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Murder at Piggy's Palace: The Bizarre Serial Murder Case of Robert "Willie" Pickton

By Rachel Plotnick

The phenomenon of serial murder has existed among mankind throughout history, though the documentation of this type of killing humans has not been substantial prior to the last 75 years or so. Despite the long history of serial murder, however, it should be noted that the number of incidents or commissions of such murders has never been as great as they are today. Even the numbers of victims in such cases has increased. The bizarre case of Robert Pickton, the Canadian pig farmer turned serial murderer, serves as a perfect example of the latter statement?best estimates are that he may have claimed as many as 49 victims and, in his own words, he was going for "an even fifty" at the time of his arrest. If serial murder had reached "an almost epidemic proportion," according to Robert Ressler, formerly of the FBI?s Behavioral Sciences Unit, by that criminal profiler?s estimate that was published in the mid-1980s, now, more than two decades later, such so-called "motiveless" crimes have come even closer to reaching Ressler?s assessment and belief...continue to full post

Full post as published by Bizarre Crimes of the Week on March 20, 2008 (boomark / email).