Robert Pickton /// Part 2 /// 769 | Forensic Files

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with the murder of 27 women how were these women killed investigators were able to determine that at least some of
them were shot with a 22 caliber rifle but more details emerged as police interviewed people who had connections
to pikon these interviews turned up a disturbing number of people who seem to be in the know about some of the goings
on on this Farm but apparently they never thought to report any of it or were too worried
about getting in trouble for the minor offenses that they were committing themselves one example pickton's friend
and employee Scott chub said that pikon had told him a good way to kill a female
heroin addict was to quote inject her with windshield washer fluid end quote the method of murder would never be
detected with all her track marks and police would assume that she had simply ODed remember they found syringes on the
property including syringes found in his trailer his personal trailer that he lived in and pikon did not he was not a
drug user but he also said that he was offered payment to bring her back to the farm well payment to bring back Lynn
Ellingson to the farm remember she's the one that is believed may have been blackmailing pikon the person who saw
the woman hanging from the meat hook in the slaughterhouse right who refused to give information to the
police if this guy has no problem killing people he's going to have no problem killing the woman who's blackmailing him
absolutely so we can presume presumably pikon had planned to kill her now chub never brought Lynn Ellingson back to the
farm for pikon to kill her then we also had an another example would be Andrew Bellwood who was an associate of Robert
pikon who said that Robert would casually talk about lowering prostitutes to the farm with their drug of choice he
said that he would have sex with them and sometimes kill them by handcuffing and strangling them and Bellwood said
that pikon discussed this in such an off-hand manner that that he he kind of believed that he might have been doing
this for quite some time well it makes sense that he was doing it for quite some time cuz we we know he had many
victims of course after the charges he's charged with 27 murders Robert pikon proclaiming his innocence on all charges
he wased scheduled for trial in November of 2002 this date would get delayed time
and time again a large part of this though is because of the search that we talked about remember it took detectives
22 months to complete their search of this large pikin farm in the end the painstakingly exhaustive search and
seizure collected more than 3,000 pieces of evidence from the farm well when you
have a maniac like this and like I said I think he's a Buffalo Bill meets dmer meets Ed
Gan you wonder is it the chicken or the egg well if you're asking who is Robert pikon and what is his background he was
born in October of 1949 his parents were Lise and Leonard pikon the family moved
to the farm in 1963 it was a fully operational farm for a long time and Robert his brother David
and his sister Linda they were expected as children to work the f f as well as earning money for the family Picton
dropped out of school where he was known as a quiet individual he did was partaking in special education classes
he got a job as a meat cutter so expected to work the farm but also expected to earn money for the family
and other jobs that the children may have had so once he gets his job as a meat cutter he decides I'm going to drop
out of school the family's main source of income was from Raising and butchering Hogs and cattle and at one
time it's recorded that as many as 700 pigs and 120 cows were on the farm but the nature of this environment Captain
is you have someone but not just Robert you have his sister and brother as well they are used to being around death a
lot right they're they're running this successful slaughterhouse business where they're
raising all of these animals and then eventually selling them to to provide for the family to provide
an income and to continue to fuel the farm itself well and that's I think the problem I think uh Louise and Leonard
were more concerned about the Weare of the farm than there were their their children I mean we have all these report
that they' send them to school and unwash dirty clothes and what's that going to smell
like I mean if you've been on a farm you know what parts of the farm smell like and so they would be bullied and people
would call them names in school and it just seems like the whole family was working towards this idea of the the
farm needs to be successful we we nurture the farm we don't really care so much about nurturing our children yeah
there's I mean there's two sides I guess to that story maybe the the true answer
lies somewhere in between but you know it's said that uh the mom would not allow the kids to bathe maybe as much as
necessary and as you pointed out earlier the being surrounded by dead animals blood manure these individuals are going
to smell terrible uh there's plenty of other persons who say that no Robert pikon just refused to bathe and refused
