Robert Pickton Victims
Pig farmer Robert Pickton was convicted of six murders but linked to as many as 49 missing women from Vancouver's Downtown Eastside. Remains were found on his farm. He died in prison in 2024.
Robert Pickton, a pig farmer from Port Coquitlam, British Columbia, was linked to the disappearances of dozens of women from Vancouver's Downtown Eastside—many of them Indigenous women and sex workers.
Police searched his farm beginning in 2002, finding the DNA of 33 women on the property. Pickton told an undercover officer he had killed 49 women and was 'sloppy' about cleaning up.
He was convicted of six counts of second-degree murder in 2007 and sentenced to life with no parole for 25 years. The remaining 20 charges were stayed.
Pickton died in prison on May 31, 2024 after being attacked by a fellow inmate. The case exposed systemic failures in how police handled missing persons cases involving marginalized women.
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