New Westminster, B.C.
Severed heads, hands, and feet were found on the farm owned by the man accused of being Canada’s worst serial killer, police testified this week. Robert Pickton, 57, is charged with killing and dismembering 26 women and burying them on his farm, though police believe he may have committed as many as 60 murders. As his trial got underway this week, police testified that they first visited Pickton’s farm in 2002 to search for an unlicensed gun. Instead, they found items belonging to a woman who’d been reported missing. Later searches uncovered the body parts, including two heads split vertically, as well as a gun with a sex toy attached to the barrel. Reporting on the case has been barred by court order until now.
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