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Robert William Pickton (October 24, 1949 – May 31, 2024), also known as the Pig Farmer Killer or the Butcher, was a Canadian serial killer and pig farmer. After dropping out of school, he left a butcher's apprenticeship to begin working full-time at his family's pig farm, and inherited it in the early 1990s.
A morbid look inside Robert Pickton's farm, where the demented pig farmer claimed to have killed as much as 49 women.
- Pickton Pig Farm. Robert William “Willie” Pickton (born 1949) was raised on a family-operated pig farm in Port Coquitlam, British Columbia. Pickton and his siblings sold most of the property for urban development, reducing the farm to 6.5 hectares.
- Downtown Eastside. Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside neighbourhood is known for its high rates of poverty, homelessness, open drug use and prostitution. In the late 1990s, 80 per cent of the girls and women working in the sex trade came from outside Vancouver.
- Disappearances. In 1978, a joint RCMP-Vancouver Police Department Missing Women Task Force began compiling a list of missing women. The earliest case on the list connected to Pickton was that of Diana Melnick, last seen on 22 December 1995.
- Marginalized Victims. Over the years, as the rate of disappearances escalated, rumours of a serial killer began to circulate in the Downtown Eastside. Sex trade workers began walking the Low Track in groups and writing down the licence plate numbers of cars that picked women up.
Feb 23, 2024 · The families of Robert Pickton's victims held a vigil at the site of his Port Coquitlam, B.C., farm on Wednesday evening, a day before the serial killer is eligible to apply for day parole.
- Pickton Pig Farm. Robert William “Willie” Pickton was born in 1949. He was raised on a family-owned pig farm in Port Coquitlam, BC. Pickton ran a small livestock operation there.
- Disappearances from the Downtown Eastside. Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside is known for its high rates of poverty, homelessness, open drug use and prostitution.
- Missed Opportunities. On 22 March 1997, a woman Pickton had taken to his farm fought back when he tried to handcuff her. Pickton was arrested and charged with attempted murder, assault with a weapon, and forcible confinement.
- Arrest. In February 2002, a former truck driver for the Pickton family told the RCMP that he had seen illegal guns in Pickton’s home. The police were able to get a search warrant.
Jun 7, 2024 · Also gone is the farm’s infamous co-owner, Robert (Willie) Pickton, who served nearly 17 years of a life sentence for murdering six of those women before he was killed last month in a...
Jun 1, 2024 · TORONTO (AP) — Canadian serial killer Robert Pickton, who took female victims to his pig farm during a crime spree near Vancouver in the late 1990s and early 2000s, has died after being assaulted in prison, authorities said Friday. He was 74.
