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He was one of the most notorious serial killers in Canadian history—and his method was beyond horrifying. Robert Pickton lured women to his pig farm… and what happened next is something the world will never forget.
In this true crime documentary, we explore the shocking details behind the case of “The Pig Farm Killer,” including how he managed to stay undetected for years—and how his victims were fed to pigs.
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✅ What You’ll Learn:
Who was Robert Pickton?
How did he lure and murder his victims?
Why was justice delayed for so long?
The disturbing truth about his pig farm
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📌 Timestamps:
0:00 Intro
1:20 Life of Robert Pickton
4:35 The Pig Farm & Disappearances
9:10 Shocking Investigations
13:00 The Trial & Aftermath
15:00 Final Thoughts
In this true crime documentary, we explore the shocking details behind the case of “The Pig Farm Killer,” including how he managed to stay undetected for years—and how his victims were fed to pigs.
Viewer discretion is advised.
✅ What You’ll Learn:
Who was Robert Pickton?
How did he lure and murder his victims?
Why was justice delayed for so long?
The disturbing truth about his pig farm
🔔 Subscribe for more real-life crime stories & investigative breakdowns.
👍 Like, share, and comment with your thoughts on the justice system.
📌 Timestamps:
0:00 Intro
1:20 Life of Robert Pickton
4:35 The Pig Farm & Disappearances
9:10 Shocking Investigations
13:00 The Trial & Aftermath
15:00 Final Thoughts
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00:00Crime. Conspiracy. Murder. Pulse. Your mom. Just kidding, we're not talking about your mom. But we
00:04are talking about murder today. Specifically, serial killers. Specifically, the piggy palace
00:12killer. The pig farmer killer. The butcher. We're talking about Robert Picton. For those of you who
00:17don't know who Robert Picton is, in 2001, Robert Picton was charged for murdering 26 women,
00:23dismembering them, and feeding them to his pigs on his pig farm in Port Coquitlam, British Columbia,
00:29Canada. Although, Picton claimed to have killed 49 women between the years 1983 and 2002. And this
00:36quickly became the largest serial killer investigation in Canadian history. And this one
00:41hits really close to home, literally, because I lived 30 minutes away from where this took place.
00:46And I was alive. We're not going to talk about how old I am, but I remember all of this happening. And
00:51I remember vividly how this investigation absolutely shook the city and neighboring cities to their core.
00:57It was terrifying to know somebody so close to home was committing these atrocities against mothers,
01:03daughters, sisters, aunties. And it struck fear in a lot of people for a really long time,
01:09because this was an extremely long, drawn-out investigation. But this also was my weird
01:14awakening into not liking true crime, but being interested in true crime. When I was a little
01:20tyke and hearing about the story, I just wanted to catch them all like Pokemon and throw them into
01:25Satan's fire or jail. So that's actually why I ended up taking criminology in university,
01:29because I really wanted to, you know, catch criminals. And alas, I dropped out and became a
01:34hairdresser instead, and then randomly became a YouTuber. And I think we've come for a circle,
01:38because now I'm talking about it. So I'm making the best of both worlds. But I digress. Let's
01:43unbuckle our seatbelts, go Mach 5 down a dirt road, slam on the brakes, deep dive through the
01:49windshield into this pig pen of a story. Let's get to it.
02:09So, Robert William Picton was born on October 24th, 1949, in British Columbia, Canada, and a
02:16middle child of three. I've never not wanted to be a middle child more in my life. But anyway,
02:20he was born to Leonard and Louise Picton, and he was raised on his family-owned pig farm in Port Coquitlam.
02:26His father was a farmer, obviously. And when he was younger, he met his 16-year younger wife
02:32in a coffee shop in Port Coquitlam. Oh, that's so sweet. They probably like touched hands when she passed
02:38him a muffin or something, and they looked into each other's eyes and saw how beautiful one another were,
02:43and then they fell in love. Isn't that such a nice little, little little meet-cute story? Isn't it?
02:48Isn't it? Well, no, because they were both pieces of rotten shit. Just like their son. Like mother,
02:53father, and son. All these people are POS's, all right? Robert Picton's parents would make even Satan
02:58raise an eyebrow or two, if you know what I'm saying. So let's talk about Robert's mommy, Louise Picton,
03:04first. So Louise was, let's just say, a kooky lady? And I don't think there's really any pictures of her
03:10on the internet. If there are, we'll put them up, but if not, I have a description for you. By the
03:15time she was a mid to older adult, and not even, not even older adult, she was in her 30s, all of
03:20her teeth had rotted out of her mouth because she just didn't take care of herself. She didn't brush
03:25her teeth, didn't go to the dentist, and it's not because she wasn't well off. These people had money.
03:28They were just disgusting. The way I describe this family, it will be so much like Texas Chainsaw Massacre,
03:34if you guys have ever seen that movie, and that family, how just gross, and visceral, and terrible they are.
03:40It is that, like, verbatim. It's like they were trying to be these people. And not only were her
03:44teeth rotting out of her face in her late 30s to mid 40s, but also all of her hair fell out,
03:49which, it's fine. Like, it's fine if your hair falls out. It doesn't really matter. But the fact
03:53that she's just a terrible human being, it just makes me think she looked like that old decrepit
03:57ghoul from the movie The Taking of Deborah Logan. Terrifying. But to make up for the lack of hair on
04:05her head, she had a sick goatee, let me tell you. And a sweet mustache, according to people that she
04:12knew. So basically, just picture this. And to boot, her choice of attire, according to her friends,
04:17okay, would be a house dress, overtop, very loose jeans, and the largest gumboots possible.
04:24So she was just waddling around the farm. She looked like a little gremlin, man. I don't know. I think it's
04:29kind of funny. But again, she's a terrible person, and we'll get to that. And she also was extremely
04:34short. Again, not that that matters. I'm just describing her to give you a picture. And there's
04:37not much known about Leonard Picton and his appearance and how he was, because he was a pretty
04:41standoffish kind of father. You know, one that you want approval from, but you can't get, and he just
04:46beats the shit out of you every time you try to talk to him. That was Leonard Picton. That's
04:51basically all the description we have. But both of Robert's siblings inherited Louise's stunning
04:56good looks. But Robert was said to have inherited his dad's rat face. And you know what I mean,
05:02because look, look at this guy. Piece of shit. Rat faced. Fuck. So it wasn't exactly the Hemsworth
05:07family, but I digress. So this good looking farm family not only housed chickens, ducks, and dogs,
05:13but their main animal on the farm was, can you guess it? That's right, pigs. And when I say housed,
05:19I don't mean they kept them in separate farms or sheds. I mean they physically had these animals
05:25walking through their house, shitting and peeing in their house. And they would never clean it up.
05:30They would just wear their boots in the house. So this is just the most disgusting house you've
05:36ever stepped foot in. This is basically the worst case in hoarder's history because what they were
05:40hoarding was shit. Which makes sense in hindsight because the entire family had shit personalities.
