Robert Pickton - Canadian serial killer murdered by fellow inmate

One of Canada's most notorious serial killers, Pickton was convicted in 2007 of killing drug addicts and prostitutes and dismembering their bodies at his pig farm in British Columbia, Canada's westernmost province.

Pickton was convicted of killing six women, some of whose remains were found on his property near Vancouver, British Columbia. After he was sentenced to life in prison, prosecutors charged him with 20 additional murders.

Robert William Pickton. Photo: Reuters

Canada's Correctional Service said Pickton died after being assaulted on May 19 at the Quebec prison where he was serving his sentence. After the assault, the killer was transferred to a hospital for treatment.

Pickton's victims were among more than 60 women who went missing in Vancouver's impoverished, drug-ridden Downtown Eastside neighborhood over a decade, until Pickton was arrested in early 2002.

The remains or DNA of 33 women, many of them Indigenous, were found at Pickton's pig farm in the city of Port Coquitlam, about 25 kilometres east of downtown Vancouver.

In 2016, a book purportedly written by Pickton was pulled from Amazon just hours after it went on sale. In the book, the serial killer claims he was innocent and was framed by the police. The publisher of the book apologized to the victims' families.

Ngoc Anh (according to Reuters)

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