The Pig Farmer Killer

Robert William “Willie” Pickton, a.k.a. “The Pig Farmer Killer”, is a Canadian serial murderer.

Not a lot of features about Pickton’s life before him coming to be a serial killer are nowadays publicly recognized due to Canadian publicity laws considering ongoing criminal inquiries. He was born in 1949 in Port Coquitlam, British Columbia. His family has been pig farmers for three eras. He and his two siblings, David Francis Pickton and Linda Louise Wright inherited the family pig farm, where Robert later perpetrated his killings. In 1994 and 1995, they sold portions of their inherited territory, receiving a total of $5,16 million. In 1997, Robert was accused of the attempted killing of a prostitute called Wendy Lynn Eistetter, having attempted to slash her, but the case was lowered because prosecutors felt that the casualty, who was a drug addict, was too hazardous to give an accurate statement, even though both the sufferer and Pickton, who underwent a stab wound during the encounter, were treated at the exact hospital and a key to the set of handcuffs on Eistetter’s wrist was discovered in Pickton’s pocket. David, on the other hand, has an illegal record for a sexual attack in 1988 and has also been prosecuted on three circumstances for several traffic offences.

On February 5, 2002, Pickton was busted when police, working on a warrant for firearm offences, found the personal belongings of a lost woman on the farm. A second court order was received to proceed to search the farm as part of the BC Missing Women Investigation, which examines the disappearances of women, many from Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside, dating back to September of 1978. As they surveyed the grounds, they discovered remains of some sufferers, such as crania cut in half and stuffed with human hands and feet, DNA from 33 ladies, bloody clothes relating to a sufferer, and a jawbone and teeth relating to one sufferer. They also discovered a .22 revolver with a dildo connected to its barrel, .357 Magnum bullets, two pairs of faux fur-lined handcuffs, a pair of night-vision goggles, and images of a trash can comprising the remains of a sufferer. Pickton contended that the dildo, which had the DNA of both him and a sufferer on it, had been implied to purpose as a makeshift suppressor. The gun also included a spent cartridge. While in detention, Pickton said an undercover officer posing as a fellow resident that he had liked to murder one more to bring his casualty count up to an even 50, indicating that he is accountable for 49 killings. A video recording of the announcement was later used as an indication in his prosecution, which started on January 30, 2006. Because the Pickton case is yet under inquiry, precisely how he murdered his sufferers is not completely known to the public, as is anything he might have performed to them before he murdered them. According to an observer on video, Pickton had contended that he took his victims, who were prostitutes, to the ranch, handcuffed them, raped them, murdered them by choking them, seeped and gutted them, and then fed their remains to his hogs. Another assertion is that the sufferers were ground, the resulting mince mixed with the pork mince from the ranch and the cartons given to Pickton’s friends and family.

It was asserted in a Biography Channel documentary about the trial that Pickton would attract his casualties to his farm using a modest scheme, such as deluding to buy sexual favours. During sex, he would become brutal and accuse the victims of something, such as stealing from him, to accumulate his anger. He would then deter them, murder them by choking or shooting them and then slaughter their corpses. Pickton pleaded not guilty to 27 penalties of first-degree killing, one of which was later dismissed on the grounds of an absence of indication.

Because of the publication ban, not all the elements are publicly realized about the proceedings. The 26 penalties were divided so six of them were processed first; according to the presiding justice, it was because all 26 penalties would put too much burden on the jury and because the information in those six counts was “materially different” from the other 20. On December 6, 2007, a jury discovered Pickton guilty of the six killings, which were lessened from first-degree to second-degree. He was convicted to life detention, which in Canada encompasses a likelihood of parole in 25 years and is the greatest possible penalty for second-degree killing, virtually earning Pickton the same penalty that he would have earned for a first-degree conviction.