Who speaks for missing women?
The Toronto Star Saturday Aug 11, 2007 Byline: Mary Lynn Young Prosecutors in Canada’s largest serial murder trial are winding down their case, eight months and 97 witnesses after it started. That’s six years since Robert William Pickton, 57, was first charged, and 30 years since the first of 65 women went missing from Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside. The case, in which Pickton is being tried for an initial six of 26 murder charges, is taking longer to resolve than it took to investigate the Air India bombing and public inquiry. Pickton has pleaded not guilty, although he admits that the remains of six women were located on his Vancouver-area farm. Major crimes and violence have always been a fact of life. But, some violent crimes garner more or less public and media attention because of how they tap into deep-seated divisions in a community. The fact that such crimes happen should no longer surprise. It is how we make sense of them and respond to the underlying social problems that matt
