Morbid - Willie Pickton Part 3 AD FREE!!!

Episode Date: February 26, 2021

The third and final part of this absolute nightmare has arrived. This episode covers the investigation on the farm TW: some serious animal cruelty is mentioned in the first half. Alaina will take us t...hrough some of the things found on the farm, what was done during the investigation to identify remains and what could potentially happen going forward! Missing & Murdered Indigenous Women & Girls https://www.mmiwg-ffada.ca/ Cowritten by Alaina Urquhart, Ash Kelley & Dave White (Since 10/2022)Produced & Edited by Mikie Sirois (Since 2023)Research by Dave White (Since 10/2022), Alaina Urquhart & Ash KelleyListener Correspondence & Collaboration by Debra LallyListener Tale Video Edited by Aidan McElman (Since 6/2025) Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

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Starting point is 00:00:00 Hey, weirdos, I'm Ash. And I'm Elena. And this is morbid. It sure is. I never know. Ash just slammed. Pop filter on her microphone. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:00:34 You know what it is? Normally I have it. There's like a little wire on it that comes up. But yeah. Mine is facing down and it usually comes up and over. It really threw it for a loop. A loop. Really, really Mercury retrogradeed you right out there.
Starting point is 00:00:49 Oh my God, but Mercury Retrograde is over. Couldn't be happier. See ya. Would it want to be, yeah. You know when the next fucking Mercury Retrograde is, though? When the fuck is it? It's during my birthday. Hate that for you.
Starting point is 00:01:03 Yeah, but you know what? A Gemini will stay shining. That's true. Fuck them all. There you go. Yeah. I can't wait for my birthday. Oh, God.
Starting point is 00:01:10 We're not even close. Yeah, we are. We're not even close. It's like three months away. January 3rd, March. I'm saying it's March already. April, May, June. And it's like right at the beginning of June.
Starting point is 00:01:20 So basically it's only two months away. There you go. Everybody, keep your countdowns going. What are you going to get me? You know what I'm going to get you? No. Part three of Willie Pictors. I don't want that.
Starting point is 00:01:31 I would like the gift receipt for that, please. Can't have it. Can't have it. Can't give it back. No, I actually do want that. So let's get it. Well, today's episode is going to be ad-free. And it's going to be shorter because this is just going to
Starting point is 00:01:44 of a wrap up. I didn't want to like, you know, rush all this at the end of part two. And I just wanted to give like one of those fun little clip hangers. It's fun. It's fun to get an ad-free episode because, you know, ads. This is a fucking carnival. It is fun. It's just a carnival. Willie, willy fun time. But one thing I just wanted to say before I start is that I'm part two. I was telling everybody, please go read this book on the farm because it's so good. Oh my goodness. the author is phenomenal and extraordinary Stevie Cameron. And I said he, it's actually a woman. And a couple of our listeners actually pointed out.
Starting point is 00:02:21 And then I also just looked back into it and was like, oh, I don't know why my, I think I just like automatically said he. I don't know why. But yeah, it's a woman, Stevie Cameron. And she is phenomenal, insanely talented, and a very well-known journalist in Canada. I love that. Reminds me of Stevie Nix. There you go.
Starting point is 00:02:41 Stevie's a great name. And you know what? Go read on the farm. I'm still telling you that. Wait, what should we read? It's amazing the amount of stuff you are going to get from this book that I couldn't even fit in here that I didn't even want. I was like, you got to go read the book. Did you get it on your Kindle Cloud reader? Yes, I did. Could you share it with me? I can. All right. And you know what? I have the weirdest Kindle Cloud library. Oh, same. Some of mine are children's books because when we were separated, I bought like a bunch of Kindle books to read to your kids. but then I realized it would not work via FaceTime because I was on the FaceTime. Yeah, it didn't work.
Starting point is 00:03:17 But it was a nice thought. Yeah. And it's nice to sprinkle those in. Yeah. So when we left you last time, the police had come to Willie Pickton's farm. They had already found IDs and clothing. They had found fuzzy handcuffs, one being tested positive for blood. They found zip ties.
Starting point is 00:03:35 They found dildos. They found a box full of kitchen knives next to his bed. They found papers and objects and bills and all other things with the missing women's names on them. And they found a gun with a dildo over it. They found a gun with a dildo stretched over the barrel. That's not okay. That's so much. They also found this weird glass jar with a bunch of hair stuff in it.
Starting point is 00:03:57 I mean, they found, and the thing that was really crucial was that inhaler of Serena Abbott's Ways. Right. And so they were able to get the bigger search warrant to come back on the property. this search became the biggest crime scene like investigation and search and excavation at one point in Canada's history. Oh, I believe it. That farm is huge. It is unbelievable. The pictures, I urge you to Google pictures of the Picton farm just so you can really get a feel for one, how terrifying this place was. Two, how disgusting this place was. Double yeah. And three, how massive it is. It's huge. And then I think of these women who are being led to this farm,
Starting point is 00:04:37 when you arrive there, it must be, I mean, walking into that place, every picture I saw, I was like, I can't imagine getting out of a car and walking into that. I being like, this is not going to end well. You have to nope right the fuck out of there. But it's like they were already in such a bad position. It sucks. Right. Now, this whole investigation ended up costing $70 million.
