Meat from accused killer's farm may have contained human remains
You know that package of breakfast sausage that you got from Cousin Robert this past Christmas? And do you remember those three missing prositutes from the neighborhood? Well, something tells me that you might want to check that sausage very carefully before you thaw it out and cook it. There might just be an extra "bonus" in those links.
VANCOUVER, British Columbia (Reuters) -- Pork products processed and distributed from the farm of accused Canadian serial killer Robert Pickton may have contained human remains, police and health officials said Wednesday.
Pickton raised and slaughtered pigs at the Port Coquitlam farm as a part-time occupation until his arrest at the property in February 2002, and police believe he gave or sold processed meat products to friends and acquaintances.
Pickton, 53, is awaiting trial in the killings of at least 22 of more than 60 missing Vancouver prostitutes who disappeared over the past decade and are feared to have been murdered at the dilapidated farm 20 miles east of Vancouver.
"Given the state of the farm, and what we know about the investigation, we cannot rule out the possibility that cross-contamination may have occurred," B.C. provincial Health Officer Perry Kendall told reporters in Victoria.
"Cross-contamination could mean that human remains did get into or contaminate some of the pork meat," Kendall said.
Officials stressed that the farm's pig slaughtering operation was not officially licensed and he did not sell processed meat to retail outlets.
Of course, that's not to say he wasn't selling under the counter to his neighborhood Denny's. Of course, I suppose the good thing about this sorry episode is that I won't have to find a place in my freezer for any breakfast sausage next Christmas....
