Portrait of a prostitute killer: Marvin Tom's life of tragedy
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Born with fetal alcohol syndrome into an abusive home, he became a
violent drunk -- and a killer
Kim Bolan, Lori Culbert and Lindsay Kines
Vancouver Sun
Monday, November 26, 2001
The life story of Marvin Alexander Tom -- like those of many men who
attack and sometimes kill prostitutes -- has striking similarities to
the backgrounds of the vulnerable women who make a living on the
streets.
Many of the prostitutes who have vanished are aboriginal, like Tom.
And, like Tom, most of them have tragic pasts filled with abuse,
addiction, unemployment and poverty.
But while Tom became a killer, the missing women -- many speculate --
have become the victims of a murderer, possibly the most prolific
serial killer Canada has ever seen.
Vancouver's sex-trade workers started disappearing in 1984, and Tom
has been in prison for the majority of the intervening years. But is
the person responsible for this mysterious and troubling case someone
like him? Someone who has struggled since childhood and, in
adulthood, can no longer control fatal impulses to lash out against
some of the most fragile members of our society?
Police say they have as many as 600 suspects in the missing women
case -- essentially a list of men convicted in B.C. of violent
attacks on prostitutes.
This is the story of one of those men.
AGASSIZ -- Marvin Tom has a few theories about who may be killing sex-
trade workers in Vancouver's Downtown Eastside.
He thinks it is someone acting alone. Someone who maybe had a mother
or a sister who was a prostitute.
"He must have had a vicious background, let's put it that way. I keep
thinking that someone in that person's family was a prostitute or
something, like a sister or a mother or a cousin."
If there is a serial killer responsible for the disappearance of
about 45 women in recent years, Tom thinks the man is cunning and
calculating.
"They will go to any lengths. They will make sure that there is no
loose ends," he said.
"If you were the murderer or a serial killer, I'd be classifying you
as a person who knows how to play his cards. In other words, someone
who knows how to beat the system."
But he doesn't think the serial killer is anything like him --
despite his arrest and imprisonment for killing one prostitute and
raping two other women in a drunken four-day spree of violence in the
Downtown Eastside in 1993.
In fact, Tom, who is serving an indefinite sentence as a dangerous
offender at Kent Institution here, thinks of himself as a gentle soul
who loves women.
That image is in drastic contrast to his vicious actions over a booze-
crazed weekend more than eight years ago.
It started on Friday, July 30, 1993, when Tom was released from the
Regional Psychiatric Centre after serving four years for slashing the
throat of his girlfriend in an alcohol-fueled rage.
He was driven to the Downtown Eastside and dropped off about 11 a.m.
at the Salvation Army's Harbour Light detox centre by a student
social worker. He was told to come back by 1 p.m. to register.
Instead, Tom hit the bars and by the next morning, Lisa Lynn McLaren
was dead.
The 24-year-old prostitute was found naked from the waist down, lying
in some bushes beside the railway tracks at the foot of Dunlevy
Street. Her head had been severely beaten, and bones were broken on
both sides of her throat.
Covered in blood, Tom walked into the Vancouver police station the
next day and said he had just found a body. Police, who had already
located McLaren's remains, took Tom's clothes and a blood sample. He
was questioned and released.
He continued his boozing. And he continued his violence, sexually
assaulting two more women in the same neighbourhood within the next
two days.
A 24-year-old prostitute says Tom agreed to pay her $50 for sex, but
then raped and beat her in a field off Keefer Street. She escaped
with scrapes, bruises and a broken breastbone.
Another woman testified in court that Tom followed her, pinned her
down after she fell, sexually assaulted her, and repeatedly smashed
her head into the sidewalk before running away.
Tom was convicted in two separate trials in 1995 of manslaughter in
McLaren's death, and aggravated sexual assault and sexual assault in
the other attacks.
In a parole decision earlier this year, a three-panel board denied
Tom's application for release, noting the vicious nature of his
crimes and the over-all problem of violence against prostitutes in
the Downtown Eastside.
"Your victims have all suffered serious physical and psychological
damage and the community has expressed its concerns regarding the
safety of street prostitutes," the National Parole Board said in its
decision.
Board members ruled Tom remains an undue risk to society.
Tom doesn't think it is fair that convicts like him have their parole
eligibility impacted, in part, by public concern over the missing
women, whose pictures are on a poster in the prison's entranceway.
"When they keep going missing, it is hitting also the people who are
incarcerated and they are putting them down in the same category --
see he is a prostitute killer . . . it makes it harder for me to get
out," he said.
"I can understand where the public's coming from, but sometimes you
have to understand and realize that some people are dealing with
their issues."
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A lot in Tom's 36 years could be classified as unfair.
Even a Kent prison guard escorting Sun reporters through locked
corridors casually observed: "Nobody says Marvin has had an easy
life."
That life began in Fort St. James on Sept. 13, 1965. Or so Tom
thinks. He isn't even sure where he was born. Like so much of his
past, including the violent acts that landed him in jail, things are
blurry.
He was brain damaged even before his birth from fetal alcohol
syndrome. As the oldest of Lawrence Tom and Matilda "Tilly Rose"
Joseph's three boys, Marvin received most of the beatings when his
dad was drunk. And that was often.
Cigarettes were butted out on his head. His leg was broken when he
was kicked with a steel-toed boot. He lifts his striped T-shirt to
show the scar on the right side of his stomach from his father
holding him over a wood stove.
"Marvin was treated worse than his brother Lawrence, because he was
the oldest," Tom's foster father David Dyck confirmed in an
interview. "Even now if you look on his head, you'll see cigarette
burns."
Social workers placed Tom in a series of foster homes. He and his
youngest brother Lawrence finally ended up with the Dycks, a decent
family with 16 children of their own on a small farm outside
Vanderhoof. The Dycks looked after Tom for at least 10 years, from
age five to his mid-teens, when he became lost to alcohol.
He doesn't remember much of his early childhood, except the fear of
the beatings.
