- Convicted Canadian serial killer Robert Pickton was attacked on Sunday
- Authorities say he was taken to the hospital in critical condition.
Convicted Canadian serial killer Robert Pickton, sometimes called the “worst serial killer in history,” was attacked in prison and taken to hospital in life-threatening condition, authorities announced Tuesday.
Pickton, 74, took dozens of female victims to his pig farm outside Vancouver in the 1990s and early 2000s, where he brutally killed them and fed them to his pigs. In total, she has confessed to killing 49 women.
After years of investigation by local authorities, he was convicted in 2007 of six counts of second-degree murder and sentenced to life in prison with a maximum period of parole ineligibility of 25 years, the harshest sentence that can be imposed. impose in Canada.
Following initial reports of the attack, Quebec police spokesman Hugues Beaulieu said a 51-year-old inmate was being held for the assault, which occurred Sunday.
In the years-long investigation that ultimately led to Pickton’s arrest and conviction, authorities discovered the remains or DNA of 33 women at the killer’s Port Coquitlam pig farm.
Convicted serial killer Robert Pickton is in critical condition after being attacked in prison on Sunday. He is known for brutally killing dozens of women in the Vancouver area over a span of two decades and feeding his victims to his pigs.
Prosecutors also argued that Pickton told an undercover officer in his cell that he had killed 49 women and that he intended to make them “50 alike.”
Most of the women were prostitutes or drug users, whom Pickton picked up in Vancouver’s downtown east; The police were criticized at the time for not taking the disappearance of dozens of women more seriously due to their marginal position in society.
Evidence presented in court indicated that Pickton fed his victims directly to his pigs and likely ground up some human flesh to mix with the pork he sold to the public.
The Canadian Correctional Service announced Monday that an inmate had been sent to hospital following a serious assault at the Port-Cartier Institution, a maximum security prison 300 miles from Quebec.
The prison service added on Tuesday that no prison staff were involved in the attack and confirmed the victim was Pickton.
Provincial police said the serial killer’s injuries were considered life-threatening.
Six of Pickton’s confirmed victims (there were apparently dozens) are Sereena Abotsway, Mona Wilson, Andrea Joesbury, Brenda Ann Wolfe, Georgina Papin and Marnie Frey.
Now-convicted murderer Robert Pickton appears at his trial taking notes nearly two decades ago. He was eventually convicted in 2007 of six counts of second-degree murder.
Royal Canadian Mounted Police investigators move debris at a pig farm February 19, 2002 in Port Coquitlam, British Columbia. The farm is currently being investigated for fifty missing women from the downtown Vancouver area.
Pickton and his brother operated a drinking club frequented by bikers and prostitutes near their pig farm outside Vancouver.
Dozens of women Pickton, now 74, is suspected of having murdered during his decades of homicidal violence.
Forensic workers collect evidence in the early 2000s at Canada’s largest crime scene, mass murderer Robert Pickton’s pig farm.
In April, a dozen Vancouver mayors sent a letter to the federal Minister of Justice asking that Pickton not be granted day parole, to which he is currently entitled. In 2027, she will also be eligible for full parole.
No other updates on Pickton’s current condition have been made public.