BC Missing Women Investigation

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The BC Missing Women Investigation is an ongoing criminal investigation into the disappearance of at least 60 women from Vancouver's Downtown Eastside from the early 1980's through to 2002. The investigation is headed by a task force of members from the RCMP and the Vancouver Police Department.

Many of the missing women were impoverished, drug addicted, prostitutes from Vancouver's Downtown Eastside. Much of the investigation centred on Robert William Pickton and his Port Coquitlam pig farm. Pickton has been charged with the first degree murders of twenty-six of these missing women. The trial for six of these counts began on January 22, 2007.