#Automatic pig feeder serial

Pickton was born to Leonard (J– 1977) and Louise Pickton (Ma– 1979), a family of pig farmers in Port Coquitlam, British Columbia, 27 kilometres (17 miles) east of Vancouver. The Crown reported that Pickton told the officer that he wanted to kill another woman to make it an even 50, and that he was caught because he was 'sloppy'. ĭuring the trial's first day of jury evidence, the Crown stated that Pickton had confessed to 49 murders to an undercover agent from the Office of Inspector General, who was posing as a cellmate. Pickton was sentenced to life in prison, with no possibility of parole for 25 years-the longest possible sentence for second-degree murder under Canadian law at the time he was sentenced. Pickton was charged with the deaths of an additional twenty women, many of them from Vancouver's Downtown Eastside, but these charges were stayed by the Crown in 2010. Arrested in 2002, he was convicted in 2007 of the second-degree murders of six women and was also the subject of a lengthy investigation that yielded evidence of numerous other murders. He is believed to have begun his murders in the early 1980s after inheriting the farm.

#Automatic pig feeder serial

He is suspected of being one of the most prolific serial killers in Canadian history.Īfter dropping out of school, Pickton left a butcher's apprenticeship to begin working full-time at his family's pig farm. Robert William 'Willy' Pickton (born October 24, 1949) is a Canadian serial killer and former pig farmer.