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0:00.0	Canadian True Crime is a completely independent production, funded mainly through advertising.
0:05.0	You can listen to Canadian True Crime ad-free and early on Amazon music included with Prime, Apple Podcasts, Patreon, and Supercast.
0:12.9	The podcast often has disturbing content and coarse language. It's not for everyone. Please take care when listening.
0:19.9	An additional content warning. Graphic and disturbing details.
0:30.1	This is the final chapter of Robert Picton.
0:34.9	Where we left off, it was early February of 2002, and the police raided the Pekton farm based on a search warrant for illegal weapons.
0:45.1	Instead, they found evidence linking him to multiple missing women.
0:49.9	Pekton was arrested and released on bail the following day, while police sealed off the farm
0:55.7	and returned with a new search warrant. Inside Robert Pekton's mobile trailer home, investigators
1:03.1	found a disturbing amount of evidence scattered throughout, belonging to multiple missing
1:08.6	women along with blood and hair.
1:11.8	They also found multiple inhalers prescribed to Serena Abbott's Way,
1:16.6	who'd been missing for months.
1:18.9	The 29-year-old had picked those inhalers up from the pharmacy
1:22.6	only a few days before she was last seen alive.
1:30.5	Investigators shifted their focus to an old rundown motorhome Picton had lived in for a time. Inside, they found heavy blood staining
1:37.5	on a mattress and blood spatter throughout the motorhome, signs that someone had been badly injured and dragged out.
1:46.0	So far, they'd found no actual remains, but there was no way one person could have survived that level of blood loss.
1:55.0	Multiple samples from the motor home were rushed for DNA testing in comparison to samples from the missing women.
2:14.1	As the search continued, investigators were preparing for the inevitable second arrest of Robert Pickton.
2:21.9	This time, it had to count. Any contact with him needed to be carefully planned and handled by the right people.
2:30.0	Police decided a female officer would approach him and try to build a rapport,
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