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Robert Pickton

1949 - 2024

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Robert William Pickton (October 24, 1949 – May 31, 2024), also known as the Pig Farmer Killer or the Butcher, was a Canadian serial killer and pig farmer. After dropping out of school, he left a butcher's apprenticeship to begin working full-time at his family's pig farm, and inherited it in the early 1990s. Between 1995 and 2001, Pickton is believed to have murdered at least 26 women, many of them prostitutes from Vancouver's Downtown Eastside. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Robert Pickton has received more than 6,769,852 page views. Her biography is available in 17 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 16 in 2019). Robert Pickton is the 238th most popular extremist (down from 203rd in 2019), the 462nd most popular biography from Canada (down from 455th in 2019) and the most popular Canadian Extremist.

Robert Pickton is infamous as a Canadian serial killer and former pig farmer convicted of second-degree murder for the killing of six women, though he confessed to killing 49 women and was charged with killing 26 more. His case, known as the Pickton murders, involved the deaths of many marginalized women from Vancouver's Downtown Eastside in the 1990s and early 2000s.

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  • 17

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  • 3.55

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Among EXTREMISTS

Among extremists, Robert Pickton ranks 238 out of 283. Before her are Joseph Paul Franklin, Abubakar Shekau, Francis Parker Yockey, Yvan Colonna, Abdul Quader Molla, and Howard Marks. After her are Bobby Joe Long, Ramzi Yousef, Zacarias Moussaoui, Abu Mohammad al-Julani, Yang Xinhai, and Eric Rudolph.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1949, Robert Pickton ranks 528. Before her are María Teresa Fernández de la Vega, Shaukat Aziz, Rafael Ángel Calderón Fournier, Ricardo Londoño, Michel Roger, and Gennady Novitsky. After her are Dušan Galis, Marion Hänsel, Pauline Marois, Jeannie Berlin, Bonnie J. Dunbar, and Enrique Wolff. Among people deceased in 2024, Robert Pickton ranks 327. Before her are Amaral, Hama Amadou, Charles Cyphers, Artur Chilingarov, Thomas E. Kurtz, and Béla Károlyi. After her are Luciano Sušanj, Martin Mull, Alan Rees, Robert H. Dennard, Peter Armbruster, and Richard Lewis.

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In Canada

Among people born in Canada, Robert Pickton ranks 462 out of 1,622. Before her are Anke Engelke (1965), Daniel Gillies (1976), Thomas Christopher Collins (1947), Jacob Viner (1892), Alissa White-Gluz (1985), and Alex Wilson (1905). After her are Paul Grégoire (1911), David James Elliott (1960), François Legault (1957), Pauline Marois (1949), Barbara Ann Scott (1928), and George-Étienne Cartier (1814).

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Among EXTREMISTS In Canada

Among extremists born in Canada, Robert Pickton ranks 1. After her are Karla Homolka (1970), and Omar Khadr (1986).

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