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The Piggy Palace Massacre (MATURE AUDIENCES ) · Crime and Horror

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  Speaker 1: If you have heard of Piggy Palace, the focus of
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  Speaker 1: today's story, then you know how horrific this story is.
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  Speaker 1: Robert picked In was born in nineteen forty nine in
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  Speaker 1: Port Coquitlam in British Columbia, which is about fifteen miles
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  Speaker 1: to the east of Vancouver. He along with his brother
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  Speaker 1: and sister, were raised by their parents on a big
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  Speaker 1: pig farm. In the nineteen seventies, their parents passed away
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  Speaker 1: and so the property was handed down to them.
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  Speaker 2: Robert and his brother took.
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  Speaker 1: Over the daily operations of the farm, and their sister
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  Speaker 1: decided to just move away. Over the next couple of decades,
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  Speaker 1: Robert and his brother attempted to run the pig farm,
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  Speaker 1: but pretty quickly they stopped taking care of it and
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  Speaker 1: it fell into decline. Neighbors and visitors were called seeing
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  Speaker 1: the pigs that were still there free roaming the property,
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  Speaker 1: and as for the brothers, it appeared they had just
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  Speaker 1: stopped bathing, and despite walking all day in mud and
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  Speaker 1: pig pieces, it seemed like they never took off their
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  Speaker 1: boots when they went inside. One of the few farm
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  Speaker 1: workers that stayed with the Pictons through the farm's decline
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  Speaker 1: was a guy by the name of Bill H.
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  Speaker 2: Hisscock's, and he said.
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  Speaker 1: The farm was a really creepy place, and he also
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  Speaker 1: said Robert was a really creepy guy that was prone
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  Speaker 1: to just totally bizarre behavior, even though he didn't.
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  Speaker 2: Smoke or drink or use any substances. Eventually, the Picton brothers.
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  Speaker 1: Realized they were not cut out to run the pig
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  Speaker 1: farm like their family had for generations before them, and
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  Speaker 1: they decided their best move was just to sell portions
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  Speaker 1: of their land. But neither of them could have guessed
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  Speaker 1: just how much their land was worth. From nineteen ninety
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  Speaker 1: to nineteen ninety five, they managed to sell off almost
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  Speaker 1: all of their property to an urban developer for over
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  Speaker 1: five million dollars, and so suddenly these filthy, failed pig
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  Speaker 1: farmers had become millionaires, and neither of them knew what
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  Speaker 1: to do with the money.
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  Speaker 2: After a year of just sitting on the money and
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  Speaker 2: not doing.
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  Speaker 1: Much with it, they decided they wanted to do some
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  Speaker 1: good with their money, and so they established an official
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  Speaker 1: charity in nineteen ninety six called the Piggy Palace Good
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  Speaker 1: Time Society. Their charity's purpose, at least on paper, was
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  Speaker 1: to help raise money for various organizations that they deemed worthy.
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  Speaker 2: By running events like dances and shows.
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  Speaker 1: And while that might have been their original intention for
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  Speaker 1: this charity, what it ultimately became was a guise to
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  Speaker 1: host these wild, drug and alcohol fueled parties inside of
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  Speaker 1: their slaughterhouse.
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  Speaker 2: Which, even though it wasn't being used anymore because they
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  Speaker 2: were no longer really doing.
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  Speaker 1: Any pig farming, it still conspicuously had big hooks coming
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  Speaker 1: down from the ceiling and bloodstains.
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  Speaker 2: All over the ground underneath them.
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  Speaker 1: These Piggy Palace parties became infamous in Coquitlam, drawing crowds
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  Speaker 1: of up to two thousand people, predominantly bikers, drug addicts,
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  Speaker 1: and prostitutes from the poverty stricken downtown east Side of Vancouver.
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  Speaker 1: Robert had become familiar with that part of Vancouver because
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  Speaker 1: he used to go through there all the time to
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  Speaker 1: dispose of animal waste products at.
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  Speaker 2: Their rendering plan.
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  Speaker 1: Once the Piggy Palace charity was in full swaying, Robert
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  Speaker 1: started going back into that neighborhood where he would cruise
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  Speaker 1: down the ten block strip called the load Track and
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  Speaker 1: would attempt to recruit people to come to his parties.
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  Speaker 1: Most of the people he recruited were down on their luck,
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  Speaker 1: women who only agreed to go because he was offering
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  Speaker 1: them food and money and drugs and alcohol. At the
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  Speaker 1: same time Robert was running this recruiting campaign, women from
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  Speaker 1: the Downtown east Side began disappearing in droves. These disappearances
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  Speaker 1: were noticed by the men and women in the Downtown
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  Speaker 1: east Side, but they didn't report them because they had
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  Speaker 1: a general distrust of the police and of authority figures
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  Speaker 1: in general.
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  Speaker 2: But as more and more and.
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  Speaker 1: More women disappeared from the Downtown east Side, rumors of
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  Speaker 1: a serial killer operating in that area started to sert.
