Robert Pickton
Robert William "Willie" Pickton (born October 24, 1949) of Port Coquitlam, British Columbia, Canada is a former pig farmer and serial killer convicted in 2007 of the second-degree murders of six women. He is also charged in the deaths of an additional twenty women, many of them prostitutes and drug users from Vancouver's Downtown Eastside, but these charges were stayed by prosecutors in 2010. In December 2007 he was sentenced to life in prison, with no possibility of parole for 25 years — the longest sentence available under Canadian law for murder.
During the trial's first day of jury evidence, January 22, 2007, the Crown stated he confessed to forty-nine murders to an undercover police officer posing as a cellmate. The Crown reported that Pickton told the officer that he wanted to kill another woman to make it an even 50, and that he was caught because he was "sloppy".
Read more about Robert Pickton: Background, Preliminary Inquiry, Trial, British Columbia Court of Appeal, Supreme Court of Canada, Stay of Final 20 Murder Charges, Victims, August 2006 'Pickton Letters', See Also