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In February 2002, a former Pickton truck driver informed the RCMP that he had seen illegal guns in Pickton's trailer home.
On the 5th of February officers raided the pig farm, and they found belongings of the missing women in addition to the guns.
He was arrested on weapons charges, but he was later released on bail and not allowed to go to the farms while they did a second search.
On February 22, 2002, he was re-arrested with 26 counts of murder charges against him.
Robert Pickton was a sick man, and, in this video, he said that he had wanted to make it so he had killed 50 people and that's why he got sloppy,
but he was stopped at 49. He also said that in order to kill some of the women he used antifreeze which kills them in 5 to 10 minutes.
The trial for the first six murders did not begin until January 22, 2007, in New Westminster five years after he was first caught.
On December 9, 2007, he was found guilty of the six second degree murders and sentenced to life in a maximum-security prison.
On August 4, 2010, prosecutors said they would not proceed with the 20 other charges and that angered some of the victims' families.
This disaster is one of the largest crime scenes in Canadian history.
In prison apparently Robert Pickton told inmates that he was writing a book blaming the murders of women,
for which he was convicted and admitted to killing them on someone else. Robert Pickton died at the age of 74 by
the hands of another inmate when they got into a fight. After his death, 200 pages of notes and stories about his life was found
titled "Pickton in his own words. My life as I truly see it" but the RCMP said that it contained no reference to the missing women.
This incident forced the government to acknowledge the crisis of missing and murdered indigenous women and led to the provincial inquiry,
police reforms, along with more awareness within the legal system.