Starting point is 00:05:00 Are you kidding me? Yes. Holy shit. And they had to go like bit by bit. It took years. Wow. And to identify these women, many of them remain unidentified. They were in bits and pieces.
Starting point is 00:05:12 There was not one full body found on this farm. You're kidding. Yeah, they were all in pieces. They started with Willie's trailer because that was where they were really finding all the stuff. That's where they figured they would find more. They found Heather Bottomsley's, many of her items. Like they found notebooks of hers. They found clothes, IDs, all kinds of stuff with her name on them.
Starting point is 00:05:34 They also found syringes filled. with antifreeze. No. So he was not kidding when he said that. He was not kidding. And one of the police officers actually on scene, it was a female police officer and she had worked on a farm. She lived and worked on a farm currently while they were doing this. Oh shit. So obviously to her walking into, because this is not normal. No. Like we talked in like part two how, you know, that bolt gun, the nomadic bolt gun is actually something that is used and is very normal. But they, Willie wasn't using things. Like he wasn't, you know, he was using like a legit nail gun. Yeah. Which I know like a lot of our listeners who said like they worked on farms or grew up on farms or just know that that bulk gun
Starting point is 00:06:16 is known as one, a very normal thing to do. Right. But that aside, the way he was keeping these animals, the way he was treating them, the way he was slaughtering them, the way he was keeping them after slaughter, all of it was wrong. I hate that so much. If there's one thing that honestly, like sometimes makes me angrier than like murder murder is animal cruelty animal cruelty like hurts me in a different part of my soul because you and i say it all the time animals are only here like especially like dogs and cats and stuff like they're here to like make you happy exactly and it's like you choose to have an animal right like yeah nobody made you take it like you actively had to go get an animal and bring it into your life just treat it well in most cases yeah like just treat it well you know like
Starting point is 00:07:01 it seems like one of those things like just you know it loves you I know it there's so many things that you've said during this case that made me just want to go get my cats. I know, right? And like, kiss them. And the thing with this is like there are so many farms and, you know, places like this where they do it correctly. Like the correct way, like, you know, everybody has different opinions about like meat eating and veganism and all that stuff. I'm not going to get into that because everyone has their own thoughts on that. Yes. I'm not going to go into what I think either. But I think that like there are, there's so many farmers who are doing these things in in correct ways. In the most humane way that they can. And it's like, this makes it look crazy. And that
Starting point is 00:07:40 sucks. Because I'm sure a lot of farmers in Canada were like, no. It's not all farms. This is not what we do. Like we do this in the right way. You don't have to worry about our meat. Well, and it's sad because like you said at one point, they had like 700 pigs on that farm. So I can only imagine what those 700 pigs went through. Yeah, which I guess 700 pigs on like a farm like this, which again, thank you to our listeners. Oh, where they like, it's not that much. They were like actually, that's like, standard. That's a nice big pig farm. Like that's very normal. But obviously in this case, you know, they were being treated horrifically and they were not taken care of. And it's just really sad. Because you do see like these other farms where they're like really taking, like they devote their
Starting point is 00:08:20 entire lives to taking care of these animals. Because realistically, that should be why you have a farm. Yeah. It's just a bummer. Yeah. It makes, you know, it made farmers look bad and that's not cool. Because we like, we love farmers. Yeah, they're the best. Hello to all our farmer list. Hello Farmer Johns. You guys have been awesome, the people that have reached out and like, I just want to let you know what slopping is and let you know about that new baddick bulk gun. Somebody tell me on Twitter that they're going to slop their cats from now on and I want to take, I want to like steal that from them. It is, it's just a fun thing to say. When actually when I get home, because obviously I'm not home right now, I'm going to be like, Drew, did you slap the cats?
Starting point is 00:08:54 Did you slap the cats? And he's going to be like, what the fuck? Drew's going to be like, get the fuck. He's going to be like, can you come back to where you went from? Yeah, he's going to be like, can you go back to where you came from where? From once you came. I have coffee next to me and it has not quite kicked in. No, not yet.
Starting point is 00:09:07 At 5 p.m. But yeah, so this one police officer that I was mentioning that lived on a farm herself, grew up on one, she was actually, she was very interested in seeing these animals. She was like, I have to know what's going on here. And when she went into the slaughterhouse where, you know, Willie really enjoyed his time, she found, and just like fair warning, talking about like animal cruelty, basically. Yeah. She found terrible condition.
Starting point is 00:09:33 She found dead pigs. She found pigs that were sick and, like, stacked on top of each other, just laying there sick and dying. Why do you do that? Why? She found pigs with, like, infections on their hooves and, like, all this other, like, just in terrible, terrible. One of them had just given birth to, like, a litter of piglets, and the piglets had, like, rolled down a hill in the mud. And they were dead, all of them. And one of the dogs on the property was, like, playing with one.
