vancouver and Vancouver police departments because the West Vancouver Police Department does not have its own homicide unit. This murder also remains unsolved.

About a year ago, Oct. 19, 2009 9:20 AM Vancouver police issued a public warning after a local woman was violently sexually assaulted while walking through a west side park not far from the Pacific Spirit Regional Park. Reports said she was attacked in Hastings Mill Park, located next to the Royal Vancouver Yacht Club on Point Grey Road.

"He repeatedly punched her, multiple times in the head and face, then dragged her towards the centre of the park," said Cst. Jana McGuinness. The woman was able to fend off her attacker after a violent struggle during which the assailant began a sexual assault on the victim. The attacker left the scene, and police reported the victim sustained "significant" facial injuries and bruises.

"Obviously this is a violent and traumatic event," said Cst. McGuinness. "There will be an emotional toll -- no doubt for many weeks, and potentially even longer." Police said the suspect was described as 5-5 to 5-8 tall, medium-skinned with a medium build, and, "speaking in a distinctly British accent." He wore a hooded sweatshirt and jeans, had a handkerchief over his face. Police discussed a possible connection to the murder of Wendy Ladner-Beaudry in April the same year because the park on Point Grey Road lies in relatively proximity to Pacific Spirit Regional Park.

Cst. McGuinness said the public must exercise caution in these relatively benign circumstances, and she listed a few safety suggestions, including: walk with a partner, carry a cell phone, stick to well-lit routes, and let someone know where you are. "These are just minor steps, but they can be really helpful in dissuading a serious attack," she said.

A task force hits the Vancouver streets to tackle gangs

 Photo credit VPD  Chief Constable Jim Chu Vancouver Police Department

Vancouver is apparently undergoing a gang war and in Metro Vancouver police have decided to unify efforts like never before to stop gang violence, under a task force led by the Vancouver Police Department (VPD), municipal departments, and the RCMP. In fact the VPD had already created a special unit as the gangs went out of control at the beginning of summer '07, with gun battles and massacres randomly widespread over drug-dealing territories. The task force was formed even though police publicly dismiss suggestions of an out-and-out gang war.

The announcement came after several others came one on top of the other in the past few months with formations of units to deal with gangs. Vancouver and the RCMP had an existing joint task force prior to the onslaught of deadly events running through the late autumn.

Police chief Jim Chu of VPD announced the special task force of 60 officers from various agencies to form the largest street-level gang violence task force in the history British Columbia.

Vancouver's Violence Suppression Team (VST) is an initiative counter to increasingly brazen 'targeted hits' in the streets, in restaurants, and at homes, practically anywhere, and occurring at unpredictable hours of day or night, around the Lower Mainland, including Vancouver, Richmond, and Surrey and elsewhere. In fact estimates are that over 100 gang slayings have been counted in recent years.

The Metro Vancouver VST joint police task force wasted no time either, and by Nov 22 07 they conducted a widespread search involving 300 people and netting a number of guns, this action from the VST, "in the first week after it hit the streets," said a police bulletin. The VST officers went on street patrol every night in bars and clubs, and also conducted roadside checks mainly in the downtown Vancouver area.

Head of the team Insp. Dean Robinson of VPD, said, "We are very happy with the results," of November successes, "Known gang members we're interested in and their associates, though, aren't as available as they normally are — that was very expected. That was the point of this program." In other words, the heads of the hoods are ducking for awhile.

After public concerns skyrocketed about innocent bystanders falling in the crossfire in recent attacks the VST was designed to act preventatively to intervene and create a presence that pre-empts situations. There have been over a dozen deaths in the Metro Vancouver area from gang related violence in four months.

Many Canadians recall an  initial one of the attacks of heady violence that occurred in the summer, a paroxysm of shock one early morning with a shooting at a gathering that left two people dead, six injured, one critically, and dozens of spent shells strewn on a Richmond restaurant floor. It made a nationwide media splash, and police called it the worst shooting incident the west coast city has ever seen and call it a 'targeted' attack.

All the victims were Asian and two shooters remain unknown. The victims were known to police, and at the time the VPD called on governments to apply more resources to deal with gang-related violence. Since then the aforementioned professionals have pooled intelligence about gangsters to better identify levels of threat to public safety. He said the focus is on known gangsters.

VPD chief Chu said, "They will stop and search known gang vehicles, form quick response teams and respond to incidents of gang violence, and they will enter the bars and haunts of known gang members in of search of weapons and gangsters. You will see them everywhere in our community where we perceive there's a threat of gang violence."

