newb
01-23-2007, 08:12 AM
A Canadian farmer has confessed to killing 49 women, one victim short of his target, a leading British broadsheet said Tuesday.
According to The Times, Robert "Willie" Pickton, who runs a pig farm outside the West Coast city of Vancouver, told investigators he had plotted one final murder to bring the tally to 50.
"I was going to do one more and make it an even 50," a prosecutor quoted Pickton as saying in an interview. "I made my own grave by being sloppy."
Pickton, 56, is said to have lured prostitutes and drug addicts from Vancouver's red-light district to parties on his farm. After slaying the victims, he would butcher their remains and feed them to his pigs.
The man was arrested in February 2002 after police visited his farm to search for an unlicensed shotgun only to discover identification cards belonging to some of the missing women, as well as severed body parts and skulls with bullet wounds in them.
Before his confession, Pickton pleaded not guilty to 26 counts of first-degree murder. He is now being tried on the first six counts, with the other 20 charges to be heard at a later trial.
According to The Times, Robert "Willie" Pickton, who runs a pig farm outside the West Coast city of Vancouver, told investigators he had plotted one final murder to bring the tally to 50.
"I was going to do one more and make it an even 50," a prosecutor quoted Pickton as saying in an interview. "I made my own grave by being sloppy."
Pickton, 56, is said to have lured prostitutes and drug addicts from Vancouver's red-light district to parties on his farm. After slaying the victims, he would butcher their remains and feed them to his pigs.
The man was arrested in February 2002 after police visited his farm to search for an unlicensed shotgun only to discover identification cards belonging to some of the missing women, as well as severed body parts and skulls with bullet wounds in them.
Before his confession, Pickton pleaded not guilty to 26 counts of first-degree murder. He is now being tried on the first six counts, with the other 20 charges to be heard at a later trial.