Serial killer Robert Pickton dead

According to Correctional Service Canada (CSC), British Columbia serial killer Robert Pickton has died.

The 74-year-old was in hospital after being the target of what the CSC called a “serious attack” on May 19 at the maximum security prison in Port-Cartier, about 480 kilometers northeast of Quebec City.

Pickton was found guilty of six counts of first-degree murder in 2007 and sentenced to life in prison with a maximum parole period of 25 years after being charged with murdering 26 women in British Columbia.

His confirmed victims were Georgina Papin, Sereena Abotsway, Mona Wilson, Andrea Joesbury, Brenda Ann Wolfe and Marnie Frey.

The remains or DNA of 33 women, many of whom were aboriginal, who had disappeared from Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside, were found on Pickton’s farm.

Pickton boasted to an undercover police officer that he had killed 49 women.

There’s more to come.