The convicted serial killer Robert Pickton has published a book called Pickton: In His Own Words. It has 144 pages. It is available on Amazon.

Pickton, a pig farmer, was not only convicted of killing six women but was charged with killing 26 and boasted to the cops of killing nearly 50 out of the 69 that went missing during the years he was active (1997 and 2001). He fed many of these women to his pigs, and often transported his dead pigs to a rendering plant near Commercial Drive. (I wrote all about this bad business in the essay "Death Farm.")

Urban sprawl made Pickton a millionaire. He and his siblings sold to developers chunks of an inherited farm. Developers built homes, parks, and schools on this land. None of these investments wants to remember or hear about the dead women, many of whom were Native American.

Some of the relatives of the victims want Amazon to remove Pickton's book, which is said to have lots of biblical references and spelling errors. Pickton, it should be noted, did not act alone; he was able to kill so many women because it is in the nature of our system of economics not to protect the poor and non-white people.