Serial Killer Case Solved with Sex Toys
February 22, 2007

Sex Toys made an appearance in Robert "Willie" Pickton's serial-killing trial. That’s right, jurors were shown physical evidence from the home of his brother Dave. And a Mountie testified that police seized power saws from the slaughterhouse next to Robert Pickton's trailer, along with two nail guns. Defense lawyer Adrian Brooks called the jury's attention to photos of a life-like phallic sex toy and can of whipped cream found in Dave Pickton's bedroom closet, plus a photo of an electric massager discovered under the bedroom mattress. Yikes!

Brooks suggested that a sticker found on a "Love Cuffs" box in a recreational vehicle on the property -- where a bloody attack allegedly took place -- had the same vendor's Internet address as that on stickers found on items in Dave's house. Police found two pairs of faux-fur-lined handcuffs in Robert Pickton's trailer, court has heard, and the jury learned yesterday that a pair of steel handcuffs was found in a workshop on the property. On the trial's opening day, prosecutor Derrill Prevett said the heads of Joesbury and Sereena Abotsway, found in the slaughterhouse, had been cut in half by a power saw. On Tuesday, jurors saw a photo of Mona Wilson's bisected head, also from the slaughterhouse. Vrolyk also said he found four inhalers labeled with Abotsway's name in a garbage can outside Pickton's trailer. Pickton, 57, who ran a pig-butchering business on his family's farm, is charged with murdering 26 women, most of them drug-addicted prostitutes from the Downtown Eastside. He is on trial on the first six charges, relating to Abotsway, Wilson, Joesbury, Georgina Papin, Brenda Wolfe and Marnie Frey.