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00:00On this run-down farm, Canadian police discover an unimaginable horror.
00:07This is the largest serial killing investigation in North America.
00:12A slaughterhouse for human beings.
00:17There was DNA all over the farm, body parts in the form of bones and teeth and partial jaw bones.
00:24For more than a decade, a predator hunted women in Vancouver.
00:30The killing, the dismembering, it was just a process he really enjoyed.
00:35The skulls were bisected with the reciprocating saw, which he used in his slaughterhouse on the pigs.
00:41At the time of his capture, the number of dead and missing was staggering.
00:47He was going for an even 50 as far as the number of victims were concerned.
00:52His shocking crimes earned him the name, the Butcher.
00:57Willie Pickton, Vancouver's prolific serial killer.
01:28February 1999.
01:31He enters Vancouver from the city of Vancouver, looking for a prostitute or a drug dealer, a desperate woman.
01:43for money.
01:46He sees a young woman with cocaine and offers to buy the drug from her.
01:53Once she's taught him, he takes her to his trailer.
02:04When dead, he knows how to make his victim disappear.
02:10He was suspected of literally butchering women like animals, or rather, butchering their feet.
02:22He used methods that made his crimes almost undetectable.
02:27To stop him, the police would conduct the most complex investigation in Canadian history.
02:39He put it down with his feet.
02:39Robert William Picton was born on October 24, 1949.
02:45His parents, Leonard and Louise Picton, ran a pig farm in Port Coquitlam, 15 miles east of Vancouver.
02:53Here, the family raised, slaughtered, and butchered livestock.
02:58The life on their farm was very primitive.
03:01The animals were always allowed to run in and out of the Picton house.
03:05Because his father thought a pig farm was no place for a girl,
03:09Willie's older sister, Linda, lived with relatives in Vancouver.
03:14Willie and his younger brother, David, stayed behind to work.
03:20And their demanding mother made sure the boys stayed on task.
03:25They can't kill me right now!
03:28She really was a tyrant.
03:31She ran the roost.
03:32The kids worked very, very hard.
03:34And she had this distinctive voice.
03:36She'd shout at the kids and say,
03:37You kids, get over here right now!
03:39And she'd screech at them.
03:41For Louise Picton, pigs came first.
03:45Cleanliness wasn't a concern.
03:48The Picton children were famous for stinking of manure and of pigs
03:53and unwashed clothing and unwashed bodies.
03:57When they got on the school bus in the morning,
03:59children didn't want to sit near them,
04:01and they called them stinky piggy.
04:03Willie struggled at school.
04:05His teachers labeled him slow.
04:07He was assigned to remedial courses.
04:11He and his brother tried to escape any way they could.
04:15They would come back home and sneak into the house
04:17and hide under their beds.
04:18And they would stay there all day until school was out
04:21so that their parents wouldn't know that they had skipped.
04:24Friendless, young Willie focused on farm work,
04:28especially the care of the family's livestock.
04:32When he was 11 years old,
04:35Willie used his savings to purchase a calf at auction.
04:38The animal became his pet and sole friend.
04:42He just really loved the calf.
04:44Every day he would come home and nurture it,
04:45take care of it, feed it.
04:48One day he came home and the calf was missing.
04:55Willie went to his mother and she was very brisk with him
04:57and said to go down to the barn.
05:01He went down to the barn and found that the calf had been slaughtered.
05:05He was hysterical.
05:07That numbed out any feelings he ever had for human connection
05:10and for understanding that he could love or to connect to someone.
05:15I think it was severed at that point.
05:18Willie continued to struggle in school.
05:20And in 1963, the 14-year-old dropped out.
05:25He took work as a butcher's apprentice,
05:28where he discovered a talent for dissecting animals.
05:32He knew how to see them, where to see them,
05:35where to make the incisions in the body parts,
05:37how to skin them.
05:39In short, he knew what he was doing.
05:42For the next four years,
05:44Willie kept up his chores and his apprenticeship.
05:48It was a relatively happy time for the 18-year-old.
05:52But life on the Picton farm was rarely happy or normal for long.
05:58On October 16, 1967,
06:02Willie learned a shocking lesson.
06:05Dave Picton had just got his driver's license.
06:08He was 16.
06:09And he took the family truck out
06:11for a bit of a joyride down the road.
06:14The unknown driver
06:16accidentally hit a young boy
06:17walking along a country road.
06:24David raced home and told his mother what had happened.
06:28As Willie later told his friends,
06:30his mother knew just what to do.
06:34She told him to take the truck right away
06:37to the garage that looked after their vehicles
06:39and get it fixed,
06:41and I'll take care of the kid.
06:44Louise found the boy lying in the road.
06:48He was badly injured.
06:50but still alive.
06:52Evidence suggests she rolled his body
06:54into a watery ditch where he drowned.
07:01Although suspicious of the circumstances,
07:04police ruled the death an accident.
07:07None of the Pictons were charged with a crime.
07:11It was a family where
07:12if you could get away with something,
07:14You got away with it.
07:15Picton's mother was extremely antisocial,
07:17and I think it was those antisocial traits
07:20that Louise had
07:22that really affected Willie
07:24and really shaped his feelings
07:27about what he could get away with.
