Meet Robert Pickton - a demented serial killer who fed his victims to pigs.
A monster who claimed he was disappointed with himself that he had only killed forty-nine and did not "make the big five-O."
Between 1978 and 2001, at least 65 women, mostly sex workers, began disappearing from the Downtown Eastside in Vancouver, Canada.
With rumors of a serial killer at large beginning to spread, sex workers began walking in groups and writing down the license plates of cars that picked up women.
The disappearances continued, but the Vancouver police denied the serial killer theory, as no bodies were ever found.
On 22 March 1997, a woman came forward claiming that she managed to escape the clutches of a man named Robert Pickton who attempted to kill her.
Although Pickton was charged with attempted murder, assault with a weapon, and forcible confinement, the charges were dropped because the woman, due to her drug addiction, was not considered a reliable witness. Pickton argued that the woman attacked him, not the other way around.
However, it didn't take long for Pickton's name to resurface.
In the spring of 1999, an informant told the Vancouver police that a friend, Lynn Ellingsen, had seen a woman’s body hanging at Robert Pickton’s farm.
Police brought Ellingsen in for questioning, but she denied ever seeing such a thing. Later, she confessed that she had, in fact, seen the body but feared Pickton might hurt her. Ellingsen also told the police that she depended on Pickton for drugs.
The same year, a 37-year-old man named Bill Hiscox, who worked for Pickton, reached out to the Royal Canadian Mounted Police claiming that Pickton's friend had told him she had seen women’s clothing, purses, and ID papers at the pig farm.
To everyone's disappointment, once again, the reports led nowhere as police could not obtain a search warrant based on hearsay. They required an eyewitness report or physical evidence.
It took three more years for the big break on the case to come.
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