to wash and even after his parents passed away that's the lifestyle he maintained well after they were dead and
gone then times got tough for the family times got real hard when Robert pickton's father Leonard passed away in
1977 the barns some of the Barnes burned to the ground in 1978 and then his mother died of cancer in 79 trying to
contribute to the family's income his brother David pikon then started the DNS bulldozing company that we had already
mentioned and the top soil business around this time Robert Pickton lived on and worked the farm raising and
eventually B butchering the animals and selling the meat pikon rebuilt the barns
that had burned down and tried to keep the family business going but it was David's businesses that took over more
and more of the farmland and his abandoned vehicles and excavation and demolition debris turned the property
into a filthy dump site cluttered with old junk and garbage pikon eventually gave up on Commercial hog and cattle
farming in 1980 but continued to raise hogs for friends and family working by day as a
dump truck driver for his brother yeah and once you give up your dream and start working for your brother your your
life is over people who knew the p at the time were familiar with the family's property on which David Robert and a
niece so this would be David's child were living but remember at some point we have a constant stream of people
coming and going at all hours this would be workers friends Associates and random
acquaintances in the mid 1990s the pikon siblings decided to cash in on part of their parents property that was left to
them and they sold off a large chunk of the land for housing a park and a school
I don't forgive me Captain I don't have the information in front of me as to how
much land that they sold but they pocketed roughly 5 million Canadian dollar for the sale of this land not a
bad payday correct and it is the sale of this land that allowed the siblings to start
to dabble in sex drugs and parties eventually forming the piggy Palace good time society and hosting those Raves
that some say were attended by a thousand people at a time as many as a thousand people at a time most reports
however indicate that Robert pikon didn't drink or do drugs despite what was going on on their property but
grotesquely he did keep up with the hog butchering regularly providing meat to friends and family about twice a week
pikon would dump six barrels of animal par parts and bodily fluids each holding up to 300 lb of raw waste at the
Vancouver rendering plant remember when he was being surveilled that's one of the places he went to he was known there
as the Pigman of course we now know what was likely in some of those barrels on some of those dump occasions but we know
that Robert pikon is he's he's a maniac he's a sicko but I guess the question then
becomes when did The Killing start well I think we can go back to he was a Char he was charged with attempted murder in
1997 this is by a situation where there's one who got away I assume he was already killing by this time frame that
would make sense and on top of that we could go to the list of without getting too far ahead of ourselves that answer
is is difficult to deliver here but let's go to that 97 attempted murder charge so this takes
place in March when robbert pikon picked up a woman named Wendy Lynn Ester eer I'm going to say it both ways because I
do not know how to pronounce her last name I apologize to Wendy Lynn he picks her up from the low track brings her
back to his trailer on the farm and she would later tell we know police are involved because he's charged
she would later tell investigators that she was hitchhiking on her way to the Princeton Hotel this is at approximately
just before midnight she says Robert pikon picked her up in a red pickup truck offers her $100 for a [ __ ] she
agrees to this Arrangement but he says that it has to take place at his residence she was not thrilled about his
request to go all the way out to what she referred to as the suburbs but must have needed the money
because eventually she agrees to go she says that pikon promised to bring her back to that location no later than 2
a.m. so they drive to his farm she thinks that he was taking a roundabout route a much longer way to get there
than necessary when they arrive on the farm he gets out to open up the gate drives in and then locks the gate behind
them like there there's some indicators here that something isn't right this isn't going to go down as they had
agreed eventually this leads to an altercation inside his trailer where she says he attempted to kill her but in the
process she managed to get away and in fact she stabs him with a knife that she pulled from his kitchen but this wasn't
like in one of those blocks or anything this is just setting out on the the counter like like ready for
use she stabs him with this knife and eventually M eader managed to stab pikon in the throat causing an 8 in gash at
some point though pikon gets the knife away from her he stabs her in the abdomen oh God she says he put the knife
