For the second straight day a jury watched footage of a lengthy police interview with Robert Pickton, some transfixed as the interrogator tried a more threatening tone.
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RCMP Staff Sgt. Bill Fordy stopped with his friendly tactics early in the 11-hour video interview, recorded in February 2002, to tell Pickton his life was finished.
"At one point Fordy says: 'Your DNA is with hers. You're done, done, done. Done like dinner -- like roast pork'," CTV's Todd Battis told Newsnet on Wednesday.
Fordy was referring to the DNA of Mona Wilson. Police had arrested and charged Pickton with the murder of Wilson and Sereena Abotsway.
Ultimately Pickton would be charged with 26 counts of first-degree murder. He is on trial in B.C. Supreme Court in New Westminster, B.C. right now on six counts.
Fordy showed Pickton photos taken by investigators of the motor home on the pig farmer's Port Coquitlam property.
Fordy showed him a photo of a blood pool and said it belonged to Wilson.
"It's huge amounts of blood, Rob," Fordy said, adding it was Mona Wilson's blood. "This is a crime scene dream come true."
Pickton responded by saying, "But that don't mean I did it. "I didn't do anything, I don't know her ... I don't know her face or anything else."
He said he hadn't been in the motor home "for quite a spell, quite a spell, quite a spell."
Some jurors watched the video intently, while others followed along on a thick transcript.
Besides Wilson and Abbotsway, the 57-year-old is on trial for the deaths of Marnie Frey, Georgina Papin, Andrea Joesbury and Brenda Wolfe.
Fordy also told Pickton: "You are bigger than the Pope, you're bigger than Princess Diana, you're just like fuckin' Bin Laden. You know you're on the front page of every paper in the country today. Every one."
"I'm in the paper today?" Pickton responded. He later interrupted Fordy by blurting out: "So my picture is all over the front page. Shit."
On the tape, Pickton admitted to owning a .22-calibre weapon and said he used the gun to kill pigs.
A few times, the accused said he shouldn't be talking and that he wanted to return to his cell. Fordy immediately reminded Pickton that while he didn't have to say anything, he was duty-bound to ask questions.
After being pressured by Fordy, Pickton said: "... I'm sorry. I'm sorry for living. And ah, you know, if I can, I'll take my life for any one of those people just to, just to have them alive. So ... sorry."
Fordy was then relieved by another police interrogator, Const. Dana Lillies.
The new interviewer began by asking Pickton if he had trouble sleeping the night before and whether he had eaten.
"Did I deserve anything to eat? I'm dead before I start," Pickton responded, roughly five hours into the interview. "I should be on death row. I'm finished, I'm finished, I'm dead."
Like Fordy, Lillies also brought up Mona Wilson and DNA found at the farm.
"Your DNA is on the dildo connected to the end of the gun and her DNA is on the tip of the dildo," said Lillies, referring to one piece of evidence taken at the scene.
Pickton replied: "But that doesn't mean I done it."
Tuesday's evidence
The jury began viewing video of the interrogation on Tuesday.
In the part of the interview Tuesday that day, Pickton described any connection between himself and missing women as "hogwash."
However, he did appear to recognize one woman on a poster board of photos who had gone missing in 1998 -- and is one of the other 20 women Pickton has been accused of murdering.
No trial date has been set on those charges.
In its opening statement on Monday, Crown counsel told the jury that Pickton made incriminating remarks during the 11-hour police interview after he was arrested in February 2002.
In lengthy conversations before and after the interview, Pickton allegedly told an undercover police officer planted in his cell that he killed 49 women and wanted to commit one more murder to make it an even 50.
With files from Â鶹´«Ã½ and The Canadian Press
