Episode Details

In episode 5 of the Murder Men, Johnny and Matt describe the gruesome murders of Robert Pickton, a Canadian pig farmer accused of killing 50 women by feeding them to his hogs. In this episode they discuss -Who was Robert Pickton? His childhood on an isolated pig farm in British Colombia, Canada -How a fetish for sex with prostitutes turned into a taste for murder -How he found his victims, who were mostly drug-addicted sex workers from the East End of Vancouver -How the British Colombia government refused to dedicate resources to investigating the missing women, as they were not deemed important enough -How the case was eventually solved on a fluke--the police came with a warrant to search the Pickton farm for a gun, and found evidence of the missing prostitutes -The police search of the Pickton farm took months and cost an estimated $100 million -How Robert Pickton was sentenced to Life in prison, and was recently killed on the inside by a fellow inmate

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