in me and then he lifted it up this guy's a piece of [ __ ] once she was stabbed she thought that she was done
she was going to die right then and there then all of a sudden she felt go limp so his injury causes him to go limp
she got the knife back grabbing it at this point they're both too weak to really do anything she told the
investigators that she slid out from underneath him ran outside around the truck and then just kept running she
climbed the fence to get out she flagged down a car that was driving by and begged the
driver and the companion in the vehicle to take her to the hospital so the couple helped her out they let her into
the car 911 is called on the way to the hospital they flagged down a sergeant a police officer this police officer is
responding to the scene as well she tells this story to the police they charge him with attempted murder he's
got a whole different version of the story his version is no I took her to yeah we had this arrangement I took her
to my house and then she starts freaking out immediately right she attacks me I was just defending myself the short of
it here Captain this is a rather long story but the short of it is he's charged and later the charges are
dropped it never it never gets to court to the point of him having to face these
charges and it's it's a complicated situation so I don't want to just simply say this is where everybody dropped the
ball and we could have stopped the murders here but this is one of the people that got away thankfully
I'm very confident saying that he was killing before this attack on this woman I'm very confident saying he intended to
kill this woman she got lucky she got lucky she had a moment and she seized that moment yeah the moment he went limp
and got away from this monster unfortunately he wasn't shut down and locked up then
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quite some time cheers to everybody no once again One Bad Apple spoils the whole damn Bunch Robert pikon was
initially brought to trial on 27 counts of first deegree murder now one of those cases Captain
was for a Jane Doe this was going to be the first one that would be dismissed and it's dismissed because of of
insufficient evidence they don't even know who the victim is in that case then the judge this is Justice Williams ruled
in 2006 that the trial had to be split because trying all 26 charges of murder at once would take too long and place an
unreasonable burden on the jury I can agree with that so pikon was brought up in the initial trial on the
six most slam dunk murder charges these are the ones that we think well like we say if there's no body it's hard to
prove that there's a crime but in these other cases there's bodies so we can prove there's a crime these are the ones
that we think we're going to get a conviction on he pled not guilty this trial lasted for more than a year wow
and it included nearly 130 Witnesses and could be the subject of an entire podcast series series itself they
painted pikon as intelligent and cunning undercutting perceptions of him as dimwitted dumbass as a dimwitted pig
farmer yeah the Crown's key witness was that Lynn Ellingson that we've talked about this is the woman who testified to
the dead woman that she saw picked in skinning in his barn Jesus we also get the woman from the
1997 attack the one that he should have been locked up for she testified as to what pikon
had done to her in 1997 with with these killers that that seem to be able to kill for an extended
period of time and have a long list of victims one thing that we stress there's always someone who seems to have gotten
away and for law enforcement it's one of those it's you just say please no matter
how hard it is try to find and identify the person who got away they may not even really truly realize that they got
away from a serial killer now in addition to all of this the crown had evidence on its side of course we have
DNA of 33 missing women that were found on the farm DNA from 33 missing women was found on that farm so it's it isn't
known I do not know why he was never were charged for 33 murders it was 27 then reduced to 26 and then the judge
split the trial to focus in on six cases but he's found guilty so what is the sentence well
there's overwhelming amount of evidence against him indicating that Robert Pickton was guilty of sin especially in
these six cases he's convicted on all six counts but it's six count of second deegree murder so this is in December of
2007 20 other charges of first-degree murder were stayed in 2010 by the judge this is awfully complicated there's a
lot of moving parts and pieces here so I'll try to sum it up the best that the colonel can so after the conviction of
the six murders prosecutors had sufficient evidence to charge picked in with the additional 20 killings but they
decided not to proceed because he's actually already given the maximum sentence that he could receive they say
this is to spare the families and the court system from further effort in expense of another lengthy trial well
look I always get frustrated at law enforcement when they don't actually bring the charges to trial but in this
case I I will differ on that because we know that this guy is a serial killer so