07:30In 1970,
07:32just after his 21st birthday,
07:35Willie inexplicably quit his apprenticeship.
07:38He went to work full-time
07:40on his parents' farm.
07:42There was really no one else but Willie
07:44to do the farm work.
07:46I think in the back of his mind,
07:48he thought,
07:48if I go out in the world,
07:49you know,
07:49there's a possibility I'm going to fail.
07:51The feeling of being connected,
07:53maybe almost too dependent on his mother,
07:55I think that pulled him back towards the farm
07:57and gave him a feeling like
07:58It was a safer place to be.
08:01Willie continued to feed the pigs
08:03and shovel handle,
08:05and he added a few new chores to his list.
08:08He'd go to auction and buy pigs,
08:11then bring them back to the farm
08:12and slaughter them.
08:15Willie's work often took him
08:17to West Coast Reduction,
08:19an animal waste disposal facility
08:21near downtown Vancouver.
08:24Willie was known to drop barrels
08:26of materials at the rendering plant,
08:28which would take the materials
08:30and turn them into other products.
08:33After trips to the plant,
08:36Willie often visited a seedy neighborhood
08:38known as Low Track
08:40in Vancouver's downtown East Side.
08:43The area was a gathering spot
08:45for prostitutes and drug addicts.
08:47The Downtown East Side
08:48is probably the biggest concentration
08:50of human misery
08:51that exists in the developed world.
08:53I mean, there's nothing like it anywhere else
08:56in terms of the numbers of people
08:57that are down and out
08:59and never coming back.
09:00People are forced to support themselves
09:02through selling drugs,
09:04selling their bodies,
09:05stealing.
09:07At street corners and dingy bars,
09:10Willie could pay for companionship,
09:12affection,
09:13and sex.
09:15things he couldn't get anywhere else.
09:18He spent large amounts of money
09:20on the girl,
09:21whatever she wanted,
09:22for what looks like endless amounts.
09:24So when they returned,
09:25They would brag about him.
09:27to their friends,
09:28that this guy is like a really good guy
09:30to go be with.
09:32Amid the sordid lives
09:33of Low Track's population,
09:36Willie found his place.
09:37He began frequenting the Astoria Hotel,
09:41a pub on East Hastings Street.
09:44Here, men talked to him as equals,
09:46and women offered him sexual favors.
09:51He had grown up as a very powerless person.
09:54and to have people that he could do favors for,
10:00help out,
10:00do anything,
10:01gave him a position,
10:02gave him a feeling
10:03that he had some sort of power.
10:06Power that he enjoyed.
10:09Gradually, Willie's need for this power grew.
10:12He picked up working girls
10:14with increasing regularity.
10:17Outwardly,
10:17He seemed friendly.
10:19even caring.
10:21But once a girl got in his car,
10:23He could turn violent.
10:28Guys like Willie,
10:29they need more and more stimulation
10:31because they feel restless,
10:33they feel bored,
10:33and I think the only way to get that
10:36this to do,
10:36to kind of up the ante
10:38and to do something more.
10:41His harsh childhood
10:42and dark desires
10:43were transforming Willie Pickton
10:45into a monster.
10:49And the women of Vancouver's Low Track
10:51would prove to be an easy prey.
10:54He just did what he knew.
10:57and that was butcher
10:57and dispose of things.
11:00And you've got this recipe
11:02for murder that just doesn't end.
11:12In 1975,
11:1425-year-old Willie Pickton
11:16spent his days butchering pigs
11:18and his nights
11:20trolling for prostitutes
11:22in Vancouver's seedy downtown
11:23He sighed.
11:25Willie had two personalities,
11:27you know,
11:27he would be the kind of
11:29aw shucks,
11:30simple farm boy
11:31out in the country.
11:32In town,
11:33He was the big spender.
11:35the boss of the Astoria,
11:37handing out the money,
11:38handing out the drugs.
11:39He had settled
11:40into a predictable,
11:41If not disruptive, routine.
11:43But in 1978,
11:45Willie's life abruptly changed.
11:49His parents' health
11:50had been failing.
11:52And in January
11:53of that year,
11:54His father died.
11:57Soon after,
11:59his mother became
12:00terminally ill with cancer.
12:03As Willie took care of her,
12:05He saw this once.
12:06all-powerful woman
12:08turn sickly and frail.
12:11He changed her diapers.
12:13He looked after her.
12:14He nursed her.
12:15and he also found that
12:16very traumatic.
12:17The most basic,
12:19primitive thing in the world
12:20is a relationship
12:21a child has with its mother.
12:23It's the first relationship,
12:24and it's one that
12:25It is very hard to break.
12:27To have to take care of her
12:28was probably one of the
12:29hardest things he had to do.
12:32In April,
12:33Willie's mother died.
12:34leaving the farm and slaughterhouse
12:36to her three children.
12:39The siblings split the modest inheritance,
12:41but Willie's brother and sister
12:43I wanted nothing to do.
12:44with the family business.
12:49They left the farm work to Willie.
12:52After all,
12:53butchering pigs
12:54That was what he knew best.
12:57Willie's not the brightest guy
12:58in the world.
