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I have two main problems with the Pickton verdict. With two of the victims, other men's DNA was found in the remains of their teeth NOT Willie Pickton's. The obvious interpretation is those girls were snuffed in a forced oral sex act, and the killer was not Willie Pickton. It is plain unfair to convict Pickton on those two counts.

With the woman whom the witness Ellingsen testified she saw being butchered by Willie Pickton, none of her remains have been found. How can anyone be charged with murder when there is no corpse to prove the missing person is dead? With no corpse, it needs dozens of impeccable witnesses totally united on every point of time, place and manner of death to convict for murder, not the tainted and unreliable testimony of one witness.
It's the classic philosophic conundrum: 'Alcibiades the Cretan says all Cretans are liars!' Where does that leave you? It's a curiosity! And the Ellingsen testimony was similar. What credence can you attach to a witness who says she saw an acquaintance being butchered, and just took drug money from the butcher: She did not go to the police. Her word is worthless. If she saw a girl being butchered, she should be jailed 10 years for failing to report it. If she was lying, she gets 3 years for perjury. Maybe that'll shake the truth out of her.

Al Capone was jailed for life on a charge of income tax evasion. He could not be convicted of murder. We just have to be satisfied with that. We can't play fast and loose with the law for the sake of closure. If Pickton were found guilty on 2 or 3 counts of manslaughter, he would still go to jail.

Killers, and very nasty people, are still out there.

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