05:45Am I right? Yeah. So the kids had to slop 200 pigs twice a day. And if you don't know what slopping
05:52is, that's basically just feeding the pigs slop. And by doing that, the stench and slop and just pig
05:57manure, everything would just stick to these kids. And they'd be coming home from school and doing this
06:02and going back to school. So the kids were known to just smell like shit. Which, I mean, I just kind
06:06of feel bad. Like they had to work on a farm. I live in a farm town, so that's actually very common.
06:11But usually kids shower. But little Robert Picton was scared of water. So we never showered. Just red flag.
06:17And their father, Leonard, would also smell like pig shit all the time. And he would earn the name
06:22Piggy from the locals. But he didn't seem to care. He actually liked it. It's like when you insult
06:26somebody nicely, but then they're just too dumb to understand. Like,
06:29Whoo! Someone went with their natural musk today. Hey, Leonard! And Leonard's just like,
06:34Oh yeah, thank you so much. I can smell you from 10 feet away, Leonard. Wow, that's crazy. Must be really
06:41strong. Leonard, you smell like shit. So the Pictons in general lived somewhat of an isolated life.
06:47On the farm. And the children especially. Spending most of their time with the pigs and with each
06:51other. The eldest daughter, Linda, did have a bit of a social life. And she was out of the house more
06:56than the boys. But the boys, mostly when they were young, just hung out with each other and with the
07:00pigs. Red flag. Number two? Three? I don't know. I'm not gonna keep track. And Linda was not surprisingly
07:04the only one in the family that turned out somewhat normal. Because her parents actually like,
07:08let her go out and hang out with friends. And bought her new clothes, new dresses.
07:13She was like the princess of the family. Kind of a princess of a filthy f***ing family. But,
07:18but the boys basically spent their entire childhoods in the slop. And this was partially because they,
07:23they actually wanted to be at home with each other. But especially Robert. Because Robert,
07:28red flag number, who the f*** knows, was obsessed with his mommy. Oh no. Oh no. We know serial killers
07:35that are obsessed with their mommies. Uh oh. Ed Gein. Ed Kemper. Oh, Ed's. I guess this is Robert. I don't
07:41know. Either way. I'm seeing patterns. I'm seeing patterns. They're gonna keep happening. Robert,
07:45like many other serial killers, had a very unhealthy attachment to his mother, Louise. And the only
07:50relationship he shared with his father, like I said before, when he even bothered to acknowledge
07:54Robert's existence, was to beat the s*** out of him. And be verbally abusive as well. And Robert was,
07:59let's just say, not the sharpest tool in the shed. He was known for only taking special ed classes when he
08:05was in school. And he would drop out when he was a freshman in high school. So between always smelling like
08:10manure, being anti-social, loving his mommy a little bit too much, and not being the brightest monkey
08:16in the barrel, Robert Pickton got picked on quite a bit, believe it or not. Which I don't condone
08:22bullying, but now that I know that this man literally is the worst human being alive, I don't really give
08:27a s***. And one of the ways he would cope with being bullied would be to go home and hide in a fresh
08:33hog carcass until he felt better. So it's like the revenant, except he didn't do it to live.
08:41He did it to- I don't even- I don't- I don't know. They're so- I- I don't know. Guys, I- I feel like
08:50I look like a freaking dweeb with my glasses, but I literally can't see if I'm in focus or not. And I
08:54cannot see the document that I wrote, so I gotta go back to the glasses and sorry. Sexy secretary,
08:59very criminal Chris. Coming at ya. Here we go. Now at 12 years old, Robert would have an important
09:04moment that happened in his life that he would go on to tell anybody that would listen as he became
09:09an adult. Robert, at 12 years old, would go to a livestock auction with $35 of his own money that
09:15he saved up. And for those of you who don't know, livestock auctions are where you buy animals often
09:20to either have on your farm or just to butcher. Anyway, he would go to that livestock auction and he
09:25would spend his $35 on an adorable little calf to raise. Oh, like a little cow. So cute. I love it.
09:32And he would go on to raise this calf for a few weeks and he was loving it. He was having a good
09:38time. And then one day he would come home from school and he would look for his calf and he would
09:43say, Dad, where's my calf? I can't find it. Do you know where I put my calf? And his father would say,
09:49Oh son, have you looked in the barn? And little Robert would say,
09:52No father, but I will. Thank you for letting me know. So he walked over to the farm and he looked
09:57for his little cow companion. And when he opened the doors to the barn, he saw he gazed upon his
10:03spotted friend hanging from his feet from the ceiling with his throat cut bleeding into a bucket
10:09on the ground. And as he started to realize that his calf compadre had been butchered beyond belief,
10:15he heard a little chuckle from behind him. And it was his father who was just playing a fun little
10:21prank on little Ricky. Like, can you imagine? Can you imagine your father doing that? So as you
10:27can see, you can really start to smell the cereal pot of stew brewing. No boiling, I think. Like,
10:34can you imagine your dad calling you downstairs to prank you? And he's just hiding behind the corner
10:39and he's about to scare you when you come down and he's like,
10:41Ah! Also, taxidermied the cat on the kitchen counter. Am I right? No? Too far? Fair. Anyway,
10:50I do feel bad. I feel bad. That's f***ed up. That's f***ed up to witness as a kid. I mean,
10:54that's probably not gonna make or break you as a serial killer necessarily, but I can't imagine
10:58experiencing that as a child. Like, there are plenty of people that are raised in less than ideal
11:03situations and even on farms. Like, if you live on a farm, you know that a lot of the pets and stuff have
11:08to get butchered and stuff. And these people grow up being normal people and don't end up, you know,
11:12butchering almost 50 women. So I'm not gonna give him any leeway, if you will. So when Robert was 14,
11:19he and his family would move to a different pig farm in Coquitlam, British Columbia, Canada,
11:24which was just about like 20 minutes away from Port Coquitlam. And Linda, Robert's older sister,
11:28would take this opportunity to get the f*** out of town, man. She went to Vancouver to stay with friends
11:34and relatives and she was like, bye bitches. Y'all are f***ing disgusting and I'm peacing out this
11:39bit back. 10 points for Linda. We love Linda. Boss has b***h. She got out of there at the right time.
11:44Let me tell you what. Because this would be the farm where all of the heinous crimes and atrocities
11:50would take place in the years to come. And this place literally looked like a horror movie set.
11:56It was, it's like the biggest horror movie trope location you've ever seen. Like, this is a farm you
12:00would see when you're walking by and be like, somebody definitely got murdered in that farm,
12:05I tell you what. Did you guys hear that scream? And this land was literally littered with quicksand
12:12spots that you could very much potentially die in if you stepped in. And to top it off, there was a
12:18creepy smelly lagoon at the back of the property. Really all that was missing was a creepy guy in
12:23overalls that preyed on helpless women, am I right? Oh wait, that's this guy. Again, Texas Chainsaw Massacre.
