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Prosecutors in the UK said, "Wright missed some evidence while cleaning fibres from the car and his clothes that linked him to the murders of these women."
I have noticed since the media covered the Robert Pickton serial killer trial in Canada, there has been other serial killings in Canada involving prostitutes, and now there seems to be a copycat in the UK.
It seems to me as though the power of the media might have opened up a new can of worms for those who are mentally sick, since it seems people are copying Robert Pickton in Vancouver or the Green Peace River killer in the US.
Do you think that this might be the reason for all these killings? It makes me wonder if the publicity for these murderers might be affecting those who are seeking a bit of a thrill, or maybe they are angry at the world because they weren't treated right. Who knows what goes through killers' minds.
When I covered the Robert Pickton trial I was doing so to help society understand what these girls had gone through as prostitutes in the Downtown Eastside of Vancouver. I knew what it was like for the victims, since I once stood amongst these women who were murdered. Some of these women were my friends.
Robert Pickton tried to pick me up once, furthermore, he tried selling me pork as I was sitting in the bar having a beer. It was too close for comfort and I'm grateful to be alive today.
I certainly hope we weren't advertising to those sick enough to murder. I only wanted to speak out for the women whose lives were stolen. I wanted society to know what it was like living as a prostitute coping with a chronic drug/alcohol addiction.
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Re: Ipswich Serial Killer Trial: Could It Be A Copycat?
By Hazel8500, January 25, 2008 at 21:55Hi Pauline,
I agree with Heather on this, these are not copy cats.
Publishing information about the murders of women from vastly removed geographical area's is allowing such "similarities" in cases to emerge. These similarities are likely due to environmental conditions, (poverty, addiction, preponderance of violence against women, inequality of wages, of child care, the marginalization of sex work etc) and mal adapted psychological forces than copy cat activity.
I was also struck by the similarities in Ipswitch. There were five women who were murdered in the same manner in Atlantic city during this same time period. If you google Juarez Femicides you'll find a history of atrocious serial murders of poor women that highly resembles the highway of tears murders, and if you go further back in time to the 1950's through the 1970's you'll find there were similar murders in London Ontario to The Vancouver and Edmonton cases.
Trevor Green in his book Bad Date, The Lost Girls Of Vancouver, discusses recreational violence against women in the DTES.
What Mr. Green determined while researching the missing women of DTES was an emerging sub culture of sick men such as Donald Bakker who specifically went to low track to find women so addicted to drugs they'll go with just about anyone, do just about anything for a fix. These men weren't looking for sex, they were looking to torture women, for kicks.
Pauline, according to last year's UN report, murder of women and girls has become a “Global Pandemic”.
What was uncovered in Port Coquitlam, was simply one center of such mayhem and insanity and hatred of women in this country, in this world, in this moment. Yes, its a reality that has to stop. Silence, won't stop it.
Sincerely,
Hazel.
Re: Ipswich Serial Killer Trial: Could It Be A Copycat?
By Heather Wallace, January 18, 2008 at 10:23Hi Pauline - I don't think it's a Pickton copycat killing, as these murders preceded the Pickton serial killer coverage. Sadly, I think serial killing of sex trade workers is just a reality that we need to try to stop.