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Robert Pickton

1949 - 2024

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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 pig farmer and serial killer. He is believed to have murdered at least twenty-six 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 different languages on Wikipedia. Robert Pickton is the 232nd most popular extremist (up from 239th in 2019), 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.

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Among EXTREMISTS

Among extremists, Robert Pickton ranks 232 out of 283Before her are Alexander Pichushkin, Frank James, Donato Bilancia, Christopher Scarver, Tommy Robinson, and Ottis Toole. After her are John Bodkin Adams, Édouard Vaillant, Dawood Ibrahim, Abubakar Shekau, Nguyễn Văn Trỗi, and Marshall Applewhite.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1949, Robert Pickton ranks 488Before her are Ann Druyan, Michael Beck, Karel Loprais, Gyude Bryant, Lyubov Polishchuk, and Daniel DiNardo. After her are Heather Menzies, Bwanga Tshimen, George Winston, Maury Chaykin, Anita Borg, and Ivo Linna. Among people deceased in 2024, Robert Pickton ranks 370Before her are Emilio Correa, Bruce Ames, Yves Herbet, Song Jae-rim, Ramiro Blacut, and Alan Rachins. After her are Mahammed Dionne, Arvo Valton, Domingo Pérez, Brian Lumley, Jadwiga Barańska, and Duane Eddy.

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In Canada

Among people born in Canada, Robert Pickton ranks 435 out of 1,622Before her are Bruno Pelletier (1962), Jean-Marc Vallée (1963), Robert Maillet (1969), Viola Myers (1927), Jack Kruschen (1922), and Michael Sarrazin (1940). After her are Heather Menzies (1949), JR Bourne (1970), Seth Rogen (1982), Test (1975), Davidson Black (1884), and Jacques Parizeau (1930).

Among EXTREMISTS In Canada

Among extremists born in Canada, Robert Pickton ranks 1After her are Karla Homolka (1970), and Omar Khadr (1986).