Prosecutor: Farmer Confessed to 49 Killings ; Stuns Canadian Courtroom at Start of Trial

The Record, Bergen County, NJ › January 23, 2007

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NEW WESTMINSTER, British Columbia A Canadian pig farmer confessed to killing 49 women and was caught before he could reach his goal of 50, prosecutors told jurors at the start of his murder trial Monday.

Robert William Pickton, 56, has been charged with killing 26 women, mostly prostitutes and drug addicts who vanished from Vancouver's impoverished Downtown Eastside neighborhood in the 1990s.

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Prosecutor: Farmer Confessed to 49 Killings ; Stuns Canadian Courtroom at Start of Trial

Prosecutor Derrill Prevett stunned the courtroom by saying that Pickton told investigators, in...

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