Starting point is 00:10:00 It was just. It was, this was literal, these poor, I mean, these poor victims, these poor investigate, everybody who had to witness this, it just sounds like it's hell on a farm. It truly, like this is hell farm. Like, this is what you would think of with like a horror movie version of a farm. It sounds like a shutter special. And I guess they did call in like vets and stuff and they tried to like save some of them. They did euthanize a few because they just couldn't save them. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:10:28 But they did try to do their best to try to get. And they like got some of them and like put them in other places. Like rehabilitated them. Like try to rehabilitate them. Well, and like we said in part one or two, like pigs are one of the smartest animals on the planet. Oh yeah. Like they knew what was happening. And that's the thing.
Starting point is 00:10:43 And this woman who was one of the investigators, she, I couldn't find her name. But she was so upset about it that she like brought some with her back to her farm. I would have done that. She brought, she went and got them food from her farm and was giving them like good food like that you're supposed to feed pigs. Because God only knows what he was feeding. So sad. Because that's like the other side of this is like obviously it's human beings. That's what we concentrate on. But it's like there's also this whole awful other side of like he wasn't just abusing people. He was also abusing the animals on his farm and it's awful. It was like horribly rounded asshole. Yeah. Just the worst of the worst kind of humanity that you could see. So they found one thing they found a ton of is just like weird sex toys in Willie's trailer, which like makes me feel some type of way. Because when you look at it, you're like, woggle.
Starting point is 00:11:31 Ew. I just like, why do you need that many? Yeah, it's just, and when it's in this situation, it just, well, because that's a normal situation, you're like, live your life. We know that, like, 99.9% of the people that went there, it was not consensual. Yeah, and they were not leaving. So, there was, and like I think we had said in part, too, that there was, like, walls that were clearly stained with blood that had been washed off.
Starting point is 00:11:54 A ton of the mattresses were, like, soaked with dark fluid, like, blood and other things. They found more women's clothing. They found purses. They found jewelry, makeup, just everywhere. You know what was weird? And I think I posted the picture for part two. Outside of his trailer, he had almost like a deck kind of. And there was just a shit ton of office chairs on the deck, like for no reason.
Starting point is 00:12:19 He just needed them. It was bizarre. You never know. Like when your office chair starts to squeak, just go and get another one. Fuck the WG40. Just get that one. That's all that was. I don't know what you're talking about.
Starting point is 00:12:29 But so back in the slaughterhouse, when they finally cleaned it up with all the, you know, poor, infected and suffering animals in there, they started looking around in there. And what they found was they found the hooks in the slaughterhouse where he would hang the pigs. They found like little pieces of human skin on those hooks. Oh my gosh. Like still there, just still there. They also would find like they found like little pieces of human like not just skin on there. Yeah, he had just left actual tissue and flesh and whatever muscle, whatever else was in there. So it was just right out in the open.
Starting point is 00:13:11 And they used, according to the New York Times, they used, and I quote, Earthmovers, backhose, payloaders, and conveyor belts to move and shift and sift tons of topsoil as investigators called samples of torn clothing, fingernails, and tiny body pieces for storage in a refrigerated trailer. Oh, wow. So they had to bring all these different machines in to literally dig up the soil just so they could find little pieces of victims. Just like fragments. Like horrific. And then they have to piece all this together. And like at that point, how do you, because like you said, they had so much trouble identifying people. Because at that point, How do you?
Starting point is 00:13:54 Oh, yeah. And trust actually, perfect question. Because we're going to get into that right now. Cool. So with complete certainty, they could finally, after everything, after all of this excavation, I mean, years. I was literally just going to say, how long did it take? They could identify the remains of only 27 victims, which is quite a lot. But compared to what he has done, what we think he has done, it's not a lot.
Starting point is 00:14:18 And there's definitely many more remains on this farm that are unidentified. Do they ever plan to go back and try to look for more, or did they think they got everything they could? I think they got as much as they could. I'm sure there's plenty more. Yeah. Because there's just the massive surface area, I think is just in the way that, unfortunately, the way he disposed of these bodies and the way that he, you know, dismembered and we'll talk a little bit more about that. But I think we're never going to find everything. Because most of it is gone. Unfortunately, he lived in like the quote unquote perfect place.
Starting point is 00:14:53 carry out his evil shit. He lived in the perfect place and he had the perfect idea. Like he really did, unfortunately. As fucked up as it is. He had an evil idea that worked and unfortunately that sucks. But what investigators started doing was they started asking families of missing women in the area, like who had been missing forever, all the missing women, to please come forward and give their DNA so they could try to do familial DNA comparisons.
Starting point is 00:15:22 Right. It did work a little bit, but it was unfortunate because sometimes, you know, some of them weren't in touch with their family. Some of them, they couldn't figure out who their family was. And some of them, the family had moved away. Or the family wasn't in the area, so they couldn't give their DNA. It just, it became an issue. And then I guess in 2000, when all the, you know, in the year of 2000, so when this was all going on, Canada didn't have a missing person's familial DNA database. I mean, it's still pretty new.
