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By Patrick Penner Local Journalism Initiative Reporter The trauma suffered by the families of Robert Pickton’s victims are wounds regularly reopened even as he lingers being bars. Dozens of family members and friends held a vigil at the former site of Pickton’s pig farm in Port Coquitlam on Wednesday, one day before the serial killer became eligible to apply for day parole. Michele Pineault, mother of Stephanie Lane who disappeared in\u00a01997 at 20-years old, said Pickton’s updated status brings back a flood of memories from his trial and the subsequent national inquiry into Canada’s Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women. “I think of my daughter every single day, but I don’t want to think of Robert Pickton anymore. I don’t want to think of him every day. It gets thrown in… <\/p>\n

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By Patrick Penner Local Journalism Initiative Reporter The trauma suffered by the families of Robert Pickton’s victims are wounds regularly reopened even as he lingers being bars. Dozens of family members and friends held a vigil at the former site of Pickton’s pig farm in Port Coquitlam on Wednesday, one day before the serial killer became eligible to apply for day parole. Michele Pineault, mother of Stephanie Lane who disappeared in\u00a01997 at 20-years old, said Pickton’s updated status brings back a flood of memories from his trial and the subsequent national inquiry into Canada’s Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women. “I think of my daughter every single day, but I don’t want to think of Robert Pickton anymore. I don’t want to think of him every day. It gets thrown in... <\/p>\n

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