MarkII said:
Cute..what you are quoting at this point is media speculation. The crown has not yet fully presented their case so we really do not know if they screwed up. They have spent many years and several millions of dollars making sure they had all the evidence they could find and then test.
It's a bit early to make any assumptions.
I believe there is also a reason why they are only charging him with 6 murders in the first trial. Those would appear to be the slam dunk cases, the others might be more open to questioning. Once he's convicted on the first 6 he'll never get out of prison. The rest is just icing on the cake so to speak.
I have followed this case closely for years SINCE before they had a suspect, I have read as many newspaper articles, documentaries and books on this particular case....
I am speaking of things they did prior to the case cracking, that is not only well documented in books, blogs, and even an ex police officer... that's what I am speaking of. Like telling families, friends and people who brought their disappearences to the attention of the police that these women have a "history of transisent lifestyles and could have moved somewhere and not told anyone". That is what I am talking about the general lack of apathy demonstrated by the police because of where the ladies came from. If there were 20 women reported missing from any other district or lifestyle the cops would have taken the whole situation more seriously since day one, but those ladies weren't and this is in part due to discrimination the cops exhibited.
I have read everything and anything to do with this case and the fact is the cops fucked up, pickton could have been locked up a lot sooner. There are many many families who have heavily documented the steps they took to ensure the police kept a move on the case. There are at least 3 books published by families, many a documentary going into detail of what the cops DIDN'T do etc.
They wanted to speed up the first six cases up because they felt if they waited till all the evidence was in (which is taking literally years) to go ahead with the case, the presiding judge might throw it out because the charged should only wait so long to go to trial. The first six cases also had "remains" that they identified the DNA with (from the motorhome). Those were the six they found RIGHT off the bat.
If memory serves me right the final take down was because someone who HAD worked on the farm reported some really suspicious behaviors in Pickton. This is already WAY after the incident with the lady who was assaulted with a knife, at least a year and half after. They didn't care to search his farm then... they waited and waited and waited ....
