Fulfilling a childhood dream, Pickton tried out for the Toronto Blue Jays. Pickton dropped out of school in 1963 at the age of fourteen and acquired a position as a butcher's apprentice. One day, after failing to find it after school, he was told by his mother to check the barn, where he was heartbroken to find it slaughtered. When he was in his early teens, he used his savings to buy a calf which became his beloved pet. Pickton was strongly attached to his mother and had little interaction with his abusive father. She often sent them to school in unwashed, dirty clothes reeking of manure and earning the brothers the nickname 'stinky piggy' from their classmates. Louise was very demanding, prioritizing the pigs over the brothers' personal hygiene, and forcing them to work long hours raising the farm's livestock. Robert and his younger brother David began working at the farm at an early age. His older sister Linda was sent to live with relatives in Vancouver as their parents thought that the family pig farm would be an inappropriate setting to raise a lady. Pickton was born to Leonard (J1977) and Louise Pickton (Ma1979), a family of pig farmers in Port Coquitlam, British Columbia, 27 kilometres (17 miles) east of Vancouver. 7.4 Missing Women Commission of Inquiry.7.2 Vancouver Police Department management review of investigation.7.1 Discontinuance of prosecution of other counts against Pickton.7 Reaction to and aftermath of the court proceedings.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. 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.

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