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Robert Pickton was born on October 24, 1949, and from the late 1990s to 2001,
he would go on to murder almost 50 women, the majority of which being indigenous sex workers.
Pickton was born into a family of pig farmers in Port Coquitlam, BC. He had a younger brother, called David, and an older sister who was sent away because the family decided that a pig farm was not a good setting for a girl to grow up in. His father was abusive and rarely talked to him or his brother while forcing them to work long hours on the farm, so he was very attached to his mother (although she wasn't much better than their father).
But even during the times they got to leave the house, they still weren't free from abuse.
Pickton and his brother were very often bullied by everyone at school, for living and working on a pig farm,
and the smell that came with it. It didnt help that every day they were sent in wearing old, unwashed,
mud-covered clothes. He dropped out of school at 14 after a long time struggling ever since he failed grade two,
and eventually he began doing full time work at the farm.
By 1979, their parents were dead, and the brothers had inherited the farm.
They decided to sell most of it for a total of over 5 million dollars, keeping only a small part that had been
reduced to around 6.5 hectares. They would host fundraiser/party events called "Piggy's Palace Good Times Society."
Sometimes these events were attended by as many as two thousand people, from sex trade workers to politicians and biker gangs,
even big ones like the Hells Angels. Every time one of these events was held, neighbors would give multiple complaints
for all the noise being made, drunk people coming by their houses, and heavy drug use. The parties got so intense,
and complaints from neighbors got so frequent, that in 2000 the city government had to force them to shut down the parties for good.
People described the farm as eerie or dilapidated, and Pickton himself was quiet and socially awkward,
sometimes exhibiting bizarre behavior, but otherwise seemed mostly normal to the few people who knew him closely.