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Pickton Guilty of Killing six Women

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Pickton Guilty of Killing six Women
EXCLUSIVE letters: Last year, The Sun published excerpts from letters

Emotional end to Pickton trial
Two jurors wiped away tears, victims' relatives wept, and Robert (Willie) Pickton stared expressionlessly...

Criminal Code definition of murder
The Criminal Code defines murder as killing someone where the killer meant to cause the person's death...

Crown prepares for second trial, as others question need for it
Crown prosecutors are preparing to put Robert (Willie) Pickton on trial to face a second, 20-count indictment...

Life in prison most likely, legal experts say
Robert (Willie) Pickton will almost certainly spend the rest of his life in prison despite being convicted...

Oppal confident that justice has been achieved
Attorney-General Wally Oppal says he feels justice was done in the Robert (Willie) Pickton case, and...

'She stays alive in all of us'
Karin Joesbury looked up at the grey sky, tears running from her eyes, overcome by emotion upon hearing...

Sereena Abotsway
Date of Birth: Aug. 20, 1971 -- Reported Missing: Aug. 22, 2001

VPD appears to have been blind during late 90s
The conviction of Robert (Willie) Pickton does not mark the end of an unspeakable tragedy in the same...

Marnie Frey
Date of Birth: Aug. 30, 1973 -- Reported Missing: Sept. 1998

Brenda Ann Wolfe
Date of Birth: Oct. 20, 1968 -- Reported Missing: Apr. 25, 2000

A measure of closure
NEW WESTMINSTER -- Mike Petrie, the lead prosecutor in the murder case against Robert (Willie) Pickton...

Justice Williams believed he made an error in instructions
As jurors debated Robert (Willie) Pickton's fate on the sixth full day of their deliberations, a drama...

Mona Lee Wilson
Date of Birth: Jan. 13, 1975 -- Reported Missing: Nov. 30, 2001

A measure of closure
They spent most of the last year tucked into a small office in the back recesses of New Westminster ...

Property may be sold to pay cost of defence
The status of the notorious Pickton pig farm in Port Coquitlam remains uncertain following Robert (Willie...

What have we learned?
The monster is going behind bars, locked away, perhaps forevermore.

Georgina Papin
Date of Birth: March 11, 1964 -- Reported Missing: March 14, 2001

Andrea Joesbury
Date of Birth: Nov. 6, 1978 -- Reported Missing: June 8, 2001

Men enjoy cuddling more than women, national poll says
Challenging the action hero paradigm of detached machismo, a study on bedroom behaviour lays bare the...

Black could face 24-year sentence
CHICAGO -- Conrad Black, the convicted felon who was once one of the world's most powerful press barons...

Conflict over sponsors means premier dance facility left out
In the recently announced lineup for the 2008 Cultural Olympiad, conspicuous by its absence as a performance...

Vanoc Update: Trout Lake Ice Arena
What's new: Park Board to approve second contract to Bird Construction.

The Olympics & You
Dr. Gaetan Tardif, of Toronto, has been named as assistant chef de mission for the Canadian team at ...

Collectors' Corner
What: Vancouver City Chinese-language sponsor pin -- Value: $40 for each of two types

Technology could eventually eliminate drinking and driving
OTTAWA -- Emerging nanotechnology may put an end to a costly social problem that years of public awareness...

Canada said to need more masters, doctoral students
OTTAWA -- Universities need to increase their masters and doctoral students by 35 per cent in the next...

One in four face discrimination
OTTAWA -- One in four Canadians say they have been the victim of discrimination based on their race ...

Obama gets Winfrey's endorsement
COLUMBIA, S.C. -- Talk show host Oprah Winfrey has long been a role model for black women because of...

Three people dead in two church-related shootings
DENVER -- Three people were shot to death and six were wounded in Colorado on Sunday in two church-related...

Mugabe fires back at European critics
LISBON -- A defiant Robert Mugabe told European leaders on Sunday he will not be lectured on how to ...

Trapped Chinese miners rescued after nearly 6 days
BEIJING -- Eleven Chinese miners trapped underground for nearly six days by a tunnel collapse ate paper...

New island would shield Dutch coast
AMSTERDAM -- The Netherlands wants to redraw the map of Europe -- literally.

Exotic meat market sparks virus fears
GUANGZHOU, China -- Scorpions scamper in bowls, water snakes coil in tanks and cats whine in cramped...