if we have DNA evidence of one of your family members on that farm and they've never been seen from
again or heard from again just disappeared Into Thin Air they didn't just disappear most likely he murdered
them and that's why we have their DNA does that make any sense of course well and and I agree with what you're saying
I mean if you can't punish him further I get what they're saying but you can't tell me that you have
sufficient evidence to convict this guy on additional murders and then say well we want to we want to spare the families
let's Circle that and underline that part real quick that's dumb yeah and the courts from further expense from another
lengthy trial well had law enforcement jumped on this earlier yeah there you wouldn't
have had to spend 22 months collecting evidence from the pig farm there wouldn't have been as many victims there
wouldn't have been as much evidence basically what they're saying is we want to spare the taxpayers in the
state money to try these cases that we think are slam dunks anyways look and nobody should ever want to victim
further victimize victims if in fact you are sparing the families from having to sit through this lengthy
trial that I can agree with that that's fine that's fine but when you have those
same families later coming out and saying no we weren't happy with this we wanted him to be charged and we wanted
him to be taken to trial for our loved ones murder and they're telling us they have sufficient evidence to convict him
on that I think that's I think they owe it to the citizens that they are sworn to protect and the perpetrators that
they are sworn to face the consequences yeah to put it put the ball in the court
of the victims you can't say we don't want to further victimize these people when they're going no charge him take
him to trial so we don't know what conversations took place behind closed doors but that's how it's reported in
the media that's what these people were saying to the newspapers and to the television cameras we wanted him to be
charged so this is this is the victims that he was never sent to trial for that are angry the families some of those
families were quite angry at how this sits today and where it sat at after he's convicted but also you have the
families of the victims that he was convicted on that they were angry because it got reduced from first
deegree murder to Second deegree murder it's tough to deduce and to explain and to come to a great conclusion as to
whether something is second deegree murder or first-degree murder but think of this type we've talked about this
type time and time again on the show we've talked about this specific type of killer where it's not the sex act it's
not about the sex no matter how kinky we're talking about no matter how taboo we're talking about the women that he's
engaging with the women that he is making these arrangements with are willing they they're willing to work out
an arrangement we've seen that time and time again he's not killing to cover up a crime he's killing because that's what
he likes that's who he is meaning that all of these essentially are first-degree murder charges or should be
because that was his intent when he hopped in his red pickup truck and went looking for a victim yeah he was hunting
this is premeditated first-degree murder yeah and on top of that we have a witness that says hey I saw a dead body
on hooks as he's chopping her up as if she was some cattle it's a shame that that woman wouldn't have St stuck to
that story when confronted by police months before he was actually arrested pikon was the longest case in Canadian
history with thousands of items seized we have 40,000 crime scene photos over 100,000 lab exhibits 98 Witnesses for
the prosecution and 30 for the defense and half a million pages of documents on June 25th
2009 the BC court of appeals upheld pickton's convictions picked an appeal to the Supreme Court of
Canada which in July of 2010 unanimously rejected his appeal the case was over now what about all the people who may or
may not have known what Robert pikon was up to and said nothing arguably they are
partially responsible for the continued murders of these poor women certainly some people had to have known pickton's
activities we do know Lyn Ellingson who later testified against him wasn't willing to work with the cops but later
testifies against him and Andrew Bellwood I don't know if we can consider them accompli but they're they're
considered some form of that in my opinion interestingly the lead investigator in the case testified that
three other people besides pikon were arrested in connection with these deaths or some of the deaths but none that we
know of were in fact charged with the murders they may have been arrested but as far as we know I've never heard any
report of anybody else going to trial for this we talked so much about Robert pickton's brother employer co-resident
of the farm David pikon there's plenty of questions about him that still remain as we've heard multiple people knew or
strongly suspected that Robert Pickton was up to something did nothing David pton essentially lived on the same
