Table of Contents

Maps
Author’s note
 
Part One: The Family
Prologue: Jane Doe
1. The Family Farm
2. Dominion Avenue
3. A Mother’s Will
4. The Pickton Brothers
5. Geography Speaks
6. Cops under Fire
7. A Motley Crew
8. Prime Suspect
9. The Trials of Kim Rossmo and the Growing List of Missing Women
10. Lisa Yelds
11. Piggy’s Palace
12. Maggy Gisle, Cara Ellis and Sandra Gail Ringwald
13. Gina and Willie and More Missing Women
14. Sherry Irving and Marnie Frey
15. The Worst Year
16. Sarah de Vries and Sheila Egan
17. A Doomed Investigation
18. Project Amelia: A Bad Start
19. Roommates
 
Part Two: The Missing Women
20. What They Saw
21. What Did the Police Do?
22. Closing In on Willie
23. Another Close Call
24. Deadly Girlfriends
25. Rossmo Out
26. Panic on Skid Row
27. The File Review
28. Do Something
29. A Newsroom Leads the Way
30. Police on Trial
31. The Last Woman
32. The Rookie Cop
33. Twenty-Four Hours
34. The Largest Crime Scene in Canadian History
35. Scott Chubb
 
Part Three: On the Farm
36. Getting Ready for Willie
37. Mike Petrie Wants the Job
38. The Cell Plant
39. The Fordy Interview
40. Don Adam Takes Over
41. Back in the Cell
42. Taking Willie to the Judge
43. In the Workshop
44. The Forensic Team
45. Talking to the Families
46. What the Dead Reveal
47. Willie Goes to Court
48. Telling Tales: Andy Bellwood, Sandra Gail Ringwald and Gina Houston
49. The Last Witnesses
50. The Aristocracy of Victimhood
51. From Twenty-Six to Six
52. The Jury
53. Guilty! But of What?
 
Aftermath
Acknowledgments
Photo Credits
Index

About the Author

A woman of many talents, Stevie Cameron is a successful author, investigative journalist, commentator and humanitarian. Her investigative reports have been published by the Globe and Mail and Maclean's, among others, and her award-winning books have brought scandals to the public eye. They include the #1 national bestseller On the Take: Crime, Corruption and Greed in the Mulroney Years and The Last Amigo: Karlheinz Schreiber and the Anatomy of a Scandal, winner of the Crime Writers of Canada Arthur Ellis Award. Cameron's passions for writing, uncovering and dissecting stories of the day have earned her acclaim as one of Canada's foremost investigative journalists. She lives in Toronto.

Reviews

NATIONAL BESTSELLER

“Rich with detail. . . . Should you buy this book and read it? Definitely.”
 — Neil Boyd, The Globe and Mail

"Stevie Cameron, who brought the art of political investigative journalism in Canada to new heights over the last three decades, has distinguished herself and her profession once again… [On the Farm] will surely remain a classic for generations of crime readers to come."
 — Winnipeg Free Press

"On the Farm is the book you were hoping for… A hard-hitting look at the botched police investigations of Pickton."
 — The Vancouver Sun

"No writer knows this story better than Cameron… [On the Farm] will go down as the definitive resource on the Pickton affair."
 — Maclean's

"Stevie Cameron has written yet another great book exposing, as is her wont, the 'comfortable establishment' in our country of indifference to societal ills that might be expensive nuisances to deal with."
 — The Tyee