Starting point is 00:15:54 Yeah. So if you, like, if you reported a missing person, that was your family member, you couldn't give your DNA to add to a database. If that was the case, which of course, you know, this technology all came forward at not the perfect time. And if you came forward, you know, or if you found someone missing, you had nothing. If you didn't have, you know, their DNA, you couldn't really compare it to anything. Right.
Starting point is 00:16:18 If you just got this unknown DNA, you were like, well, we don't know what this is. Right. because we have nothing to compare it to. Right. But obviously they're changing that now. But during the search, the investigators had obviously, like we said, found many slaughtered pigs. They were able to see in the freezers where he kept the meat, how he did it. People told him how he did it.
Starting point is 00:16:40 They were able to see from body parts how he was doing it. This is important because he used the same techniques on women. And Sergeant Ross Spenard was one of the investigators. on scene and he also went to the autopsy of Serena Abbott's way and she's the one that left that had the inhaler there. He said the injuries to her and the injuries to a pig that he found there were exactly the same, meaning her wrists and her ankles had been broken in the same way that they had broken a pig's hawk to hang it on a hook. Oh my. Which basically left the ankle of the pig, like the hawk hanging by like tendons. That's it. Oh, wow. And that's what he did to these
Starting point is 00:17:22 women. Do they know if he did it while they were still alive? They don't because they don't have enough they just they don't have a complete body. They don't have like any, it's pieces. All they have is just bits and pieces. So that's all they're going with. It's horrific. And do you remember when, I don't remember if it's part one or two, probably part two, we were talking about Lynn, the girl Lynn, who was on the farm a lot and she was the one who happened to see something. And she, she knew that like she was going to get, she got that call and she was like, they were planning to kill me. Exactly. And she had seen somebody hanging on a hook according to the stories. And she said fat was yellow. Exactly. And she kind of was using that to kind of get money out of him for a while. Yeah. Now, really awesome. There was another story I'd mentioned briefly where she had seen on like one of the freezers once that it was like covered on top of the freezers with like a like a drape of some sort. And that she was like, oh, that's weird. And she went to walk over to it. And Willie just looked at her and shook his head silent.
Starting point is 00:18:21 and she just, that was it. Like, hello, ominous. Well, that freezer, they were able to find it was draped with stuff. And underneath it, there were buckets. And in those buckets were victims' body parts. Oh. Just sitting on a freezer. Yep.
Starting point is 00:18:39 Now, to get to that freezer in the slaughterhouse, it took them a day and a half to clear a path to it. Oh, that's just foul. Yep. That's how insane it was in this farm. A day and a half to get to a freezer. That's nuts. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:18:53 Now, the rest of Serena Abbott's ways remains and Angela Joseberry's remains were found in those buckets on top of the freezer. And Serena's hands and feet were found inside her skull. What? Yep. Now, when another investigator, Sergeant Tim Slay opened the freezer, he found a human head. He just opened the freezer and found a human head. I can't imagine the people just like retching on the sidelines during this.
Starting point is 00:19:21 Like, this is the worst, like, living horror film because you just have no idea what you're going to find every single place, anywhere you open, anywhere you look, anything you pick up, you're going to find stuff underneath it. This is literally a body farm. It literally is an actual body farm. It's horrific. They also found inside the pig stye where, like, the pig slop is, like, their everything, they found Brenda Wolfe's jawbone with a tooth still. attached with a filling in it. Oh, wow. And the other pieces of bones in there. I wonder if that's why the pigs didn't eat that specific tooth because it had the filling. Maybe. That's wild. It was like part of her mandible too. Oh, wow. Yeah. So like I said, they found no complete remains, just pieces. There were
Starting point is 00:20:07 hair, teeth, I mean, pieces of flesh, bone, fingernails, just everything. This is one of the craziest cases I have ever heard of. It's unreal. And what they figured out was that he likely killed his victims. Then he dismembered them in some way, probably the same way he would slaughter an animal, which he was pretty upfront about. And then he hangs the victims on his giant hook to kind of take the pieces he needs, and he feeds the rest of them into a meat grinder. And then he, and then you said, like, what he couldn't dispose of, he would feed to the pigs. He would feed, what he thought was, you know, unusable. He would feed to the pigs. And then the rest of what he would find unusable, the things the pigs wouldn't eat, hair, you know, I don't know, other pieces of bone.
Starting point is 00:20:55 Sure. I know hair is something they're not too fond of, so that was definitely part of it. That's what he would take to the rendering plant. He'd put hair in the meat with the rendering plant? Yeah, that's where he would, that's what he, because that is what rendering plants take from animals. They take hair, feathers, things that you can't really use in food or anything like that. And they render those down to gelatin.
