On December 9, 2007, Robert Pickton, a pig farmer from Port Coquitlam, was convicted of second-degree murder in the deaths of six women. He was also charged in the deaths of an additional twenty women, many of them from Vancouver's Downtown Eastside.
Robert Pickton, a pig farmer from Port Coquitlam, was convicted on December 9, 2007, of second-degree murder in connection with the deaths of six women. He was also accused of killing an additional twenty women, mostly from Vancouver's Downtown Eastside.