Disappearances
In Vancouver in 1995, a fashionably dressed woman walked into the local police station and reported that her friend was missing, but when the police asked for information about the missing person, the woman was embarrassed. It turned out that she, like the missing woman, was a local pornographer.
After learning this information, the police officer did not care, because in 1995, Vancouver's security was very chaotic, and the missing person was a call girl, he felt that this woman may have been adopted by whom, and did not continue to investigate, casually prevaricating the woman and leaving it behind.
But what he didn't expect was that after this case happened, it was like after the first card in the domino was pushed down. Between 1995 and 1998, there were dozens of missing women in the Vancouver area, and the missing women were all local call girls! During this period, an enthusiastic citizen sent a list of missing people to the police station, saying that this was a local woman who had disappeared in recent years, and the number of missing people on the list was as high as 54!
List received by the police
You must know that Vancouver is an important large city in Canada, although the security was a little chaotic in that era, but such a vicious case has never happened. So the Vancouver police immediately set up a special team to investigate the case.
Turn
The task force judged that the series of disappearances was highly similar, most likely by one person, so they organized a large number of police forces to stare at the group of call girls to see if any suspicious persons appeared. Soon they found a man named Michael, a man who was a frequent alcoholic and, when drunk, insulted and beat women on the street. However, the task force caught him and found that Michael was not the murderer and was mentally ill, so he was admitted to a mental hospital.
michael
In order to find the real culprit, the task force offered a reward in the newspaper for clues. The hefty prize money attracted a lot of people, but most of it was useless information, but there was a man named Bill who provided information that attracted the attention of the task force.
Bounty information released by the police
Bill works at a scrap recycling station, his boss is Robert Pickton, Robert and his brother run the recycling station together, in addition to Robert also has a pig farm, because Robert is busy on the farm most of the time, so whenever it comes to pay, Bill will come to the farm to receive wages.
But slowly Bill noticed that the pigs on the farm seemed to be different, unlike the pigs Bill had seen before, the pigs here seemed to be very grumpy, liked to attack people, and would chase and bite when they saw people. There was also a modified bus parked on the farm, with a layer of paint covering its windows, so it was impossible to see what was inside. What really made Bill suspicious was that he had seen many women's wallets and ID cards in Robert's car.
Robert
The task force immediately launched an investigation into Robert, who discovered that robert was a veteran prostitute who had been hanging out in Vancouver's East End (where there are many sex service workers). But after investigating Robert's farm, no clues were found, but the pigs here are indeed particularly fierce, but this does not prove that Robert is the murderer.
And during the police investigation, Robert still went out every day to have fun and brought women home. This confused the task force, because if Robert is really the murderer, the police are investigating him, shouldn't they restrain a little? So the police ruled him out.
But shortly after, police received a report from a woman who had seen a female body on Robert's farm. It turned out that the woman named Allison was also a call girl, and Robert was her regular guest, although Robert was a difficult guest, but allison endured in the face of money.
Allison
This time she went to Robert's farm on an appointment, and woke up in the middle of the night, intending to go to the yard to breathe. But after going out, she saw that in the corner of the courtyard, there was a place that emitted a little light, and out of curiosity, she walked over, but she didn't think about where there was a female corpse hanging, swinging with the wind!
Frightened, Allison rushed out and called the police (Allison was the only woman to escape from Robert's butcher's knife). However, when the police arrived, they did not find the body, where the slaughtered pork was hanging, and the police again failed to return, but secretly stepped up the surveillance of Robert. In the course of the investigation of the case, the call girl is still missing one after another, and the pressure of the task force is huge, but it suffers from no significant clues.
Perverted demons
Fast forward to 2002, and as the investigation deepened, more and more clues pointed to Robert and his farm. The police decided to search the farm thoroughly, but could not apply for a search warrant because there was no direct evidence. So the task force searched on the grounds that it had received reports that illegal guns were hidden in Robert's farm, and it was this move that unveiled the dark curtain of this earth-shattering case.
The police first searched the bus parked in the courtyard of the farm, and in this bus there was a huge refrigerator, and a police officer opened the refrigerator and found two buckets inside, and after seeing what the bucket contained, he couldn't help but run out and vomit. The other police officers hurried over to check it out, and when they got closer, they all showed a look of horror, and the bucket contained a split head!
Robert's Farm
And there are many women's ID cards and wallets in the car, and after checking the ID cards, it is found that these people are missing women! Not only that, but suspected human bones were also found in the farm's pigsty, and then the police carried out a three-foot digging inspection in the farm, according to media reports, the police dispatched several excavators, and the entire excavation work took twenty months and cost a total of 70 million Canadian dollars!
A large number of human skeletons and female objects were found in the underground of Robert's farm, and according to later public information, nearly ninety different human DNA were isolated from the remains excavated under the farm, of which men and women accounted for about half of them.
Excavation site
In prison, Robert also kept bragging to his fellow inmates about the crime of committing crimes with handcuffs, anesthesia needles, and pistols fitted with silencers. He also said: "I originally wanted to kill enough fifty women to take over, but I didn't expect to kill forty-nine and be arrested", as for the men he killed, I can't count myself.
But Robert's perversion is more than that, after killing his victim, he feeds part of his victim's body to pigs and partly into sausages. Do you think he just eats it himself? No, no, no, he often gave these sausages to his neighbors or to the workers to make working meals!!! Do you think that's the end of it? No, no, no, this pervert also sold some of it to the market!!!
After the news spread, the residents of the entire city of Vancouver had not eaten pork for a long time.
As the killer is caught, people who follow the case are also curious about the psychology of Robert to kill so many innocent victims. It turned out that Robert grew up on this farm when he was a child, and because there were many pigs on the farm, he always had some smell on his body, which also led to him often being ostracized by his classmates. Coupled with his poor grades and the fact that his teachers did not like him, Robert became more and more withdrawn over time.
However, although Robert did not have good grades, he worked very hard, and he also raised a calf, which he regarded as his only friend, but soon after the calf died, which hit him hard. But the one that affected him the most was that his brother David accidentally hit a little boy while driving, and a panicked David ran home and told his mother, but his mother did not panic in the slightest, saying that she would take care of it. His mother's approach was to throw the unconscious boy into a nearby river, and eventually the police determined that the boy had drowned.
There is such a mother, and it seems that there is a reason why Robert has become a perverted demon. Robert doesn't think he's guilty, he says he's just "cleaning up the garbage," but whether he admits guilt or not, he can't escape the law in the face of ironclad evidence.
Strange judgment
In 2006, the Supreme Court of British Columbia, Canada, opened a public trial in the case, where police filed twenty-seven charges of first-degree murder against Robert, but the judge dismissed one of them a month later on the grounds of insufficient evidence and divided the remaining twenty-six first-degree murder charges into twenty first-degree murder and six second-degree murder charges.
The strange point came that during the trial, some jurors actually questioned Robert's killing of so many victims alone, and made critical accusations and accusations about the police investigation process and every link in the evidence chain. We don't know what these jurors think, whether they have taken black money to excuse criminals, or whether they really naively believe that a person cannot be so bad.
Unsurprisingly, however, the verdict was affected, and in December 2007, the jury ruled that all twenty charges of first-degree murder were not established, and only six counts of second-degree murder were admitted. It was not until a year later, in December 2008, that the verdict of the second instance was awaited: Picton was sentenced to life imprisonment and not parole for twenty-five years.
Such a vicious perverted demon, who was not punished as he deserved, still had the opportunity to be released on bail, and did not know how the victim's family felt.
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