Although Pickton recently succumbed to the call of nature, his crimes and misfortunes are still alive and have left a big scar in the hearts of his victim’s families.
Away from a rough upbringing and parental mess, Pickton’s obsession grew mass, making him one of the most feared Serial killers to have ever recorded in Canadian history.
As we skimp through this phase, it’s pretty satisfying that you scroll in your comfort and digest the horrific life of the serial killer, Pickton.
Introduction
Between 1995 and 2001, Reports pressed that Pickton is believed to have murdered at least 26 women out of his creepy taste.
His taste grew more extensive in the wildest manner that featured séx workers from Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside who were brutally murdered.
Despite confessing to having killed over 40 victims and wanting to increase it to 50 to an officer who disguised as a cellmate, Pickton was convicted of multiple counts of murder in 2007 and was sentenced to life imprisonment and Parol for 25 years.
His crimes live on to tell the effect of environmental and parental influence on kids who grew up failing to overcome their flaws and scars.
Early Life
Before going on to become a terror to women, Robert William Pickton, born on October 24, 1949, also known as the Pig Farmer Killer or the Butcher, was a Canadian serial killer and pig farmer.
Just entirely dropped out of school, he abandoned his butcher’s apprenticeship to bid his vocation, working as a full-time pig farmer at his family pig farm, which he inherited from his father in the 1990s.
To raise a young, vibrant girl, Pickton’s younger sister was sent off to live with her relatives in Vancouver, as her parents thought a pig farm was not a favorable environment to grow a young child.
In the other view, Robert and his younger brother, David Francis Pickton, were meant to stay at the farm at an early age. Their mother was demanding and always valued the pigs over her male child’s hygiene, forcing them to work long hours to raise the farm’s livestock.
Their mother often sent them to school unwashed with dirty clothes, reeking of manure, which earned them the nickname “stinky piggy” from their classmates.
Robert was heavily inclined with his mother, unlike his heavily abusive father. He struggled to plummet to grade two and recorded law grades, which left him under low motive. However, at 12, he started raising a calf that became his pet. Not long after building a great bond with the calf, he visited the barn to see his calf slaughtered, which left him distraught.
In 1963, Pikton dropped out of school and portrayed his first vocation as a meat cutter. In commitment, he continued to deploy efforts in the vocation for seven years before he retired to work full-time on his family farm. It became more official In 1978 and 1979 after his parents died, leaving the brothers to inherit their family’s pig farm. They sold the farm for a whopping currency of C$5.16 million.
Living as an independent adult, Pickton kicked off his wayward life, clubbing and bonding with séx Workers. His first crime reserve transpired after meeting a séx worker, Wendy Lynn Eistetter. He was convicted of attempted murder after going heated and trying to kill Wendy over an alleged misunderstanding. Robert had stabbed Wendy severally during an altercation, but she, however, managed to escape his aggression. According to her, Robert handcuffed her, but she was able to disarm him and stabbed him with his weapon. They both were treated in different hospitals after the saga.
Robert was released on a C$2,000 bail term. However, the bail term didn’t stop him from indulging in another crime, séxual assault, that landed him another police turbulence, which resulted in a C$1,000 fine in 1992. He was further given 30 days’ probation. While the police queried his victim, she ascertained that Robert tried to kill her on his farm, but she escaped his horror. According to Wikipedia, Robert was also sued thrice for traffic offenses in 1988 and 1991, which he settled out of court.
Robert and his brothers, via their cravings, converted their farm into wild parties featuring Vancouver séx workers and gatherings in their converted slaughterhouse on the farm at 953 Dominion Avenue in Port Coquitlam.
The event attracted a whopping number of 2000 people who visited the farm for partying every day giving Robert the room to deploy his horror.
Crimes
Pickton, growing in his creepy urge, deployed torture and murder on his victims.
He would lure séx workers to his farm for a compromised fund and murder them to his taste, feeding their remains to his pigs.
He continued with the horrific activities to the extent that he murdered a tally of 49 women and was heading to 50.
On 6th February 2002, police enforced a search for illegal firearms at the Pickton property. Both the Pickton brothers were arrested and police obtained a second warrant using what they had seen on the property to search the farm as part of the BC Missing Women Investigation.
Items that belong to missing women were found at the farm as the authority sealed it off. Robert was kept under police surveillance as the saga became heated.
On 22nd, February 2002, Robert was detained again and charged with two counts of first-degree murder. He was suspected of the deaths of Sereena Abotsway and Mona Wilson.
As the saga swerved heated, three more charges were added. He was accused of the deaths of Jacqueline McDonell, Dianne Rock, and Heather Bottomley.
Another Charge featured the murder of Andrea Joesbury, which was followed shortly by another charge featuring Brenda Wolfe.
However, In September, it spread to 27 more charges which featured Georgina Papin, Patricia Johnson, Helen Hallmark, Jennifer Furminger, Heather Chinnock, Tanya Holyk, Sherry Irving, Inga, Ellis, Andrea Borhaven, Debra Lynne Jones, Marnie Frey, Tiffany Drew, Kerry Koski, Sarah de Vries, Cynthia Feliks, Angela Jardine, Wendy Crawford, Diana Melnick, and Jane Doe.
Robert’s crime grew in a scramble to the phase where he developed a new taste: serving the public human flesh mixed with pork. Other sources revealed that he fed his victims remain to his pigs.
After a heated trial that lasted several months, Robert was found guilty, and he was sentenced to Life imprisonment with no possibility of parole for 25 years.
Death
A fellow inmate murdered Robert on May 19, 2024. He was attacked and killed by a prisoner identified as Martin Charest, who had already earned a reputation for killing fellow inmates. He was struck on the head with a broken broom-like handle. He was rushed to a nearby hospital in Quebec City, where he died from the complications of the attack on May 31st.
