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Serial killer Robert Pickton dies 22 years after a gruesome discovery

Serial killer Robert Pickton dies 22 years after a gruesome discovery

The search of the pig farm was supposed to find illegal guns. That’s what the informant had told Canadian police. But when officers raided Robert Pickton’s property in British Columbia, what they found was worse. There was women’s clothing and jewelry. An asthma inhaler prescribed to a missing woman. The blood of another. That was just the start. The pig farm soon became the largest crime scene in Canadian history. That initial search led to the arrest of the serial killer who was charged with murdering 26 women and bragged in jail that he had really killed 49. On Friday, Pickton died after another inmate assaulted him on May 19, Canadian authorities said. “We are mindful that this offender’s case has had a devastating impact on communities in British Columbia and across the country, including Indigenous peoples, victims and their families,” Correctional Service Canada said in a news release. “Our thoughts are with them.” Pickton, who pleaded not guilty to the murders, was serving a life sentence. The search began in early 2002, the start …