The Correctional Service of Canada has confirmed that serial killer Robert Pickton was injured in a massive assault at a Quebec prison on Sunday.
Quebec provincial police issued a statement Tuesday saying a 74-year-old inmate was hospitalized with life-threatening injuries, according to local news outlets. CP24. Police spokesman Hugues Beaulieu confirmed that a 51-year-old suspect was in custody but did not provide further information on the nature of the suspect’s charges.
Canada’s most prolific serial killer, Robert Pickton (49 murders), was pictured smiling in the slaughterhouse of a pig farm, slaughtering his victims before feeding them to unsuspecting friends. Ta. pic.twitter.com/p6HsDx7gDq
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404096 01: A Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) investigator walks through property owned by Dave and Robert William Pickton on April 17, 2002 in Port Coquitlam, British Columbia. RCMP have begun searching the property, known to locals as Piggy’s Palace, as part of an ongoing investigation into 50 women who have disappeared from the Vancouver area over the past 20 years. (Photo by Don McKinnon/Getty Images)
The attack occurred Sunday inside the Port-Cartier prison in northeastern Quebec, where Pickton was being held, Department of Corrections spokesman Kevin Antonucci said in a statement. The Globe and Mail.
“This assault did not involve any of our employees,” Antonucci said.
“We cannot disclose further details, including medical information,” he said.
PORT COQUILTLAM, CANADA – JANUARY 13: Royal Canadian Mounted Police dig and sift through dirt for clues at Robert William Pickton’s pig farm on January 13, 2003 in Port Coquitlam, Canada. Pickton is accused of killing 15 of the 63 women who disappeared from Vancouver’s rough East Side over the past 20 years, most of them prostitutes and addicts, authorities said. (Photo by Don McKinnon/Getty Images)
Pickton is considered one of the most prolific serial killers in Canadian history. According to CP24, he was convicted of six counts of second-degree murder for the deaths of Selina Abbotsway, Mona Wilson, Andrea Joesberry, Brenda Ann Wolfe, Georgina Papin, and Marnie Frey.
He was charged with murdering a total of 26 women and sentenced in 2007 to life imprisonment with a maximum period of 25 years without parole.
Police announced on Friday, February 22, 2002, that 52-year-old Robert William, the owner of a dilapidated pig farm where 50 Vancouver prostitutes have disappeared without a trace since early on, is the focus of the search. Pickton was charged with murder. He is feared to have died in the 1980s. Three firearms charges were laid against him in Picton on February 7, 2002, and police have been searching the farm ever since. (Photo by Christopher Morris/Corbis via Getty Images)
According to CP24, police found the remains or DNA of 33 women at Pickton’s pig farm in Port Coquitlam, but the notorious serial killer once told undercover police officers he had murdered a total of 49 women. He said he was proud of it.
B.C. Supreme Court Justice James Williams said in sentencing that this is “a rare case where the maximum period of parole eligibility available to the court is adequately justified.”(Related article: Jeffrey Dahmer’s father tells Dr. Phil he missed an opportunity to stop his son’s murder)
The nature of Pickton’s injury is unknown at this time.
