If it means anything to you, here are some sources that talk about the parties and even mention the mayor as a patron:
http://www.crimelibrary.com/serial_killers...n/6.html?sect=2
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Other charges filed against Robert Pickton were more serious. In March 1997 he was charged with the attempted murder of a drug-addicted prostitute, Wendy Lynn Eistetter, whom he stabbed several times in a wild melee at the pig farm. Eistetter told police that Pickton handcuffed and attacked her on March 23, but that she escaped after disarming him and stabbing him with his own knife. A motorist found Eistetter beside the highway at 1:45 a.m. and took her to the nearest emergency room, while Pickton sought treatment for a single stab wound at Eagle Ridge Hospital. He was released on $2,000 bond, but the charge was later dismissed without explanation in January 1998.
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Maybe it's just me, but that sounds a little odd, no?
http://www.reason.com/hitandrun/2003...s_palace.shtml
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It's common knowledge that Robert Pickton was, by the mid-'90s, no longer a serious commercial pig farmer. He was a wealthy man. Raising hogs now was more of a hobby.He bought the pigs, fattened them, and sold the meat to friends, or roasted them for the bikers, prostitutes, mayors, and Little Leaguers who partied at Piggy's Palace. The entire city of Port Coquitlam (pop. 53,000), it seemed, was feeding on pigs that had been fed by the suspected serial killer Robert Pickton.
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http://www.missingpeople.net/some_things_you_didn.htm
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The farm has been well known to local residents.
The city of Port Coquitlam went to court in 1996 seeking an order against Dave and Willy Pickton and their "Piggy Palace Good Times Society" to bar them from holding large parties on their nearby Burns Road property. The parties attracted a variety of people, from a group of graduating students to a school trustee who would later become mayor.
The Picktons filed a statement of defence saying the parties were for "sports organizations or other worthy groups." Nevertheless, the brothers were barred on Dec. 31, 1998, from using their property, zoned for agricultural use, for large bashes.
The parties, apparently, continued. But the public eye didn't really fall on the Pickton properties until Feb. 6, 2002, when the RCMP sealed off the four-hectare (10-acre) pig farm.
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Bill Hiscox, who worked for Pickton in 1997 and 1998, said in an interview he told police in 1998 that he had concerns about the farm.
But Vancouver police ran into conflict with the RCMP, which has jurisdiction over the farm. Efforts to get a wiretap on the case failed and the investigation stalled, police sources said.
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There is still a publication ban, so I guess the whole story will not be know for sometime.
Something really gross that I think about is that my sister and her husband had purshased pig meat through a mutual friend of the Pickton's, so there is also a good chance that I have also eaten some of it since I stayed there for a while.