Starting point is 00:21:17 Gotcha, gotcha. So not only is there the possibility that meat on his farm, or possibility, I say, pretty assurance that the meat on his farm was tainted with human remains. But now the rendering plants most definitely unknowingly used the hair and bones he mixed in with his animal parts to probably render down to gelatin and could be in different products like makeup or candy. Or jello. Or jello. Like straight up jello. Like a lip gloss or something. Wow. Isn't that horrific to think about? That's fucked. And these victims' families. The horror never ends. Like, these poor people, they have to sit there and I would be passing, I'd be passing a lollipop and thinking, like, I would, I just, like, how would you ever eat any kind of meat again or, like, put makeup on again? You just can't ever just let that out of your head and go to sleep.
Starting point is 00:22:13 No. About, you know what I mean? Like, it never becomes something that you could just live with. It's like you're always in. it's because it just it gets more and more horrific as it goes because anything you do reminds you of the fact that it just gets worse and worse it does horrible uh and anthropologists were actually called in and forensic experts of course because there were so many bones and most of the things they were finding were so decayed and rotted and disarticulated that they needed help and they were trying to get DNA off of these tiny little things some of them they couldn't get DNA off of some of them they got DNA, but it was like they couldn't really do much with it. It's just these poor victims and these poor victims families, I just feel really bad.
Starting point is 00:22:56 But luckily, in February 22nd, 2002, Willie was arrested. He was first arrested on two charges of first-degree murder and four more after that. He was charged with the whole 26 counts, but they really wanted to focus on those six that they knew were really solid. This was super controversial. of course, because there's many more than six, and those families were like, I would like my justice to be served. But from like a judicial standpoint. But they were looking at it, like, we know these are rock solid. Why are we going to like risk it kind of thing? That's what they were thinking. Which I understand why the families were like, really? But I also understand. Yeah, I can totally
Starting point is 00:23:35 see both sides. Yeah, exactly. Now, in 2004, this is when it was revealed to the public in Canada. Oh my God. That there may have been human remains in the meats sold from the paper. Hickton Farm. I obviously like they had to tell them that, but like I could have gone my whole life if I lived in Canada without knowing that. Yep. And they said so it's it's not proven, but it's also not disproven. And a health official said it was entirely possible that there was. He actually said, quote, it's very disturbing to think about, but there is the possibility of some cross contamination. But the degree of it, when or how much, we really don't know. I think if we could rule it out, we would definitely like to.
Starting point is 00:24:18 But how can you? Well, what they did was they put out an official alert to everyone. Anyone who had purchased meat from the Picton farm was asked to come forward if they still had the meat to bring it to them. Yeah. The problem here is people were like, yeah, I bought a pig from them like seven years ago. I don't have that pig anymore. Right. Like this does not help me.
Starting point is 00:24:39 No. But, you know, they did try. I don't know if anyone came forward to it with it. There was no update on that. but I mean, can you imagine, like, I would imagine the rendering plants maybe didn't want to come forward if they had bought meat from them. Well, no, the rendering plants didn't buy meat from them because they don't buy meat. They buy their leftovers. But like the people, you know what I mean?
Starting point is 00:24:58 These are just civilian people who had bought meat to cook for their families. Oh, shit. Like, that's what these people were. Maybe they were just like, I don't want to know. I think most people were like, I don't have the meat anymore. Yeah. That was probably because it was so long again. Yeah, I'm not going to keep meat for that long.
Starting point is 00:25:14 And a lot of people, too, like you said, probably were like, I don't know. I don't want to know that. Yeah. I'm good. Going to go ahead and get rid of that, me. Yeah, we're going to just get rid of that and just move on with our lives. So here's the rub for Willie. Here's Willie and his lack of functioning neurons.
Starting point is 00:25:32 Oh, shit. So he was placed in a jail cell, and he was placed in there with one other cellmate. That cellmate was actually an undercover police officer. Love it. That poor man that had to sit in a function. cell with Willie Picton. And you know what? He killed it. I'll give it to him. He probably stink so bad. I know. And he looked like he did. So they were trying to get anything they could just to help identify these other victims, you know, see if he said anything. They were hoping his
Starting point is 00:25:59 dumb ass would brag and just slip to this guy. Yeah. Because people who knew Willie, like I think I mentioned it in one of the parts, was that he would get kind of overly sherry. And like he would just kind of say something and then be like, oops shit. Remember when he did that to like the kid that was living on the farm and then was like, oh, I should beat the shit out of him. Oh, I should have him beaten within an inch of his life and have to move across. Because I said too much. Now, even if it's stranger, and of course now, he's going to feel like he doesn't have a lot to lose. So he's just probably going to do it. Now, in this video, you can see it online. We'll try to post the link to the YouTube of it because there's like a YouTube. I can't remember exactly whose it is that has like
Starting point is 00:26:36 the entire video. And he's wearing like a white t-shirt and he's just sitting there disgusting and greasy. and he's eating something like food on like a plate. And the entire time he's talking about this, he is eating this the whole time. And he's like scraping every last bit of this food off this plate. And it's like what they're talking about and him sitting there eating is just like, that's foul. That does not compute. And so much. Willie picked in one hondo. One hundred percent talks with his mouthful. Oh, 100 percent. I guarantee it. 100 percent. Okay. So what they discovered through the this little excursion was that Picton thought it was great that he was in the limelight. He loved it.
