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Campbell River mom’s hunch led her to serial killer Pickton’s farm Lynn Frey asks how police failed to connect the dots row hotels she frequented. She said she zeroed in on the lair of serial killer Robert “WilThe stepmother of missing lie” Pickton after prostitutes woman Marnie Frey combed predicted Marnie was dead and Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside suggested a man at a farm with a before dark tips about “Willie” chipper was responsible. She had made repeated trips and a wood chipper led her to the Pickton farm in Port Coquitlam to Vancouver from her home in Campbell River to search for years before police raided it. Lynn Frey told the Missing Marnie. Others searching for missing Women Inquiry Monday she women played climbed a fence h e r a t ap e to get into the recording of a Pickton farm in man claiming search of clues to have inforto her drugmation, Frey addicted daughtestified. ter’s disappear“ Yo u ’ r e ance but turned never going back when two to find these Rottweilers women,” she appeared on the said the voice other side. on the tape “I saw tractors, said. vehicles and big “They went mounds of dirt with Willie and grass,” she said. “I didn’t Marnie Frey was one of Robert and he’s got the chipper.” see any bodies or Pickton’s victims. Some prosanybody there.” Frey said it was the fall of 1998 titutes told Frey they’d been to a – just over a year after 24-year-old farm with a chipper 45 minutes Marnie vanished from the skid- from the Downtown Eastside near
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Lynn Frey told the Missing Women Inquiry in Vancouver that she climbed the fence of the infamous Pickton farm in Port Coquitlam to search for clues herself.
a fast-flowing muddy river. Frey reasoned the farm had to be near the Fraser River, likely in New Westminster, Coquitlam or Surrey. She relayed her suspicions to her foster daughter Joyce Lachance, who lived in Port Coquitlam, “She said ‘I know a guy by the name of Willie. He has pigs and he has a chipper on his farm. I can take you there blindfolded.’”
They drove that night to the Pickton far m, where a sign warned “Pit bull with AIDS” and Lachance was too scared to leave the car. Perched atop the fence, Frey was just a stone’s throw from the remains of her missing daughter – although confirmation wouldn’t come for another five years, when searchers found Marnie’s right jaw bone and four teeth on the farm.
“We were right all along – she was on the farm.” Frey said she told her suspicions to Vancouver Police Dept. Const. Lori Shenher, who gave her “heck” for climbing the fence but promised to investigate. Several more women would die on the farm before the RCMP searched it for illegal guns in February of 2002 and then arrested Pickton for murder. Continued on Page A3
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