Search for 50 missing women leads to pig farm

PORT COQUITLAM, British Columbia -- Investigators probing the disappearances of 50 women searched a Vancouver-area pig farm Thursday amid speculation of a break in the case.

Royal Canadian Mounted Police Constable Catherine Galliford said only that the site 22 miles east of Vancouver was of interest in the investigation in to the disappearances, which date back as far as 1984. The missing women's families were being contacted about the search, she said.

The search of the 27-acre farm, which contains a house, trailer and other outbuildings, could take days or months, Galliford said.

"It's too early to speculate on the outcome," she said. Galliford said investigators had talked to the farm's owners.

More than three dozen officers were on the scene.

Sherry Koski, whose sister Kerry Lynn Koski has been missing since 1998, spent about half an hour at the farm Thursday morning. She was crying as she spoke to police officers. She brushed by reporters, saying she didn't feel like talking.