The VST is deploying groups of six officers to conduct patrols wearing identifiable VST jackets. The overall program that deploys 60 officers is also focused on community intervention and awareness through outreach programs for young people who lack role models and mentors. Chu said, "Community groups, police, the government and the justice system have to work together."

The police chief said, "Young gang members, their parents and friends need to know that police will help them exit the gang lifestyle." Be that as it may, the law enforcement tactics will depend on the intelligence-driven team targeting gangstas at nightclubs, gyms, restaurants, and their homes. "This is all about guns and violence and drugs," Insp. Robinson said.

Violence suppression is a product of careful design, according to RCMP Supt. John Robin, the head of region's existing gang-violence task force, who also participates in the new wider regional approach. On the other hand, the Public Safety Minister John Les was unwilling to emphasize any changes to police approaches in the battles over big money in illegal drugs.

One thing remains the same for gangs, that gunfire might erupt anywhere, anytime, at church, in cars, in school hallways, in houses, in restaurants, at apartments, (six shot to Surrey apartment). Gangs range through all kinds of groups, and Vancouver's problems differ from problems in Toronto or Montreal, Winnipeg or Edmonton. In Toronto, for example, where so many youth were shot up in attacks this summer, black gangs operate from three major camps: the Bloods and the Crips operating side by side with so-called Jamaican posses.

The gangland activity centres around the infamous Jane and Finch. Regardless of the street corners named off in Canada, the discussion always comes down to people, and gangs are unusual formations based on testosterone and misbehaviour, some of whom emerged from poverty or a lack of education, others are university-educated and from affluent families. Dangerous events are indicative of cultural conflict, but also differences in status regarding money, and social alienation.

Gangs form around youth seeking a sense of belonging especially as they begin to hit mid-teens. In the Vancouver area gangs include the Independent Soldiers - primarily Indo-Canadian members; UN Gang - mostly Indo-Canadians, Asians, Persians. In Montreal there are Haitian and Jamaican gangs.

In Calgary and Edmonton: Self-named Asian gangs FOB (Fresh off the Boat, although many members born in Canada); FK (Fresh off the Boat Killers); Crazy Dragons, Crazy Dragon Killers. Winnipeg: African street gang Mad Cowz; aboriginal gang Indian Posse.

Representatives from the Solicitor General's office attribute many gang-related issues to B.C.'s gigantic and lucrative marijuana trade. This they say is the root of escalating violence.

According to expert criminology sources south of the border, an ideal task force investigation puts the entire gang under observation, from the street level thugs and dealers up through the crew leaders and ultimately the gang's command structure.

Whereas some citizen groups have been calling for an expanded regional police force, B.C. Solicitor General John Les said, "The province has a police team that's strong enough to fight gang crime in the Vancouver area. He rejected calls from others like the police community to form a metro police unit dedicated to fighting gangland crime.

The 60 officer task force is just the beginning, however, and the task force is intending to attack the problem, "with three broad strategies," said VPD Police Chief Chu. Strategies include pooling expertise from police departments all over the Lower Mainland, to be a highly visible presence, and to target gang suspects until they are arrested.

It is a fact that police chiefs and many levels of officers from suburban municipalities stood together before the press to laud the launching of the VST, which enjoys widespread support from law and order groups and organizations in society.

The Trial of Willy Pickton was Surreal

Testimonies were missing important details and therefore open to reasonable doubt, and some prosecution witnesses testifed on behalf of the defendant!

Bystanders after listening are wont to ask, "Do prosecutors have the actual person who committed the murders?" 

Willy Pickton has been cloying in admitting to knowing of body parts on the premises but pleading he killed no one. He faces terrified witnesses who seem resigned to small comprehension of events. One prosecution witness expressed warm feelings for Willy Pickton.

The testimony became meaningless babble to outsiders during a parade of drug-addled recollections. Some of the variations induced by the defense were making Willy Pickton burst into laughter at the witnesses from inside the glass-encased prisoner’s box during cross examinations. (And this avuncular chap faces 26 murder charges!)  The defense implicated one of the witnesses in sex-trade homicides around Edmonton until Mr. Justice James Williams slammed the door on it.

If they want to wrap this up fast the work of the prosecution becomes difficult for despite initial suggestions by the defense it appears Willy Pickton is far from a clinical idiot. The defendant realizes unless the IOC makes serial killing an Olympic event for 2010, the Crown, and indeed the society in general, prefers an end to dredging up details leaving major parts of the story to historians.