Starting point is 00:27:20 What an absolute jackass. He considered himself famous. He was totally into the attention. He was very excited to be around what he thought was another criminal because he was like, cool. We're like in the same club now. And he wanted to brag. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:27:35 Like he wanted to talk about it. So he just spilled the entire beans. He started talking all about it. He talked about that he had. how he had committed each crime, how he had kept all the IDs and all the personal effects of people. He also said, quote, I got a murder charge on me and 48 more, 48 more to come. Whoopi. Are you kidding?
Starting point is 00:27:57 Yep. He said whoopee. And he said he had murdered 49 women and was annoyed because he got arrested before he could hit 50. He actually said this. How do you, I just don't understand. Like, how is that your life goal? And let me give you a couple quotes from it just so you can really get the idea.
Starting point is 00:28:15 Oh boy. So when the undercover cop asked him what they had on him, they were like, well, what do you? He was like, what, and I love this undercover cop trying to be a criminal because he just says fucking, like in the weirdest places. Like he'll be like, well, what do they,
Starting point is 00:28:29 what do they have on you fucking? Like he just puts it in like a place. I'm like, I don't even know how really pop this. Like I feel like Willie should have been like, are you okay, sir? Yeah, but like, think of Willie's an idiot. Yeah. But it's just so funny.
Starting point is 00:28:42 he just puts fucking, like, I understand, like, using that word to try to, like, sound tough. Yeah. You're in that situation because, like, what else are you going to do? Yeah. But he puts it in very strange places. And I do not used to saying it all the time. It's really funny. He should have, he should have took a note out of our book.
Starting point is 00:28:58 He should have. Just, we'll help you. We'll be put in the right spots. But when he asked him what he had on him, Willie just replied, DNA. So already he's like, there's DNA on my farm. Like, he's already like, yep. Yikes. And the officer said at one point, I find the best way to fucking dispose of something is fucking take it to the ocean.
Starting point is 00:29:18 And Willie said, oh, yeah? And then he responded, oh, fuck, do you know what the fucking ocean does to things? There ain't much left. That's what the undercover cop said. You can see how. Yeah. It's a lot. Well, Willie responded to something.
Starting point is 00:29:31 Like, let me take it down from like, that's funny that that cop said that to, oh, this chills my bones. So he said, the cop said, oh, fuck, do you know what the fucking ocean? does to things, there ain't much left. Willie responded, I did better than that. Wow. And you, when you watch this video, you're like, because you know what he did. Oh, like, it's just like, I did better than that. That's terrifying. I did better than the ocean can do. And it's like, and he did. That's what's even sadder is like, that's the thing. You destroyed these women. That's what makes that single way that you could. That's what makes that chill run through your entire body. It gave me literal chills. Oh. And so they have.
Starting point is 00:30:11 had the officer respond to him like, what? Huh? What the fucking did you do? What do? Well, Willie gets up with his like tray, his little plate of slop, whatever the hell he's eating, walks over to the guy and sits super close to him. Oh, no, no. Which I was like, I can't me. So this officer was like, what? What do you mean? What do you mean? And he literally just whispers right into his face a rendering plant. Oh, shit. And he told him, there wasn't much left after that, but he said, unfortunately, I got sloppy at the end. Wow. And that was his thing was he said, I got sloppy.
Starting point is 00:30:50 That's why I got caught. Willie, you were born sloppy. I was just going to say, honey, you came out sloppy. You came out the womb straight slopping. Your soul is sloppy. You are stamped with a sloppy stamp. Your aura is literally brown. You're sloppy.
Starting point is 00:31:07 And not Amber. Well, and then he said, that's why I got sloppy. I wanted to hit the big 5-0. And he said, yeah, I just don't. I can't wrap my brain around to that. Talking about it like it's a baseball stat. Right. That's what's like killing me is like the big 5-0.
Starting point is 00:31:24 That's not the big 5-0. That's 49 women. Human lives. Like that's crazy. I had people who love them and care about them and miss them 49 women. And that's the big 5-0. And you're talking about it, the big 5-0. I wish I got that.
Starting point is 00:31:38 That's so messed up. So then he said, I think most of them, based on the fucking evidence, I think I'm nailed to the cross. But if that happens, there will be about 15 other people who are going to go down. Fuck, some will go down the tank. So now he's saying there's about 15 other people that are also going to go down. So now I'm like, yeah, what was happening out here? That's the thing, because I definitely, I know Willie obviously carried out a lot of this on his own. Oh, I believe he got the 49.