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  Speaker 1: Residents began only going outside if they could walk around
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  Speaker 1: in a big group of people, and everybody was just
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  Speaker 1: totally on edge, keeping careful lookout for anything odd about
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  Speaker 1: the neighborhood.
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  Speaker 2: People that shouldn't be there, cars that shouldn't be there.
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  Speaker 1: But despite this heightened security, women continued to go missing
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  Speaker 1: at a rapid rate, and nobody knew why. When the
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  Speaker 1: police were finally contacted about all these missing women, their
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  Speaker 1: response was lacking, to say the least. Since there were
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  Speaker 1: no bodies of these missing women, the police said it
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  Speaker 1: was reasonable to assume that the women were to blame,
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  Speaker 1: that their lifestyles must have caught up with them and
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  Speaker 1: they either ran off somewhere or perhaps they overdosed somewhere
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  Speaker 1: and their.
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  Speaker 2: Bodies just haven't been found yet.
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  Speaker 1: Despite residents of the downtown East Side saying, no, this
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  Speaker 1: is different, there's something wrong here, the police basically said,
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  Speaker 1: we're not getting involved. When the newspapers found out about
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  Speaker 1: this totally apathetic response from the police, they criticized them
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  Speaker 1: for intentionally deprioritizing these missing women because the majority of
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  Speaker 1: them were drug addicts and prostitutes, and so there weren't
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  Speaker 1: worthy of a full investigation. The police rejected this claim
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  Speaker 1: on the evening of March twenty second, nineteen ninety seven.
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  Speaker 2: So one year after the Piggy Palace had.
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  Speaker 1: Been stood up and they started throwing all these parties,
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  Speaker 1: and one year after dozens of women have gone missing
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  Speaker 1: from the downtown east Side, the Picton's neighbor heard a
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  Speaker 1: frantic knock on their front door. They ran over, They
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  Speaker 1: opened it up, and what they saw was this woman
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  Speaker 1: who was hunched over with one hand on her bleeding stomach,
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  Speaker 1: and dangling from her wrist was a handcuff. The neighbor
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  Speaker 1: was obviously shocked at what they were seeing, but they
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  Speaker 1: quickly ushered the woman in and they called her an ambulance.
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  Speaker 1: The woman was rushed to the hospital, where she immediately
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  Speaker 1: was put into emergency surgery. Afterwards, while she was in recovery,
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  Speaker 1: she told her nurses that her name was Wendy and
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  Speaker 1: she had been at one of those Piggy Palace parties
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  Speaker 1: and one of the owners of the farm, Robert Picton,
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  Speaker 1: had tried to put a handcuff on her, and when
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  Speaker 1: he did she fought back.
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  Speaker 2: He drew a knife he stabbed her in the stomach.
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  Speaker 1: She was able to get the knife back, she stabbed
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  Speaker 1: him in the face before turning and running out the
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  Speaker 1: door and making it to the neighbor's house. Right after
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  Speaker 1: she told this story, Robert pickt In actually showed up
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  Speaker 1: at the exact same hospital with a serious laceration on
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  Speaker 1: his face that.
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  Speaker 2: Was consistent with being stabbed.
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  Speaker 1: The medical staff had already called the police, who showed
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  Speaker 1: up minutes later, and when they went inside, they searched
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  Speaker 1: Robert and they found in one of his pockets a
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  Speaker 1: handcuff key, and that handcuff key opened the handcuff that
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  Speaker 1: was still on Wendy's wrist, and so when the police
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  Speaker 1: saw that, they arrested Robert on attempted murder. While Robert
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  Speaker 1: was in custody, he explained to officers that Wendy was lying.
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  Speaker 1: She was a drug addict, and she had come to
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  Speaker 1: one of their Piggy Palace parties and he had caught
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  Speaker 1: her trying to rob them. He had confronted her, she
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  Speaker 1: drew a knife, and that's when a struggle ensued and
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  Speaker 1: both of them got stabbed, and Robert.
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  Speaker 2: Said he was just lucky to be alive.
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  Speaker 1: The police believed him and dropped all of his charges
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  Speaker 1: and let him go. When Robert got back to the farm,
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  Speaker 1: Bill Hyscocks, the one worker who still worked for the
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  Speaker 1: pict Ins, he grew very suspicious of Robert. He had
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  Speaker 1: read all about the missing women from the Downtown east
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  Speaker 1: Side and he knew Robert regularly went over there to
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  Speaker 1: pick up women and brought them back to his parties.
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  Speaker 2: And Bill just always had that.