property it's a large property but lived on the same property with his brother it's very difficult to to say
that he didn't have some hint as to what was going on if not directly involved in the situation so a couple
things I'm a little confused on so he gets six counts of second deegree murder he gets life in prison no possibility of
parole for 25 years but is that charge life imprisonment does he get six life sentences that's what's confusing
and so then we have we know that there's more victims we have DNA of 30 some victims he's convicted of six he's
charged at some point with 27 charges and then some people say he confessed to 49 yeah the way that that story plays
out with the confession is that they placed an undercover off officer in a cell with him or in a neighboring cell
and I believe Captain this was when he was before the trial for the six homicides and the officer would later
state that Robert pikon had said to him kind of nonchalantly that he had killed 49 and that he would have got to the
50th murder had he just not gotten so sloppy at the end yeah this guy was a douche burger with Fri so yeah I he he
killed many more women unfortunately than the six that he is convicted for the don't wrap me up and Wrangle me into
a conversation about the courts in Canada or the consequences in his sentence it's complicated for me and
clearly in the last week didn't have time to dive into Canadian law but um well how dare you well but there there
are people in Canada who have committed some very heinous crimes that eventually
get released right and and I'm not faulting the country or its people I love Canada and I love I I have a hard
time thinking of a person from Canada that I have not enjoyed meeting them or their company blame Canada blame Canada
but unfortunately what my eyes and ears tell me is that that country sits in a state where they believe or at least the
way that their their sentencing and consequences and punishments are carried out that they believe that many more
people are possess the ability to be rehabilitated and moved back into society than what I think actually exist
not just in Canada but on this planet as a whole yes it it's it's sad that that he wasn't held to Greater con
consquences but let's shift gears here because I wanted to make sure that we saved some time for this they certainly
saved time for it at the trial the prosecutors at pikon trial took pains to attempt to humanize the
victims obviously hoping that the jury would not see them as just druggies or sex workers let's give a shout out to
the Toronto city news that did a 2007 expose releasing writing up profiles of each of the six
victims for which pikon was convicted sure they all had their problems but very few of us are without
any so first up uh one of the victims that he was convicted of having killed is Serena Abbott's way we talked about
her inhalers being found and remains being found on the the farm she never really had much of a chance at life
that's the thing like when when people look down upon these other people and when people turn turn away from what
might be happening when they turn away from the sex workers right well sex workers and drug addicts and and what
have you keep in mind some of those people ended up at that spot in their lives because they were already
victimized by somebody else or or victimized by a previous situation they didn't all end up they didn't all go
skipping down to the low track going this is where I'm going to live the rest of my days no they ended up there
against their best wishes against the best wishes of their their family members well and it's tough too cuz like
you said a lot of these individuals are victims themselves and that's how they end up in this situation but if they end
up murdered they don't have any chance for a comeback story they don't have any chance to to live their life
the way they once might have dreamed to live out their hopes and dreams and that's that's what sucks or to have fun
or to love or to be loved or to have meaningful relationships so Serena Abbott's way she was born with fetal
alcohol syndrome in a bad area of town both of her biological parents died when she was quite young despite her life
working the streets Abbott way was also an activist for the women that she worked with and when her colleagues
began to disappear she spoke up at rallies and demanded action by local law enforcement
but unfortunately she joined the growing list this was in August of 2001 at the age of 29 and her remains were dug up on
the pikon farm we also have Mona Wilson she was removed from a first nation's Reserve in Alberta to find a life that
varied from extreme happiness to outright misery as a young girl she lived in a treatment center but was
taken out after being found badly beaten in a hallway she was placed with a foster family for years that gave her a
chance and helped her Blossom that somehow faded as an adult she was living on her own in Vancouver turning toward
heroin to hide her pain she disappeared in November of 2001 at the age of 26 even as she was trying to kick the
habit and turn her life around Mona left in a vehicle and she was never seen again Angela
