Pickton depicted in a 1996 still from Global BCTV News footage taken during a story about a property tax complaint
Born
Robert William Pickton
(1949-10-24) October 24, 1949 (age 74)[1]
Port Coquitlam, British Columbia, Canada
Conviction(s)
Second degree murder (6 counts)
Criminal penalty
Life imprisonment with no possibility of parole for 25 years
Details
Victims
6 convicted 26 charged 49 confessed
Span of crimes
1983–2002
Country
Canada
Date apprehended
February 22, 2002
Robert William Pickton (born October 24, 1949),[2] also known as the Pig Farmer Killer or the Butcher, is a Canadian serial killer, serial rapist, former pig farmer and possible cannibal who is suspected of being one of the most prolific serial killers in Canadian history. After dropping out of school, Pickton left a butcher's apprenticeship to begin working full-time at his family's pig farm. He is believed to have begun his murders in the early 1990s after inheriting the farm. Arrested in 2002, he was convicted in 2007 of the second-degree murders of six women and was also the subject of a lengthy investigation that yielded evidence of numerous other murders.
Pickton was charged with the deaths of an additional twenty women,[3] many of them from Vancouver's Downtown Eastside, but these charges were stayed by the Crown in 2010.[4] Pickton was sentenced to life in prison, with no possibility of parole for 25 years—the longest possible sentence for second-degree murder under Canadian law at the time he was sentenced.[5] During the trial's first day of jury evidence, the Crown stated that Pickton had confessed to forty-nine murders to an undercover agent from the Office of the Inspector General, who was posing as a cellmate.[citation needed] The Crown reported that Pickton told the officer that he wanted to kill another woman to make it an even fifty, and that he was caught because he was "sloppy".[6]
^"Who is Robert Pickton". The Globe and Mail. Toronto. November 30, 2007. Archived from the original on October 17, 2008. Retrieved November 10, 2008.
^"Crown Says Will Prove Robert Pickton Murdered, Butchered and Disposed of 6 Women". Canadian Press. January 22, 2007. Archived from the original on August 20, 2011. Retrieved January 25, 2007.
^"Indictment document". Archived from the original on October 7, 2006.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: unfit URL (link)
^Cite error: The named reference Chad Skelton was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
^"AU Serial-killing pig farmer gets life". "ABC. December 12, 2007. Retrieved February 10, 2011.
^"Pickton butchered 6 women, Crown tells jury". CBC. January 22, 2007. Retrieved January 22, 2007.
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