[Robert Pickton] defence lawyer Peter Ritchie will try to remind jurors his client is a simple pig farmer, a bit too dim to get jokes, and living on a farm with all manner of friends and strangers coming and going, including some that had connections to the six women Pickton is accused of killing.

Crown lawyer Mike Petrie will attempt to knit together the gruesome findings of police who combed Pickton's farm, the 22 hours of taped conversations in which Pickton appeared to confess to the killings, the macabre testimony of a woman who said she saw Pickton with one of the dead women and days and days of dry scientific evidence.

The Crown has to prove "beyond a reasonable doubt" that Pickton is guilty and Petrie will get the last word, delivering his summation after the defence.