Perhaps the future holds either a long stay in proceedings of this trial, or a mistrial, because Willy Pickton would be smart to prolong the defense into the next decade and probably will, as Pickton appears comfortable in the milieu of the court and custody and so forth.

The Downtown Eastside of Vancouver remains a mysterious neighbourhood to most Canadians (and entirely understood by the amalgam of people in it). Most DES residents are raised in poverty, many on Indian Reserves and transplant ‘poverty’ along with ‘an Indian reserve’ to the city.

It is North America’s worst slum, over a dozen square blocks reserved for an overwhelmingly victimized hoard, of whom dozens (possibly hundreds) of women were led to grisly deaths, some dying at the hands of an indubitable madman and allegedly the madman is Willy Pickton.

Justice Williams decided to split the case in two parts, proceeding on six charges for the murders of Georgina Papin, Serena Abotsway, Mona Wilson, Andrea Joesbury, Brenda Wolfe, and Marnie Frey.

 So much DNA was everywhere it became confounding to the peaked capped authorities assigned to stopping this macabre conduct who upon entering the premises immediately found body parts including skulls, hands, and feet, stuffed in slop buckets. The farm went on lock down and other bones were found and Willy Pickton had nothing to say, except, “I didn’t do it,” which he's been telling the court.

On the other hand, in video-taped evidence, showing him during the opening hours of Jan 22 07, the Crown said, Willy Pickton confessed to forty-nine murders and rolled the tape of a policeman ‘planted’ in the cell. The conversation centred on why they were in lock-up. Willy proved cagey with the cop but he slyly suggested he was going to be 'stopping' at 50. Then, suddenly, Willy Pickton was famous, face splashed across newspapers the world over.

 Then he was in police interrogation, and he replied, "You're making me more of a mass murderer than I am," mocking interrogators having difficulty distinguishing DNA in the quagmire of his farm sheds and dwelling. Once he muttered, "I was gonna stop at five-0.” They showed him newspapers and Willy Pickton parried, "That don't mean I did it.”

 He may have admitted something but added to his confession that others were doing some of the killing, namely, "Dinah did some of it." Regarding victims, Willy Pickton refused to admit feeding the pigs their remains. Others said he fed the pigs and disposed of other parts through a Pickton family garbage collection company (supplying truck driving jobs).

Crown Counsel Derrill Prevett presented a chain of evidence linked to Pickton's property, including skulls cut in half with hands and feet stuffed in them. Crown Counsel John Ahern described six women living troubled lives.  The defense have agreed wholeheartedly, noting each victim had literally dozens of ‘encounters’ with police, social workers, hospitals, clinics, outreach centres, and detox units. These women seemed to making frantic rounds in the social services dragnet. 

Pickton’s defense touched lightly on the subject but the dates for each disappearance can be recounted precisely by the Crown. Many victims were known for trying to leave the mean streets to return to motherhood or families.

Six victims known to be missing from particular dates are joined by many others who circulated through the over-crowded DES out to the over-crowded Piggy Palace and back to the DES. Regular contact with victims stopped abruptly (only in rare instances reports of a disappearance arrived a long time later).

These victims disappeared from ‘96 to ‘01 and police implicate Willy Pickton in missing persons related to the Lower Mainland sex trade as far back to ‘83, implying he started at age 33. On the other hand, police candidly admit Willy Pickton is joined by other suspects,. To conceive of a mob of serial killers working as a team is strange indeed, for what is the motivation?

Willy Pickton and Dinah Taylor were both heard ranting about drug debts. History informs that street level situations of mayhem often involve drugs by and large.  Scott Chubb, key prosecution witness, gave hearsay testimony to gross indignity to human remains and alluded to cannibalism, in relation to Willy Pickton selling meat over the fence. This takes the killer’s motive into the realm of strange psychosis.

 Chubb refrained from eating at the farm, noteworthy for a starving man at the end of a drug binge, but once informed of the horrors in his midst he apparently balked at the pig farmer’s generosity. It was he who initially reported in ’02 the property patrolled by an aggressive 600 lb. Boar, that it was terrifying.

 Police say Chubb broke the case after working as Willy Pickton’s employee on a garbage truck with extended periods at the wheel. Chubb’s solid work history was matched by zealous use of drugs, but he testified to seeing Willy Pickton visit a shopping mall with Georgina Papin.

 As time wore on between the two in the late 90’s Willy Pickton offered Chubb a moonlighting job, suggesting, 'Kill them with a syringe filled with windshield washer fluid,' because drug addicts never get autopsied."