"According to my grandma on my mom's side, she said I was the oldest
in the family and I was the one who was getting most of the beatings,
so whatever my youngest brother did, I was the one who was getting
it. I pretty well got it every time."
When he was forced to visit with his father at Dyck's home, Tom would
hide, his foster father said.
"As soon as they mentioned my dad's name, I would be running in the
other direction," Tom recalled. "I was scared to be in kindergarten.
When my foster mom dropped me off in kindergarten there was more
fear -- like maybe my dad was going to come in the door."
Court records in Prince George and Vanderhoof indicate Tom's father,
Lawrence Seymour Tom, has had a violent past and many run-ins with
the law.
On May 14, 1984 Lawrence Tom Sr. repeatedly stabbed his second wife,
Kathy Tom, with a butcher's knife on the Pinchi Reserve near Fort St.
James. The attack left her paralyzed and confined to a wheelchair. He
was convicted of aggravated assault and sentenced to three years in
jail.
Lawrence Tom Sr. has also been convicted of threatening his daughter
Laurie Tom and assaulting his son Vern Tom with a knife, among other
violent offences over the years.
If Marvin Tom's memories of his father are bad, the memories of his
mother are non-existent.
Sun files indicate Matilda Joseph died of a drug overdose in Oakalla
prison at age 26, a few months after participating in a jail break
with seven other inmates.
According to court documents and Tom's step-mother Kathy, Joseph was
in jail because she attacked her husband in self-defence.
Joseph's death was deemed accidental by a coroner's jury, despite
testimony from another inmate that Joseph had been crying in her cell
before deliberating injecting herself with the drugs that killed her.
Tom was thrilled when provided with two short news articles about
Joseph published in The Sun in 1974.
"Cool. I have been trying to track down her records for so long. I
didn't even know her age until right now," he said. "I don't even
know why she went to prison in the first place. What I've been told
is that she and my dad got into an argument, or got into a fight or
something on the reserve, and from there I guess my mom just had
enough of it -- enough of the violence -- and she just spun out one
night."
Tom was nine when his mother died, and has a foggy memory of being
taken to her funeral by a social worker.
Years later, while in prison, he addressed a suicide note to his
mother, saying he wanted to kill himself so he could be with her.
Court documents indicate he has tried at least a dozen times to kill
himself by slashing himself, swallowing razor blades, over-dosing and
hanging.
His forearms are covered in scars from self-mutilation -- slashings
done with razor blades both inside and outside prison. He jokingly
calls them "Indian tattoos."
But Tom refuses to talk about the suicide attempts, or the sexual
abuse that court and parole records say he endured in some of his
foster homes.
"If it did happen, I probably wanted to forget about it," he said
matter-of-factly.
Dyck, his longtime foster father, said Tom was well-behaved as a
young boy, but a slow learner who didn't like doing chores around the
house.
"He was reasonably good, but he never seemed to want to work,"
recalled Dyck, 86. "Going to school, he'd sit there and sleep instead
of learning. What he has learned, I think he learned in jail."
Dyck sent Tom to a Christian school, where several teachers made
extra efforts to help the boy. But he struggled with learning
disabilities now associated with fetal alcohol syndrome. Although he
stayed in school until about age 15, he left with a Grade 4
education. He still doesn't read or write very well, although he is
taking classes in prison.
Tom said he started drinking at about age 10. Jack Daniels was his
favourite, but he would drink anything he could get his hands on. He
also started sniffing glue about age 12 and experimenting with drugs
at 15, court documents show.
Add to this vandalism, truancy and stealing cars, and Tom said his
foster mother got more and more concerned about his behaviour. As a
teenager, his run-ins with police were mostly for drinking. And for
mouthing off.
By the time he was 18 and 19 years old, court records in Prince
George and Vanderhoof show Tom was continually in and out of court.
Breaking windows. Smashing the headlights of a police car. Impaired
driving. Failing to comply with probation orders -- mainly drinking
when he had been ordered by the courts not to.
In one stint in prison, Tom was incarcerated in the Prince George
regional correctional centre. His father was a fellow inmate. "We
basically just talked like father and son kind of thing. I forgive
him but I can't forget."
Tom's step-mother and former foster father both say Tom would
do "anything" while drunk.
"Normally he is not violent," Kathy Tom said. "But he does get
blackouts when he is drinking and that's when it happens."
By the time he left the Dycks in his mid-teens, Tom was "shacking up"
with a series of girlfriends. The focus of all the relationships was
alcohol, and they were frequently volatile.
He said he fathered his first child, a girl, at about 16. He saw the
baby briefly at the hospital, but said the mother moved to Calgary.
He doesn't even know his daughter's name.
A couple of years later, he said, he fathered his second baby -- a
boy he named Steven. He doesn't remember the mother's name.
His third child to yet another woman was a boy, also named Steven.
"Steven I knew how to spell, so that's why I picked the name," Tom
explained.
Exactly how many babies Tom has fathered isn't clear. He has told
different stories to lawyers and psychiatrists -- ranging from two to
six.
Tom's first assault conviction came in April 1985 after he broke into
the home of a former Vanderhoof teacher with whom he had become
infatuated. The victim would later testify in court that he climbed
in her living-room window, grabbed her and began choking her before
she fought him off. Tom was sentenced to serve seven months at the
Hudta Lake Forestry Camp.
After that incident, Tom's aggression continued to escalate. He has
since been described in court as hating women.
Tom told The Sun his relationship with the mother of his third child
was particularly explosive. But he believes the woman was always
falsely accusing him of being abusive, though he admits to throwing
beer bottles at her.
"Even the RCMP in Prince George said: 'You guys have got to break up.
We are getting calls from you left and right. It seems that every
weekend we are getting calls to the apartment or in town or
something. One of these days either she is going to kill you or you
are going to kill her,' " Tom recalled.
They did break up and he moved in with Pauline Gillis.
Tom was convicted in 1989 of aggravated assault after police were
called to a Prince George home and found Gillis had been stabbed in
the neck with a 12-inch butcher knife. Tom was drunk, and the couple
had argued over his welfare money when Gillis was attacked and
told: "You're dead, bud," court documents say.
