country conviction alias birth_place name sentence birth_date victims beginyear article_title endyear birth_name apprehended
canada murder the pig farmer killer port coquitlam , british columbia robert pickton life imprisonment 26 october 1949 6 -- 49 1983 robert pickton
 2002 robert william pickton february 22 , 2002
robert pickton

robert william `` willie '' pickton -lrb- born october 26 , 1949 -rrb- of port coquitlam , british columbia , canada is a former multi-millionaire pig farmer and serial killer convicted in 2007 of the second-degree murders of six women .
he was also charged in the deaths of an additional twenty women , many of them from vancouver 's downtown eastside , however these charges were stayed by the crown in 2010 .
in december 2007 he was sentenced to life in prison , with no possibility of parole for 25 years -- the longest sentence then available under canadian law for murder .
during the trial 's first day of jury evidence , january 22 , 2007 , the crown stated he confessed to 49 murders to an undercover police officer posing as a cellmate .
the crown reported that pickton told the officer that he wanted to kill another woman to make it an even 50 , and that he was caught because he was `` sloppy '' .