12:59He was dirty.
13:01and he lived like a pig,
13:04and his life revolved around pigs.
13:08I really don't think
13:09He enjoyed life on the farm.
13:11but he knew it was his responsibility,
13:15that it was something he had to do.
13:17There was a fear
13:18that he wouldn't succeed out
13:19in the bigger world,
13:20and there also might have been
13:22a feeling on his part
13:23that they did have this pig farm.
13:24It could be worth something someday,
13:26and it might be worth sticking around.
13:29Willie's brother Dave
13:30took over the main house,
13:32and Willie moved into a trailer
13:34on an isolated edge of the property.
13:38He was still stuck on the farm,
13:41but for the first time in his life,
13:43Willie could do whatever he wanted,
13:45whenever he wanted.
13:47He frequently entertained female guests.
13:50He'd bring women out to stay for a while,
13:53and he would teach them butchering skills,
13:55and they would go to movies,
13:56And they would go shopping.
13:58It was sort of this bucolic, nice life
14:01with one of these women after another.
14:04These friends of Willie's
14:05I didn't mind his poor hygiene.
14:08Willie was such a distant character
14:12that he had to troll pretty low to get friends.
14:16Most of his friends and associates
14:19were people who wanted things from him.
14:22Often he'd pay these women with money
14:24and drugs to clean his trailer
14:26or help around the farm,
14:28but they never had sex with Willie,
14:30And he wanted it badly.
14:33One evening in 1980,
14:35Willie was cruising the streets
14:36of Vancouver's downtown east side.
14:39He spotted a young girl on Hastings Street.
14:41According to the girl,
14:43Willie picked her up in his truck,
14:44and as she later told a journalist,
14:46He quickly turned violent.
14:48She was a 14-year-old
14:49that he picked up in his car
14:51in downtown Vancouver
14:53and attacked her with a knife,
14:56and he raped her
14:57and threw her out into a parking lot.
15:03He really saw the prostitutes
15:05as no better than the pigs.
15:06Maybe they were sort of lowlifes to him,
15:08people that you could do things to.
15:11Him getting away with it
15:12just sort of furthered the thrill.
15:16Despite this seemingly newfound lust for violence,
15:19this alleged attack seemed
15:21to satisfy Willie's desires.
15:25For over a decade,
15:27He resumed his routine.
15:28of days on the farm
15:29and nights on the town.
15:34Then in 1994,
15:37the Picton sold the north end of the farm.
15:40The sale netted them
15:41almost $2 million.
15:45Flush with cash.
15:47Willie and his brother
15:48started a social events business
15:49in 1996.
15:53Piggy's Palace Good Time Society
15:55was an excuse for the brothers
15:57to throw wild parties.
16:03There would be literally hundreds of people,
16:05sometimes as many as 1,800 people
16:07had shown up.
16:08Willie often took prostitutes
16:10from low track
16:11to palace parties.
16:13Afterwards,
16:15They'd go to his trailer.
16:17They engaged in
16:20Kinky sex involving bondage.
16:26For the first time in his life,
16:28Willie was in control.
16:30His recent wealth
16:32gave him power over people,
16:34especially the wretched souls
16:36of Vancouver's low track.
16:38He exploited the vulnerable.
16:41drug-addicted prostitutes
16:42to satisfy his disturbing
16:44sexual fantasies.
16:47But Willie's desire
16:49for kinky sex
16:50would soon turn violent
16:53and deadly.
16:56Vancouver
16:57It was about to experience.
16:59the unrelenting rage
17:02of a serial killer.
17:09In the spring of 1997,
17:12Willie Pickton was having
17:14the time of his life.
17:16This once social outcast
17:18was now the center of attention,
17:20a pig farmer
17:22turned millionaire.
17:24The sale of family farmland
17:26had made him and his siblings
17:28very rich.
17:29And for his part,
17:31Willie was using his money
17:32to fulfill his sexual fantasies,
17:35Kinky sex with prostitutes.
17:38He was a pig farmer
17:40who obviously had a kind of taste
17:42for activities
17:44that most of us would
17:45I consider this unpleasant.
17:48And when he didn't get
17:50what he wanted,
17:51He could turn violent.
17:54Quickly.
17:58In March of 1997,
18:01a prostitute named
18:02Wendy Eistetter
18:03Went home with Willie.
18:06During sex,
18:08Willie tried to handcuff her.
18:10But she broke free.
18:14Willie grew enraged.
18:19He said that
18:20He had a knife.
18:21And he was coming at her.
18:23Wendy managed to grab
18:25a knife of her own
18:26from the kitchen.
18:28For every stab,
18:29He stabbed her.
18:29and she stabbed him back.
18:34Barely clothed
18:35and badly wounded,
18:37Wendy fled the farm.
18:39An elderly couple
18:41driving past
18:42picked her up
18:42and took her
18:43to a nearby hospital.
18:45She's got scars
18:46everywhere
18:47all over the place.
18:48It was horrible.
18:50Like huge scars,
18:51like really,
18:52like gassed down
18:53And there, and there.
18:54Police charged
18:56Picton with assault.
18:57But Wendy was
18:59too terrified
18:59to testify.