But Tom says the couple had been fighting over Gillis' care of her
baby girl. He remembers leaving her apartment to go drinking, but
said he does not recall what happened when he came back about 5 a.m.
"I got charged for stabbing her on the side with a knife. In the
neck. That is what really discourages me sometimes, how that went
down. All those years, like I didn't want to be like my dad," Tom
said.
He insists he cannot recall the attack, but said police showed him a
photo of Gillis' bloody wound. "It scared me more than anything else.
How could that happen? How could I let it go that far?"
His four-year sentence for the aggravated assault of Gillis put Tom
in the federal prison system and brought him to the Lower Mainland.
He was released on parole four times -- each time violating his
probation by returning to the Downtown Eastside, where he had women
friends and drinking buddies. And each time he was sent back to jail.
But on July 30, 1993, his sentence expired and he had to be released -
- despite concerns raised by the parole board.
A decision written seven days before he was freed said: "You remain a
risk to re-offend while on any form of release. It is noted with
regret you will re-enter the community. . . . One can only hope some
of the institutional programs will be of some benefit, and allow you
to function as a law-abiding citizen."
Tom said he intended to return to the North where he had another
girlfriend waiting for him.
But first he was supposed to complete the Salvation Army's detox
program in the Downtown Eastside. Once he got to the neighbourhood,
Tom's craving lured him to the booze that had controlled his entire
life.
Tom claims to have no memory of the days that followed, or the
rampage that has landed him in prison, possibly for the rest of his
life.
"I told one of my friends I am going out on a big binge before I
leave Vancouver," he recalled. "But they were trying to say stuff
like: 'You should go back home. That is where you belong.' "
Twice in the first 24 hours since his release from prison, he was
thrown into the Vancouver Detox Centre. And in between those visits,
Lisa Lynn McLaren was murdered.
Asked if he remembers McLaren, Tom repeated what he said during his
1995 murder trial: "I didn't even know who she was until in court ...
they showed me a photo and said: 'Do you recall seeing her?' and I
said, 'No. Who is that?' "
He can't explain why he went into the police station and said he knew
where a body was. He can't explain the blood all over him. He can't
explain why he was wearing McLaren's running shoes. He can't explain
his DNA being inside the victim.
"That is something that plays in my mind sometimes," Tom said of all
the unanswered questions.
He has almost convinced himself of his lawyer's suggestion that maybe
someone else was there when McLaren was killed.
"To be honest with you, I am not really sure myself about it. It is
like being in another world without even realizing it," Tom
said. "I'm not too aware of my surroundings or who I am with or who I
am drinking with or whatever because to me I will drink with anybody."
Whether a blackout or denial has clouded Tom's memory, he
acknowledges he probably did do something horrendous -- something he
does not like to think about.
"If I took this person's life, and these are only my words, they
should take me out and hang me. To me, I don't know if I can handle
it."
The Sun attempted to contact McLaren's family through Crown counsel
but was unsuccessful.
Although he was tried for first-degree murder in McLaren's death, a
jury convicted Tom of manslaughter because he was so drunk.
But Judge Donald Brenner still declared him a dangerous offender and
handed him an indefinite sentence.
"The circumstances of Lisa McLaren's death, in particular the severe
nature of her injuries, were of such a brutal nature as to compel the
conclusion that Mr. Tom's behaviour in the future is unlikely to be
inhibited by normal standards of behavioural restraint," Brenner said.
While he said Tom has shown signs of trying to rehabilitate himself,
Brenner concluded the man "is likely to violently reoffend."
Tom's defence lawyer Jim Hogan had earlier argued his client didn't
ask for his start in life -- much the same way his victims didn't
choose their backgrounds.
"[The complainants are] inadequate to some degree as far as their
addictions and prostitution and cocaine and street life,
unemployment, everything that may not be their fault -- and that
leads me right into Marvin," Hogan said to the jury.
"I am not asking you to have sympathy and, therefore, relieve him of
his responsibilities . . . what I am asking you is to understand and
not condemn him for what he is . . . Marvin Tom did not ask for any
of his inadequacies. He was born with them or they were bred into
him."
Judge Michael Catliff, who presided over the sex-assault trial, said
he understood Tom's "unfortunate early history," but said the
offender should be kept "out of harm's way" for as long as the law
would allow. "This man is a ticking bomb who will explode as soon as
he is released from custody," Catliff said.
Quoting from a psychiatrist's report, Catliff noted Tom was "a very
unfortunate and pathetic man who is really grossly lacking in the
psychological resources necessary to manage in the world or handle
his own problems. He is clearly someone who can at best lurch and
stumble through life."
But Tom also has his supporters. Todd Cassidy, a Corrections
counsellor who works with some of B.C.'s most troubled federal
inmates, believes Tom could be rehabilitated if the prison system
offered better programs -- both for his mental health problems and
his alcohol addiction.
Cassidy is not necessarily advocating that Tom could one day be
released, but that his quality of life in prison could be more
productive if he were given the help he needs to heal -- and perhaps
the opportunity to pass his story along to other troubled native
youths.
"He does have flashes of brilliance, good ideas of straightening out
his life and working with youth so they don't have to go through what
he goes through. He is trying to change."
In the 2 1/2 years Cassidy has worked with Tom, he said the inmate
has shown no signs of violence to anyone but himself. He said Tom is
in a segregated unit in Kent, not because he has attacked other
prisoners, but because he has been a victim of such assaults while
incarcerated.
"He's like a child who people can lead," said Cassidy, a former
inmate who served a total of 27 years in jail but has been working
with prisoners ever since his release in 1983. "He hasn't progressed
past about 10 years old emotionally."
Tom says he doesn't want to use alcohol as an excuse for whatever he
has done.
But he can't say if he could quit drinking if allowed out on bail. He
talks about going to a treatment program in Nanaimo. He mentions an
article a friend read about surgery that can stop the cravings. There
is also medication he hopes to take months before being released.
But there are no guarantees.
