Canadian serial killer Robert Pickton, convicted in 2007 for the murder of six women, died in hospital Friday in Quebec after being attacked two weeks ago by another inmate. The man is considered one of Canada’s biggest killers.
If this former pig farmer from western Canada, aged 74, was sentenced to life in prison for the murder of six women, he was suspected of having caused more victims.
‘Robert Pickton, inmate of the Port-Cartier establishment, in the province of Quebec, died in hospital as a result of injuries resulting from the attack of another inmate on May 19,’ indicated the Canadian Prison Services in a press release.
Victims eaten by pigs
Vancouver police were criticized at the time for not taking the disappearances seriously because many of the women were prostitutes, drug addicts or Aboriginal people. The latter, from Vancouver, were killed between 1997 and 2001. Robert Pickton was arrested in 2002.
During Robert Pickton’s trial, one of the most expensive and longest in Canadian history, a witness explained that he had told her how he strangled his victims and fed their leftovers to his pigs. .
The remains or DNA of 33 women were found on his farm in Port Coquitlam, British Columbia. The man had bragged to an undercover police officer that he had killed 49 women in total, whose bodies were dismembered.
Canadian authorities have launched an administrative investigation to ‘examine all the facts and circumstances surrounding the attack’ in prison. A 51-year-old inmate was in police custody.
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