“He said he would do one more to make it 50. Quit for a while, then do another 25,” said the undercover officer, who was placed in Pickton’s cell after his Feb 22., 2002, arrest on two murder charges.
Pickton, 57, who ran a pig-butchering business on the family farm, is on trial in B.C. Supreme Court for the first six of the 26 first-degree murders he’s now charged with.
Within six months of the February 2002 interview, police found three of the missing women’s heads and their hands and feet on the Pickton farm, as well as bones and teeth from other alleged victims.
Police also recovered DNA from bones on the farm that matched the DNA from a skull found on the side of the road in Mission, B.C., in 1995.
Pickton accepts those body parts were found on the property but he denies he killed the women.
Pickton is currently being tried for the murders of Andrea Joesbury, Mona Wilson, Sereena Abotsway, Marnie Frey, Georgina Papin and Brenda Wolfe.
The accused also bragged about an illegal nightclub he and his brother, Dave, ran on their Port Coquitlam property.
"The biggest party we ever had was 1,700 people," Pickton said. "Beautiful, beautiful party. 1,700 people and the police don’t know nothing about it until the party’s half way over."
Piggy’s Palace operated at first as a non-profit society and later illegally after the City of Port Coquitlam ordered it closed.
The court heard last week that Pickton would take female associates to Piggy’s Palace, which was on a property near the Pickton farm where several of Vancouver’s missing women’s remains were found.
Pickton also boasted to the undercover officer that he employed "one of the most expensive lawyers in Vancouver."
Defence lawyer Peter Ritchie will cross examine the undercover officer this afternoon.
Other highlights of the conversation include:
• That Pickton’s brother Dave warned him not to go to a Richmond work-site just prior to his arrest.
• Pickton told the undercover officer there were "five girls right now, will do anything to take my place right now." Last week, court heard Pickton had at least five female associates who spent time at his farm.
• Pickton recounted an incident in 1997 when he was charged with attempted murder. He was knifed by a woman at his farm.
• He joked about living in "Pork Coquitlam."
• The undercover officer said Pickton was dirty and smelly when he entered the cell.
• Pickton bragged about being world famous and made continual reference to being a pig farmer.
• He said he has "a bad side, a bad streak."
• His dad hit him several times when he accidentally crashed a farm truck.
• He had a horse, Goldy, that was dear to him. That the horse got sick and he had a vet put the horse down and had the head mounted in his trailer.
• He took two pigs to the Downtown Eastside in sacks and released them.
• When he was caught smoking a cigarette as a four-year-old, his mom made him smoke a cigar as punishment.
• He does not drink alcohol or coffee or smoke cigarettes or use any drugs.
• A fire on the farm killed 100 of Pickton’s pigs.
The undercover officer said Pickton was not interested in the officer’s cover story, which was that he was in detention and was to be sent back to Ontario to face an attempted murder charge.
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So either he was doing this to be world famous or to satisfy his 'bad side'. I do wonder what his reasoning is for the amount of suffering and pain he caused.
