Predator’s Playground: How Vancouver Became a Hunting Ground — The Chelsea Poorman Investigation, Part 3

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In this final part of our investigative series into the death of Chelsea Poorman, we pull back the curtain—not just on one suspicious case—but on a terrifying pattern playing out across Vancouver and the broader West Coast of Canada.

This is not just about Chelsea.

This is about systemic rot, institutional neglect, and a city that has quietly become a predator’s sanctuary—a place where women can disappear without headlines, and bodies can be found in wealthy neighborhoods with no justice in sight.

Chelsea Poorman was 24 years old.

She vanished after a night out in downtown Vancouver and was discovered nearly two years later—her remains hidden on the patio of a $10 million Shaughnessy mansion.

Despite forensic red flags, digital anomalies, and physical barriers that made her presence at the location implausible, the Vancouver Police declared her death "not suspicious."

But the data tells a different story.

When we analyze the clusters of missing and murdered Indigenous women—Chelsea Poorman, Noelle O'Soup, Tatiana Harrison, and others—we find geographic, temporal, and investigative overlaps that are impossible to ignore. Predators are operating in and around Vancouver, emboldened by low clearance rates, jurisdictional confusion, and a lack of media scrutiny.

This is not theory.

This is pattern.

We look at the Hemlock Valley Killer, Robert Pickton, the “Boozing Barber,” and hundreds of high-risk predators who were quietly documented by authorities and then ignored. Many of them used the Downtown Eastside like a hunting ground—because they could.

Because they were allowed to.

Predators share information.

They migrate to jurisdictions with weak investigations.

They exploit our digital blind spots and take advantage of dark tourism, drug crises, money laundering networks, and communities already torn apart by addiction and poverty.

In this episode, I lay out a forensic roadmap—based on FBI gold-standard investigative frameworks—that could and should have been followed in Chelsea’s case.

The kind of roadmap that might have saved her, and could still help others.

We also discuss a horrifying truth: Canada has become a country of performative progressivism—talking reconciliation and equity on the world stage, while ignoring the bodies of Indigenous women found right in our backyards.

This episode isn’t just a conclusion.

It’s a call to action.

Call to Action:

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🖤 To Chelsea’s family: May you one day find justice.