Crimes | Serial killer who terrorized Canada died in another inmate’s attack – bragged about killing 49 women

Infamous Canadian serial killer Robert Pickton has died at the age of 74 as a result of an attack by another inmate, the prison facility told the news agency Reuters and the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation on Friday CBC’s by.

The attack took place on May 19, and Pickton died on Friday. Until then, he had been kept in a coma and on a ventilator.

Pickton was convicted in 2007 of killing drug addicts and prostitutes and slaughtering them on his pig farm in British Columbia.

In court, it was found that he had killed six women, whose remains were found on his farm. However, he bragged to the undercover police that he had killed no less than 49 women. Prosecutors dropped charges in 20 other murders after Pickton had already been sentenced to life in prison. The murders are believed to have taken place between 1995 and 2001.

Before Pickton’s arrest in 2002, more than 60 women had gone missing from Vancouver’s impoverished Downtown Eastside. The remains or DNA of 33 women were found on Pickton’s farm in Port Coquitlam, about 25 kilometers east of Vancouver. A large number of women belonged to indigenous peoples.

Pickton was arrested in 2001 when police searched his farm for illegal firearms and found the remains of the missing women. Pickton’s slow bringing to justice drew strong criticism at the time, as he had already been accused of the attempted murder of a prostitute on his farm in 1997. The stabbed victim was able to escape. Pickton’s charges were dropped because the testimony of the woman who used the drugs was deemed unreliable.

To be judged Pickton suffered in the Port-Cartier prison in the Quebec countryside, about a 600-kilometer drive from Quebec City.

Last February, Pickton had served his sentence long enough to become eligible to apply for daytime parole. So it would have required returning to prison for nights. According to the CBC, the news caused a lot of consternation among Canadian politicians and family members of the victims, who believe that he should never have been allowed to leave prison.