AGI – A Canadian serial killer, convicted in 2007 for the murder of six women, died after being attacked two weeks ago by a cellmate. Robert Pickton, 74, a former pig farmer from Western Canada, is one of the country’s most notorious killers. Although he was sentenced to life in prison for six murders, he was suspected of killing several other women.
Pickton died Friday in Quebec “in hospital following injuries resulting from an assault involving another inmate on May 19, 2024,” Correctional Service Canada said in a statement. His victims were killed between 1997 and 2001. Vancouver police were criticized at the time for not taking the missing women seriously because many were prostitutes, drug users or indigenous. Pickton was arrested in 2002.
During the 18-month trial, the court heard gruesome evidence of how police found the heads and hands of some women stored in buckets on the dilapidated farm, bones under the pig barn and the DNA and personal items of the six women in the Pickton’s house.
In total, the remains or DNA of 33 women were found on his farm in Port Coquitlam, British Columbia. He boasted to an undercover police officer that he had killed 49 women in total.