19:01She never showed up
19:02for the trial.
19:04The case against
19:05Picton was dismissed.
19:09He went back to his farm.
19:12Back to his pigs.
19:14Back to his butcher knives.
19:19In August 1997,
19:22Willie returned to Low Track.
19:26There he approached
19:27a slender 24-year-old
19:29named Marnie Frey.
19:31Marnie was a heroin addict.
19:33Willie offered
19:35to buy her drugs
19:36in exchange for sex.
19:39He took her
19:40back to his trailer.
19:44After sex,
19:46He turned violent.
19:51Marnie never returned home
19:53that night.
19:54He probably took her body apart
19:56and buried it in pieces
19:59on the farm,
20:01some of it anyway.
20:03What was left,
20:04he may have disposed of
20:06at West Coast Reduction,
20:07the animal waste disposal plant
20:10that Willie frequented.
20:13The murder of Marnie Frey
20:15marked the start
20:16of a violent new chapter
20:17in Picton's life,
20:19along with a compelling desire
20:21to sexually dominate women.
20:24He now had a taste for murder.
20:28Between 1995 and 1997,
20:3221 women vanished
20:34from Vancouver's rough-and-tumble
20:36downtown Eastside neighborhood.
20:38He loved every bit of it.
20:40the pickup,
20:40the courtship
20:41on the street corner downtown,
20:43how much would he pay,
20:44the killing,
20:46the dismembering.
20:47I think it was
20:48just a process
20:50He really enjoyed it.
20:52No one suspected
20:53that Willie Picton
20:54was luring women
20:56to his pig farm
20:57and slaughtering them.
20:59Circuses generally need
21:00a bigger and bigger thrill,
21:01and so they escalate
21:02their violence.
21:03When you see that with Willie,
21:04you see that he went from
21:05going to have sex
21:06with prostitutes
21:07bringing them to his home,
21:09to raping someone,
21:11to killing.
21:13In 1998,
21:15Nine more women vanished.
21:16The police didn't investigate.
21:19discounting the possibility
21:20of foul play.
21:22There were family members
21:23and friends and associates
21:25of the women
21:26that were missing
21:27that were filing police reports
21:28and being told,
21:30you know,
21:30These women just get on
21:31the Greyhound
21:32and they go somewhere else.
21:34Police don't like
21:35to investigate any case
21:36where there isn't a body.
21:37So they said,
21:38Oh, she's just visiting.
21:38her family in Florida
21:40or whatever.
21:40They didn't want
21:41to take these cases seriously.
21:42But the prostitutes
21:44and drug addicts
21:45on Vancouver's Skid Row
21:46knew they were being targeted.
21:49There wasn't no notice,
21:51like,
21:51we weren't informed
21:52or anything about
21:54beware,
21:55There's a monster.
21:55on the street.
21:56It's just girls,
21:58we're not on the court anymore.
22:00Elaine Allen ran a shelter
22:02that provided food
22:03and social services
22:04to women
22:05who worked the streets.
22:06It was horrifying
22:08watching women
22:09going missing.
22:10We were so aware of it.
22:12I think we all felt
22:13so powerless
22:14to do anything about it.
22:16Allen reported
22:17several disappearances,
22:18but officers
22:19I didn't follow up.
22:21We were just
22:22constantly rebuffed
22:23and told that,
22:24you know,
22:25well,
22:25this woman
22:25typically takes off
22:27and she'll take off
22:27with a john
22:29and, you know,
22:30She's fine.
22:30I'm sure she's just fine.
22:33The Vancouver police
22:34I wouldn't even say
22:35serial killer
22:36in the same sentence.
22:38They would say,
22:39well,
22:40What do you expect?
22:41These women
22:41will get in a car
22:42with a stranger.
22:44Only,
22:44Who knows where they are?
22:46Like,
22:46you know,
22:46sort of a shrugging
22:47of the shoulders
22:48kind of attitude.
22:49Women from low track
22:51continued to go with Willie,
22:53partly because of the money
22:54he gave them
22:55and partly because
22:56he had developed
22:57a reputation
22:58as being a nice guy.
23:00He even maintained
23:01friendships
23:02with a few women.
23:03I don't think
23:04It's surprising.
23:05that a serial killer
23:06has another life.
23:07It's not a simple direction
23:09that every woman
23:10that they encounter
23:11They must kill.
23:12It's more complicated
23:14than that.
23:15One of Willie's friends
23:16was a crack addict
23:17named Lynn Ellingson.
23:20She lived on his farm
23:21for several months
23:22in 1999.
23:25after getting high
23:26in Willie's trailer
23:27one night,
23:28Lynn fell asleep.
23:32Something had awakened
23:33her that night
23:34and she looked out
23:35and saw a light
23:36coming from
23:37the slaughterhouse.
23:39Curious,
23:40she went outside
23:41to take a peek
23:42and see what was going on.
23:51Dancing in front of her
23:53were a woman's
23:55purple painted toenails.
23:57It was Georgina Pappin,
24:00Picton's latest victim.
24:03Terrified, Lynn fled the farm.
24:07Willie didn't go after her.
24:10Well, Willie was a bit
24:11of a conundrum.