12:30Man, that's all I could think of. So this farm had over 700 pigs on it. 700 pigs. And a couple
12:36hundred chickens stuffed into a couple different sheds and barns. And Willie, aka Robert, and Dave,
12:42just about to be out of high school, were slopping the pigs three times a day at this point. So they
12:47slop in the morning, they'd slop at lunchtime from school, and they'd slop at night, and they'd
12:52slop at night. That's hard to say. All while never taking a shower. Well, Dave sometimes took a shower,
12:57but Robert literally never took a shower. He would have to be forced to take it, and no one was really
13:02doing that. So this guy was a piece of shit that smelled like shit. It's just shit. And just like at
13:08the other farm and house that they had, they would continue to let animals come in and out of their
13:12house as well. Pissing and shitting and eating whatever they could find. And at 15, Robert would
13:18get kicked out of high school for showing his nudie magazines that he brought. Like the ones where,
13:24like you hold it up and it, and it, and like the girl's wearing a dress, but then it drops down,
13:28and then it shows her bosoms. He got kicked out of school for that. I feel like kids don't get
13:32kicked out of school. I feel like that's not that bad. I mean, again, he's a piece of shit,
13:35but I don't think that's that bad. But anyway, his mother was very happy because she got to spend
13:39more time with her son, and she had a full-time employee on the farm now. Now Dave, Robert's brother,
13:44on the other hand, was at this point getting very popular amongst his peers. He had more of a social
13:49group. He dated girls. He showered, but he was not an innocent guy to say the least. And his rap
13:55sheet started when he was only 16 years old. In 1967, at the age of 16, Dave was driving his truck
14:01and he would hit a boy walking home from school. It was a 14 year old boy named Tim Barrett. And
14:07after hitting him, he would severely injure Tim Barrett. And Tim was lying on the ground, but Dave would hop
14:13back in his truck and drive straight home and not call for any help. And after he drove straight home,
14:18he told his parents what had happened and what did they do? They called the cops, right? They did the
14:22right thing, right? They called the cops and said, oh my goodness, my kid hit another kid and it's
14:27just terrible and we need to figure this out. No, Leonard, Dave's father, went to his truck, cleaned
14:32off all the blood and began to fix it as to cover up the crime. And Luis went Mach 5 down the dirt road
14:39to where Tim Barrett was and proceeded to roll him off the road while he's barely conscious, dump him off,
14:45off into an embankment that was slightly flooded and hope that no one would find him and that he
14:51would just die. So yeah, this is kind of where I'm saying that his parents were pieces of shit.
14:57And that is precisely what would happen when Tim was found a few days later. The truck hitting him
15:03is not what caused his death. He died by drowning. So Luis Pickton actually killed this kid. And the
15:09only reason why we know that is because Luis later on in life told one of her friends this is what
15:15happened. So this is just a family full of psychopaths, a family full of just filthy mongrels.
15:20And despite being fairly well off with their farm business and with their meat locker business where
15:25they would hold processed meat for people to come and pick up to consume later on or hold meat that they
15:31butchered for people, this family would still go to local dumpsters and just hoard anything they could
15:37find and eat anything they could find. These people were rich. Like they were well off into
15:42millionaires at this point but they were just just filthy. I don't know how else to say it.
15:47So if you were to go onto this property there would just be garbage everywhere and the house would just
15:52smell terrible. So by the early 70s the Pickton brothers were starting to establish their career
15:57paths on the farm and these are the careers that they continue to have for the rest of their lives or
16:02until somebody went to jail. Dave was working in demolishing and construction and Robert was
16:08working as an apprentice butcher. Red flag. And it was also at this time that Robert would gain
16:12the hobby of writing to pen pals. Oh that's fun. I used to write to pen pals. That was very fun. I
16:18loved doing that. And his favorite woman to write to was Connie Anderson who lived in Michigan, USA.
16:23And when Robert was 24 he would take a road trip for the first time out of the country and go to Michigan
16:29to meet Connie I-R-L-N-G-L-L-O-L-X-O-X-O, Gossip Girl. Sorry. And shortly after he got down there they
16:38actually got engaged but it did not last long at all because Robert needed to go back to the farm
16:43in Canada and Connie had a job where she couldn't leave in Michigan. And I'm just gonna say this,
16:47Connie, you dodged a bullet. All right. Or should I say a psychotic, mass-murdering,
16:51corpse-feeding human butcher. Am I right? Anyway. So Robert would inevitably go back home and continue
16:58working on the farm and continue working as a butcher. And finally in 1978 Leonard Pickton,
17:04Robert's father, would pass away at the age of 91. And the year after, his mother Louise Pickton
17:10would pass away as well at the age of 67 with the cause of cancer. And you know what that means when
17:16both the parents are dead, bring out the will! I don't care, they're pieces of shit. So at this time
17:21the farm and the property, despite it being absolutely disgusting and full of garbage, was worth a whopping
17:26million dollars in 1979. And each child would individually get $90,000. And Robert's siblings
17:34would get the money right away, but Robert would have to wait until he was 40 years old to receive
17:39that $90,000, which was really interesting. But Robert, being his mommy's favorite, would receive
17:45an extra $20,000 upfront immediately. And we don't really know why that is, but we're assuming that she
17:52just wanted him to remain working on the farm. And she was his favorite, so she gave him a little
17:56extra cash. I don't really know. So this is when Robert and Dave would start their junkyard on the
18:01Pickton property. They would basically start going around and buying used cars and scrap metal to put
18:06on the farm. And his meat business was also starting to grow in the community as well. For the business,
18:11he would go to animal auctions, buy animals, take them back to the farm, and butcher them for the locals.
18:16Whether it was cows, goats, pigs, llamas, and even emus. I don't know who the is eating emus up here.
18:22I've never seen one in my life, but you're f***ed. I mean, I don't really care about the emus.
18:26They're like giant dinosaurs and I'm terrified of birds, so f*** them. But what his customers didn't
18:31know is that Robert would save a lot of money by picking out animals that often were like sickly
18:36and diseased and were filled with sores and pus, which is so disgusting. But he's a business savvy man.
18:45I gotta give him that. And Robert's method to butchering these animals would be either to
18:50cut their throat or shoot them in the head with the nail gun to end their life. And then he would
18:55punch a hole through their ankles and string them up upside down to bleed them out into a bucket.
19:00And after that, he would proceed to dismember the animal and butcher it. And this would be the almost
19:05identical process carried out by Robert Pickton to murder the dozens of women in this slaughterhouse
19:11as well in the years to come. And body parts of these women would accompany animal parts as well
19:16as Robert would bury them in 40-foot holes around the entire property. Not only was he about to murder
19:22dozens of women in the near future, but he would also use this property for other criminal activity
19:27as well, including running a chop shop for the Hells Angels. And for those of you who don't know,
19:31the Hells Angels are essentially a very large criminal biker game that is very prevalent to this day.
