Canadian serial killer killed in prison

Canadian serial killer Robert Pickton has died after an attack by a fellow inmate. He was 74 years old.

Pickton is one of Canada’s most notorious serial killers. He was sentenced to life in prison in 2007 for killing six women. He was initially charged with the deaths of 26 women and once admitted to an undercover police officer that he had killed as many as 49 women.

In 2002, police began investigating Pickton’s pig farm in Port Coquitlam, a suburb of Vancouver. The remains and DNA traces of 33 women were found there.

Drug addicts

Pickton chose vulnerable women in downtown Vancouver as his victims. They were drug addicts or solicitors and many women came from indigenous communities. Pickton was able to go about his business for years because the police did not seriously investigate reports of missing women, an investigative committee concluded years later.

Some relatives reacted with relief to Pickton’s death in Canadian media. “It’s reassuring,” Cynthia Cardinal, whose sister Georgina Papin was killed by Pickton, told the Vancouver Sun. “We will never be able to forget it, but we can now move forward knowing that this evil has been eradicated.”