Tom hinted that alcohol was available behind prison walls, though he
claimed not to be drinking. A parole board report said he had got
into trouble in prison and may be involved in the drug sub-culture
behind bars, something Tom denied to The Sun.
Throughout Tom's interview with two reporters in Kent's nondescript,
internal court room, a prison guard remained nearby and was able to
hear everything.
At the very least, Tom said he finally realizes he is an alcoholic.
And that drinking makes him uncontrollably violent.
"I am starting to see more what other people are saying," he said. "I
don't joke about alcohol any more either. I gave that up. To me it's
like if you joke about it, you are still into it. The one thing I
have to deal with is my alcohol. That is the main key to all the
issues is the alcohol. That is my biggest downfall, when I go
drinking."
Tom has been in prison, with the exception of a few drunken days, for
more than a decade, and does not know when -- or if -- he'll ever get
out.
His last parole decision referred to him as a moderate psychopath,
with "possible organic brain impairment, impaired intelligence,
depression and suicidal tendencies, anger and violence, sexual
deviance and a personality disorder with inadequate, dependent,
immature, borderline and anti-social features."
At his dangerous offender's hearing in 1996, a forensic psychiatrist
said Tom has a vicious hostility toward women -- something Tom denies
is true.
"It is something I am not really aware of," he said.
Asked about his history of assaulting women, Tom seemed incapable of
seeing a pattern of violence. He tried to separate his actions from
the charges of which he is convicted.
"That boils back down to what I have been charged with. Legally, the
courts look at it as what was all done, or what harm was done.
There's a sense that I've been labelled basically by what goes down
on my files," he said.
But in the 1995 sentencing hearing for the manslaughter conviction,
Judge Brenner noted Tom has an established pattern of
behaviour. "These attacks indicate Mr. Tom's substantial hostility
towards women."
Nonetheless, Tom argues he has always been friendly to prostitutes
when they met in bars or when he passed them on street corners. "I
guess people look at them as the lowest of the lowest, but they are
human themselves. You've got to do what you've got to do. Who am I to
judge another person by what they do?"
Even though he said he is still not sure what happened during those
horrific four days in the summer of 1993, he does want to apologize
to McLaren's family.
"I regret what has happened to her and I know how it feels to lose
somebody who's really important to them. If there was anything I
could do to change things around, I would," he said.
"It shouldn't have happened the way it happened. If I could change
lives with her, I would in a heartbeat. I wish there was something I
could do to bring her back."
And for the other two women he was convicted of sexually assaulting,
Tom also offered an apology.
"I regret putting them through the terror and the misery. It is
something I don't want anyone more to go through. I regret the whole
situation from the beginning, from day one. It is the biggest mistake
of my life."
© Copyright 2001 Vancouver Sun
Courtesy of The Vancouver sun
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Diane Hicks <gdh...@shaw.ca> of AB the friend of serial killer and rapist WILLIE Picton. Contacted me again and I responded. My info is accurate when wrong I am willing to correct it. The Picton brothers are long time criminals both rapists both violent both liars. Darlene Jacobsen of New Norway, AB has made various claims about the Camrose, AB RCMP which if true be scandalous but she is the town slut and drunk. You can find her easily on the INTERNET like you did me in 2020. You have had 3 years to read my Groups posts point out the lies.
On Saturday, October 15, 2022 at 07:49:05 a.m. PDT, Diane Hicks <gdh...@shaw.ca> wrote:
Your right about the death penalty, only where the one brother is concerned. It’s really sad that you put out miss information, you need to get your facts straight. The truth will be coming out shortly and a lot of individuals will be going to jail.
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Sad is ppl being killed by a pig ugly, smelly, moron WILLIE Picton for no reason and a police cluster of an investigation that only after years of killings clued in. Diane Hicks <gdh...@shaw.ca>
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On Saturday, October 15, 2022 at 01:18:28 a.m. PDT, Greg Carr <greg...@yahoo.ca> wrote:
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No. Willie and his brother are two examples why Canada needs the death penalty again. I don't think it would be wise for you to contact me again.
On Thursday, October 13, 2022 at 09:45:02 a.m. PDT, Diane Hicks <gdh...@shaw.ca> wrote:
Thank you, can we please talk. I’m really close to Willie and would like to hear more from you.
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What about Dinah Taylor? She was an aboriginal who was welcome on her
home reserve in Ontario after leaving the DTES. She had lived on the
Picton property and when she saw Picton flaying a dead female body she
shook him down for money. Not much native sisterhood in evidence
there. She got $8k from him.
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Some woman claiming to be Diane Hicks contacted me she claims to be a close friend of mass murderer and H.A. buddy and rapist Willie Picton. She has contacted me this month and 2021 and 2020.
https://s3.amazonaws.com/khudes/trump1.pdf her email also appears in an online document. gdh...@shaw.ca https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EPPhUynPdOc Also in this SMART Meter tinfoil hat brigade video.
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No. Willie and his brother are two examples why Canada needs the death penalty again.
On Thursday, October 13, 2022 at 09:45:02 a.m. PDT, Diane Hicks <gdh...@shaw.ca> wrote:
Thank you, can we please talk. I’m really close to Willie and would like to hear more from you.
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On Oct 13, 2022, at 10:08 AM, Greg Carr <greg...@yahoo.ca> wrote:
Hi,
What about Dinah Taylor? She was an aboriginal who was welcome on her
home reserve in Ontario after leaving the DTES. She had lived on the
Picton property and when she saw Picton flaying a dead female body she
shook him down for money. Not much native sisterhood in evidence
there. She got $8k from him.
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Key witness dies before top court can rule on Robert Pickton's appeal
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A woman who Picton helped big time financially saw Dinah Taylor a friend of Piggy with two of the woman who were murdered by him.
'To see her, you wouldn't think she's dangerous'
'To see her, you wouldn't think she's dangerous'
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She was a whore and a pimp herself.
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Hi Greg
Thank you for responding, is there anyone who could fill me in more.
I know there is way more to this than what's being reported.
