Tuesday, January 23, 2007
Pig farmer admitted killing 49 women, say prosecutors - Times of London
A Canadian pig farmer on trial for killing dozens of women and feeding them to his animals told police that he was planning one final murder to bring his tally to an “even 50”, the prosecutor said.
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Prosecutors said that he lured the women — mostly prostitutes and drug addicts from Vancouver’s red-light district — to his family’s 17-acre pig farm, nicknamed the Piggy Palace, where he threw wild parties.
[The details are gory so I haven't included them here.]
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Related article: Jury braces itself for a horror tale of missing women and a pig farm - Times of London
... The Downtown Eastside [in Vancouver, where many of the victims were from] is the poorest postcode in Canada, where life expectancy is less than 40. Its seedy bars and dank doorways shelter the huddled forms of vagrants and junkies, creating a filthy foreground to the gleaming skyscrapers less than a mile up the road. It has the highest rate of HIV infection in North America and is the only place in the developed world where infected women outnumber men. Social workers called the prostitutes here “survival sex workers”. They are selling themselves merely to stay alive. ...
A Canadian pig farmer on trial for killing dozens of women and feeding them to his animals told police that he was planning one final murder to bring his tally to an “even 50”, the prosecutor said.
...
Prosecutors said that he lured the women — mostly prostitutes and drug addicts from Vancouver’s red-light district — to his family’s 17-acre pig farm, nicknamed the Piggy Palace, where he threw wild parties.
[The details are gory so I haven't included them here.]
***
Related article: Jury braces itself for a horror tale of missing women and a pig farm - Times of London
... The Downtown Eastside [in Vancouver, where many of the victims were from] is the poorest postcode in Canada, where life expectancy is less than 40. Its seedy bars and dank doorways shelter the huddled forms of vagrants and junkies, creating a filthy foreground to the gleaming skyscrapers less than a mile up the road. It has the highest rate of HIV infection in North America and is the only place in the developed world where infected women outnumber men. Social workers called the prostitutes here “survival sex workers”. They are selling themselves merely to stay alive. ...
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