On the Farm: Robert William Pickton and the Tragic Story of Vancouver's Missing Women Paperback – Illustrated, October 25, 2011

I love reading books about serial killers and have read many. This book however is probably one of the most fascinating in that it goes deep into the killer's background and humanizes him rather than demonizes, as some books have done. In addition to plenty of background information on Robert Pickton, there are interviews and in-depth chapters written about his victims, which to me is the most important part of reading about the killer himself. More often, we remember the serial killer and never his victims, but in this book, Stevie Cameron does an excellent job of chronicling the lives of Pickton's victims, as well as his female friends. Interestingly enough, like Ted Bundy's friendship with Ann Rule, someone he once worked with and who ultimately became his biographer, Robert Pickton shared a deep friendship with more than a few women in his life, women who did not become his victims.This book is not always an easy read as of course, if you are aware of Pickton's crimes, he used his pigs and a rendering plant to dispose of his multiple victims, all of whom were prostitutes from Vancouver's worst neighborhood. In some sick way I found myself actually feeling sorry for Pickton and how he was raised, but ultimately ended up as I always do, wondering, what the heck makes these people tick to be able to commit such horrible crimes? The book also chronicles Robert Pickton's tumultuous relationship with his brother as well as the lengthy process and amount of time and incredible cost that it took to bring this man to justice.I highly recommend this book as a fascinating and chilling look into the mind of a killer, his family, friends, and victims all combined.

This book offers a very intimate look in the inner workings of a killer driven by a desire to be the most notorious in Canada. The reader will get a look at the depravity and savagery of the killer, coupled with the complete disregard for human life no matter who the victim may be. For those who are not familiar with the Canadian justice, the reader may be both surprised and appalled depending on your view of what true justice should be for a killer devoid of any conscience or feelings of remorse for the victims or what he made them endure. A must read for those true crime buffs.

One of the more interesting books I've read about serial killers. I first heard of Willie Pickton on the Last Podcast On The Left and found the case so fascinating I had to pick this book up.It's extremely detailed and examines the case from the perspectives of the cops, the families of the victims and the people who knew Willie Pickton.All in all it's a very good book but I feel a lot of the details are repetitive which makes the book feel overly long. I seriously feel like this book could have been 200 pages shorter and it would've been a more addictive interesting read. My other complaint is it's pretty common to see a lot of grammatical and spelling errors. I'm generally not a grammar nazi but when a book is being professionally published it's pretty important to not have so many errors in the final print. In the picture I posted I'll give an example of this.Still it's a very good book and worth picking up if you're interested in the case.

I had never heard about the Pickton case before reading Mr. Cameron’s book. It gives a very passionate in depth look into the lives of the countless victims, the unbelievable ignorance of the Vancouver Police, the pain of the relatives of the victims and the unbelievable and sometimes unbearable mechanics of the trial - including a judge who seemed to be Ich mache jetzt Ipod aus of his league in the trial. A top read.

Very detailed reading about each woman, (47) that went missing in Vancouver, Canada during the late 1900 and 2000s, the police work, and the pig farmer serial killer.

The book was a good read about a serial killer I had not heard of before. However, the book is 703 pages and could have been shortened in my opinion. It becomes repetitive at times which caused me some frustration. I also think it's a bit too detailed at times with names and details of minor players that could have easily been left out but not taken away from the overall story.

Now this was a very sick mancan't believe a human being can do what this man did how sick of an individual do you have to be to commit the crimes of this man committed how could he get away with it for as long as he did very interesting book very well written the bookseller was very good and packing the book where it wouldn't get damaged some books in this shipment got damaged but not this one due to the way the seller package the book

All in all it is a well written book and very detailed. One glaring mistake I noticed was the author listing Richard Speck as the Boston Strangler, when Richard killed a bunch of women in one night and only strangled the first, then stabbed the rest. I might not have caught this had I not just finished "Mindhunter" on Netflix about the creation of the behavioral science's arm that interviewed serial killers. It was these interviews that the author was referring to when he credited Speck as the Boston Strangler. Since this is not a typo but a mistake in fact, I am going always going to wonder if there was something I had not read or heard about before reading, that was wrong, but I just took it on faith that the author did his research.