24:12Perhaps he didn't kill
24:13Lynn Ellingson
24:14because she was a friend
24:16and he'd gotten
24:17to know her.
24:19Most serial killers
24:21kill people
24:21that they don't know.
24:24Ellingson never went
24:25to the police
24:25and Willie continued
24:27to butcher.
24:29The pig farmer millionaire
24:31was on his way
24:32to becoming Canada's
24:34most prolific serial killer.
24:38By February 1999,
24:42Willie Picton
24:42had murdered
24:43at least two women.
24:45But more than 30 women
24:47were missing
24:48from the streets
24:48of Vancouver.
24:50As police continued
24:51to discount
24:52the disappearances,
24:53Picton prepared
24:54to claim another victim.
24:57Her name
24:58It was Brenda Wolf.
25:00She was a drug addict
25:01who had come
25:02to Willie's pig farm
25:03hoping to score
25:04some drugs.
25:05She never left.
25:13He typically bound
25:15his victims
25:16or handcuffed them
25:17and strangled some victims
25:19either with wire
25:20or with a belt.
25:22As Willie later claimed,
25:24he carried his victims
25:26lifeless bodies
25:26to the slaughterhouse.
25:30With the precision
25:31of an experienced butcher,
25:33He cut them up.
25:36He just did what he knew
25:38and that was butcher
25:39and dispose of things.
25:41He probably never gave it
25:43any thought.
25:44For most of his victims,
25:46Picton would load
25:46their remains
25:47into barrels
25:48and dump them
25:50West Coast reduction.
25:53Brenda was the 53rd
25:55Vancouver woman
25:56to vanish
25:57without a trace.
25:59The Missing Women
26:00were all prostitutes
26:01or drug addicts
26:02from the city's
26:03Skid Row.
26:05The women were very scared.
26:07They saw their friends
26:08were going missing.
26:09They knew that.
26:10I heard women say,
26:11I'm going to be the next one.
26:12If you don't see me tomorrow,
26:15you know,
26:15I'm going out tonight.
26:16Come looking for me.
26:18As women became
26:19increasingly nervous,
26:21Willie began having trouble
26:23convincing them
26:24to come to his farm.
26:25Willie has diminished capacities.
26:28He's a bit of a dim bulb.
26:30but he was shifty
26:31and clever
26:32In a kind of animalistic way.
26:35The pig farmer
26:36had a handful
26:37of female friends,
26:38and he found ways
26:40to use them
26:41to lure victims.
26:45One of his friends
26:46It was Dinah Taylor.
26:48Willie sent Taylor
26:49to women's shelters
26:50in search of prostitutes
26:52and drug addicts.
26:53Dinah Taylor
26:54would go in there
26:55and they'd say,
26:56Let's go party!
26:57with Uncle Willie.
26:57He's got drugs.
26:58He's got booze.
27:00He's got money.
27:01I do remember
27:02seeing her in the center
27:03a few times
27:04in the evenings.
27:05She would pop in
27:06and sometimes pop out
27:07with the woman with her.
27:10And once he had them
27:12at his farm,
27:14The women were easy prey.
27:17It's sort of
27:18a psychological thrill
27:19to go from being
27:20the rejected
27:21to being the one
27:22that sits back
27:22and has women
27:23being brought to him
27:24and not only being brought to him
27:25but being brought to him
27:26to prepare for slaughter.
27:28He would usually accuse them
27:30of stealing something from him,
27:31stealing money from your wallet,
27:33something like that,
27:34and use that as an excuse
27:36to work up a rage against them,
27:37And then he'd attack them.
27:42By January 2001,
27:44the number of missing women
27:45had reached 62.
27:48Authorities could no longer
27:49Ignore the problem.
27:51That April,
27:53the Vancouver Police Department
27:54and Royal Canadian Mounted Police
27:56launched the Missing Women Task Force.
28:00Reward posters promised $100,000
28:03for information leading to an arrest.
28:05over 12,000 tips flooded the hotline.
28:11Several callers mentioned
28:12a pig farmer east of Vancouver.
28:16Willie's name was eventually added
28:19to a list of suspects.
28:21He had a prior arrest for assault,
28:23but no convictions.
28:26The police didn't investigate further.
28:28They didn't really know how to look
28:31for a serial killer.
28:32They didn't have the manpower.
28:34They had terrible records.
28:36They didn't have a DNA bank
28:37to check the identity of these women.
28:40Family members of Missing Women
28:42They were desperate for answers.
28:44They urged police to investigate.
28:48It didn't matter how many times
28:49you phone them
28:50and explain to them
28:51that we think that she could be
28:54on this farm
28:54or somewhere out in Perkoquitlam.
28:57They didn't seem to care.
28:59I don't know why
29:00they didn't put more importance on him.
29:03They were tracking
29:04a whole lot of different people,
29:06and he probably just fell through the cracks.
29:09Willie continued his killing spree
29:11in the spring of 2001.
29:14In June, he murdered Andrea Joesbury.
29:19And in August,
29:20Serena Abbotsway
29:21became his next conquest.
29:25But unlike his other victims,
29:28Picton didn't immediately
29:29dispose of their bodies.
