Welcome to Vancouver: A Beautiful Descent, your host Marc is a writer and investigative journalist who has spent years researching the unsolved crimes, missing persons, and cold cases along the West Coast of Canada. In this podcast, we’ll be diving deep into one of Vancouver’s most vibrant years—1995—a cultural peak where the city pulsed with life, entertainment, and opportunity.

But beneath that beauty lay a much darker reality, one that too many people were unaware of.

Our story today starts with that year of excitement and ends in the quiet, haunting mystery of Mission Jane Doe, a woman whose remains were found in 1995, just outside of Vancouver.

Her skull, discovered in Mission, British Columbia, was later tied to the horrific crimes of one of Canada’s most notorious serial killers—Robert Pickton. Though her identity remains unknown to this day, her story is a stark reminder of the unsolved disappearances that plagued Vancouver in the late ’90s.

This podcast is dedicated to telling these forgotten stories—stories of the women whose lives were cut tragically short, and whose families may never have had a chance to say goodbye. As we uncover the mystery of Mission Jane Doe, I hope to shed light not only on the horrors of the past but also to bring empathy and understanding to the victims who were lost in Vancouver’s underbelly.