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2024-05-22 -Lurid Crime Tales-
Pig farmer and Serial killer Robert Pickton savagely attacked in prison, not expected to survive
[NY Post] The Canadian serial killer who lured over two dozen female victims to his pig farm is clinging to life after he was viciously attacked in prison, officials said.

Robert Pickton, 74, was in a segregated intervention unit at the maximum-security Port-Cartier Institution when he was speared in the head with a broken broom handle on Sunday evening, the Vancouver Sun reported.

As of Tuesday, Pickton was in critical condition and was not expected to survive.

Pickton’s 51-year-old attacker — whose name has not been released — had done a stint in solitary confinement for previous assaults on other inmates, a source told the outlet.

"The safety and security of institutions is paramount and an investigation into what occurred is currently underway," the Correctional Service of Canada told The Post in a statement.
"Right now we're just trying to find out what kind of cake he prefers"
The organization was not able to provide an update on Pickton’s condition.

Pickton was convicted of six counts of second-degree murder and sentenced to life in prison with the maximum parole ineligibility period of 25 years in 2007.

He was also charged with the murders of 21 other women, but those counts were stayed, the Vancouver Sun explained.

In total, investigators found DNA from 33 women — many of them sex workers who vanished from Vancouver’s downtown eastside in the 1990s and early 2000s — at Pickton’s Port Coquitlam pig farm.

Pickton also once allegedly bragged to an undercover police officer that he had killed as many as 49 women.

Grisly rumors about Pickton’s pig farm had swirled around the Vancouver area for years before he was finally arrested in 2002 — and authorities were criticized for initially failing to take the spate of missing women seriously.

"This news actually gives me a little bit of closure for myself," Cynthia Cardinal, whose sister Georgina Papin was one of PIckton’s official victims, told Postmedia of the killer’s injuries.

"I’ve had all these feelings today. I know it’s Georgina. And I know she’s happy," she added, calling Pickton’s injuries "karma."
Posted by Frank G 2024-05-22 11:14|| || Front Page|| [11136 views ]  Top

#1 Geethatstoobad.
Posted by ed in texas 2024-05-22 11:53||   2024-05-22 11:53|| Front Page Top

#2 Someone had a religious objection to his occupation but not his vocation.
Posted by Super Hose 2024-05-22 13:11||   2024-05-22 13:11|| Front Page Top

#3 Second Degree Murder must mean something different in Canada, because that is a murder factory and operation on par with the assisted suicide mission.
Posted by swksvolFF 2024-05-22 13:49||   2024-05-22 13:49|| Front Page Top

#4 lured over two dozen female victims to his pig farm

Huh?
Promised them fresh bacon?
Posted by Skidmark 2024-05-22 15:50||   2024-05-22 15:50|| Front Page Top

#5 I think the pigs should have had a say...
Posted by Glenmore 2024-05-22 16:14||   2024-05-22 16:14|| Front Page Top

#6 Second Degree Murder must mean something different in Canada,
Really! I have heard more moral outrage about War Crimes ...or are females just less important in Canada with the creeping onset of Sharia law up North?
Posted by magpie 2024-05-22 16:52||   2024-05-22 16:52|| Front Page Top

#7 If they aren't trans nobody up there cares.
Posted by M. Murcek 2024-05-22 17:02||   2024-05-22 17:02|| Front Page Top

#8 Seems likely someone's cousin or aunt was killed by this guy and it was decided that it was time he paid up.
Posted by Silentbrick 2024-05-22 17:45||   2024-05-22 17:45|| Front Page Top

#9 Pickton’s 51-year-old attacker — whose name has not been released — had done a stint in solitary confinement for previous assaults on other inmates, a source told the outlet

Doing the job the government refuses to do.
Posted by Procopius2k 2024-05-22 19:55||   2024-05-22 19:55|| Front Page Top

#10 This, times (6+21+x)



*I wouldn't put past a motive that this guy staying alive and these convictions continuing would be...embarassing to some. Maybe even litigious?

"Oooope. Case Closed, there's coffee in the lobby."
Posted by swksvolFF 2024-05-22 20:11||   2024-05-22 20:11|| Front Page Top

#11 ^ I *snorted*
Posted by Frank G 2024-05-22 20:42||   2024-05-22 20:42|| Front Page Top

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