19:37I actually know people who have ended up in the Hells Angels. And these crimes span anywhere from
19:43money laundering, car theft, murder, etc. to get into this gang. So just not great people to associate
19:50yourself with. Except if you're a serial killer, sounds about right. So in 1980, Robert Pickton would
19:56start taking the excess animal parts to a rendering plant in Vancouver, British Columbia, which is about
20:0120 minutes away from Coquitlam. And it was called West Coast Reduction. Essentially, a rendering plant is where
20:07you take animal parts that are not fit for human consumption and they ground them down into a paste
20:14of sorts that they can use in cosmetics, soap, paint, etc. And I bet you can guess where this is going.
20:22Remember when I said he butchered women and got rid of them in the same way he got rid of the animal
20:27parts? Yeah. So there was literally human remains being dropped off at this rendering plant and unknowingly
20:34processed by the people at the rendering plant and shipped out around BC and all of Canada. And whatever
20:42scraps he did not take to the rendering plant, he fed to his pigs. And it just makes me sick to my stomach
20:48too. I can't even imagine the the amount of disrespect, disdain, and just disregard for human life.
20:56Like I said in the beginning, these are mothers, these are daughters, these are sisters, and he's just
21:01disposing of them like animal scraps. Like, I truly hope this man is just rotting away in jail with the
21:09never-ending existential dread and fear of the fact that he is going to be burning in an eternal flame for
21:17the rest of his god-forsaken death. You know, I have the utmost sympathy for for the victims and their families,
21:22and I just always want to reiterate that. Anyway, so after Robert would drop off the scraps at the
21:27rendering plant, he would be only a block away from his future hunting ground, which was East Hastings,
21:34Vancouver, which was a strip in which homeless and toots were roaming in the hundreds. It was also
21:42known as the prostitute stroll and still is to this day. Most of you won't know this, but I know this very
21:47intimately because I've spent a lot of time in Vancouver. It's really not that far for me, and I
21:51also on a yearly basis go down there to give out food and clothes to the homeless there, but this
21:57street is in horrible condition. It is extremely unfortunate and I feel bad for a lot of these
22:03people. I know, you know, a lot of people can't control what happens in their life, and a lot of
22:08people can, but it's just extremely sad going to this street. I know a lot of people that have visited
22:12here and they see East Hastings, and it's like, it's like The Walking Dead to be honest. So this strip
22:17was essentially a serial killer's playground, especially at this time, and the police quite
22:23frankly did not give a flying f**k what happened to any of these people on East Hastings. So it was
22:29basically a free-for-all, and we do know that another serial killer working around the exact same time,
22:33Gary Ridgeway, was said to have picked up at least a few victims on East Hastings, and we know that because
22:39when the police caught him they would find a map in his truck with the exact location circled. And another
22:46serial killer that was active at the time, Gilbert Jordan, was working in this area and was said to have
22:51murdered numerous female prostitutes, specifically Indigenous women, which was and still is a
22:58massive problem in British Columbia, specifically. Not only to prostitutes, but just in regards to Indigenous
23:05women in general. We have what's called the Highway of Tears in British Columbia, and over 40 Indigenous
23:11women have gone missing and have been murdered on that highway, and there has been little to
23:15investigate it, and it's just heartbreaking. Like, I really, I really hope that I can bring some sort of
23:20light to that. Like, it's just, I feel so bad for the families of these women and for the victims
23:26themselves. But this was very common in that time and in this location, and also it was common
23:32throughout the states as well, especially in California with African-American prostitutes
23:37as well. The police just didn't care. And that's what's so heartbreaking about the story, and that's
23:42how Robert Pickton was able to murder for so many years because the judicial system was so flawed,
23:49and people weren't considered as people if they did a certain job, which is absolutely f***ing
23:55bullshit. And I truly hope that anybody that has family, that has experienced this, gets justice one
24:01day. So in saying that, let's continue. So the RCMP, the Royal Canadian Mounted Police, the Canadian
24:07FBI, if you will, these guys. I know, we never updated the uniform or the transportation. I don't
24:14get it either. Anyway, the RCMP did try to help the Vancouver Police Department in the early 90s
24:20during this investigation, starting Project Eclipse with a team of profilers in Vancouver. But it ended up
24:26not really going anywhere because the Vancouver Police Department didn't know at all what to do
24:32with their findings because they're idiots. I don't want to say that about all of them. This is very,
24:36like, when I talk about the Vancouver Police Department in a whole, like, they neglected and
24:41they were not good in this case, but that comes down to the higher-ups. Like, I'm sure that there are
24:47so many wonderful police officers that really wanted to make a difference in the situation, but they can't
24:52do anything if the higher-ups don't provide funding and don't assign them to these cases. So when I
24:59talk about the Vancouver Police Department being neglectful, I'm talking about a few certain people
25:05that were prideful, ignorant, spiteful, and neglectful. And it was even more frustrating because Kim
25:11Rossmo, a world-renowned profiler, worked within the Vancouver Police Department, but everyone around
25:16him in the department despised him and refused to work with him just because he was a profiler and a
25:22higher-up and he worked his way up the ranks a lot quicker than the police officers did. And it just
25:26reminds me of, like, every Criminal Mind episode when the FBI shows up to that small-town police
25:32precinct and the police chief is just like, what are you guys doing in our town? We don't need you!
25:37Uh, well, there's a guy running around that has killed 15 people and you're sitting in your chair
25:41with your- getting your hand while googling a very specific corn site that your wife probably wouldn't
25:45be too happy you're looking at. Isn't that right, Big Chief Daddy69? How did you know that?
25:50We're the FBI chief. We're always watching.
25:56Anyway, Rossmo developed what is known as geographic profiling, which essentially states that serial
26:02killers often start within an area that they know best and slowly over time work their way further
26:08and further outside of their comfort area in killing people. He literally built an entire topographical
26:13computer program based off of this theory, and it was incredibly helpful worldwide. Like, people were
26:19using it everywhere, but the Vancouver Police Department- No! They're too smart. They didn't
26:24need him. Nah, we're good. You built that? You built that? You spent years developing that and it's worked
26:28for everybody else? Nah, we're good. Thanks, though, eh? That's nice to know, but no. And considering that
26:32this is exactly how Robert Pickton's case worked with him working within his area and then working his
26:38way out, if they did use Kim's method, they definitely would have caught Robert a lot sooner. So we don't know
26:44for sure if this was Robert Pickton's first victim, but it's a very high chance that Wendy Louise Allen
26:50was Robert Pickton's first victim because she was last seen being picked up by Robert on March 30th, 1979,
26:57and would never be seen again. And she would be the first of many over the next 20 years. His next victim was
27:04Rebecca Guno, who disappeared on June 22nd, 1983, followed by Yvonne Marlene Abagosis on New Year's Day, 1984.
