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How did Robert Pickton make an impact

on his community around him?

Who is

Robert Pickton

Who is robert pickton?

Robert Pickton is a Canadian serial killer living in B.C Canada. Robert was born on the 24th of october in 1949. he has a mother, Helen Louise Pickton and a father Leonard pickton as well as a brother, David and a sister, Linda. Robert was known to be quiet and sometimes socially awkward and as time went on he began to develop some strange behaviours.

Robert had began commiting murders around 1983 and had gone around murdering women up until roughly 2003. Robert owned a pigfarm in Port Coquitlam. Robert grew up the farm with his family however his family had sold most parts of the land except Robert, Robert kept a small portion to himself which he had lived on in his small trailer.

What was his method?

What was Picktons method?

Pickton became familiar with the downtown eastside of Vancouver because he would go to a place for disposing animal parts, he had gone there often to dispose the animal parts that had gone to waste from his farm. Pickton would drive down the low track strip and offer drugs and money to woman that he would drive past. He would lure them into his truck and take the woman back to his farm. Pickton described how he killed his prostitutes by having sex with them from the back, handcuff them and would then strangle while in this proccess he would say “it's going to be OK. everything is over now” to the girls and soon after he would take the dead bodies to the slaughterhouse. In the slaughterhouse the women were gutted. He would comment on how much one person could bleed as if it fascinated him. He would hang them and let the pigs eat the carcass and whatever the pigs did not eat what end up in drums of entrails which is where he would put the pig guts in. He would grind up some of his victims into mincemeat and sell it to people even local police. He had put the meat of the bodies in his freezer.

The way Robert would kill these women was very dark and torturous.

No one would sespect anything from him because he was such a quiet guy who would keep to himself. Who knew such a quiet guy could do such a horrible thing. The way he desposed the bodies was very smart, bringing it to the place he would dump the pig waste it would be hard to find evidence at a place like that. But it wouldn't be long until someone would catch on, to all these missing women in the area. because of the method Robert had it allowed him to continuosly murder women for roughly 20 years.

who did

Pickton

target?

Who did Pickton target?

Robert had targeted vulnerable people such as sex trade workers drug addicts and those who suffered with mental health problems. Within the people he had targeted, there were also multiple indigenous women and prostitutes. At the time there were quite a few people living those lifestyles and in Vancouver there a lot of people living homeless. All of this made it easier for Pickton to take and lure woman because most of those girls living in those types of situations don't have much contact with family.

sex trade workers

vulnerable women

women

drug users

100%

38%

30%

32%

How did

the community

deal with this?

How did the community deal with this?

In 1978 the RCMP of Vancouver, Police Department and the missing woman task-force came together to make a list of missing women in the community. The RCMP set up a special team to investigate unsolved cases of missing women. Groups of sex worker began to walk down the streets writing down license plate numbers of the cars that would pick up women off the side of the street. In 1991, families of missing woman and advocates for sex trade workers made an annual walk to remember and memorialize all the missing victims. The Vancouver police would not come out and say that these disappearances were from the works of a serial killer and they wouldn't even consider the woman were dead. They refused. Some parts of the police force believe that it would make sense and be understandable if some of these women had either left or died from some type of overdose.

How did it

affect the community/B.C

How did this affect the community/ B.C ?

Robert was accused of killing 60 people but when Pickton had confessed to an undercover cover cop while in his cell. He confessed to killing 49 woman and he kept saying how much he wanted to finish with a big 5-O.

Rumors had started to spread around the possibility of a serial killer in the downtown Eastside. Even with the help from the community the woman had continued to go missing. A lot of families and loved ones wouldn't end up getting closure. All these murders led to the largest serial killer investigation in Canadian history and the form was named the biggest crime scene in Canadian history. This was definitely scary for a lot of people especially woman

The confession

https://youtu.be/UXPH6yzPOsg

The Pig Farm Documentary

https://youtu.be/L3HfVIurJA8

how were the women neglected

How were the women neglected?

A lot of the women that had gone missing were neglected. These girls were not living their best lives because a lot of them were either drug users prostitutes, sex trade workers, indigenous women , or homeless women. People living in that community may have not respected those women because of the way lived and their life styles. Other community members may have not realized or cared about these women going missing because they didn't do much good to the community (They didn't keep a good environment with the drugs needles and other things they may have left laying around) and perhaps they weren't often recognized. They also could've not felt the need to be worried about the missing girls because their were many reasons for those girls in that type of position to go missing for instance they may have had an overdose or passed away.

How did they suspect him?

How was he a suspect?

Pickton was charged with attempted murder which had connected him to the stabbing of Wendy lynn Eistetter who was a sex trade worker.

Robert had been driving down the Eastside of Vancouver when he had came across Wendy. He had tried to lure in Wendy but she did not want to go with him. Robert offered to drive her back at a certain time and was just being very friendly to her. Wendy had gotten in the truck and they drove back to his place in Port Coquitlam. Robert had sex with her a put a handcuff on her forcefully and stabbed her in the abdomen. Wendy had grabbed the knife and swung it right back him in self defence. Wendy had escaped from the farm, luckly as she got to the road a couple was driving up. She waved at them desperatley and as they saw her wound they quickly allowed her into the car and drove to the hospital. Robert and Wendy had been treated at the same hospital and the nurse was able to find a key in Roberts pocket to unlock the handcuff on Wendy. unfortunately the attempted murder charge was dropped becuase they believed that because Wendy was a drug user and was an addict that she would be to unstable to make an accurate testamony.

The result

The clothes and boots he was wearing that night, the police had kept. It wasn't until 2004 7 years later, when they had tested the boots which is where they had found DNA of two other missing women from the community. This had made a lot more suspicion towards him.

an anonymous call had been made to the tip line stating Robert should be investigated further in the case of the women's disappearances.

What would this lead to?

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