BC Missing Women Investigation

The BC Missing Women Investigation is an ongoing criminal investigation into the disappearance of at least 60 women from Vancouver's Downtown Eastside from the early 1980's through to 2002. The investigation is headed by a task force of members from the RCMP and the Vancouver Police Department.

Many of the missing women were impoverished, drug-addicted sex workers from Vancouver's Downtown Eastside. Much of the investigation centred on Robert William Pickton and his Port Coquitlam pig farm.

On December 9, 2007, Pickton was convicted of second-degree murder in the deaths of six women:

* Count 1, Sereena Abotsway [cite news | title = Daughter phoned daily for 13 years | url = http://www.missingpeople.net/cgi-bin/2002/sereen_abotsway-2002.htm | author = Fournier, Suzanne; Fraser, Keith; and Jiwa, Salim | date = 2002-02-26 | publisher = The Province | accessdate = 2007-05-29 ] (born August 20, 1971), 29 when she disappeared in August 2001.
* Count 2, Mona Lee Wilson [cite news | title = Sister trapped by drugs, prostitution | url = http://www.missingpeople.net/mona_wilson_found_2002.htm | author = Fong, Petti and Kines, Lindsay | publisher = Vancouver Sun | date = 2002-02-26 | accessdate = 2007-05-29 ] (born January 13, 1975), 26 when she was last seen on November 23, 2001. Reported Missing November 30, 2001.
* Count 6, Andrea Joesbury, 22 when last seen in June 2001.
* Count 7, Brenda Ann Wolfe [http://www.missingpeople.net/women/brenda_ann_wolfe-last_seen_feb_1999.htm] , 32 when last seen in February 1999 and was reported missing in April 2000.
* Count 16, Marnie Lee Frey [http://www.missingpeople.net/cgi-bin/2002/sereen_abotsway-2002.htm] , last seen August 1997.^{Vancouver Police Missing Persons Case #98-209922.}
* Count 11, Georgina Faith Papin, last seen in 1999.

References

*http://www.missingnativewomen.org/bc.htm
* http://www.ctv.ca/servlet/ArticleNews/story/CTVNews/1077327542003_15/?hub=Canada
* http://www.rcmp-bcmedia.ca/missing_women.jsp
*http://www.missingpeople.net/home.html