The Crown rested its case at the Robert William Pickton trial on Monday by urging the 12-member jury to convict the accused killer on six counts of first-degree murder.

Robert William Pickton is on trial for the deaths of six women who went missing from Vancouver's Downtown Eastside.
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Justice James Williams is now expected to take three days to review the evidence and instruct the jury beginning Tuesday in the B.C. Supreme Court in New Westminster.

Pickton, a Port Coquitlam pig farmer, is charged with first-degree murder in the deaths of Sereena Abotsway, Mona Wilson, Andrea Joesbury, Brenda Wolfe, Marnie Frey and Georgina Papin. He'll face another 20 murder charges at a later date.

Pickton has pleaded not guilty to all charges.

Prosecutor Michael Petrie on Monday challenged the idea that the accused is a dimwitted pig farmer and reminded the jury that an IQ expert called by the defence placed Pickton within the normal range of human intellect.

Petrie said Pickton revealed himself to be a cagey negotiator during an 11-hour, taped interview with police after his arrest in 2002.

He said the accused was clearly "in charge" of the police interrogation, suggesting that Pickton went from denying everything to playing what the prosecution calls "a cat and mouse" game with the lead investigator.

Petrie also took the jury to key moments of another controversial videotape, where an energetic Pickton returns to his cell, cheerfully boasting to his cellmate — an undercover officer — about how he'd baffled police.

The videotape evidence showed that Pickton mused about how famous he's going to be, and he says repeatedly that he got sloppy when it came to cleaning up blood at the end.

Petrie also challenged the defence on its suggestion that Dinah Taylor, a drug addict who lived in Pickton's trailer, was responsible for the deaths of the six women Pickton is accused of killing.

The defence has argued that Taylor had links to four of the six dead women and had threatened one of them, but Petrie reminded the jury Taylor was once arrested in connection with the case of the missing women and there wasn't sufficient evidence to charge her.