VANCOUVER , British Columbia — A Canadian woman whose disappearance more than 20 years ago was feared linked to accused serial killer Robert Pickton, is alive and living in the United States, police said Friday.
Linda Grant had not been seen by her Vancouver-area family since 1984, but called them this week after learning that she was on a police list of nearly 70 women who disappeared without a trace from the Pacific Coast city.
Pickton is charged with killing 26 of the women on the list, and police have said the DNA of other missing women was found on his ramshackle pig farm in the Vancouver suburb of Port Coquitlam.
Police said Friday they are confident that Grant, 53, is who she claims.
Grant told the Vancouver Sun newspaper she moved to an undisclosed location in the southern United States to start a new life after losing custody of her two daughters. She married there and had three more children.
Grant said a friend recently told her about the Pickton case, and she discovered her picture and name on the list of missing women on the Internet.
"I went on to the computer and there was Pickton. And then I saw myself," she told the newspaper.
Grant said she did not fit the profile of other women on the list, most of whom were sex-trade workers. Police have said some names were put on the list because they had simply disappeared without a trace.
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