DAY ONE OF THE ROBERT PICKTON MASS MURDER TRIAL
Vancouver residents Ailish Mackinnon (L) and James Shultz protest costs to taxpayers incurred by Robert Pickton, outside the New Westminster Supreme Court during day one of the Pickton mass murder trial, January 22, 2007 in Vancouver, BC. Pickton faces allegations he killed six women. Pickton is also charged with the deaths of another twenty women which may result in a second trial at a later date. (UPI Photo/Heinz Ruckemann)
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VANCOUVER, British Columbia, Nov. 16 (UPI) -- It cost $102 million to put Canadian serial killer Robert Pickton -- convicted of killing six women and charged in 20 other deaths -- behind bars, records show.
VANCOUVER, British Columbia, Nov. 3 (UPI) -- A second serial killer in Vancouver, Canada, is being sought by the Royal Canadian Mounted Police in what's believed to be copycat killings.
VANCOUVER, British Columbia, Aug. 6 (UPI) -- A Canadian judge ruled a man already serving a life sentence for six murders will not stand trial for 20 additional slayings, court records showed.
VANCOUVER, British Columbia, Aug. 5 (UPI) -- A Canadian man who escaped prosecution in a 1997 attempted murder case went on to kill at least six women before he was arrested and convicted, a report said.
VANCOUVER, British Columbia, Oct. 29 (UPI) -- Six additional murder charges against convicted serial killer Robert Pickton are being pursued by the Royal Canadian Mounted Police in British Columbia.
VANCOUVER, British Columbia, June 26 (UPI) -- A Canadian appeals court ruling upholding a British Columbia pig farmer's six murder convictions will be appealed to the Supreme Court, his lawyer said Friday.
VANCOUVER, British Columbia, March 3 (UPI) -- Canadian prosecutors and defense attorneys for the British Columbia pig farmer convicted of killing six women agreed Monday his appeal will begin in March 2009.
NEW WESTMINSTER, British Columbia, Dec. 11 (UPI) -- Serial killer Robert Pickton was sentenced Tuesday to life in prison with no parole for at least 25 years for killing six Vancouver women.
UPI almanac for Saturday, July 21, 2007.
NEW WESTMINSTER, British Columbia, July 17 (UPI) -- A witness at the British Columbia trial of a pig farmer accused of killing six prostitutes said Robert Pickton fed the women's body parts to his animals.