jberry she grew up amid the Spectre of alcoholism physical Abuse and Mental Illness so when a boyfriend persuaded
her at 16 to move in with him it seemed like a great escape it wasn't her boyfriend turned out to be a drug dealer
who wound up getting her addicted and she ended up on the streets selling herself to support her habit she worked
for a series of pimps who violently abused her but her family remembers her as a loving daughter with a big smile
and a person who was a wonderful sister she was quiet and polite she had a daughter of her own she was last seen in
June of 2001 we also have Brenda wolf she was briefly addicted to drugs but seemed to
have turned her life around working as a waitress and a bouncer at a local eery she kept in regular touch with her young
daughter she had been evicted from her apartment was living somewhere in the downtown east side that area that we
spoke so much about today and yesterday she asked for government funds for food stating that she had spent all of her
money on her kids Christmas her friends say that she was never a sex worker and in fact worked to defend them if they
were attacked in what's being called a street enforcer role it was because of that identity that so many were
surprised to see her named as one of Robert pickton's victims she disappeared in February of 1999 we have Georgina
papen both Georgina and her eight siblings were put in foster care early in life so she never really knew her
family by the time she hit 18 she had been living with dozens of different people and hadn't established Roots
anywhere she was said to have an on again off again addiction to drugs but always found time to contact her
daughter who lived with her grandmother she was described as as charming and outspoken she did spend some time in
prison and she was challenged for the custody of her children at some point she was last seen
in March of 1999 by her cousin who says that she was picked up by Robert pikon we have Marne fry she had a much
different younger life experience than some of the other persons we just discussed she had a loving home and a
family that supported her she even attended Christian school but when Marne Fay had a daughter at the young age of
18 her life changed she was lured into the world of drugs through a local gang and finally wound up on the streets of
Vancouver she did always phone home often multiple times a day her last call came on September 4th
1999 from then on there was only silence marne's remains were among those recovered from the picked in pig phone
in 2010 in response to popular pressure the government of British Columbia formally announced a missing women
Commission of inquiry to look into why The Vancouver Police Department and the RCMP did not until 2002 catch serial
killer Robert Pickton when they had received detailed tips as far back as 1998 the the commission issued a
comprehensive report in 2012 entitled forsaken it ruled that the initiation of conduct of the missing and
murdered women investigations were a blatant failure the investigations suffered from a lack of leadership and
were marked by a deep bias against the poor often drug addicted victims detective lurmer shener criticism of the
the VPD was read into the record the detectives efforts to get to the bottom of the missing women case were called
heroic Kim Rosso's warnings of a serial Predator had been ignored the commission
heard the commission's report concluded that the Vancouver Police Department should have issued a warning by August
of 1998 that police were investigating a possible serial killer the report stated
quote by January 23rd 19 1997 Robert Pickton who would become a top suspect in the missing women investigation was
emerging on the police radar so they look at this in retrospect they review all the information and realize they're
receiving tips about this you have your personnel law enforcement Personnel that
are saying we've conducted our own investigations we see a problem here we believe there's a Serial Predator that
is active in this area and here's your victims here's your victimology and even when this guy was
on their radar as just a suspect it seems like there was little effort to push this thing forward to the
point of a task force and to really getting to the bottom of the problem and correcting an attempt to stop the
problem law enforcement failed to identify that there was a problem failed to alert the public about this problem
only charged him with some of the crimes and so unlike his victims his story continued and his
story continued until this year on May 19th that's right all in all the DNA of 33 missing
women was found on picton's Farm in various freezers buildings containers shallow Graves pig pens and machines
other unidentified DNA was also found the reality the sad reality is investigators just don't know how many
women Robert pton is actually responsible for killing before his trial investigators placed an undercover
officer and pikon cell and picked in confessed to his cellmate that he had killed 49 women he said that he idolized
Gary Ridgeway and wanted to commit one more murder than Gary to make it an even 50
