Canadian Serial Killer Robert Pickton Dies After Prison Attack

Convicted B.C. serial killer Robert Pickton has died in hospital.

It has been confirmed that Pickton succumbed to his injuries following an attack by another inmate on May 19 at Québec’s maximum-security Port-Cartier Institution. He was 74 years old.

In 2007, Pickton was convicted of the murders of six women and sentenced to life in prison with no possibility of parole for 25 years, the maximum sentence for second-degree murder in Canada.

The remains or DNA of 33 women, many of whom were taken from Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside, were discovered on Pickton’s farm. He once boasted to an undercover police officer that he had killed a total of 49 women.

Pickton’s confirmed victims were Georgina Papin, Sereena Abotsway, Mona Wilson, Andrea Joesbury, Brenda Ann Wolfe, and Marnie Frey.

In a statement later Friday, Correctional Service Canada (CSC) reported that Pickton’s family and the victims who requested notification have been informed of his death.

News of the attack emerged on May 21, when the Sûreté du Québec, the province’s police service, reported that Pickton had been assaulted by a 51-year-old inmate and airlifted to a Québec City hospital, where he remained until his death.