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Hi there, it's Christy. Thank you so much for joining me

for part four of this series, a quick message before we start. Longtime listeners know that I

already covered this case more than eight years ago in my first year of podcasting when it was

just a hobby. It's a lot more than that now, and I've learned a lot more since

then. And in the last few years when the news broke that Robert Picton had been murdered,

and why, I decided to revisit my original series, rewrite it, and add his final update to replace

the original. Well, I pulled on one thread, then found myself

digging through all the evidence again to find answers to questions I didn't really know

to ask last time. This final chapter has turned out to be one very long episode, so I've had to

split it in two. It's now a five-part series. I'm so sorry, I always do this.

I just don't want to rush it or cut corners or get sloppy. Thanks for your patience and for

hanging in. You won't have to wait so long for part five. An additional content warning,

graphic and disturbing details.

I'll also let you know when we get to the part with details of animal abuse for those who want to fast forward.

Where we left off, it was early 2000, and it had been three years since Wendy escaped the farm after surviving a brutal knife fight with Robert Pickton.

Despite her credible account, the Crown decided she was not fit to testify at trial and dropped all the charges. Robert Pickton

slipped through the cracks. That was 1997. The next year saw a noticeable spike in women vanishing.

Bill Hescox, a former employee, reported multiple times to the Vancouver Police and the RCMP that Robert

Willie Pickton talked openly about disposing of bodies in the piggery, but senior officers

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