Posted on 03/18/2002 12:47:17 PM PST by ValerieUSA
TORONTO -- Police are investigating a 34-year-old woman in the case of more than 50 women missing from Vancouver's gritty downtown east side, CBC's "Sunday Report" said.
While Gina Houston has denied any connection with the missing women, mostly prostitutes and drug users, she told the program she believes she's the principal suspect still at large.
Robert William Pickton, 52, the owner of a pig farm in suburban Port Coquitlam which has been the focus of an intense police investigation, has been charged with two counts of first-degree murder in the deaths of two of the women, Sereena Abotsway and Mona Wilson.
Houston was a neighbor of Pickton's. She has publicly defended him and visited him in jail, according to a separate report from CTV National News.
Houston has not been charged.
"They've been making my life a living hell -- the police," Houston said, adding that she's been under investigation for four years and has been closely monitored by the police.
CBC also reported that police executed search warrants at a storage facility, seizing all of Houston's personal possessions, including furniture, dishes and her children's toys.
Investigators have declined to discuss specifics but have acknowledged that they are investigating others suspects.
Houston has denied having anything to do with the disappearances of any of the women but thinks she could be arrested at any time.
She could not be reached for comment yesterday.
The pig farm has been the site of one of the biggest criminal investigations in B.C. history.
No bodies have been reported found there, and none of the bodies of the 50 missing women have been found.
Investigators with a joint task force of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police and Vancouver police won't say what they have found at the pig farm but insist the two women that Pickton is charged with killing are dead.
"Robert William Pickton, 52, the owner of a pig farm in suburban Port Coquitlam which has been the focus of an intense police investigation, has been charged with two counts of first-degree murder in the deaths of two of the women, Sereena Abotsway and Mona Wilson."
"No bodies have been reported found there, and none of the bodies of the 50 missing women have been found."
There must be strong evidence or an eyewitness if he is being charged in the deaths of two of these women.
Pigs don't leave much evidence.
I spent some time in Eastern Montana at an airbase a few years ago. What area was your farm located?
I think I probably could have lived the rest of my life not visualizing this....thanks, I think.....:^(
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One day grandma is looking out the window. Theres an old sow laying in the yard on her side and not moving. She thinks to herself that she has to remember to tell grandpa abou the dying sow when he comes back in. The flies are building up on the pig and its not moving...chickens start to wander over and peck at the pig....SNAP!...the pig grabs a chicken, sucks it down and wanders back into its shed.
A daughter of this same sow was known to stand in the ditches in the spring and wait for the suckers to begin their run. She spent whole days catching and eating suckers, resting on the bank, catching and eating suckers,....
Didn't get to see much of Western Montana because that was such a long drive away.
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