Mission’s Jane Doe is the only unidentified female homicide victim of serial killer Robert Pickton.
On Feb. 23, 1995, a partial skull with an attached vertebra was located in a creek by a person filling their water bottle.
The creek was situated just south of the Lougheed Highway, east of the Ruskin bridge. Mission B.C.
The woman’s DNA profile has been provided to every lab across Canada and, along with the composite drawings, has been shared with Interpol and its 188 member countries.
In August 2002, bones recovered during the search of Pickton's farm in Port Coquitlam were confirmed to be genetically linked to the partial skull.
Here is what investigators have been able to determine about Jane Doe:
Caucasian female, 20 to 40 years old.
Death would have been sometime between about 1985 and 1995.
Missing teeth in the upper right portion of her jaw, may have worn dentures.
It is believed her skull was cut in half with a power saw.
Robert Pickton's pig farm was searched in August 2002.
Not only did searchers find more human skulls mutilated in a fashion similar to the victim, but heel bones, ankle bones, and a rib bone belonging to this victim were found buried in a pit behind Pickton's slaughterhouse.
Between 1983-2002, Pickton may have been responsible for up to the murders or disappearances of forty-nine women, many of them from Vancouver's Downtown Eastside.
This episode will also explore Robert Pickton inner circle of friends, Lynn Ellingsen,
Pat Casanova, Dinah Taylor and others who seen and witnessed events at the pig farm.
There were always questions about his brother Dave, who lived on the farm whose bedroom contained multiple sex toys, including one bearing the DNA of an unidentified woman whose DNA was also found in one of the slaughterhouse freezers.
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