Robert Pickton Documentary: Canada's Worst Serial Killer
Author: Shane Lambert
The 34-35-minute episode goes through Pickton's life as a child on a farm, where he suffered abuse and mental trauma. It continues with his status as a social outcast among his peers growing up. This leads to his time as a serial killer. After watching the documentary, which is critical of the Canadian police and their handling of the investigation, anyone looking to learn about the crimes will feel as though they have a good understanding of what happened, I think.
Is there a movie about Robert Pickton? Not that I know of but there are online documentaries.
The documentary has a well-written narrative style. It is also presented in animation but with real-life photos of some of the people central to the cases.
One central issue in the documentary has to do with how the Vancouver police managed the situation with the disappearing women. They went missing from Vancouver's east side, which is notorious for being one of the worst neighborhoods in all of Canada.
I've lived in greater Vancouver for about five years of my life, including one month when I rented a hotel room on Vancouver's east side, which would be called the "East Hastings" area by locals. Many I have talked to over the years have explained the concentration of homelessness in the area as being due to the fact that Vancouver, located in Canada's southwest, has the gentlest winter-time climate in Canada, at least for major cities. Certainly, living on the streets in Vancouver is more viable in the winter than in Edmonton, Calgary, Toronto, Montreal, Ottawa, or many of the other significant cities in Canada.
What fueled the disappearances, as presented in the documentary, is the belief that missing prostitutes are not considered to be worthy of investigation in the eyes of the police.
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