Who is Robert Pickton and what did he do?
In this week’s episode, we talk more about the man, Robert Pickton, responsible for making Canadian women disappear for years and what horrors were found on his pig farm. View Robert Pickton’s jailhouse confession here.
What happened to Robert Pickton on ‘the Walking Dead’?
Any doubt over who initiated the tit-for-tat stabbings was dispelled when they found that the handcuff keys in Robert’s pocket fit the shackle still hanging off Wendy’s wrist. With that, Robert Pickton was arrested and charged with attempted murder.
Was Robert Pickton arrested for attempted murder?
With that, Robert Pickton was arrested and charged with attempted murder. The officers collected his clothes and boots as evidence, and once he had recovered, carted him off to jail. Surely it would be a pretty clear-cut case, right?
How many victims did Robert Pickton have?
It started with the horrific tale of how Robert Pickton killed and dismembered up to 49 victims, before feeding their remains to his pigs, and ended up a profile of one of the most morally questionable clans in Canadian criminal history.
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The Brothers
At the center of the story are two brothers: David and Robert Pickton, from Port Coquitlam, not far from Vancouver. Here the brothers and their sister Linda owned a pig farm, which they had inherited from their parents in the seventies.
The Piggy Palace Good Times Society
In 1996, David and Robert decided they wanted to share some of their wealth with the community. They filed an application for their very own non-profit organization, dubbed The Piggy Palace Good Times Society. In the application, they wrote that their plan was to:
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So it’s clearly not all good times at the Piggy Palace. David and Robert’s idea of altruism turned out to be illegally selling whiskey to bikers and sex workers, and they’ve drawn the irritated eye of the law as a result. But you’d be amazed at how much the local police were willing to let slide.
The Piggy Palace Good Times Weapons Raid
But that wasn’t the end of the Palace’s trouble with the law. For some reason the cops were reluctant to let these hillbilly humanitarians go about their fundraising in peace, all because of a few little “stabbings” and “brutal beatings”. In 2000, they were successful in crashing the party for good, and the Piggy Palace closed down.
The Full Search
For the moment, the brothers were free to go, after posting bail for Robert’s weapons charges. He was kept under close police surveillance, probably on account of the stabbing and guns and missing women’s stuff.
Arrest and Confession
On the 22nd of February, Robert Pickton was once again arrested, and charge with two counts of murder in the first degree. He was carted off to jail, and held without bail while the police went about establishing the extent of his crimes. There were plenty of questions left unanswered by that preliminary search, after all.
Excavations
Now the challenge for investigators was to find the physical evidence to make sure every one of those murder charges could be slapped on the Slack-jawed Slaughterer (yes, I’ve given him another nickname). They dug up the yards, raked through all of the rooms, and even dismantled the buildings.