he said he had made his own grave by becoming quote sloppy in 2004 the RCMP stated that the list of missing women
could be as high as 69 we will likely never know the identities of all of Robert pickton's
victims who knows whether pikon himself can even recall each one of his slangs even more perplexing is the question of
why since pton has never formally confess to any of the murders other than the jail house confession we will likely
never know the answer to this question either what seems clear though is that pikon benefited from the lucky
convergence of police incompetence and difference and in action on May 19th of this year Robert pickton's luck ran out
for good the 74-year-old serial killer was attacked by another inmate the inmate Martin chist is described as
having a history of assaulting other prisoners it's alleged that Martin speared pton in the head with a sharp
pointed broken broom handle pikon was airlifted to a hospital and put on life support and later died on the last day
of last month may he burn in hell convicted murderer and serial killer Robert pikon has died now pikon had been
serving an indeterminate sentence for six counts of second deegree murder he had lured women from Vancouver's
downtown East Side to his pig farm and was charged with killing 26 women let's bring in ctv's Andrew Johnson and Andrew
set this up for it the last we heard the 74-year-old was attacked in a Quebec prison now what
happened well Sandy since his conviction Robert pikon has been held in a special
unit in Maximum Security Prison designed to keep him away from other inmates so news he was attacked there May 19th came
as a surprise we spoke with the Vancouver Sun reporter who first broke that story she was told another inmate
with a history of assaults had been in segregation but was released into pickton's unit and that's where the
serial killer was speared in the head with something like a broom Quebec Provincial Police say the assault
happened around 5:15 p.m. inside the port carte institution and a 51-year-old suspect was incarcerated following that
attack pikon was reportedly airlifted to the hospital in Quebec City where he was
on life support before his death announced today okay now Andrew over the years the
killer bragged about murdering women remind viewers of his crimes well Sandy pickton's death shuts
the door on the 74-year-old providing any more answers on the other suspected Murders At His Port Coquitlam pig farm
he targeted vulnerable women on Vancouver's downtown east side many indigenous many drug users so many he
didn't appear to recognize the photos of them in police interviews despite the fact you mentioned pi was serving time
for six killings the remains and DNA of 33 women were found during a search of pickton's farm the killer had bragged
about murdering a total of 49 right and now we'll never know at this point you know I remember over the
years seeing the the devastated uh faces of the families I know that you spoke to
some of them recently afterward that pikon had been attacked what did they tell you at that
time yeah the families of pickton's victims expressed relief his life may become come to an end after he'd been
attacked one parent felt like her prayers had been answered another called The Man a monster and said she hopes he
burns in Hell the actions of this serial killer tearing apart so many lives and now his is over Corrections Canada says
it's contacted the families of pickton's victims to notify all of them of the death Sandy all right ctv's Andrew
Johnson on the death of Robert Pickton [Music] want to thank everybody for joining us
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This week we tell the tale of Robert Pickton, Canada’s most infamous serial killer. Robert Pickton was a pig farmer turned serial killer who hit it big with the sale of a large portion of the family farm. Instead of using his riches for good, he hosted drug and alcohol fueled parties on his disgusting farm at a place called “The Piggie Palace.” Around this same time women started to disappear from a seedy area of Vancouver, known as “The Low Track.” It took the police longer than it should have to learn that they had a problem, a big one. Some mysteries remain with this case. No one is certain how many people Pickton killed. It also would seem like he must have had some help along the way. Who else is responsible?

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Brief Summary

Robert Pickton, a serial killer, was charged with murdering 27 women; the episode discusses his methods, investigation failures, and trial outcomes.

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Robert Pickton's Conviction. Robert Pickton was convicted of six counts of second-degree murder in December 2007.
The Complicated Case. The case against Pickton involved a complex web of evidence and legal decisions.
The Missing Women Inquiry. A commission was established to investigate why police failed to catch Pickton sooner.
The Confession. Pickton confessed to killing 49 women, expressing a desire to surpass another serial killer.

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