Robert Pickton, a notorious Canadian serial killer convicted in 2007 for the murder of six women, has died after being attacked by a cellmate two weeks ago. The 74-year-old former pig farmer from Western Canada was one of the country’s most infamous killers. Despite being sentenced to life in prison for six murders, he was suspected of killing several other women.
Pickton’s victims were killed between 1997 and 2001, and Vancouver police were criticized for not taking the missing women seriously at the time. During his 18-month trial, gruesome evidence revealed how police found body parts stored on Pickton’s farm, including heads and hands in buckets, bones under the pig barn, and DNA and personal items of the victims in his house. In total, the remains or DNA of 33 women were found on his farm in Port Coquitlam, British Columbia. Pickton also claimed to an undercover police officer that he had killed a total of 49 women.
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