Starting point is 00:32:06 Absolutely. For sure. But I think other people were involved. Well, I think there's more remains out there than they're going to be able to put to just 49. And think of the criminals that were on this farm. But it's like, then you think about it and you're like, what the fuck was going on at this farm? Like, all the stuff we know was going on. And then you add in that possibly like there were multiple murderers just torturing and slaughtering women out there.
Starting point is 00:32:31 Like it is, like you said in the beginning, it is this stuff straight out of like a Rob Zombie film. Yeah. It's like Rob Zombie. would be like, whoa, pull back on this one. Like, he'd be like, that's a lot. Yeah. It's just so much. It's like the Firefly family. Well, and then he started, he started, it truly reminds me of House of a Thousand Corpses when like in the beginning of Devil's Rejects, which I love Rob Zombie films. Like, that's just who I am as a person. But the Devil's Rejects films, when they're doing like the news report and they're saying like, this many bodies were found in the basement, this many bodies were found
Starting point is 00:33:05 in a freezer, pieces of bodies here and there and blah. But, blah. blah, blah. It's exactly that. Oh, man. It's exactly that. I don't know what year that came out. I know. Maybe he got some kind of, I don't, I dare to say, inspiration. But it's like, I wonder if he looked at this case and was like, whoa, that's the shit out of horror films. I mean, anybody in their right mind would say that. Rob, are you listening?
Starting point is 00:33:28 Sir zombie. Can you please send us a quick note? Just send us a Gmail real quick. Yo, bitch. Imagine if he sent us a quick note. No. mama would kill over. Yeah, that would
Starting point is 00:33:40 go very well. Rob Zombie always reminds me of our live show in New York. But either way. So, yeah, so he finished his whole thing, this whole thought, by saying, I said they were my friends. I thought they were my fucking friends. Because then he goes into saying how all his friends started ratting him out.
Starting point is 00:34:03 Well, yeah, because Scott Chubb was like, yo. And like that guy, Andy came forward. and like a few other people. So now he's sitting there being like, my friend sold me out. And it's like, did he know, what was the woman who he was like sisters with? Was her name, Linda? Lisa.
Starting point is 00:34:16 Lisa. Yeah. Did he know that she like had any kind of involvement? He didn't mention that, but I'm sure he probably got word of it, I'm assuming. He said, and this is when he started getting into the I'm famous thing and whoop-boop. Yeah. Like you're not, though. So he said that he wanted to be bigger than those serial killers in the States.
Starting point is 00:34:35 And if he had got to 50, he. he would, he said he would be bigger than them. Wow. And then he said, which is not a competition. Which I love that he's like, I have to beat the United States. We're like, you don't. No, it's like, like, no one ever aspires to be like us, especially not Canadians. Don't be that way. No. Like, don't, definitely not in that way. Just keep it Canadian. We don't want anyone trying to beat those. We're not proud of those records. Don't. No, it's not something you want to do. And then he turned to him and like, because the officer was like, yeah, you're right like you would be like the bigger if you hit 50 and then he turns to him and says his record was like what
Starting point is 00:35:09 42 he says and he doesn't say who and then I was like I wonder if he's talking about Gary Ridgeway because it was around the same time and it was also very similar yeah the like MO here like not not in the way he killed women but like that he was targeting sex workers and you know he was trying to find quote unquote less dead people so he could do as many as possible so will he wanted to do the same thing. I imagine he was, but it's like he's very wrong with that one because Gary Ridgeway confessed to 71. Yeah. And they convicted him of 49, I believe, so they're right on par. Wow. But that was strange that he was like, I want to be like him because. Do you think Gary Ridgeway actually killed 71 people? You know how they get to prison and they're like, I killed like a million? I feel like that one might be a
Starting point is 00:35:55 possibility because he was choosing people that he felt he could hide for a long time. Yeah. And I think in his case, he did find a lot of people who weren't close to their family or didn't have ties or connections. And I think there is like more out there. It's 71, I don't know. But like could be close. I wouldn't be surprised with him. He's a crazy dude. We'll cover him eventually.
Starting point is 00:36:16 Yeah, he's wild. So there was two, all in all, there was 200,000 DNA samples collected. Wow. 600,000 exhibits from the crime scene. And again, $70 million it cost. Jesus. Yeah. And I think I had mentioned it before that it was the crown who decided that they were only going to go after Willie for like the six counts of murder instead of the entire thing.
Starting point is 00:36:40 Yeah, you had to know that. Because they really felt like those were solid so they didn't want to risk it. Yeah, yeah. But obviously people were pissed. Now, I'm going to, because he was only nailed for those six, I want to name all the women. Yeah, it's important. Yeah, it's important. Yeah, take respect to everybody.
