My Ex lived and grew up right by Robert Willie Pickton. Her family was good friends with him and his brother. She told me how Robert would sometimes drive by her on her way home from school and ask if she needed a ride but she always refused because she thought he was kind of weird. He liked her father quite a bit (he is a very likeable guy) so she thinks she was never an intended victim, tho I often wonder about that because she was incredibly beautiful, and as it turned out, was the same age as several of his victims. I still shudder at the thought of what could have happened should she have accepted his offer for a ride home. I also shudder knowing they attended most of, if not all of, his pig roast parties.

Another connection to a (possible) crime, is my mother. She passed away at the age of 52. Being a drinker/smoker and workaholic seemed to make the reports of heart failure rather understandable to all. But, some events before and after her death make me wonder. Her live-in boyfriend of 4 years invited his sister over at 6am (less than 12 hours after my mothers death) woke my 17y/o brother up and asked him to help search for her will, while I slept. They told me they never found it. It wasn't in the safe where it should have been, which was unlocked, opened and empty when I went to look. I thought this was odd but was too occupied with grief for it to register completely. He spoke at length about their recent trip to Hawaii and how they were going to get married there on the beach but decided to wait so the whole family could be there for the event. Which was also odd because she called me from the hotel the day before they returned home and told me flat out it was the worst vacation ever due to him not wanting to leave the room, apparently he was sick and overly tired from the moment they got off the plane. He also told me of my mothers wishes to be cremated because they apparently discussed that while on vacation? I feel pretty stupid for listening but I wasn't ready for this, so I obeyed what I thought were my moms wishes. In the days that followed her death I was approached, first by my aunt, then by a good friend of my mothers... then another who all asked the same question "did I think her boyfriend had anything to do with it?" They said my mom had confided in them stories of abuse, both physical and mental. That he has an Ex wife and 3 children he never told my mom about but she found out via paid internet searches/background checks. He used and sold meth and when my mom found out she quickly broke up with him until he convinced her he changed and stopped all that. There was also 2 ex girlfriends who passed away under slightly suspicious circumstances, one was shot and killed in her early 20's the other was an unknown cause of death in her 30's. These were the 2 girlfriends he had prior to the mother of his children who filed a restraining order against him(citing abuse), took the kids and moved 1,000 miles away in middle of the night. Most of this was told to me over the phone as the friends refused to come by the house because he was still living there at the time. They were scared of him. After hearing all this I asked him to leave, he refused saying it was his home and my mom was going to leave it to him in the will, along with the new truck and motorcycle they had (which had been missing from the garage for this entire week) and we were just going to live there as one big family. At some point his own sister called to talk to me (not the one he brought to the house the day after) and her first words were "do you think he had something to do with it?" I started to ask questions about the ex's and drugs etc, but she had less information than I did about it. I then asked about his time in Vietnam (he had a lot of war stories he was all too proud to tell me about) I asked if perhaps he had a disorder of some sort, she answered "he was never in Vietnam, or the military". My aunt and the two friends and I went to the police where we laid out all of the above and said it was rather suspicious and wanted them to look into it further, however with no hard evidence and the body cremated we were told there was nothing they could do. He had an outstanding warrant for an unpaid speeding ticket and they did arrest him for that and held him for the weekend, so I could finally go through my mothers room where I found the will. He was not in it. I also found a note written by the boyfriend stating the truck was given to him by my mother and "signed" by my mom... with the date the day after her death. Another oddity was inside the trucks glove compartment was a stack of water bills including the final red shutoff notice. The water bill was one of two bills he was asked to pay, the water was shut off 2 days after moms death. My mom had no issue with money, even if he couldn't pay it she would have. It was just really, really weird. When he was released from jail he and his brother came by the house when we weren't there and took a few loads of his stuff out and never came back, leaving clothes, family pictures, hundreds of dollars worth of tools, and several other things I would think he would want. The police said to me during our 10 minute talk that people act oddly after losing a loved one, and sometimes we try to connect things to make sense of it all. My aunt still swears he drugged/poisoned her and was able to destroy the evidence in the days after when he locked himself in the bedroom and didn't come out. My brothers asked me to leave it be because with no evidence nothing was going to come of it. We still don't speak about it. I still wonder tho.