29:31Instead, he placed their heads,
29:34hands and feet
29:35inside plastic buckets
29:37and stored them in a meat freezer.
29:41I think he's got sloppy.
29:42I think he's become careless.
29:44Here's a man
29:45who may not have really understood
29:47the implications
29:48of what could happen to him.
29:51I think he thought
29:51He was sort of invulnerable.
29:52Again, going back to his mother,
29:54his mother got away with murder,
29:55and I think he felt sort of invincible.
29:58In November 2001,
30:00Willie stopped on the corner
30:02of Main and Hastings
30:03to talk to 26-year-old Mona Wilson.
30:07At his promise of free dope and booze,
30:09She jumped into his car.
30:12Instead of taking Mona to her trailer,
30:15Picton led her to a camper
30:16behind the barn.
30:18After sex,
30:19He savagely beat her.
30:24Perhaps this particular woman
30:26tried to fight back
30:27or did something
30:27that was outside the script
30:29that Willie had in mind,
30:31and that somehow
30:31It must have been set off.
30:32whatever psychological rage
30:34that he had.
30:35Willie then shot her
30:37with a .22 revolver.
30:41Her blood splattered the walls
30:43and soaked into the mattress.
30:45It just could have been
30:46that as time went on,
30:47he was escalating his violence
30:48because he had more and more
30:49of a need just to act it out
30:52in ways that were more violent.
30:54By the end of 2001,
30:5664 women from Vancouver's low track
30:59were on the list of missing women.
31:02But the police were nowhere near.
31:04to breaking the case.
31:06Finally,
31:07on February 1, 2002,
31:09investigators got an unexpected lead.
31:13A truck driver
31:15who occasionally worked at the farm
31:17told an officer
31:17that he had once seen
31:19illegal weapons
31:20in Willie's trailer.
31:21Curious to learn more
31:23about a potential murder suspect,
31:25the police obtained
31:26a search warrant.
31:28They had to move
31:28very, very carefully.
31:29They didn't want
31:30to lose this one.
31:31Four days later,
31:33Vancouver police closed in
31:34on the Picton property.
31:38Their gruesome discoveries
31:40would trigger
31:40the largest forensic investigation
31:42in Canadian history.
31:51February 5, 2002.
31:53Drug addicts
31:54and prostitutes
31:55were mysteriously disappearing
31:57from Vancouver's
31:58downtown east side.
32:00What the police didn't know
32:01was that one man
32:02had murdered
32:03at least six of these women
32:04and sadistically
32:06They butchered their corpses.
32:08But a confidential tip
32:09was about to lead
32:11to an unexpected
32:12break in the case.
32:14Armed with a search warrant,
32:15police were preparing
32:17to raid Willie Pickton's farm.
32:18Their search was
32:20for illegal weapons.
32:21They soon found that
32:23and much more.
32:25One of the investigators
32:26came across an inhaler
32:27that had one of the missing
32:29women's name on it.
32:31It was prescribed
32:32to Serena Abbotsway.
32:34And at that point,
32:36the Joint Task Force
32:37decided to halt
32:39the firearms investigation
32:41and obtain
32:42new search warrants.
32:46Willie Pickton
32:47spent the night
32:48behind bars.
32:51Police alerted the media
32:53to the break
32:53in their case.
32:55By dawn,
32:56reporters and camera crews
32:58from across the country
32:59had surrounded the farm.
33:01Everyone just stood there
33:03with their mouths open.
33:04Imaginations ran wild.
33:06It was like
33:07everyone's worst nightmare
33:08Come true.
33:10Inside the property,
33:11investigators uncovered
33:13a grisly scene.
33:15Proof of Mona Wilson's murder.
33:19Her blood was found
33:20soaked into a mattress.
33:22It was found on the floor.
33:24It was found on cupboards.
33:26It was found on the walls.
33:28All the way to the kitchen.
33:31In a trash can
33:32outside the camper
33:33was all that remained
33:35of the missing woman.
33:36You could see her brain.
33:37You could see her hair.
33:39You could see the
33:39just the bisected
33:41human head
33:42and floating
33:43in this pinkish soup.
33:47In an interrogation room,
33:49task force officers
33:50I grilled Willie for hours.
33:52But the high school dropout
33:54It was surprisingly calm.
33:56He denied everything.
33:58There was a part of him
33:59that didn't care
33:59the same way his mother
34:00didn't care
34:01that he had feelings.
34:02He put his legs up
34:03over the edge of the chair
34:04and he was having
34:06a good time.
34:07And he was really
34:08enjoying himself.
34:10After 11 hours
34:11of intense questioning,
34:13investigators changed tactics.
34:15They decided to put
34:17an undercover police officer
34:18in the cell with Willie
34:20to see if he said anything.
34:23Willie knew
34:24He was under surveillance.
34:25but that didn't stop him
34:27from bragging
34:27to his cellmate.
34:29At one point,
34:30Willie told the
34:31undercover cop
34:32that he was going
34:33for an even 50,
34:34which in Willie's mind
34:35meant that he had
34:36killed 49 women.
34:38Willie also implied
34:40that he had used
34:40a disposal plant
34:42to dispose of bodies.