27:14So you'll notice how the time periods between murders slowly gets shorter and shorter. He's waiting a long
27:20amount of time to start, but then you see how he gets more and more comfortable and sees that the
27:24police aren't really caring or not really investigating, so they'll start to become a lot more frequent.
27:29And in 2004, a former sex worker reported that she did report a friend that underwent an assault and a
27:37disappearance all the way back in 1984 on East Hastings, but it was never investigated. And that's
27:43a pattern that'll keep happening as well. A lot of sex workers noticed that their friends were going
27:47missing and would report it. The reports would not get investigated. So back on the farm at this time,
27:52this started to become a place to hang out for criminals, basically. It became the place to be for
27:57lowlifes in Coquitlam. It was a place to drink, to party, and commit crimes. Am I right? Just kidding.
28:03And this would be the most ideal crowd to be associated with for Robert Pickton and Dave Pickton,
28:08because all these people didn't give a single what they were doing. To be fair, most of them didn't
28:12know what to extent that they were doing these crimes, but still, they didn't care. They just used
28:17them for their property, basically, and piggybacked off of them. Am I right? It's a terrible joke. But Dave,
28:25Robert's brother, like I said before, was the social one of the two, and he would be the one
28:29to socialize with everybody, and everybody would kind of just keep their distance from Robert,
28:34because he was widely known as just f***ing weird. And he would never let anybody go into his room,
28:40which who the f*** would? Basically, Dave was a cool brother, and Robert was the really weird
28:46brother that just came along to hang out because your mom said he had to, and people just tolerate him
28:52because they had to. Now, despite being a weird smelly f***, Robert always managed to maintain at
28:57least one relationship with a woman at a time, and a non-violent relationship at that. And one of those
29:02women was Tanya Carr. She would end up moving in with Robert when he eventually moved into a trailer
29:07on the property for 18 months. 18 months this woman endured this man's stench and presence. But during
29:15these 18 months, it was said and is kind of widely known that Robert didn't murder anybody during this
29:20time, or within about a three-year, there was about a three-year gap between him murdering people.
29:25So her presence clearly changed something within him. I'm not sure how that works, but unfortunately,
29:32she would leave, and shortly after that, murders would start up again. So from 1992 to 1995, there
29:37wasn't any murder happening that we know of. But I think after Tanya left, this might have triggered
29:42something within Robert, and shortly after, he would take four women prostitutes to his farm, and they
29:48would never be seen again. And the only reason we know that is because of a survivor by the name of
29:53Tracy gave testimony about it. Tracy was approached by Robert on East Hastings in 1995, and he was
29:58looking for a BJ. Gross. And Tracy said she almost didn't get in the truck because the smell was so
30:05rancid. But alas, she did end up getting into the truck, and Robert Pickton would drive the 30 minutes
30:11back to his farm, where they went to his trailer, which she said didn't smell much better than his truck.
30:17Anyway, something that Tracy did notice was that the trailer was filled with women's clothing and
30:22jewelry, which, red flag, number, oh, no. But she ignored that, and she went back, did her job, and
30:28then when it came time to pay her, Robert would look for his wallet and then accuse Tracy of stealing
30:34the money from him. He would then grab a knife and put it up to her face and cut two buttons off
30:39of her shirt. But she was able to talk him down, and he ended up driving her back to East Hastings.
30:45But on the drive home, he would brag about how he was a white knight and a savior of prostitutes,
30:52and would try to give them a second chance by getting them off drugs. And if he didn't get them
30:56off drugs, or if they relapsed after he tried to save them, he would murder them. He just blatantly
31:02confessed to this woman that he had killed multiple women. And this is something that's very common
31:06amongst serial killers, especially ones that go after women of the night, if you will. They have,
31:12like, this white knight savior complex, and then they also have this god-like complex that they
31:18can rid people that are less than them from the earth. And Picton was very much one of these killers.
31:23So going back in time a bit, Robert used to have a friend when he was a child named Lisa Welds. And
31:28they would eventually grow up, kind of separated and apart, and then Lisa Welds would end up actually
31:32having a kid with Dave Picton, Robert Picton's brother. And she would end up living on the property,
31:37and becoming very close with Robert as well, like as friends. And he would kind of listen to
31:42whatever Lisa said. Lisa was the only one that could convince him to shower. So they were very
31:47close. And she also remained steadfast that she did not know any of the crimes that were happening
31:53when they were happening, which like, come on. She was even quoted as saying,
31:57You know, I always had it in the back of my mind that Willie was a serial killer. I was never afraid
32:03of him myself. I knew he would never hurt me, but everyone else, well. But she says she didn't know
32:09that he was doing anything, but she had a really good idea. Hey, maybe listen to your instincts,
32:14all right? I don't know. I don't know. Maybe look around a little bit. I don't know. So this is now
32:18around the time where Dave and Robert's parties on the farm were getting bigger and bigger. And they were
32:23selling a lot of meat during these parties and finding a lot of success. So they figured,
32:28Hey, might as well make this into a proper establishment. And that is when the Piggy
32:33Palace would become a lucrative business on the property. And it would be at this time where Robert's
32:38victim count is now getting into the teens at this point. But this place was legit. They had security,
32:45food, bartenders, live music, a dance floor. Like this place held a lot of people. On a good night,
32:51the boys would be bringing in 10 to $40,000. Like this was the place to be. And these Piggy Palace
32:58parties weren't only attended by like lowlife criminals at this point. They were attended by
33:02like off-duty officers and just regular locals at this point. Like this was like the Piggy Palace
33:07was the place to party. You know what I'm saying? So in 1995, a victim of Robert's was found for the
33:13very first time out of all of his victims so far. She was unrecognizable and unable to be identified
33:19because all that was found was one half of her skull that was cut in half. And this was found in a
33:25lagoon of sorts off of the property. So she was considered a Jane Doe. But by the time she was found,
33:31it's probable that Robert had killed almost 20 women at this point. And when police would go and
33:36investigate this piece of evidence, they would note that the skull was cut in half and it was cut in half
33:42with a saw. And it was assumed that it was done by somebody with a butchering history. Hmm,
33:47who do the cops know that are they are friends with that butcher things on a regular basis?
33:54It's right there! It's fine. And they would find a particular substance on the skull that meant that
33:59this piece of bone was kept in a freezer for a very long amount of time before it was discarded.