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  Speaker 1: Gut feeling that something was off about Robert, and so
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  Speaker 1: he sat on this gut feeling for a couple of
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  Speaker 1: months until finally he decided he had to tell someone,
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  Speaker 1: and so he called the Crime Stoppers tip line, and
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  Speaker 1: he told them that he thought Robert had actually attacked Wendy,
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  Speaker 1: not the other way around, and that actually Robert was
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  Speaker 1: most likely behind some or all of these missing women
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  Speaker 1: from the Downtown east Side. Bill also said that a
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  Speaker 1: recent female party guest at the farm had seen a
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  Speaker 1: pile of women's clothing inside of Robert's trailer, along with
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  Speaker 1: at least ten purses and women's ID cards. The police
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  Speaker 1: followed up with Lisa to confirm what she saw, but
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  Speaker 1: she was scared of Robert and said she wasn't going
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  Speaker 1: to cooperate, and so the police without this testimony, were
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  Speaker 1: unable to secure a search warrant to investigate this further,
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  Speaker 1: and so they kind of just forgot about it and
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  Speaker 1: moved on to other cases. Over the next few years,
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  Speaker 1: the Pictons continued to throw these huge piggy palace parties
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  Speaker 1: until the city finally shut them down, and dozens more
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  Speaker 1: women disappeared from the downtown east Side without a significant
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  Speaker 1: police investigation, despite the fact that Bill was calling them
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  Speaker 1: all the time to say he believed Robert Pickton was
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  Speaker 1: behind all of these disappearances, but they weren't taking him seriously. Finally,
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  Speaker 1: in two thousand and two, a former employee of the
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  Speaker 1: Picton farm came forward to police and said that he
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  Speaker 1: personally had seen illegal weapons inside of Robert's trailer, and
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  Speaker 1: this was enough information for the police to get a
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  Speaker 1: search warrant and raid the pig farm, And in February
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  Speaker 1: of that year, they did just that, and they found
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  Speaker 1: inside of Robert's trailer the illegal guns, as well as
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  Speaker 1: several items directly connected to some of the missing women from.
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  Speaker 2: The downtown east Side. Robert was arrested but let out
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  Speaker 2: on bail.
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  Speaker 1: He was put under surveillance and told he could not
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  Speaker 1: go back to the farm until they were done conducting
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  Speaker 1: a more thorough search, and during that more thorough search,
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  Speaker 1: they found blood from one of the missing women inside
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  Speaker 1: of Robert's trailer, and so Robert was re arrested and
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  Speaker 1: charged with murder. While he was being held in jail,
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  Speaker 1: he shared at his cell with another man who he
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  Speaker 1: believed was just another detainee, but he wasn't a detainee.
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  Speaker 1: He was actually an undercover police officer and their entire
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  Speaker 1: interaction was being recorded, and on this recording, Robert makes
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  Speaker 1: a few shocking statements.
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  Speaker 4: I don't know, I thought that m hm, y the
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  Speaker 4: verse you get stay.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, As Robert admits in this video, he killed forty
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  Speaker 1: nine people, who would turn out to be the majority
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  Speaker 1: of the missing women from the downtown east Side. After
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  Speaker 1: a lengthy investigation, it was determined Robert's killing spree began
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  Speaker 1: in nineteen ninety one, but it really kicked up a
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  Speaker 1: notch in nineteen ninety six when he and his brother
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  Speaker 1: started Piggy Palace because he was able to use their
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  Speaker 1: huge parties to lure more victims to his farm faster,
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  Speaker 1: and once they were at his farm, he would lure
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  Speaker 1: them into his trailer, where he would handcuff them, tell
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  Speaker 1: them it's over now, and he would inject anti freeze
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  Speaker 1: into them, or he would strangle.
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  Speaker 2: Them to death.
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  Speaker 1: Afterwards, he would move the victim's body to the slaughterhouse
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  Speaker 1: where he would butcher them like a pig. A large
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  Speaker 1: portion of his victim's remains would be fed to his pigs,
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  Speaker 1: and the parts he didn't feed to his pigs he
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  Speaker 1: would bring to the rendering plant in the downtown east Side,
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  Speaker 1: which is not far from where the victim was most
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  Speaker 1: likely picked up. A rendering plant takes animal waste products,
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  Speaker 1: crushes them up, and turns them into a gelatin. This
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  Speaker 1: gelatin is used in many everyday products from candy to cosmetics,
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  Speaker 1: which means Robert's victims wound up in things like lipstick
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  Speaker 1: and gummy bears. Also, sometimes, while Robert was going through
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  Speaker 1: this horrific disposal process, he would set aside some of
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  Speaker 1: the best cuts of meat and grind them up with
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  Speaker 1: pork and turn them into sausage. This sausage was served
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  Speaker 1: at Piggy Palace parties. It was also given to neighbors
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  Speaker 1: and food banks and orphanages. After sifting through three hundred
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  Speaker 1: thousand cubic meters of soil and pig feces underneath the
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  Speaker 1: Pickton farm. Investigators were only ever able to find little
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  Speaker 1: bits of remains of twenty six women. Robert was charged
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  Speaker 1: with all twenty six murders, but only six turned into
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  Speaker 1: convictions due to.
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  Speaker 2: A lack of evidence.
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  Speaker 1: He was sentenced to life in prison and is still
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  Speaker 1: alive today. His brother and sister were never charged in
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  Speaker 1: connection with the crimes.
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