A Canadian serial killer, convicted in 2007 of murdering six ladies, died Friday after being attacked two weeks in the past by a fellow inmate.
Robert Pickton, 74, a former pig famer from western Canada, is among the nation’s most infamous killers.
Though he was sentenced to life in jail for six murders, he was suspected of killing many extra ladies.
Pickton died in Quebec on Friday “in hospital following accidents ensuing from an assault involving one other inmate on Might 19, 2024,” Correctional Service Canada mentioned in a press release.
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His victims have been killed between 1997 and 2001. Vancouver police have been criticized on the time for not taking the ladies’s disappearances critically as a result of many have been prostitutes, drug addicts or Indigenous.
Pickton was arrested in 2002.
Throughout his 18-month trial the courtroom heard grotesque proof of how police discovered the heads and palms of some ladies saved in buckets on the ramshackle farm, bones underneath the pig shed, and the DNA and private gadgets of the six ladies in Pickton’s residence.
In complete, the stays or DNA of 33 ladies have been discovered on his farm in Port Coquitlam, British Columbia. He bragged to an undercover police officer that he had killed 49 ladies in complete.
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