Robert Pickton

Robert Pickton

Robert William Pickton (October 24, 1949 – May 31, 2024), also known as the Pig Farmer Killer or the Butcher, was a Canadian pig farmer and serial killer. He is believed to have murdered at least 26 women, many of them prostitutes from Vancouver's Downtown Eastside; he would confess to forty-nine murders to an undercover RCMP officer. In 2007, he was convicted on six counts of second-degree murder and 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. In 2010, the Crown attorney officially stayed the remaining 20 murder charges, allowing previously unrevealed information to be made available to the public, including that Pickton previously had a 1997 attempted murder charge dropped. Read more on Wikipedia

Her biography is available in 20 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 17 in 2024). Robert Pickton is the 234th most popular extremist (up from 240th in 2024), the 435th most popular biography from Canada (up from 462nd in 2019) and the most popular Canadian Extremist.

Robert Pickton is infamous as a Canadian serial killer and former pig farmer convicted of second-degree murder for the killing of six women, though he confessed to killing 49 women and was charged with killing 26 more. His case, known as the Pickton murders, involved the deaths of many marginalized women from Vancouver's Downtown Eastside in the 1990s and early 2000s.