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- DoubleTalkingJive
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Re: That Canadian Pig Farmer is found Guilty
We had a thread on it but I think it was on the old board I can't find it here. Anyhow GUILTY, as if we didn't already know that.
NEW WESTMINSTER, British Columbia - A pig farmer accused of being Canada's worst serial killer was found guilty Sunday of six counts of second-degree murder, which carries a mandatory sentence of life in prison.
The verdict ended the trial of Robert '˜Willie' Pickton on the first six of 26 murder charges in the deaths of women, most of them prostitutes and drug addicts from a seedy Vancouver neighborhood.
Pickton, 58, was tried for the killings of Mona Wilson, Sereena Abotsway, Marnie Frey, Brenda Wolfe, Andrea Joesbury and Georgina Papin. The defense acknowledged that their remains were found on Pickton's farm outside Vancouver, but denied he was responsible for their deaths.
The jury of seven men and five women began its deliberations Friday night. They had the option of finding Pickton guilty of first-degree murder, second-degree murder or manslaughter or not guilty on any of the six counts.
Pickton listened to the verdict with his head bowed. He will receive a mandatory sentence of life in prison and will not be eligible for parole for at least 10 years. The jury was deliberating Sunday whether to extend that 10-year period.
Two jurors, both women, wiped tears from their eyes while the verdict was read.
Prosecutors have said Pickton will be tried for the 20 other murder charges but no date has been set.
Last week, Judge James Williams reviewed the transcript of a videotape in which Pickton is heard telling an undercover police officer that he had planned to kill one more woman before stopping at 50, taking a break and then killing 25 more women.
'I was going to do one more; make it an even 50,' Pickton told the officer, who had been planted in the accused killer's cell and gained his trust.
A day earlier, Papin's three sisters cried and clutched each other's hands in court while the judge reviewed the testimony of witness Lynn Ellingson, who said she walked in on a blood-covered Pickton as Papin's body dangled from a chain in the farm's slaughterhouse.
Prosecution witness Andrew Bellwood had testified that Pickton told him how he strangled his alleged victims and fed their remains to his pigs.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/22171380/
Walking in on that is like straight out of a movie.....horrific.
Re: That Canadian Pig Farmer is found Guilty
I love the topic of this thread... makes it sound like we only have one pig farmer here in the great white north.
Pickton is a sicko though. This was one of the craziest murder stories in recent memory. Certainly one of the biggest in Canadian history (I'd stick the Bernardo/Homolka case up there, not out of volume, but out of brutality). Fucking sick though. It is like straight out of a movie. Ever watch Snatch? Bricktop feeds people to pigs.
I don't understand why this is murder 2 though. It should be murder 1. The difference is intent. murder 1 is preconceived. I don't understand how him picking up prostitutes and bringing them to be killed doesn't satisfy preconceiving murder. He knew what he was going to do... 26 times. Of course, there's no difference, life in prison is life. Only difference is chance of parole. I'm surprised the judge didn't raise the bar here though and increase the sentence so that he has no chance of parole or so that he's serving 2 25 year sentences back to back. I guess he's 58 years old, so there's minimal chance he's getting out of prison alive if he's serving at least 25 years. He's eligible for parole in 10 years though, that's retarded.
- DoubleTalkingJive
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Re: That Canadian Pig Farmer is found Guilty
Yes after I re-read the article after I posted, I was like wait he is ellible for parole in 10, that makes no sense at all. Maybe someone made a mistake 
Maybe someone on the jury didn't want to even convict so they had to make it so he could be ellible for parole so that person would agree?
Re: That Canadian Pig Farmer is found Guilty
Second degree murder is life in prison with possible parole in 10 years, vs. first degree which has possible parole after 25 years. The jury doesn't make that call. They just decide whether or not he's guilty. The article is wrong, though, the jury isn't deciding about the parole period, the judge does that. We'll know more when he's sentenced. However the jury decided he wasn't guilty of 6 charges of first degree murder is beyond me.
Re: That Canadian Pig Farmer is found Guilty
Why dig down the bodies when you have a pig farm? Would be no way to catch him if the evidence is eaten.
Clever guy.
He fed them to the pigs. But I'm thinking he forgot the rule. When you feed the pigs, you have to remove all the nails, teeth, and hair. Pigs won't digest those things, so it's possible that's how the remains were found. At least, that's what they said on Snatch.
- luckylittlelady
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Re: That Canadian Pig Farmer is found Guilty
If I remember correctly, those pigs went in to the food chain afterwards. I wouldn't like to be eating sausages made from pigs fed on murdered prostitutes one little bit.
Why dig down the bodies when you have a pig farm? Would be no way to catch him if the evidence is eaten.
Clever guy.
But not clever enough to not be caught covered in blood with a body dangling from a chain.
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