Brother of victim defends artist’s portraits of murdered women on Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside

Not long after complaints to UBC’s Museum of Anthropology compelled it to cancel a series of portraits of missing and murdered women from Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside, a family member of one of the victims has spoken out in defense of the exhibition.

In a recent article in the Georgia Straight, Ernie Crey — brother of Dawn Crey, whose DNA was discovered on serial-killer Robert Pickton’s pigfarm in 2004 — felt the Museum made “the wrong decision,” adding that “this issue needs to be talked about, reflected on, all across British Columbian society,” notwithstanding the additional stress it might cause the victims’ families to have the exhibit take place.