(Note:CBC does not endorse and is not responsible for the content of external links.)The sister-in-law of one of Robert Pickton's victims says a missing-person's report she filed with Vancouver police sat in a filing drawer for years without officers taking any action on the document.
Lori-Ann Ellis told the public inquiry into the Robert Pickton case Tuesday that she filed the report about Cara Ellis by phone from Calgary, Alta. in 1998, about one month after she returned home from Vancouver where she had spent part of a holiday looking for her missing sister-in-law.
Ellis said an RCMP member who was also a member of the task force told her he had found the report in a filing drawer and it had never been "actioned."
"I almost dropped the coffee pot," she said. "All this time that we'd been sitting here waiting to hear, it had sat in a damn drawer in the police station and no one had even taken the time to do it."
Ellis said she thinks the incident is shameful, and she said the people of Vancouver should be making the police accountable for taking paycheques while not doing their jobs.
Over the coming weeks, the inquiry will try to determine why police failed to stop Pickton as he murdered sex workers from the Downtown Eastside starting in the late 1990s.
"She told me in a really snarky tone: 'If Cara wants to be found, she'll be found. Why don't you leave us alone and let us do our job."
"She told me that she's is probably on vacation," Ellis said. "How the hell can somebody earning like $100 a month on welfare be able to go on vacation?"
He asked Ellis if she told police that Cara would stay at a farm with a man who lived like a pig and who would give her free drugs for cleaning his place.
Ellis said she didn't tell police about the Hells Angels boyfriend or the man on the farm in 1998, and she didn't recall if she told police about the man on the farm in a later 2002 interview.
Following Ellis' testimony, Donalee Sebastian told the inquiry about her mother, Elsie Sebastian, who was last seen on the Downtown Eastside in 1992 and who has never been found.
"He told me that 'You might as well prepare yourself, Donalee, because nobody wants to look for a 40-year-old native woman they're not interested in looking for.
"He also mentioned that looking for a drug-using woman on the Downtown Eastside is like looking for a needle in a haystack. And that was quite the shocker for me to hear, you know, being the daughter of the woman who brought me into this world."
Sebastian said the last time she saw Elsie was in 1992 when she was 16 and visiting an uncle's house at the University of British Columbia.
But Sebastian said her mother needed a fix, made a call and was picked up by a man who looked rough, and not like a normal working person.
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