Possible Robert Pickton memoir prompts outrage, appeal from B.C. government

“It comes on the eve of a national inquiry into missing and murdered Indigenous women and girls and I’m upset about it, but the other folks that are going to be troubled by this are the families Mr. Pickton’s victims”.

According to the website of the Victims of Violence In Canada group, only the provinces of Alberta, Saskatchewan, Ontario and Nova Scotia have rules to determine if offenders can receive profits relative to their crimes – this includes income from the sale of books.

“We are taking this very seriously and investigating every means available to ensure that the families involved are protected from further harm and that Robert Pickton will not profit in any way from this book”, B.C. Minister of Public Safety and Solicitor General Mike Morris said in a statement to CBC News. After his arrest in 2002, he told an undercover cop posing as a cellmate that he was responsible for the deaths of 49 women.

Now, as Pickton serves a life sentence for six counts of second-degree murder, the 66-year-old claims it’s time for his voice to be heard. “He insinuates, without evidence, that the motorcycle gang The Hells Angels was behind some of the killings”, says the CTV report. He also says he’s a “green horn” who has “little experience about women over sexual intercourse as sex is sin without marriage”.

“There’s no way that he should be writing a book about that and certainly not a book that is being published and causing distress to the victims of families and so many people across this country”.

So Clark is promising to look into passing a similar law here. Hitler made a book and that’s not illegal.

Would you read Robert Pickton’s book? The circumstances around this book are so disgusting and unseemly, I can only imagine how they must be feeling.

It was listed as authored by California’s Michael Chilldres, who reportedly assisted by typing it up and getting it to a publisher. “Don’t shoot the messenger”, he said, noting that he used Wikipedia to fact check Pickton’s story.

“In the interest of common decency, I hope people simply ignore this work and decline to give this man a soapbox”, read a statement by former Vancouver Police officer Lori Shenher, who helped bring Pickton to justice.

Serial killer Robert Pickton’s memoir had a brief shelf life on Amazon’s site but quickly gained widespread condemnation.