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This is part two of a four-part series, piece together primarily from the public record everyone. Please take care when listening. by the late investigative journalist Stevie Cameron.

We left off in the early to mid-1990s as women kept disappearing from Vancouver's downtown east side

and police continued to resist the idea of a serial predator.

Meanwhile, Robert Picton regularly disposed of his barrels of waste and remains at a rendering

plant right next to the downtown east side. An employee of that rendering plant would later

remember seeing large chunks of meat floating in the waste,

but there was no scrutiny or oversight.

A woman named Nancy Clark disappeared from Vancouver Island at the exact same time that

both David and Robert Picton were working there on a demolition job. Her DNA would later be located on the farm,

revealing that by at least 1991, the killings had begun.

And they would continue for another 12 years.

During this time, Robert Pekton formed a friendship with a woman who would later become central to his story.

Lisa Yelz was a former sex worker from the downtown east side,

still connected to the biker scene and raising two teenage sons after a failed marriage.

Her older son was friends with David Pickton's son and she lived near the farm.

One evening, she was grateful when Robert brought her boys home

after they missed curfew and a friendship grew from there. Lisa and her sons eventually moved on

to the farm and would describe her friendship with Robert as straightforward and non-romantic.

They spent time together doing ordinary things, and Robert

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