34:44He mentioned
34:45to the undercover policeman
34:46that he got sloppy
34:48in the end.
34:49He finally had somebody
34:50that he could talk to
34:51about what was really
34:52happening.
34:52One of the biggest parts
34:53for serial killers
34:54is to get to brag
34:55about how many people
34:55They've killed.
34:57On February 22nd,
34:59Police charged Pickton
35:00with the murders
35:01of Serena Abbott's Way
35:02and Mona Wilson.
35:04Meanwhile,
35:05a small army of police
35:07and forensic specialists
35:08were converging on the farm
35:10to search for the remains
35:12of other victims.
35:14The police investigators
35:15made a grid
35:16of the entire property,
35:17and they were searching
35:18it grid box by grid box.
35:20The forensic investigation
35:22revealed a terrifying history
35:24of murder and depravity.
35:26There were some freezers
35:28in there.
35:29One of the freezers
35:30contained two buckets
35:32with each containing
35:34the head and hands
35:36and feet
35:37of Serena Abbott's Way
35:38and Andrea Josbury.
35:41They took literally
35:43hundreds and hundreds
35:44of thousands
35:45of DNA samples.
35:46It was just
35:47a mind-boggling
35:48police operation,
35:50just a forensic search
35:51that probably is
35:52unriveted almost anywhere.
35:56By April 2002,
35:58The police had enough evidence.
35:59to charge Pickton
36:00with five more
36:01counts of murder.
36:03Stories about Pickton's
36:05butchery
36:05made headlines
36:06across Canada
36:07and the U.S.
36:09A few times,
36:10I had phone calls
36:11from journalists
36:12asking me
36:13if I knew
36:13a particular woman,
36:14and I'd say,
36:15yeah, sure,
36:15I know her.
36:16Why?
36:17And they'd say,
36:17well, her remains
36:17were just found
36:18on Robert Pickton's farm.
36:21I had to process
36:23the fact
36:24that they were talking
36:24about someone
36:25who I had assumed
36:25was alive.
36:27Even with Willie
36:28behind bars,
36:30details about the murders
36:31spread terror
36:32throughout the city.
36:34On March 11, 2004,
36:36Canadian health officials
36:38issued a shocking statement.
36:40Crust contamination
36:41could mean
36:42that human remains
36:43did get into
36:44or contaminate
36:46some of the pork meat
36:47that was produced
36:51We'd been given
36:52a lot of pig meat
36:53from that pig farm.
36:54The night that this
36:55Everything broke down on the news.
36:57We phoned Lynn.
36:58and the first thing
36:59that my daughter
36:59had said to her aunt
37:02was,
37:03I was really sorry
37:03with Auntie Lynn
37:05because it's possible
37:06We could have eaten Marnie.
37:11No one brought meat forward.
37:14but for many,
37:15Pickton's trial
37:16could not start soon enough.
37:19The forensic investigation
37:21of evidence
37:21gathered at Willie's farm
37:23lasted 22 months.
37:25By the end of 2005,
37:28police had cataloged
37:29enough evidence
37:30to charge Willie Pickton
37:31with a total
37:32of 27 murders.
37:35But their case
37:36wasn't as strong
37:37as they'd hoped.
37:39as the pig farmers' trial
37:41approached,
37:42no one expected
37:43to eventually hear
37:44the words
37:46not guilty.
37:47We looked over
37:48and suddenly we realized
37:49that some of the jurors
37:50They were in tears.
37:51And that
37:53told me right away
37:54that there was going
37:55to be a problem
37:56with this verdict.
38:07January 2006.
38:09The trial of Canada's
38:11worst serial killer
38:12It was about to begin.
38:14Throns of spectators,
38:16including dozens of victims
38:18family members,
38:19filled a Vancouver courtroom.
38:20They came to see
38:23a butcher
38:23brought to justice.
38:25Pig farmer
38:27Robert Willie Pickton
38:28was charged
38:29with killing
38:29and dismembering
38:3027 women.
38:35But authorities believe
38:36the number of victims
38:37could be as high
38:3849.
38:41Chilling details
38:42about his crimes
38:43gripped readers
38:44in Canada
38:45and the U.S.
38:46What makes Pickton
38:47front page news
38:48is this almost
38:51perverse combination,
38:53pig farming
38:54and, you know,
38:55serial sexual predators.
38:58It became
38:59a sort of
39:00fascinatingly lurid case.
39:03Pre-trial hearings
39:05It took almost a year.
39:07Justice James Williams
39:08dismissed one murder
39:09charge for lack of evidence.
39:11He also divided the cases
39:13into two trials.
39:15The cases were just
39:16so complex
39:17and so long
39:18the judge ordered
39:19a severance
39:20so that the case
39:20would become manageable.
39:22Pickton would first
39:23stand trial
39:24for six counts of murder.
39:26And to ensure
39:27a fair trial,
39:28the judge issued
39:29a strict publications ban,
39:31limiting what details
39:33reporters could share
39:34about the trial.
39:37The first trial
39:38began on January 22, 2007.
39:42Inside the new
39:43Westminster Supreme Court,
39:45Family members came
39:47face to face
39:48with the man
39:49many called
39:50The Butcher.
