Piggy Palace
Posted: Tue Nov 20, 2007 8:06 am
That, believe it or not 
, is the name of the "club" that Robert Pickton and his younger brother, Dave, operated in the Greater Vancouver area and where the bodies of the missing Downtown Eastside prostitutes were found.
Robert Pickton remains the only person charged with murder in this case. He faces 26 charges of murder, the current year long trial that is drawing to an end is only for the first six charges. Presumably, he is the only one charged as the bodies were all found in the north end of the family property on which Robert lived in his trailer next to some outbuildings. His brother, Dave, was the brains of the two. He is the one who figured out how to parcel up the land they inherited and sell it off to developers. They have made close to 7 million selling their land. The remaining parcel is estimated at being worth $3 million and the family has other property holdings. They are third generation pig farmers with family roots in the area that go back to the early 1900s.
Piggy Palace was built to hold "fundraisers" as their charitable society claims but was known for rave type parties populated mostly by bikers, downtown residents and prostitutes that were driven out to the premises by Robert Pickton to work the Palace. Not all of them made it back.
Gruesome tales have been told about how the women may have met their demise. Stories of body parts having been fed to the pigs, handcuffs and ankle chains, blood stained dildoes and bullets found in a hole in the ground at the slaughterhouse.
One of the arguments the defense is putting forward is that police have failed to investigate evidence of other people who may have been guilty, including Robert's brother, Dave. They don't deny that the bodies were found on Robert's property but they question whether police have eliminated all the other suspects. Police assert that investigations into Dave's involvement are not completed.
, is the name of the "club" that Robert Pickton and his younger brother, Dave, operated in the Greater Vancouver area and where the bodies of the missing Downtown Eastside prostitutes were found.Robert Pickton remains the only person charged with murder in this case. He faces 26 charges of murder, the current year long trial that is drawing to an end is only for the first six charges. Presumably, he is the only one charged as the bodies were all found in the north end of the family property on which Robert lived in his trailer next to some outbuildings. His brother, Dave, was the brains of the two. He is the one who figured out how to parcel up the land they inherited and sell it off to developers. They have made close to 7 million selling their land. The remaining parcel is estimated at being worth $3 million and the family has other property holdings. They are third generation pig farmers with family roots in the area that go back to the early 1900s.
Piggy Palace was built to hold "fundraisers" as their charitable society claims but was known for rave type parties populated mostly by bikers, downtown residents and prostitutes that were driven out to the premises by Robert Pickton to work the Palace. Not all of them made it back.
Gruesome tales have been told about how the women may have met their demise. Stories of body parts having been fed to the pigs, handcuffs and ankle chains, blood stained dildoes and bullets found in a hole in the ground at the slaughterhouse.
One of the arguments the defense is putting forward is that police have failed to investigate evidence of other people who may have been guilty, including Robert's brother, Dave. They don't deny that the bodies were found on Robert's property but they question whether police have eliminated all the other suspects. Police assert that investigations into Dave's involvement are not completed.