34:05And later on when Robert would eventually be caught, they would find a rib bone on Robert's property
34:10that would match the DNA of the skull. So we know it was Robert's victim. And they would find
34:16two other heads cut in the exact same way as the skull found in the swamp in one of Robert's
34:21freezers as well. But those heads were found on the farm in 2002. And the skull from the swamp was
34:26dated all the way back to 1994. So that just shows that he was already in this comfortable killing
34:31routine for the past 10 years using the same methods on his most recent victims. And we don't know how
34:37this head ended up off of his property given that it was the only piece of evidence that was ever
34:41found off of his property. My guess is that he was probably dropping something off at the rendering
34:46plant and found that this head was in there and maybe threw it out the window or something. I'm not
34:50sure. And I don't think we'll ever know. And we do know that Robert would never take heads, hands,
34:56or feet to the rendering plant because they were too recognizable and he didn't want to run the risk
35:01of people seeing that. So he might have just taken the head by accident. I don't know. Like when you
35:06forget your keys. I don't know how that works. So by early 1997 Robert's victim count was almost at
35:1330 at this point. And it was at this time the women of the night were getting more and more apprehensive
35:18about getting into Robert's vehicle or anybody's vehicle at that point. Especially going to a much
35:23further location like Coquitlam because it was about 30 minutes away. But Robert didn't really have an
35:28issue with this because he would just offer them a lot more money than they would sell their services
35:32for. And he would also offer them drugs on top of that as well. Because at this point Robert was a
35:36millionaire. Dave and Robert were doing very well with the Piggy Palace, the meat locker, the the chop shop
35:42yard. They were doing very well for themselves. So he was able to throw money at whatever he wanted. And
35:48if he ended up murdering somebody he wouldn't have to pay them at all. But this is one of my
35:53favorite parts of this story. So one night Sandra Ringwald, a boss ass queen bitch. She's not a
36:01bitch. She's awesome. A working girl from his tastings got into Robert's truck and took the half
36:06an hour trip back to his pig farm. Once they entered his trailer she took notice that a large kitchen knife
36:12was just sitting on the kitchen counter. And then she proceeded to go back into Robert's bedroom which
36:17was just a gross mattress on the floor and she would have intercourse with him. So after her
36:23services were complete Robert would go to pay her. And Sandra would ask to use his phone so she could
36:29call her pimp to say that she was done her services and that she was on her way back to East Hastings.
36:34And while she was looking at the phone book to look up her pimp's number she would feel that Robert was
36:40approaching her from behind and before she could do anything he grabbed her right wrist and slapped on
36:46handcuffs. But before he could grab her left wrist she flung around and went into full bad
36:51bitch beast mode and started to beat the shit out of Robert. And while she was doing this she recalled
36:55the knife that was on the kitchen counter and she would pick it up and start slashing at Robert,
37:01slitting his jugular and stabbing him in his face through his cheek, cutting some of his jawbone,
37:08and breaking out some of his teeth. Fuck yeah it's metal dude. And although she got these blows in,
37:14Robert was just f***ing Frankenstein and just kept coming towards her. So Sandra realizing she had no
37:20other option she just ran and busted through Robert, busted through the trailer door and got outside.
37:26But Robert would follow quickly behind her and wrestle the knife out of her hand and end up stabbing her
37:32twice in the abdomen. Luckily he was starting to get weak from blood loss so she was able to wrestle the
37:38knife back from him and wrestle off of him and sprint towards the public road while carrying her f***ing
37:45intestines in her hand. Like I would have given up to be honest. I I don't know if I have the strength
37:52to do like this woman is my goddamn hero all right. So she's running with a knife carrying her intestines
37:59waving down a car and this older couple would come and pick her up and she would be absolutely frantic and
38:04not knowing if she was going to live or die she would point back at the farm and say if I die that
38:10man killed me. This couple would take her to the hospital and police would show up as well. She would
38:16tell them the story and they would go back to Robert's farm and you just this is a happy ending
38:21right? Oh my gosh they could are gonna catch him because he did all this bad stuff. No, no of course not.
38:26Of course not. The police would go to Robert's farm and see him dying in a pool of his own blood and take
38:32him to the hospital but unfortunately Robert was able to easily talk his way out of the situation
38:37and just say that Sandra held him at knife point because she was robbing him and it was just in
38:43self-defense. But the police would actually do something and charge him for attempted murder but
38:49when the day of court came Sandra didn't show up to testify because she was absolutely petrified of what
38:55Robert and Dave his brother might do to her if she didn't win the trial, if it didn't go her way.
39:01So Robert got off scot-free and would continue to kill for four more years. But at this time word had
39:07spread about what Robert had done. So you'd assume every working girl would be wary of giving Robert any
39:14business but it was at this time also that he would hire on a con artist prostitute by the name of
39:21Gina Houston that would aid in the flow of non-stop working women doing services for Robert and getting
39:28murdered. So they met in 1993 and they quickly became partners. Robert would pay her rent and give
39:33her extra cash and Gina would promise the prostitutes that she knows this man with a ton of money,
39:38a ton of drugs, and a good time. And usually about 50% of the time they would agree to go. And of course
39:44when it came to testifying, Gina denied that she ever knew that Robert was killing any of the women
39:48even though she was said to have known over 30 of the women that were never seen again. So she's just
39:54like, no, I mean, I knew them. I knew them intimately and I saw them all the time and then I just, I never
39:59saw them after I was with Robert, but I mean, it was just sick, you know? You're a piece of shit, Gina.
40:05So in 1997, Robert would kill the most women he would ever kill in a single year. And that number was 14
40:11women in one year. That we know of. And the police a year later in 1998 would say quote unquote,
40:18there is no indication of a serial killer here. What? There's over 30 women that have disappeared
40:26from the exact same place and these police are still in denial of that. Like, or they just don't
40:32care. And that is my personal opinion is that some of the police officers, the higher-ups just
40:37definitely didn't care or prioritize sex workers and it's disgusting. Now by 1988, there was a
40:43hundred thousand dollar reward from America's Most Wanted. Not even the police, but a TV show took
40:51notice of the whole situation that was going on and even did an expose on it and offered a hundred
40:55thousand dollars Canadian to anybody that could come forward with information about this case.
41:00And at this time, they were definitely a few people that could have come forward and completely
41:05blown this case wide open. And one of them was Robert's friend, Andy Williams. Andy Williams had
41:10been one of Robert's friends for a while and also lived on the property. A lot of Robert's friends
41:14lived on the property. It was really big, but you'll find that a lot of these people that were associated
41:18with him at some point lived on the property. And for some reason, Robert loved to share all of his
41:23secrets with Andy Williams. So one night in 1999, Robert asked Andy if he wanted to go get some
41:29from East Hastings, which like, as your buddy does, you know? And this is the night that Robert would
41:35open up and tell Andy what he really liked to do with the prostitutes. And Robert would show him. So
41:41Andy would say that Robert would lift up his mattress and show him the tools that he used to kill these
41:47women. He would show Andy a pair of handcuffs, a belt, and a piece of piano wire with two handles on each
41:53side. And then he told them he would pick up the women from the east side and bring them back to his
41:57trailer, have sex with them from behind. And as he was about to finish, he would slowly grab their arms
42:05and take them from behind and handcuff them and then proceed to kill them to death. Then he told
42:10them after they were dead, he would take them back to the barn, hang them up by hooking through their
42:15ankles, bleed them, gut them, and then dismember them and feed them to his pigs and take the rest to the
42:21rendering plant. And after telling Andy this, it absolutely freaked him the out and he skipped
42:27town. He left. No shit. Robert, a few days later, realizing he screwed up by telling Andy this,
42:33tracked down Andy and beat the absolute living out of him within an inch of his life and scared Andy so
42:40much that he never went to the cops until later on when Robert was already caught. And another person
42:45that witnessed Robert's atrocities was Lynn Ellingson, a friend of Robert and Dave's that also
42:50lived on the property. So one night, Robert and Lynn would go out and buy some crack, as you do with
42:56your friends, you know. And they would also go to East Tastings and pick up one of the women of the
43:00night to take back and party with and smoke crack with, as you do. So they would go back to the trailer,
43:05all smoke crack together, and then Robert would eventually take the woman that they got from East
43:10Tastings back to his bedroom and have sex with her. And while they were doing that, Lynn just went and smoked
43:14some more crack, as you do. And then when she came back to see where they were, she couldn't find them.
