Who ate Willy Pickton's friends: Pickton's DNA not on dead women's teeth, but friends' could be, jury hears

NEW WESTMINSTER, B.C. (CP) - A jury in New Westminster has heard Robert Pickton's DNA was conclusively not on the teeth of two women he's accused of killing but people who visited his farm couldn't be ruled out.

Reporting officer David Morissette testified under cross-examination that two teeth from Sereena Abotsway and two from Andrea Joesbury contained DNA other than their own.

But only in one tooth from Abotsway and one from Joesbury could enough be extracted for a comparison to more than 1,200 samples taken from police, lab technicians and people known to have visited Pickton's farm.

In both cases, Pickton's wasn't a match.

But on one tooth from Abotsway, the DNA from a man and a woman known to have been on the property could not be excluded as a match.

On Joesbury's tooth, the DNA didn't match to any of the samples.

Morissette told the court how he exhausted every avenue trying to find out how the unknown samples could have made it onto the teeth.

Court heard swabs weren't taken of the teeth before they were ground into the powder needed for DNA processing so it wasn't known whether the mystery DNA came from there.

Pickton is on trial for the murders of Abotsway, Joesbury and four other women.

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Who the fuck shot these bitches?

Pickton, a former Port Coquitlam pig farmer, was found guilty in December 2007 of six counts of second-degree murder in connection with the deaths of six women from Vancouver's Downtown Eastside.

The judge told the jury they could find Pickton guilty even if he didn't act alone, as long as they were convinced beyond a reasonable doubt he actively participated in the killings.

After, a jury in New Westminster has heard Robert Pickton's DNA was conclusively not on the teeth of two women he's accused of killing but people who visited his farm couldn't be ruled out.

But on one tooth from Abotsway, the DNA from a man and a woman known to have been on the property could not be excluded as a match.

Now, I ask how fucking long do you think DNA is gonna last in your mouth before someone blows your fucking head off?

Not long enough to make Mr. Pickton the man who saw them last.

Willy Pickton is not Guilty.

And, the Jury don't but it either.

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Les Fleurs du mal

Si le viol, le poison, le poignard, l'incendie,
N'ont pas encore brodé de leurs plaisants dessins
Le canevas banal de nos piteux destins,
C'est que notre âme, hélas! n'est pas assez hardie.

If rape and poison, dagger and burning,

Have still not embroidered their pleasant designs

On the banal canvas of our pitiable destinies,

It's because our souls, alas, are not bold enough!

The preface concludes with the following malediction:

C'est l'Ennui! —l'œil chargé d'un pleur involontaire,
Il rêve d'échafauds en fumant son houka.
Tu le connais, lecteur, ce monstre délicat,
—Hypocrite lecteur,—mon semblable,—mon frère!

It's Ennui! — his eye brimming with spontaneous tear

He dreams of the gallows in the haze of his hookah.

You know him, reader, this delicate monster,

Hypocritical reader, my likeness, my brother!

Charles Baudelaire.
Satans Angels

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