Lawyer for family members of Pickton’s victims wants copy of killer’s ‘tell all book’

The Canadian Press-A Vancouver lawyer representing families of the victims of serial killer Robert Pickton says he’ll be asking for a copy of a “tell all book” seized from Pickton’s cell after he died following an attack in a Quebec prison earlier this year. Jason Gratl says he and his clients, who have pending lawsuits against Pickton and his brother David in B.C. Supreme Court, were “surprised” when an RCMP search warrant document revealed the existence of a 200-page manuscript handwritten by Pickton. Gratl says they were led to believe the investigation was over, but police say the materials seized from Pickton’s cell after his death offered nothing new. The search warrant document filed in New Westminster, B.C., this summer says prison officials found “numerous writings and notes authored by…

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