Criticism
On February 15, 2011, Owen published letters in several major Canadian newspapers apologising for comments that he made blaming former Vancouver Police Department Inspector Kim Rossmo for delays in the investigation of serial killer Robert Pickton. During much of the Pickton investigation, Owen was the head of the Vancouver Police Board. He has been criticized for commenting, after some 20 prostitutes went missing from Vancouver's Downtown Eastside, that there was "no evidence that a serial killer is at work." (see http://www.missingpeople.net/mayor_no_reward-april_9,1999.htm )
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