Robert Pickton: Canadian serial killer dies aged 74 after prison assault

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Pig farmer, Robert Pickton, was convicted in 2007 of six counts of second-degree ******* following the deaths of Indigenous women and **** workers.

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Robert Pickton – who was convicted of ******** six women and confessed to ******** dozens more – ***** after being attacked earlier this month by another inmate, prison authorities said.

Pickton is one of the most notorious serial killers in ********* history, bringing his victims to his pig farm and feeding their ******** to his animals.

The 74-year-old had been serving a life sentence at Port-Cartier Institution in

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Quebec province after being convicted for six counts of second-degree ******* in 2007.

He sustained injuries from an ******** involving another inmate on May 19 and ***** in hospital Friday, Correctional Service Canada (CSC) said.

Pickton’s next of kin has been notified and registered victims have also been contacted, CSC added, who said an investigation was underway.

At least 65 women disappeared from Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside neighborhood in British Colombia province between 1978 and 2001 before Pickton was arrested.

Pickton had been operating a pig farm in the nearby city of Port Coquitlam, where police found the ******** of 33 women.

However, Pickton confessed to murdering 49 women when talking to an undercover police officer in a jail cell.

The case became the largest serial ******* investigation in Canada’s history and Pickton’s pig farm became the largest ****** scene in ********* history, with investigators taking 200,000 DNA samples.

Many of his victims were indigenous women, with police accused of not taking their cases seriously as many of those missing were prostitutes or ***** ********.

In its release, CSC said, “We are mindful that this offender’s case has had a devastating impact on communities in British Columbia and across the country, including Indigenous peoples, victims and their families. Our thoughts are with them.”

The news brought mixed emotions to the families of Pickton’s victims.

Cynthia Cardinal, whose sister Georgina Papin was murdered by Pickton, told ********* newspaper

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that she was “really happy,” but noted that she was “really sad” some families did not have their cases heard in court.

Michele Pineault, the mother of Stephanie Lane, who was ******* at age 20 but whose ****** Pickton was not charged for, told the newspaper that she was “elated” by the ****** of “this animal” as “there was no justice” for her daughter.

In 2016, a book allegedly written by Pickton and smuggled out of prison was published and offered for ***** on

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but was quickly withdrawn following a public backlash.

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