Post by hi224 on Apr 12, 2019 3:57:00 GMT
I wrote a post about Angela Arseneault two weeks ago, which got more attention than I expected. Here’s another woman who disappeared from Vancouver, British Columbia when Robert Pickton was an active serial killer. I believe Kellie Little’s the only missing transgender woman from that time frame.
Kellie Little was born Richard Little on March 12th, 1969 in Campbell River, British Columbia. She was born with only one kidney, a cleft lip, a deformed jaw, dental problems needing jaw screws, and severe hearing loss. When Kellie was an adult, she began transitioning into a woman, along with becoming a regular drug user and a sex worker. She mainly worked in Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside and two different cities close to Vancouver: Coquitlam and Port Coquitlam.
In late 1996 or early 1997, Kellie met Gina Houston at the Kent Prison in Agassiz, a small community east of Vancouver, where both women were visiting friends. Kellie was living in Agassiz at the time, but it wasn’t long until Kellie began staying at Gina’s apartment basement in Port Coquitlam. Although Gina was a drug addicted criminal who worked in the sex trade to support her addiction, she was acquaintances with Pickton. The main reason she befriended him was because she conned him into paying for her rent, bills, and groceries.
On April 23rd, 1997, Kellie left her residence in Port Coquitlam to go work in Vancouver. Gina believed Kellie was going to see one of her regular clients, a Vancouver police officer, yet Kellie never came back. Gina reported Kellie missing shortly afterwards, as it was out of character for Kellie to abandon her pet cat. After Kellie went missing, neighbours reported hearing somebody screaming in Gina’s backyard. Police searched the property, believing Kellie was buried somewhere in the yard, but there was so sign of her. Kelly hasn’t been seen or heard from since.
Gina eventually testified in court against Pickton in August 2007. She claimed before Pickton was arrested in 2002, he told Gina the police would find up to six bodies on his property. Gina died after suffering from breast cancer in April 2010.
A lot of this information I got from Stevie Cameron’s book titled On the Farm: Robert William Pickton and the Tragic Story of Vancouver’s Missing Women. It’s a very interesting book and had information about Kellie I couldn’t find online.
Kellie Little was born Richard Little on March 12th, 1969 in Campbell River, British Columbia. She was born with only one kidney, a cleft lip, a deformed jaw, dental problems needing jaw screws, and severe hearing loss. When Kellie was an adult, she began transitioning into a woman, along with becoming a regular drug user and a sex worker. She mainly worked in Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside and two different cities close to Vancouver: Coquitlam and Port Coquitlam.
In late 1996 or early 1997, Kellie met Gina Houston at the Kent Prison in Agassiz, a small community east of Vancouver, where both women were visiting friends. Kellie was living in Agassiz at the time, but it wasn’t long until Kellie began staying at Gina’s apartment basement in Port Coquitlam. Although Gina was a drug addicted criminal who worked in the sex trade to support her addiction, she was acquaintances with Pickton. The main reason she befriended him was because she conned him into paying for her rent, bills, and groceries.
On April 23rd, 1997, Kellie left her residence in Port Coquitlam to go work in Vancouver. Gina believed Kellie was going to see one of her regular clients, a Vancouver police officer, yet Kellie never came back. Gina reported Kellie missing shortly afterwards, as it was out of character for Kellie to abandon her pet cat. After Kellie went missing, neighbours reported hearing somebody screaming in Gina’s backyard. Police searched the property, believing Kellie was buried somewhere in the yard, but there was so sign of her. Kelly hasn’t been seen or heard from since.
Gina eventually testified in court against Pickton in August 2007. She claimed before Pickton was arrested in 2002, he told Gina the police would find up to six bodies on his property. Gina died after suffering from breast cancer in April 2010.
A lot of this information I got from Stevie Cameron’s book titled On the Farm: Robert William Pickton and the Tragic Story of Vancouver’s Missing Women. It’s a very interesting book and had information about Kellie I couldn’t find online.