Robert Pickton: The Serial Killer

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The serial killer I chose is Robert William Pickton,"The pig farmer killer",because I found his background to be very interesting and it made me feel anxious to know more about his life.

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Robert William Pickton is a former multi-millionaire pig farmer and serial killer. Pickton was born on October 26, 1949 (age 66) in Port Coquitlam, British Columbia.He was living in Vancouver, BC. Pickton’s two siblings are Linda Louise Wright(Sister) and David Francis Pickton(Brother). His parents were Helen Louise Pickton(Mother) and Leonard Pickton(Father). Pickton’s race or ethnicity-white.
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Robert Pickton had very poor hygiene.During childhood behavior, Pickton was shunned in school and never showered because he had a …show more content…
This was because when he was younger and afraid of his parents, he would go into pig carcasses and hide for comfort. His lack of personal hygiene means that he was trying to keep people away with his anti-social personality. Pickton would send some of his victims through a meat mincer. When throwing a party with prostitutes, Pickton used sexual aggression and raped his victims. He also fed some of his victims to his guests at these parties without them noticing. In the psychological theories, Pickton was lacking the fifth stage: the tertiary circular reactions, novelty, and curiosity. During this stage, pickton became stuck with the idea of pigs and slaughtering them in his farm. This resulted in the fascination with pigs to feed them the women he murdered. Pickton may also be in the genital and the latency stage where sexual unfulfillment and unsatisfactory relationships occur. This is because pickton was unable to hold a relationship and was unfulfilled sexually resulting in an obsession with prostitutes. Lastly, Pickton would also be stuck in the intimacy vs. Isolation stage. Pickton was unable to intimate with someone he truly cared about, or even hold a relationship with his family.
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Capture and Sentencing
Robert Pickton was arrested on February 2, 2002. Pickton was convicted in 2007 of the second-degree murders of six women. He was also charged in the deaths of twenty women. In December 2007, he was sentenced
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