Wed. September. 18 2002 3:53 AM ET
Reports say the DNA of another of the more than 50 women who have disappeared from downtown Vancouver has been found at a suburban pig farm at the centre of a massive police search.
BC-CTV said Tuesday that Georgina Papin's family was told by police that her DNA was found at the Port Coquitlam farm. Papin went missing sometime in 1999.
The farm's owner, Robert William Pickton, 52, has been charged with seven counts of murder. All of the victims were on list of missing women who vanished from Vancouver's poverty stricken lower east side.
Last month, Maggie deVries told BC-CTV that police told her that her sister Sarah's DNA had been found "on an object" at the farm in Port Coquitlam, B.C.
Sarah deVries was 28 when she disappeared in April 1998. Her family says she had fallen into a life of drugs and prostitution.
In both cases, the joint Vancouver Police-RCMP investigation would not comment on the reports or give any indication if more charges would be laid.
The pig farm owned by Pickton has been scoured by dozens of forensics experts, hundreds of archeology students and 26 experts in human osteology -- the study of bones -- all looking for clues to the women's whereabouts.
Police began searching Pickton's farm in February and it's since become Canada's largest-ever crime scene investigation.
Pickton's preliminary hearing on the seven murder charges begins in November.
