Farm Is Searched in Probe of Missing Women
From Times Wire Reports
An owner of a Vancouver-area pig farm was charged with firearms violations as police continued to search the site for evidence in the disappearances of 50 women.
Robert William Pickton, 52, one of the farm’s owners, had been accused in court documents of stabbing a woman repeatedly with a kitchen knife in 1997, the Seattle Post-Intelligencer reported.
The charges were later dropped, apparently because the woman would not testify against him.
Many of the missing women were sex-trade workers from the area.
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