Thank you
Diane
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Subject: Re: HI GREG--- DIANE HICKS IN ALBERTA TRYING TO REACH YOU
Hi,
Why do ppl every few years always women contact me about the Pictons either in person or by email.? All I know is that the sister had nothing to do with it that some ppl support Willy and that his brother did time for sexual assault and apparently shot up some trucks. Someone posted on FB that his brother was again in court for sexual assault and posted a picture of him supposedly from a courthouse. I at the time could not verify that. The Hell's Angels had their own building at Piggy's Palace and I had a tough coworker who partied there he said they were scary and he never went near their building. Most of the victims were whores in the D.T.E.S. and H.A.'s have been known to rape whores there I have seen that info on the rape warning sheets they refuse to put on the Internet. They call it a bad trick sheet. I am a heavy drinker have been to boozecans and I never knew the place existed.
Have a good day.
On Saturday, October 1, 2022 at 10:55:32 a.m. PDT, Diane Hicks <gdh...@shaw.ca> wrote:
Hi Greg
When you have a moment may we please have a conversation. My name is Diane Hicks you can reach me at 1-403-340-1952.
My e-mail is Diane Hicks gdh...@shaw.ca
This is in regards to the Picktons.
Thank you
Re: Stumbled Across Some Picton/Pickton Stuff I Posted Around 2006. Totally Forgot About It.
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Diane Hicks <gdh...@shaw.ca>
To:
Greg Carr
Mon, Jun 15, 2020 at 8:53 p.m.
Hi Greg
Thank you for this, since we last e-mailed each other, I'm now in touch with one of the investigators. Also in touch with 5 former RCMP officers, which 3
of them were involved in the case.
I can't say what's going on, but a major cover up.
Thanks again
Diane
From: "Greg Carr" <greg...@yahoo.ca>
To: "Diane Hicks" <gdh...@shaw.ca>
Sent: Monday, June 15, 2020 2:35:08 PM
Subject: Stumbled Across Some Picton/Pickton Stuff I Posted Around 2006. Totally Forgot About It.
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More Info About Rapist Dave Picton
3 posts by 3 authors
me (Greg Carr change)
10/5/06
It should be noted that the Picton brothers were multimillionairre
businessmen. They had no reason to resort to rape and crime and being
stooges for the Hell's Angels.
David Francis Pickton, co-owner of the pig farm and one of three
children of
Leonard Pickton and Louise Arnal (who died in 1978 and 1979,
respectively),
boasted to a reporter after Willie was arrested that "[I] might have
been in
trouble with the law when I was younger ... but any charges I've ever
got,
I've beat."
But court records show he was convicted of sexual assault in 1992, was
fined
$1,000 and given 30 days probation. The woman said Pickton was
interrupted
in the act by someone coming into the trailer and she escaped.
In April, 1998, the City of Port Coquitlam filed an application under
the
Livestock Protection Act to kill a black and tan German Shepherd that
belonged to Mr. Pickton.
No details were provided, but a stay of proceedings was later entered
by
Crown counsel Richard Romano.
In August 2000, David Pickton was charged with using "deceit, falsehood
or
other fraudulent means" to defraud Shell Canada of gas valued at under
$5,000. He was also charged with attempt to use a Shell Canada credit
card
that was the property of Western Canada Transportation. There was a
stay of
proceedings on count one. He pleaded guilty on the second charge and
was
given a conditional discharge, with four months probation.
Documents also show that in 1996, David and Robert Pickton registered
Piggy
Palace Good Times Society with the government. The non-profit society
was to
"organize, co-ordinate, manage and operate special events, functions,
dances, shows and exhibitions on behalf of service organizations,
sports
organizations and other worthy groups."
Shortly after it was established, the Society, the Pickton brothers and
their sister, Linda Louise Wright, were taken to court by the City of
Port
Coquitlam for allegedly contravening the zoning bylaw. The statement of
claim says the farm was in an agricultural zone and "the use of the
land for
the assembly of persons for recreations, charitable, or cultural
purposes
and for entertainment purposes is prohibited."
The claim said the Picktons had "altered a large farm building on the
land
for the purpose of holding dances, concerts and other recreations and
entertainment events."
Despite warnings from the city, court files note that ads were placed
in
local newspapers promoting the party hall.
In an interview with The Province, David Pickton said he built the
dance
hall and had up to 1,800 people at parties there.
Randy Shaw, the local Fire Chief, obtained an injunction to block a New
Year's Eve party that was planned. Doug and The Slugs, a popular
Vancouver
band that briefly enjoyed national fame, was booked to play.
Mr. Shaw stated that 400 people were expected and the building "poses
an
imminent and serious danger" because it wasn't up to the fire code.
An order under the Fire Services Act was issued blocking the party --
but
Mr. Shaw stated that the Picktons planned to go ahead anyway.
"On Dec. 31, 1998, at approximately 10:30 a.m., I attended and observed
a
refrigerated truck parked in front of the premises and individuals
unloading
a palette of beer," Mr. Shaw reported in court documents.
He obtained a court order restraining the Picktons from using the land
for
assemblies. The court stated that "any peace officer be authorized to
arrest
and remove any person" found at the party.
In January, 2000, the society lost its non-profit status for failure to
file
financial statements with the government.
The Piggy Palace dance hall is among the places being searched by the
missing women's task force.
Court records also show Mr. Pickton was in three vehicle accidents in
Vancouver. In 1988, a truck he "owned or operated" rear-ended a car at
Oak
and 57th Ave. In July, 1991, he was driving a car that collided with
several
others at Knight Street Bridge. In October, 1991, near Oak and 71st
Ave., a
red Ford dump truck he owned and in which he was a passenger at the
time,
collided with a car. Court files show that all the accidents led to
lawsuits
against Mr. Pickton, but they were settled out of court.
David Pickton is not a suspect in the murder investigation, police say.
http://groups.google.ca/group/van.general/browse_frm/thread/95a617c72a9e1d0c/445cea5698594994?lnk=st&q=%22national+Post%22+%2B%27Dave+Pickton%22&rnum=1&hl=en#445cea5698594994
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massive crime scene to hayfield
Brian Hutchinson
National Post
Thursday, October 05, 2006
VANCOUVER - The younger brother of accused serial murderer Robert
(Willie) Pickton is attempting to rehabilitate his family's notorious
pig farm, where 26 women, most of them drug-addicted sex-trade workers,
were allegedly killed and then butchered.