39:52He's always got a smirk
39:53on his face.
39:54He just gives me the creeps
39:55when I'm in the courtroom.
39:56He just gives me the creeps.
39:58Willie Pickton
39:59pleaded not guilty
40:01to murdering
40:01Marnie Frey,
40:02Serena Abbotsway,
40:04Georgina Pappin,
40:06Andrea Joesbury,
40:07Brenda Wolfe,
40:08and Mona Wilson.
40:12The prosecution
40:13led the jury
40:14through a staggering
40:15array of evidence
40:16including gruesome
40:17crime scene photos,
40:19blood spatter analysis
40:21forensic and DNA evidence.
40:23There were all kinds
40:25of evidence presented
40:26like a woman's jacket
40:27and lipstick
40:27and night vision,
40:30goggles,
40:31manacles,
40:32just really ugly,
40:34terrifying stuff.
40:35Among the witnesses
40:36who testified
40:37against Willie,
40:38Andrew Bellwood
40:39was a man
40:40who lived
40:40at the Pickton Farm
40:41for several weeks
40:43in 1999.
40:44He testified
40:45that Willie
40:47had play-acted
40:48the murder
40:49of prostitutes
40:50on his bed
40:51kneeling down
40:53and pretending
40:54that he was
40:55strangling a prostitute
40:57with a belt
40:58or a piece of wire.
41:01The defense
41:03attacked Bellwood's
41:04credibility
41:04citing his criminal record
41:06and former drug use.
41:09Still,
41:10Bellwood's story
41:11chilled the courtroom.
41:12His descriptions
41:14were very,
41:15Very detailed.
41:16Equally compelling
41:17was the testimony
41:18of Willie's
41:19one-time friend,
41:21Lynn Ellingson.
41:23She was the only person
41:24that was going to testify
41:25that she'd seen
41:26Willie Pickton
41:27with a dead woman.
41:29But Willie's defense team
41:31shredded Ellingson's testimony.
41:33They exposed
41:34inconsistencies
41:35in her story
41:36and reminded jurors
41:38that she had been
41:39using drugs
41:40the night
41:40of the alleged murder.
41:41The defense
41:42worked very hard
41:43to undermine
41:44her credibility
41:44with a great deal
41:45of success.
41:46As the trial continued,
41:48the defense team
41:49portrayed Willie
41:50as a dimwit
41:51who wasn't capable
41:52of committing
41:52these elaborate murders
41:54on his own.
41:55In some sense,
41:56he was almost
41:57a primitive animal.
41:58People talk about
41:59how smart he is,
42:00but wolves and animals
42:01Kill all the time.
42:02And Willie was probably
42:03one step removed
42:04from them.
42:05Pickton's lawyers
42:06suggested that friends
42:07like Ellingson
42:08or Dinah Taylor
42:09could have been
42:10responsible.
42:12Final arguments
42:13concluded
42:14on November 26, 2007.
42:17Jury deliberations
42:18dragged on
42:19for two weeks.
42:21On December 8,
42:23victims' families
42:24and reporters
42:24gathered to hear
42:25the jury's verdict.
42:27Suddenly,
42:28we realized
42:28that some of the jurors
42:29They were in tears.
42:30And that told me
42:32right away
42:32that there was going
42:33to be a problem
42:33with this verdict.
42:35And from the family's
42:36point of view,
42:37there was.
42:39Jurors found Pickton
42:41not guilty
42:42on all counts
42:44of first-degree murder.
42:46The families
42:47that were in the courtroom
42:48started to scream.
42:49But Pickton
42:50did not escape justice.
42:52The jury did find
42:54Pickton guilty
42:54on six counts
42:56of second-degree murder.
42:58Judge Williams
42:59gave him
43:00the maximum sentence,
43:0125 years in prison.
43:05And it's essentially
43:06about premeditation.
43:08And so you wonder
43:09how someone
43:09who killed six women
43:11didn't premeditate that,
43:14that it wasn't planned
43:15and orchestrated.
43:16The jury just couldn't
43:17reconcile in their mind
43:18whether or not
43:19He acted alone.
43:22A date for the second trial
43:23has not been set.
43:25Friends and family members
43:27of Pickton's
43:2720 other alleged victims
43:29are still waiting
43:30for their day in court.
43:32To think that we still
43:34have 20 charges
43:36that have never been tried
43:38against Robert Pickton
43:40feels like it's unfinished
43:41business to me.
43:44Investigators may never know
43:45how many women
43:46were murdered
43:47on the Pickton farm.
43:50Another haunted question.
43:52What turned a lonely boy
43:54on a Canadian pig farm
43:56possibly into the country's
43:58most prolific serial killer?
44:01It's that combination
44:02of nature and nurture,
44:03of learning,
44:04of psychology,
44:05and also maybe genetics.
44:07Maybe he had a predisposition
44:08to being this way,
44:09but he also learned
44:11that life didn't really
44:12They have a lot of meaning.
44:13I know a lot of women
44:14on the downtown east side
44:15who would say
44:16just let him walk,
44:18Just let him be free.
44:18for five minutes
44:19And we'll deal with them.
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