Free The Mammoth Book of New Csi by Nigel Cawthorne

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    They took her to a nearby hospital where Pickton also turned up to be treated for his wounds. He was found to be carrying a key that unlocked the handcuffs. His clothes were confiscated. Later they were found to be carrying the DNA of two women he was later charged with killing – twenty-seven-year-old sex worker and drug addict Andrea Fay Borhaven, of no fixed address, who went missing earlier that year, and twenty-five-year-old Cara Louise Ellis who was also last seen in 1997, though not reported missing until October 2002.
    For the time being, however, Pickton was released on a $2,000 cash bond with the undertaking that he remained at the farm and did not have any contact with Ms Eistetter.
    “You are to abstain completely from the use of alcohol and non-prescription drugs,” ordered the judge.
    “I don’t take them,” Pickton replied.
    The farm was searched, but nothing untoward was found.
    A trial date was set, but the charges were stayed – suspended – because the attorney-general’s office decided “there was no likelihood of conviction”, despite the grievous wounds Wendy Eistetter had suffered.
    This brush with the law did not discourage Pickton. He was later convicted of the murder of twenty-seven-year-old Marnie Lee Frey who was last seen alive in August 1997, though was not reported missing until 4 September 1998. She had a baby at eighteen and asked her parents to adopt the child.
    “She said: ‘Mom, this is the only thing I can do for her. I love her dearly, but I know I can’t look after her as a mom,’” her mother recalled.
    Her parents pretended that the child, Brittney, was Marnie’s younger sister but, in the light of the publicity surrounding the case, they were forced to tell the truth.
    Twenty-three-year-old Jacqueline Michelle McDonnell disappeared in mid-January 1998 and was reported missing on 22 February 1999, and forty-six-year-old Inga Monique Hall was last seen alive in February 1998 and reported missing on 3 March. Pickton was charged with murdering both of them.
    Twenty-nine-year-old Sarah Jane deVries was last seen on the corner of Princess and Hastings in Vancouver in the early morning of 14 April 1998 and reported missing by friends later the same day. Ex-boyfriend Wayne Leng said Sarah underwent “a lot of turmoil” in her twenty-nine years, particularly as an adopted child of mixed parentage in an all-white Westside family.
    “This started when she was twelve,” said her mother Pat. “She has HIV, she has hepatitis C. What I do for her now is look after her kids the best I can.”
    When Sarah went missing, her children were seven and two.
    “It’s very hard to tell a seven-year-old that somebody is missing,” said Pat. “It’s something you can’t come to terms with, you can’t work through, because there’s never an end to it.”
    Nobody had seen or heard from her since – which was unprecedented as she always called home on her mother’s birthday, Mother’s Day and her own birthday. But as Sarah herself observed in the diary she left behind: “I think my hate is going to be my destination, my executioner.”
    Wayne Leng was so concerned about her disappearance that he put up posters, carrying Sarah’s picture and details of a $1,000 reward, around Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside. But three phone calls he got around midnight one Saturday night left him chilled.
    “Sarah’s dead,” said a man’s slightly slurred voice, with music pounding in the background. “So there will be more girls like her dead. There will be more prostitutes killed. There will be one every Friday night. At the busiest time.”
    The second message had the same voice and the same music playing in the background.
    “You’ll never find Sarah again,” the man said. “So just stop looking for her, all right? She doesn’t want to be seen and heard from again, all right? So, bye. She’s dead.”
    The final message said: “This is in regard to Sarah. I just want to let