"I'm heading to the site right now, to put down some topsoil," David
Pickton told reporters outside a Vancouver courtroom yesterday.
"I'm going to seed it for hay before winter and then we'll raise horses
and beef [cattle] on it."
However, he has no plans to resurrect the family's defunct pig
operation. "No pigs," said Mr. Pickton, emphasizing the point with a
dismissive wave.
The Pickton family's six-hectare spread is in Port Coquitlam, a
Vancouver suburb. It has not been used for agricultural purposes since
2002, when police seized possession and arrested Robert Pickton.
The farm became a massive crime scene and was turned upside down.
Forensic investigators dug up almost four metres of soil and other
organic material, and then sifted through it, searching for evidence,
including human remains.
More than 10,000 exhibits were removed from the property; some will
resurface in B.C. Supreme Court as Robert Pickton's first murder trial,
on six counts of first-degree murder, unfolds.
The trial has been in an initial voir dire stage since January. A jury
is expected to be selected in December, and testimony from witnesses is
scheduled to commence in open court the following month.
A second trial, based on the remaining 20 charges, is to follow later.
David Pickton has not been implicated in any of the murders and does
not face charges.
He said yesterday he wants to return the family's Port Coquitlam
property to its agrarian roots. His parents, now deceased, bought the
land in the early 1960s for less than $20,000. It became a base for the
Pickton family's agricultural and trucking operations, which were
scattered across seven parcels of land in B.C.'s Lower Mainland. Over
time, bits and pieces of the family's properties were sold off to
developers.
Along with their sister, Linda Wright, David and Robert Pickton still
own approximately 25 hectares of land in various locations.
Despite its gruesome reputation, the old pig farm is worth a bundle,
according to the North Fraser Assessment Region, a provincial agency
that determines land values in Port Coquitlam.
This year, it assessed the property at $7,083,000, more than double the
2004 assessment. The jump reflects surging land values in and around
Greater Vancouver.
In February, 2003, the B.C. government put a $10-million mortgage on
the property to cover Robert Pickton's publicly funded defence.
While it is still zoned for agricultural use, the North Fraser
Assessment Region reclassified the land as residential property, as
there has not been any farming activity on it since the 2002 police
seizure.
David Pickton is fighting in B.C. Supreme Court to have the residential
classification changed. Farmland, he notes, is taxed at a much lower
rate.
He appeared in downtown Vancouver yesterday morning to launch his
assessment appeal. He wore a black leather ball cap, dirty sneakers and
a black, long-sleeved motorcycle shirt embossed with images of two
human skulls.
The matter was quickly adjourned to next month. "It's very
complicated," Mr. Pickton told a small cluster of reporters.
He seemed remarkably upbeat, considering his family's tax predicament,
not to mention allegations about his brother. Robert Pickton stands
accused of conducting the most prolific murder campaign in Canadian
history.
Shorter and stockier than his brother, David Pickton chatted amicably
with reporters yesterday about his plans to rejuvenate the Port
Coquitlam farm; however, he would not discuss Robert Pickton's murder
case.
He patted a female reporter on the back and chuckled before ducking out
of the courthouse, avoiding photographers.
Three hours later, he arrived at the family farm. Heaps of rubble sat
in one corner of the property; mounds of dirt lay scattered everywhere.
Mr. Pickton hopped into a yellow bulldozer and got to work, pushing
around piles of dark topsoil in a horizontal pattern, trying to cover
over the past.
bhutc...@nationalpost.com
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http://www.mrtimes.com/index.shtml has pic of dump truck.
One person was arrested, but nobody was hurt after a shot was fired at
a dump truck on Monday along Lougheed Highway in Pitt Meadows, just
east of the Pitt River Bridge. The shot shattered the window of the
truck. As of Monday at 5 p.m., police didn't know if this was a case of
road rage. A suspect was later tracked down at Harris Road and Ford
Road. Police reportedly recovered a shotgun.
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October 3, 2006
Update - MAN CHARGED IN SHOOTING
Ridge Meadows R.C.M.P. have now laid charges in yesterday's shooting.
Brian Arthur Betker, a 54 year old Maple Ridge resident, is charged
with Attempted Murder; possession of a prohibited firearm - a sawed off
.22 calibre rifle; transportation of a prohibited firearm; and
possession of a prohibited weapon - brass knuckles. Mr. Betker appeared
in provincial court this morning (2006-10-03), and has been remanded in
custody until Thursday October 5, 2006.
The incident took place at approximately 2:00 p.m. on Monday October 2,
2006 on the Lougheed Highway in Pitt Meadows B.C. A 9-1-1 call was made
to the Ridge Meadows R.C.M.P., and Cst. Chris Redhead located the
suspect's truck, and made the arrest without incident. No one was
injured, and the police are still investigating.
http://www.rcmp-grc.gc.ca/bc/lmd/ridgemeadows/press_releases.html
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Dave Picton aka David aka Ken raped a female employee of his years ago.
His brother hosted an illegal after hours club where many women were
murdered. Hell's Angels were part of the inner circle of the crowds at
Piggy's Palace. According to Global News at noon the accused is a
former Dave Picton employee who yelled out, "Hey buddy here's a
present" before firing a shotgun at the truck driver a man named as
George. Why can't these ppl find work with honest employers or at least
dishonest employers not involved with rape and homicide. A number of
former employees of the Picton family are under pressure not to help
the Crown in the case against against Robert "Willy" Picton.
A former employee of Robert Pickton allegedly took a few shots at the
family's business Monday, literally.
Brian Arthur Betker, a 54-year-old Maple Ridge trucker, has been
charged with attempted murder after he allegedly pulled up to another
truck on the Lougheed Highway in Pitt Meadows and opened fire with a
sawed-off .22 calibre rifle.
