In an interview, and in a 115-page statement given to the RCMP, Galliford said top Mounties had "enough evidence for a search warrant" of serial killer Robert Pickton's farm in 1999. From 1999 to 2002, 14 women were brutally murdered by Pickton, a fact that haunts Galliford.
She says she will testify that both RCMP and Vancouver Police Department officers, even after the Missing Women Task Force was formed in 2001, engaged in sexual liaisons and harassment, watched porn and left work early "to go drinking and partying."
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When very junior RCMP Const. Nathan Wells finally obtained a firearms search warrant on Feb. 5, 2002, for the Pickton farm, Galliford said, she confronted a top RCMP officer, telling him, "You've known this since 1999."
The officer, who is also slated to testify, ignored her, she said.
"He is a misogynist, which is probably why he blew off the missing women investigation," said Galliford, noting he got rid of other female officers.
One of the women he "bumped out" had developed a "brilliant protocol" to identify the women's remains through DNA obtained from Pap smears, she said.
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A group of RCMP personnel were, she said, constantly "making jokes about sex toys," laughing and giving each other "fist bumps."
The officers, Galliford alleged, wanted to tell her about "their fantasy."
"They wanted to see Willie Pickton escape from prison, track me down and strip me naked, string me up on a meat hook and gut me like a pig," said Galliford, who also recounted the episode in her formal statement to RCMP.
Galliford said one officer did not join in and also was horrified. "He just looked at me, like, 'Holy crap.' He didn't last, either."
Montreal Gazette
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