43:19So she was looking around the property for Robert and would come across the barn and see the light on.
43:24So she would walk in and see women's legs hanging from the barn ceiling. Naturally, she screamed and
43:32Robert would come up to her, grab her arm, take her to the table where he was dismembering the woman,
43:37and make her stand there and watch as he finished. And all Lynn said was that she kept her head down
43:43and all she could see was organs and body parts being thrown into a bucket on the ground and a big
43:49clump of hair in the middle of the table. And by that testimony, we know that Robert was scalping
43:55his victims before dismembering them so the hair wouldn't get caught in his saw. And it's just,
44:00it's just, this, it, this all, it is, all of this makes me nauseous. I've read so much about all of this
44:06and I just, um, I couldn't eat. I couldn't eat. Like, I, I, like, it's just so, so heartbreaking.
44:12I can't even express it. I just, I'm so sorry to the victims of their families. Just want to keep
44:16reiterating that. And Robert, you're a piece of shit and I hope that you die a violent death.
44:21Is that too much? Nah. But anyway, this is just screaming, Texas Chainsaw Massacre. I just,
44:27constantly, I'm just thinking about Texas Chainsaw Massacre, man. But after this incident,
44:31Robert gave Lynn a ton of money for booze and drugs and Lynn would stay drunk and high for weeks
44:38after this, which naturally, like, I can't even imagine witnessing that. And she was scared out of
44:43her mind. So she did not go to the police either until after Robert was already caught. But either
44:49way, some way, somehow, these stories did make it back to the cops because Andy and Lynn told other
44:55people about these stories and they would make it back to the cops, but it would still be another
45:00two years before Robert Pickton was charged with any of the crimes. They just completely
45:05disregarded these stories as rumors. So by the year 2000, Robert had replaced his con artist
45:12Gina with an even worse and more evil accomplice, Dina Taylor, a terrifying woman to say the least.
45:20She, like Robert, hated women of the night and was happy to get them off the streets in any way
45:26she could, even if it meant sending them to their inevitable demise at the Piggy Palace.
45:30She would end up using the same method as Gina, telling the women that this man had a ton of
45:34money, drugs, and a good time. But she would say that it was her uncle, so it would be even more
45:38trustworthy essentially. And when Robert was caught a few years later after this, Dina's DNA would be
45:44found on over 113 items on the property and crime scene. Like, I don't know if she was slipping,
45:51sliding through these pig pens, but she was not innocent in any way. And there was zero repercussions for
45:58her. So in March of 2001, Robert would take another three victims and some people in the VPD were
46:04finally starting to take notice and see the pattern that was happening. It only took you 20 years!
46:11But despite having blatant stories from people backing up the fact that Robert has murdered dozens
46:17of women, that still wouldn't be the reason why they would go to the property and search it. It basically
46:23happened on accident and this is how it happened. See, Robert Pickton had another friend named Scotty
46:29Chubb. Yes, Chubb. I don't- anyway. Living on the property as well with his wife Tasha. And one night
46:36they got into a domestic dispute and the cops were called and a rookie cop was sent to the scene. And
46:41Scotty would tell the rookie that he got upset because his wife was doing f***ing pain and he didn't want
46:46her to be doing f***ing pain and the rookie cop was actually in the drug division. So he asked Scotty
46:51if he knew who the dealer was and Scotty said he didn't. But the rookie cop would give him his number
46:57and say, well, if you know anything further about who's dealing these drugs, just give me a call. So
47:02this guy went to a domestic dispute and then just asked this criminal woman abuser if he could help him
47:10with his own job. Basically. Anyway. Luckily, Scotty Chubb would start to run out of money because he
47:18was unemployed and he needed some rent money. So he figured he could be a little bit of a snitch and
47:23call this rookie cop back and maybe make a few bucks. And who did he have to rat out on? This guy he knew
47:29with illegal firearms in his trailer on the pig farm. And who is that? Robert Pickton. So the police
47:37finally got a search warrant for Robert's farm. All because of his shitty friend that ratted him out
47:43for rent money, which is kind of hilarious, but just all just f***ing crazy. You know, like all this
47:49evidence, all the signs, everything. And it just takes this one f***ing idiot to do this. I mean,
47:53I'm glad it did happen, but it's just insane to me. Like Selena would never, you know? So on February 6,
48:002002, the police would go to Robert's farm, would bust down his trailer door and find
48:06one illegal firearm and they would arrest him on the spot. And as they searched the trailer more,
48:11they would find a box full of knives and a piece of paper on the floor with a name on it,
48:15Heather Bottomley, which was a woman that went missing back in 2001. But that wasn't enough evidence
48:21to charge him, if anything. So they kept looking. Under a pile of clothes in the trailer, they would find
48:26one of the most disturbing pieces of evidence I've ever heard of. And it was a .22 revolver
48:31with a curved dildo pulled over the barrel. Like what? I don't even want to know. I don't even want
48:37to know. And they would also find an inhaler in Robert's office with one of the victim's names on
48:42it, Serena Abbotsway. And she was last seen on August 1st, the year before. Although this still
48:47wasn't enough to place charges, it was enough for police to get a property-wide search warrant. So next
48:53they would go to the slaughterhouse where they would find pig corpses hanging from the ceiling
48:57and women's clothes, jewelry, and sex toys strewn about. But they still hadn't found a body or any
49:04body parts yet. So as the forensic team took to Robert's farm, Robert had got out on bail and they
49:10had sent an officer to speak with him and tried to get a confession out of him. And it did not take
49:15long at all for this to hit the media. Like as soon as the cops were searching the property,
49:19this was just, it went gangbusters all over the media. And I remember it. Good evening. There are
49:24growing calls tonight for a public inquiry into the Robert Pickton case as more details emerge.
49:29Pickton was charged and convicted of killing six women. Next trade workers connected to Vancouver's
49:34downtown east side. Other gruesome details revealed DNA of the murdered women found in processed meat on
49:41his farm. Like there was just so many people speculating about this case. And there were so
49:46many people that were scared as well. So 10 whole days later, after searching the property, the police
49:51would finally found an orange cushion and a mangled metal mesh shower hose, both stained with blood.
