SERIAL KILLER: The Gilgo Beach Murders

SERIAL KILLER: The Gilgo Beach Murders

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The Disappearance of Gail Katz-Bierenbaum: A Letter That Predicted the Future

In July 1985, 29 year-old Gail Katz-Bierenbaum told a friend she was leaving her husband. She had apartment listings circled, money borrowed, and a psychiatrist’s written warning that her husband might kill her. The next day, she vanished. Her husband, Dr. Robert Bierenbaum, clai ...  Show more

Robert Pickton: A Serial Killer and a Farm Full of Secrets

In the 1990s, women began disappearing from Vancouver’s Downtown East Side: many of them Indigenous, many of them sex workers, many of them dismissed as transient or unreliable. A survivor of a violent 1997 attack identified her assailant as pig farmer Robert Pickton, but the cha ...  Show more

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