 Chubb fled when upon learning about the inhuman conduct. He added penetrating testimony about a serial killing machinery facing exposure by David Francis Pickton, Willy Pickton's brother. Chubb reported the brother’s threat against a conspiracy of killers if Willy Pickton was convicted of murder.

 Next came Gina Houston discussing a conversation with Willy Pickton, in Feb. 20 02, after it was established he was the primary suspect. Willy Pickton might have been entering the denial phase of an alleged killing spree (if such a phase exists), and prosecution witness Houston agreed with defense lawyer Marilyn Sandford, stating, “Pickton said, ‘I did not kill Mona,’” or anyone else.

Instead, said defense attorney Sandford, he too pointed the finger at Dinah Taylor, a pig farm roommate of 18 months who was once investigated but never charged.  Houston said Willy Pickton said Dinah Taylor shot some of the girls, and Houston testified Willy Pickton was unable to stop events occurring down on the pig farm. The killing swirling around the place was beyond Willy Pickton's control.

She described a telephone conversation with a mellow Willy Pickton interrupted by a screaming woman followed by another screaming woman, then a screaming man, and a plea from Willy Pickton, “Don’t do it here,” and finally, possibly, a life-emitting gasp.

The prosecution’s problem lies in credibility of these witnesses. The defense keeps asking if they are lying and about the accuracy of memories. Piggy Palace Good Time Society facilities hosted recurring drug-drenched orgies, entree into which does not permit those of a clear head. Some nights this Pickton property held over 2,000 drug-crazed denizens. Police forced Piggy's Palace to scale back in ’98 after a rape victim escaped, partially shackled, but police never stopped it completely.

Gina Houston returned to testify about continued affection for Willy Pickton.  She said it was his close friend Dinah Taylor killing women on his property. Dinah Taylor is from a central Canadian First Nation presently living without police protection who vehemently, categorically, and dismissively denies involvement in murder. She lived on the pig farm for 18 months at the height of disappearances and knew several victims from shared experiences in the DES. 

It was the testimony of Lynn Ellingsen placing Willy Pickton “standing covered in blood next to a dead woman who was hanging from a chain." Defense lawyer Richard Brooks wanted Ellingsen to admit to suffering psychotic episodes of drug-induced hallucination instead of seeing Willy Pickton in the barn with a dead Georgina Papin. Questions fell upon Ellingsen in two separate times on the witness stand to explain dates, which she finds impossible to remember.

Demonstrating a classic case of Post Traumatic Stress Disorder, Ellingsen wept through much of her testimony. She was bad at remembering dates and testified Willy Pickton took her on a ride in his magic bus to the DES in Vancouver. They picked up Georgina Papin and together the crack cocaine use rose to a fever pitch, and Ellingsen was the first to say Willy Pickton directly influenced her drug use.

From all of these sketchy descriptions taken together Willy Pickton emerges as a pretty generous guy,  perhaps an enabler of drug use doling out portions to maintain control over situations and people. Most witnesses are in a state of denial about his role in the drug frenzy but Ellingsen testified Willy Pickton managed the drug program down on the pig farm and at the registered charitable Piggy Palace.

Here was a world disguised by 'philanthropy' with needy addicts the potential volunteers. Ellingsen testified she had fallen for this philanthropy and one night Georgina Papin, too, fell to a different level. First they shared a crack pipe in Willy’s company at Willy Pickton’s behest. Ellingsen said Georgina was alive and wiped on crack cocaine in the evening but dead and mutilated before the crack of dawn.

Ellingsen alone has spoken to these monstrous details. "I saw this body. It was hanging. Willy pulled me inside behind the door. Walked me over to the table. Made me look. Told me if I was to say anything, I'd be right beside her." The defense implied Ellingsen was coached to say what police want because she has long been a dependent of theirs and will say whatever they need.

Before the two week break, 37 year old Andrew Bellwood was prosecution witness 97 and the last long-time crack-cocaine addict to testify. He was down and out meeting Willy Pickton in Jan ‘99 at the Pickton farm, then hanging around the property from Feb ‘99 to mid-Mar ‘99, and, on a couple of occasions, staying over in Willy Pickton's trailer.

  The guy-talk was over the top with Pickton telling Bellwood about prostitutes, “sometimes hesitant about leaving the DES,” so he offered incentives like a choice of drugs, heroin or cocaine, or more money.  It was Bellwood who testified how Willy Pickton demonstrated a modus operandi for sex and murder, and finished with Bellwood by saying he gutted the bodies and fed the remains to the pigs.

  The trial adjourned for a two-week break after Bellwood’s testimony concluded. Still nobody has testified about why the rampant killing spree might have occurred.