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Robert Pickton

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Robert William Pickton (born October 24, 1949), also known as the Pig Farmer Killer or the Butcher, is a Canadian serial killer, serial rapist, former pig farmer and possible cannibal who is suspected of being one of the most prolific serial killers in Canadian history. After dropping out of school, Pickton left a butcher's apprenticeship to begin working full-time at his family's pig farm. He is believed to have begun his murders in the early 1990s after inheriting the farm. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Robert Pickton has received more than 5,531,531 page views. Her biography is available in 16 different languages on Wikipedia. Robert Pickton is the 203rd most popular extremist (down from 187th in 2019), the 456th most popular biography from Canada (down from 425th in 2019) and the most popular Canadian Extremist.

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  • 5.5M

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  • 44.21

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  • 16

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  • 1.91

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  • 3.34

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among EXTREMISTS

Among extremists, Robert Pickton ranks 203 out of 209Before her are Mildred Gillars, William Bonin, Francis Parker Yockey, Howard Marks, Abdul Quader Molla, and Ramzi Yousef. After her are Abubakar Shekau, Ziad Jarrah, Abu Mohammad al-Julani, Dawood Ibrahim, Vlado Taneski, and Karla Homolka.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1949, Robert Pickton ranks 481Before her are Michel Roger, Valeri Vasiliev, Toyokazu Nomura, Anthony Denison, Patrick Kilpatrick, and Mitsunori Fujiguchi. After her are Irena Degutienė, Mary Roos, Ian Charleson, Raoul Cédras, John Shea, and Gennady Novitsky.

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In Canada

Among people born in Canada, Robert Pickton ranks 456 out of 1,350Before her are Sven Delblanc (1931), Rachelle Lefevre (1979), Linda Thorson (1947), Pauline Marois (1949), Guy Gavriel Kay (1954), and Jack Kruschen (1922). After her are Colin Munro MacLeod (1909), Nancy Greene Raine (1943), Robert H. MacArthur (1930), Rob Pike (1956), George Orton (1873), and Farley Mowat (1921).

Among EXTREMISTS In Canada

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