TORONTO, Canada —
Robert Pickton was a Canadian serial murderer who, during his crime spree in Vancouver in the late 1990s and early 2000s, took female victims to his pig farm. Authorities stated on Friday that Pickton passed while in prison after being beaten. He was seventy-four.
Pickton, a prisoner at Port-Cartier Institution in the province of Quebec, died in a hospital after suffering injuries in an incident on May 19 that involved another prisoner, according to a statement from the Correctional Service of Canada. He was one of the most infamous serial killers in Canada, and news from his case was reported around the world.
According to statements made earlier this month by police spokesman Hugues Beaulieu, a 51-year-old prisoner was being held for the assault on Pickton.
After being accused of killing 26 people, Robert “Willie” Pickton was found guilty of six charges of second-degree murder in 2007 and given a life sentence with a maximum 25-year parole ineligibility period.
Over two decades ago, police initiated a search of the Pickton farm in the Port Coquitlam district of Vancouver. This was the start of an extensive investigation that lasted years, as detectives looked into the disappearances of numerous women who worked as prostitutes, were drug users, and lived on the outskirts of society.
33 women’s bodies or DNA were discovered on the site. Pickton once boasted to a police undercover agent that he had killed forty-nine women in all.
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Prosecution witness Andrew Bellwood testified during Pickton’s trial that he was informed by the man about how he strangled his victims and fed their corpses to his pigs. A hazardous meat advisory was once sent by health officials to nearby residents who might have purchased pork from Pickton’s farm, fearing the meat may have contained human remains.
Pickton killed her sister Georgina Papin, and Cynthia Cardinal remarked that with Pickton’s passing, she can now move on from her sister’s murder.
She remarked, “I won’t say all the families, I’ll just say most of the families. This is going to bring healing for them.” “I’m thinking, at last, whoa. I truly can go on, get better, and put this behind me.
Since many of the people who went missing were drug or sex workers, Vancouver police came under fire for not treating the cases seriously enough.
The Canadian Correctional Service announced that it was looking into Pickton’s attack.
The agency stated in the statement that “the investigation will examine all of the facts and circumstances surrounding the assault, including whether policies and protocols were followed.” We acknowledge that the case of this offender has had a terrible effect on victims, their families, and Indigenous peoples in British Columbia as well as other parts of the nation. We are thinking of them.
Sereena Abotsway, Mona Wilson, Andrea Joesbury, Brenda Ann Wolfe, Papin, and Marnie Frey were the six victims of Pickton who were confirmed deaths.
The death of a prisoner at Port-Cartier Institution was brought to my attention earlier today, according to a statement released by Dominic LeBlanc, the minister of public safety. “My thoughts are with the families of the victims of this individual’s horrific crimes at this time.”
Judge James Williams of the British Columbia Supreme Court stated during Pickton’s sentencing that the case was exceptional and deserved the longest parole suspension possible.