49:57And with this DNA found, the police would finally have a match to one of the victims,
50:02Mona Wilson, Robert's last victim. And this would be enough to put him under arrest. So although Robert was
50:09arrested, they still needed to figure out where the other 48 women were. So while teams searched his
50:14property, the police would absolutely grill Robert for a confession on a daily basis. And they would
50:19also put a cell plant into his cell to try to coerce a confession as well. And you know, Robert, he loves
50:26telling secrets, doesn't he? So after warming up to his cell plant, he did open up a little bit and basically
50:32just said how he loved being famous and being in the media. He said to him, quote unquote,
50:37the whole f***ing world knows me. All the way to Hong Kong, to everywhere. A very well-spoken
50:44scholar. He wasn't that smart.
50:51And his voice was also just awful. It was so awful. You couldn't even understand him half the time. The cell
51:10plant at this point would not obtain a confession. So the cops continued to hound him in the investigation
51:16room for weeks. But Robert would not budge. Even when they said how his own friends had told the
51:21cops that he was murdering women, he would literally just say, oh, they're out to lunch.
51:26They're just out to lunch. If you don't know what that means, that's a very common Canadian saying,
51:30which means like, oh, they're crazy. They don't even know what they're talking about. Oh, like,
51:34get out of here. Get out of town. But it's just so dumb.
51:37Anyway. But after weeks of hounding Robert, one of the cops would say something that would crack him.
51:43And it would be simply this. Willie, you didn't do a good job of cleaning up those girls' blood.
51:48You've got to agree with me. And Robert would respond.
51:51What? That's what he just kept saying is that he was
52:07sloppy and that he didn't clean up right. And although that's all he said to the cops,
52:12once Robert went back into his cell with the plant, Robert could not contain his excitement
52:17and secrets anymore and would end up sharing everything with the cell plant. By the end of
52:22the night, Robert confessed to killing 49 women, adding that he almost made it to the big five-o.
52:29That was something he kept saying, that he wished he could have made it to 50.
52:33So while the confession was happening, the cops were continuing to search Robert's property and
52:48Robert's workshops as well. And they would find two five-gallon plastic buckets in one of his meat
52:55locker freezers. And they didn't see it at first because it had a massive film of freezer burn ice.
53:02So they would wipe it down and see the horror that lied within these buckets. And they would find in
53:08one bucket, there was one head sliced in half, two hands put in one side of the skull, and two feet put
53:17in the other side of the skull. And the other bucket would contain the exact same thing, just of a different
53:23woman. And the cops would find even more body parts in the piggery. A sewage company would need to pump the piggery for
53:30four straight days before it was empty because Robert never cleaned it or emptied it in 20 years.
53:37So it was a lot of pig shit. And after it was all pumped out, the forensics team would have to sift through all of it
53:44by hand. By hand. Oh my god.
53:47There were over a hundred people working there day and night for years, sifting through Robert's property piece
53:56by piece. And they would find thousands of fragments of not only animal parts, but also human remains.
54:03But one mystery in this case is that they would never find any leg bones or arm bones. Out of all of the
54:11thousands of pieces of evidence they found, they never found and they never knew where those ended up. And on July 15th,
54:172002, two officers were searching through two of his other freezers and they found three plastic bags full of ground meat.
54:26They were originally put into storage for four months by the cops assuming it was just pig meat, but they would test it
54:32and find that it was made of two types of meat, pork and human flesh. And this ground meat would match
54:39two of Robert's victims. And with the amount of ground meat that Robert would sell and give away,
54:45it kind of goes without question that there was human remains in this meat. But despite this incredible
54:52obvious evidence and the circumstances in which it was, there was no official recall
54:58or announcement to the public about this. It's just another giant W for the police just to die.
55:06I'm just kidding. It was a massive, like knowing this now. And like I remember hearing about this
55:11later on, like everybody, it's just just so disheartening. It's sickening. And like to think
55:17that parts of people are in products or meat, it's like, you can't even wrap your head around it.
55:22Like I just have, I just, I can't, it's hard to even think about. Um, and I'm just so incredibly
55:27sorry to all the families. Now when the preliminary trial happened, Robert was charged with 27 counts
55:34of first degree murder. Each of those counts having human DNA attached to them. So like,
55:39without a doubt, he was guilty of them essentially. But the judge for Robert's case was either grossly
55:45incompetent, hiding something, or just had a hatred for sex workers. Because this entire trial
55:53should have been a slam dunk, wham bam, thank you ma'am. But this judge would straight up say,
55:59charging Robert with 27 murders would take too long. And one of the murders, he just completely
56:06dismissed. The one that we talked about in the very beginning, that was a Jane Doe. Because she was never
56:11identified, so she didn't count to the judge. Which is f***ing disgusting. So he took the now 26
56:20murder charges down to only six. With the promise that the other 20 would be charged against Robert
56:27later on. And the issue with this is that the prosecution team was not able to use any of the
56:32evidence in the other 20 cases in the six women trial. So they weren't able to relay information from
56:39those cases or make connections. Which completely took away from the case. Which obviously affected
56:45the jury and their final decision. And the judge also said that Sandra, the badass bitch that carried
56:50her intestines and a knife and got away from that piece of s*** Robert Pickton, wasn't able to stand
56:56trial because she wasn't one of the victims technically. So she wasn't able to stand trial because
57:02she didn't f***ing die. Which I, I, like, I, reading this is, it's just, I can't even, I can't even wrap my
57:08head around it. Like I, this, this whole case is just infuriating. And I mean the, the Canadian judicial
57:14system is already flawed in many ways as are many other judicial systems. But this case is just, it
57:22highlights it so much. Anyway, I digress. So the defense was able to convince the jury enough that
57:28maybe Robert wasn't fully culpable of committing these murders. And he was found guilty of only six
57:34counts of second degree murder instead of the 27 murder charges in the first degree he was first
57:42charged with. And after the trial, the forensics team would find enough evidence to put Robert's murder
57:48count to 33 women. But in 2010, the Canadian Supreme Court ruled that there would be no further trial for
57:57Robert Pickton. So Robert Pickton was sentenced to life in prison with no possibility of parole. But now
58:03these families go without justice for their family members that underwent the most horrific end of
58:11life experiences. Like I, I just, I wish that these families got justice and that these victims got
58:18justice for themselves, but they didn't because the system failed them. And it's, it's just heartbreaking.
58:24I'm glad this monster is in jail and will never see the light of day again. And I hope that he's getting
58:29beat the shit out of, and I hope that he's thinking about his, his eternal flame at all times. But it's
58:35still incredibly sad that it ended this way. But that concludes this video and the story of Robert
58:42Pickton. Thank you for hanging around for as long as you did. I know this was a longer one, but this case
58:46was definitely a tough one to get through given that it was, it was so close to home. But like I said
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