The victim was lucky to escape unharmed, but his truck's passenger
window was completely shot out.
Accused serial killer Robert Pickton's family owns the truck that was
shot but it's not clear whether his trial could have been a motive for
the shooting.
Betker has also been charged possession of a prohibited firearm (the
rifle), transportation of a prohibited firearm and possession of a
prohibited weapon (brass knuckles).
He appears in court today.
http://vancouver.24hrs.ca/News/2006/10/04/1948811-sun.html
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B.C. man accused of firing at Pickton vehicle
ROBERT MATAS
VANCOUVER -- A man was charged with attempted murder yesterday after a
shot was allegedly fired from a .22-calibre sawed-off rifle at a man
who drives a truck for a company run by the brother of Robert Pickton.
The shooting is alleged to have occurred around 2 p.m. Monday on
Lougheed Highway in the Vancouver suburb of Pitt Meadows. No one was
injured, Staff Sergeant A. J. Bodden of the Ridge-Meadows RCMP
detachment said in a news release.
Robert Pickton has been charged in the deaths of 26 women who were drug
addicts and worked as prostitutes. If convicted of all charges, he
would be considered one of the deadliest criminals in North America. He
has been in custody since his arrest Feb. 22, 2002. A trial on six of
the charges is edging closer, with the process of selecting a jury for
the case set to begin in early December.
Crown prosecutors and police declined to comment on details related to
the shooting. A company spokesman said the incident had nothing to do
with the company.
"We do not know anything about it," Bill Harris, a spokesman for D & S
Bulldozing Ltd., said yesterday in an interview. "It has nothing to do
with the company. We do not know what is happening. . . .We are totally
miffed."
The man charged in the shooting did not work for the company, Mr.
Harris noted. If he ever did, it was quite a while ago, he added.
David Pickton is president and secretary of D & S Bulldozing, according
to records filed with the B.C. government's corporate registry. In a
brief telephone conversation yesterday, Mr. Pickton said that he was at
a meeting and could not talk about the incident.
Earlier, Brian Arthur Betker, a 54-year-old Maple Ridge resident, was
charged in B.C. Provincial Court with using a firearm to attempt to
commit murder of truck driver George Baart. Mr. Betker was also charged
with illegal possession of a loaded prohibited firearm, transportation
of a prohibited firearm and possession of brass knuckles, which are
considered a prohibited weapon. He was to be kept in custody until his
next court appearance tomorrow.
Constable Chris Redhead, a general duty officer, arrested Mr. Betker
after the RCMP received a 911 call. The arrest was made without
incident, the news release stated.
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/LAC.20061004.BCPICKTON04...
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Would you trust a Picton brother to handle asbestos?
http://www.env.gov.bc.ca:8000/pls/swis/Swis_Trans_Licence.waste_type_...
these ppl violate regulations over and over such as handling pork
products improperly, not running an illegal bar, not killing
prostitutes, not raping female employees, and not disposing of human
remains properly. 604-941-6494
Reminds me of the Mafia scams involving hazardous material disposal.
They put in low bids then dump it wherever they can find.
D & S Bulldozing LTD. 11947 TANNERY ROAD, SURREY. BC (604) 941-6494
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Piggy's Palace a thorn in PoCo's side for years
by Leneen Robb - Reporter
Piggy's Palace, a converted barn the city tried to shut down on more
than one occasion, is well-known in Port Coquitlam.
The property, located at 2552 Burns Rd. is owned by David Pickton, who
co-owns the 10-acre farm on Dominion Avenue that is currently the
subject of a massive police investigation.
Piggy's Palace seems to be different things to different people. City
councillors who visited the site said it did not seem particularly
raucous, while a woman, who did not want her name used, said it has
been the site of wild parties.
Coun. Mike Bowen said he visited Piggy's Palace about 15 years ago
while he was coaching a minor league sports team.
"One of our parents had recommended this hall that we could use to have
our wind-up," Bowen said. "It didn't seem that it was open to the
public at that time, but that was my only trip and we went in and we
did our thing and we got out and that was it."
Bowen said that while he didn't encounter any problems at Piggy's
Palace, he did find the site unusual. "It was out of the ordinary to go
into an agricultural area like that and find this old building in the
back forty there that was actually converted into some kind of a
half-assed nightclub, clubhouse. It was a bit bizarre . . . but like I
said, I was only there for a short period of time and I never went back
and never thought twice about it."
Coun. Darrell Penner also visited Piggy's Palace "a few times" about
seven or eight years ago. He estimates that thousands of people had
visited the place and said that although pig roasts occurred there, he
did not believe the pigs were the same ones raised on the Dominion
Avenue farm.
Coun. Ron Talbot also said he visited Piggy's Palace, but added that it
was on city business.
"It was to have a meeting, a meeting to do with closing it down," he
said, adding that he was only there once.
Joanne Traboulay, wife of the late mayor Len Traboulay, said she and
her husband had visited Piggy's Palace one night after someone had
bought them tickets.
"We stayed all of about half an hour and took off," she said, adding
that the interior was "very tastefully done" and resembled a roadside
tavern. "I bet that half the population of PoCo has gone there."
While many of those who visited Piggy's Palace did not have any
problems, one woman said she did not feel comfortable there.
The woman, who visited in June of 1998, said she saw prostitutes being
"interviewed" for sexual services.
"I only went once and I'd never go again," she said. "It's a very
raunchy crowd, lots of cocaine, lots of really, really bad, bad,
bad-ass people. So I really didn't fit in too well ... I did not want
to be a part of it."
Besides the Burns Road property where Piggy's Palace was located (the
city obtained a court injunction shutting it down in December 1998),
the Pickton brothers own several other sites.
Piggy's Palace, located at 2552 Burns Rd., is part of a parcel of land
assessed at $135,500. The residential and farm property is owned by
David Pickton.
A property at 2650 Burns Rd. is listed as being owned by Pickton
Brothers Investments Inc., and was assessed at $831,000. It was
purchased in September 2001.
The Dominion Road property was assessed at more than $3 million. It's
owned by the Pickton brothers and their sister, Linda L. Wright, who
lives in the South Granville area of Vancouver.
