Episode 241: Robert Pickton: Pigs and Prostitutes
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We hit you with some true crime on this episode of The Sofa King Podcast as we look at the life, killings, pigs, and parties of Robert Pickton. He was Canada’s most prolific serial killer, confessing to a total of 49 murders of prostitutes. Robert Pickton was a third-generation pig farmer in Port Coquitlam, British Columbia. He and his siblings, however, let the farm go into disarray, using very little of it. They sold much of the property (splitting almost $6 Million between the three of them), and used it to raise a small number of pigs they’d sell to friends and neighbors.
Eventually, they got the idea to turn parts of the farm into a non-profit organization that held parties for people. Dubbed the “Piggy Palace Good Times Society,” it was place where they held raves and prostitute parties for one of the worst slums in Canada. They got in legal trouble for using slaughter houses as dance halls, and eventually they had to shut the operation down. However, during this whole time, it was believed Robert Pickton was killing the prostitutes who visited his farm.
Eventually, more than 60 women went missing from the same neighborhood and under similar circumstances. Pickton got in some legal trouble for attacking a sex worker with a knife, but the charges were dropped. He even got investigated for having human remains in a freezer, but those were dismissed as well. What finally brought him down? An anonymous tip that he had illegal firearms on the farm. The police finally came to search and discovered a horror show.
They found bones, jaws, and skulls in the mud and the slaughter house. They found skulls packed with feet and hands, photos of bodies, and tons of DNA from missing women.
So, how did Robert Pickton’s trial go down? What did he accidentally confess to an undercover officer while being filmed in jail? Why do some people think his mother and brother were killers as well? What evidence did the jury not even get to see because of the odd nature of the court proceedings? Why did the judge only try him for 6 murders when they evidence enough to push for 26? What was his dildo gun? Listen, laugh, learn.
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