Another property, at 22810-113 Ave. in Maple Ridge, was bought by
Pickton Brothers Investments for $257,000 in April 2001.
Staff at Port Coquitlam City Hall say they don't have any businesses
registered under the names of Robert or David Pickton, and have
received no bylaw complaints against the property at 953 Dominion Ave.
The brothers, however, are listed as directors of P & B Used Building
Materials Ltd., located on Tannery Road in Surrey. Another company, D &
S Bulldozing, was formerly listed as being located at the Dominion
Avenue address. It's listed in the 2001/2002 white pages as being
located at 1040 Riverside Dr., which is now the location of Blakeburn
Elementary.
Port Coquitlam City Hall staff say they do not have any record of the
business.
http://www.thenownews.com/issues02/022102/news/022102nn3.html
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D & S Bulldozing
953 Dominion Avenue
Port Coquitlam, BC V3C3V4
Phone: (604) 941-6494
Business Types: Bulldozer, Excavation Contractors
D & S Bulldozing
2650 Burns Road
Port Coquitlam, BC V3C3V4
Phone: (604) 941-6494
Business Types: Bulldozer, Excavation Contractors
D & S Top Soil Supplies
953 Dominion Avenue
Port Coquitlam, BC V3C3V4
Phone: (604) 941-6494
Business Types: Bulldozer, Excavation Contractors
D & S Top Soil Supplies
953 Dominion Avenue
Port Coquitlam, BC V3C3V4
Phone: (604) 941-6494
Business Types: Bulldozer, Excavation Contractors
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D & S Bulldozing
1040 Riverside
Port Coquitlam
British Columbia
Canada
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Some ppl from the Downtown Eastside confronted Dave Picton about a
female relative who had been killed and Picton and a employee were
there to deal with them. The confronters ended up crying, shook hands
with Picton and the employee kept on working. It was on a newscast. I
wonder what they do with all that deadly asbestos? Mix it with topsoil
perhaps. Does anyone trust these ppl apparently so. Fortunate for the
sister she stayed out of it. The relatives should sue these ppl for
everything they have. The Picton brothers are worth millions and the
families of the slain ones deserve the money.
I remember HA supporters trying to claim that Piggy was being framed by
the RCMP and trying to implicate other ppl and his rapist brother
denies anything to do with it or the Hell's Angels even though the
brothers were business partners and frequently together. Dave Picton is
as guilty as his useless brother.
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It was mentioned in one of the newscasts that I saw.
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A former employee of Robert Pickton allegedly took a few shots at the
family's business Monday, literally.
Brian Arthur Betker, a 54-year-old Maple Ridge trucker, has been
charged with attempted murder after he allegedly pulled up to another
truck on the Lougheed Highway in Pitt Meadows and opened fire with a
sawed-off .22 calibre rifle.
The victim was lucky to escape unharmed, but his truck's passenger
window was completely shot out.
Accused serial killer Robert Pickton's family owns the truck that was
shot but it's not clear whether his trial could have been a motive for
the shooting.
Betker has also been charged possession of a prohibited firearm (the
rifle), transportation of a prohibited firearm and possession of a
prohibited weapon (brass knuckles).
He appears in court today.
http://vancouver.24hrs.ca/News/2006/10/04/1948811-sun.html
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B.C. man accused of firing at Pickton vehicle
ROBERT MATAS
VANCOUVER -- A man was charged with attempted murder yesterday after a
shot was allegedly fired from a .22-calibre sawed-off rifle at a man
who drives a truck for a company run by the brother of Robert Pickton.
The shooting is alleged to have occurred around 2 p.m. Monday on
Lougheed Highway in the Vancouver suburb of Pitt Meadows. No one was
injured, Staff Sergeant A. J. Bodden of the Ridge-Meadows RCMP
detachment said in a news release.
Robert Pickton has been charged in the deaths of 26 women who were drug
addicts and worked as prostitutes. If convicted of all charges, he
would be considered one of the deadliest criminals in North America. He
has been in custody since his arrest Feb. 22, 2002. A trial on six of
the charges is edging closer, with the process of selecting a jury for
the case set to begin in early December.
Crown prosecutors and police declined to comment on details related to
the shooting. A company spokesman said the incident had nothing to do
with the company.
"We do not know anything about it," Bill Harris, a spokesman for D & S
Bulldozing Ltd., said yesterday in an interview. "It has nothing to do
with the company. We do not know what is happening. . . .We are totally
miffed."
The man charged in the shooting did not work for the company, Mr.
Harris noted. If he ever did, it was quite a while ago, he added.
David Pickton is president and secretary of D & S Bulldozing, according
to records filed with the B.C. government's corporate registry. In a
brief telephone conversation yesterday, Mr. Pickton said that he was at
a meeting and could not talk about the incident.
Earlier, Brian Arthur Betker, a 54-year-old Maple Ridge resident, was
charged in B.C. Provincial Court with using a firearm to attempt to
commit murder of truck driver George Baart. Mr. Betker was also charged
with illegal possession of a loaded prohibited firearm, transportation
of a prohibited firearm and possession of brass knuckles, which are
considered a prohibited weapon. He was to be kept in custody until his
next court appearance tomorrow.
Constable Chris Redhead, a general duty officer, arrested Mr. Betker
after the RCMP received a 911 call. The arrest was made without
incident, the news release stated.
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/LAC.20061004.BCPICKTON04/TPStory/National
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Would you trust a Picton brother to handle asbestos?
http://www.env.gov.bc.ca:8000/pls/swis/Swis_Trans_Licence.waste_type_details?p_waste_code=ASBESTOS&p_type_code=ASB
these ppl violate regulations over and over such as handling pork
products improperly, not running an illegal bar, not killing
prostitutes, not raping female employees. 604-941-6494
Reminds me of the Mafia scams involving hazardous material disposal.
They put in low bids then dump it wherever they can find.
Good reporting Globe and Mail. They might put the Vancouver Sun out of
business some day.
My apoligies if you have this info already.