Starting point is 00:36:57 We have Serena Abbott's Way, Mona Lee Wilson. Andrea Joseberry, Brenda and Wolf, Marie Le Frey, Georgina Faith Pappen, let's see, Jacqueline Michelle McDonnell, Diane Rosemary Rock, Heather Kathleen Bottomley, Jennifer Lynn Firminger, Helen May Hallmark, Patricia Rose Johnson, Heather Chinick, Tanya Hollick, Sherry Irving, Inga Monique Hall, Tiffany Drew, Sarah DeW, Sarah DeVore. Rees, Cynthia Felix, Angela Rebecca Jardine, Diana Melnick. They had a Jane Doe that they did a tribute to him, but they since pulled back on that and said that they don't think it was him. There was also Deborah Lynn Jones, Wendy Crawford, Carrie Kosky, Andra Faye Borhaven,
Starting point is 00:37:50 and Kara Louise Ellis, aka Nikki. Gotcha. So that, when you read them out loud like that, it's like, I just counted it. I just counted it. my hands as you were doing it. Yeah. That's insane. It's a lot when you read them out loud. And then the thing is, like, those are the 26 that you read out loud. Imagine if you read the full 49 out loud. Exactly. That's, it's, those are the ones that they can identify. That's so sad. Those are the bodies that they could identify from pieces on this farm. Well, and then think of the families that most likely know that he did this to their daughter, but they don't have that final piece of like, yes, he did it. They don't get that closure. There were so many family members who said they would wait outside this farm while they were doing the investigation being like, I just need to know if my daughter, my sister, my cousin, my best friend, my girlfriend.
Starting point is 00:38:42 My friend just if someone, they said, I need to know if they died on this farm. Like that's, they just need to know. Because it's closure. It's a piece of closure. It's not obviously the whole thing. Yeah. And it's awful closure, but it's something. Right. in one of these victims Sarah DeVries we actually when I read about her and I mentioned that she was a poet
Starting point is 00:39:04 when I read one of her journal entries about her talking about how she was scared to become one of these missing women I was saying how like she's just very well spoken and she sounded like she had such like a creative like articulate mind well one of our listeners who I'm not going to say the name because they didn't explicitly tell me I could they told me that they knew they didn't know Sarah but they have some kind of connection to Sarah. Okay. And they said that they just appreciated, you know, the victim's names being out there and talking about them. And they also wanted to say, anyways, this is all to say that I want to introduce you to Sarah DeBries. Sarah was a daughter, sister, mother, niece, cousin, friend, roller skater, protector, sex worker, and poet.
Starting point is 00:39:50 She also vanished from Vancouver's downtown east side in the 90s, and her DNA was later found on the Picton farm. Her sister, Maggie DeVries, wrote a book about Sarah's life and disappearance. And the missing and murdered women of Vancouver. She included several poems of Sarah's throughout the book, including one that I'll share with you, because it's a reminder that the 49 women who died on that farm were not just another death. And here's the poem that Sarah DeVries wrote. women's body found beaten beyond recognition. You sip your coffee, taking a drag of your smoke, turning the page, taking a bite of your toast, just another day, just another death.
Starting point is 00:40:30 Just one more thing you so easily forget. You and your soft, sheltered life, just go on and on, for nobody special from your world is gone. Just another day, just another death, just another Hastings street whore, sentenced to death. The judge's gavel already fallen, sentence already passed. But you, you just sip your coffee, washing down your toast. She was a broken down angel, a child lost with no place, a human being in disguise. She touched my life. She was somebody. She was no whore. She was somebody special who just lost her way. She was somebody fighting for her life trying to survive, a lonely lost child who died in the night all alone scared, gasping for air. that like made me choke up like thinking like my body was like vibrating that entire time that
Starting point is 00:41:19 like it's so the the two things that you've read so far it's almost like obviously she wasn't aware of what was going to happen to her but it's just so crazy her style of writing she was very intuitive to the world around her yes yes yeah like when you read her writings you're like wow and it's just so haunting that that's how she went yeah like i feel like it's just just She had, like, I don't know, she had a connection somewhere that just... I remember once we had an assembly at school, and I've always remembered this. I don't remember exactly the girl's name, but she, I believe she died in a school shooting. And she had written that she knew that she was going to die young.
Starting point is 00:41:56 And she was like a really good poet and stuff. And she always wrote about the fact that she knew she was going to die before she was supposed to. And that's just like really reminiscent of that. It does remind me about. Like, obviously, Sarah wasn't writing that she was going to die, but she was writing she was afraid. about it. Exactly. So I just want to thank you for sending that because wow, it like really touched me. And it was just an awesome thing to be able to read to say like she's a cousin. She was a roller skater, a protector. She's not less dead. She was more than this, you know. So thank you
Starting point is 00:42:29 for that. That was awesome. Always welcome. I was really touching. So in a press conference, the deputy chief constable Doug Lepard from the Vancouver Police Department said about this case, quote, I wish from the bottom of my heart that we would have caught him sooner. I wish that the several agencies involved that we could have done better in so many ways. I wish that all the mistakes that were made we could undo. And I wish more lives would have been saved. So on my behalf and behalf of the Vancouver Police Department and all the men and women who worked on the investigation, I would say to the families how sorry we are for your losses because we did not catch the monster sooner.
Starting point is 00:43:06 Wow. Which, yeah. But it's like they didn't. They didn't want to investigate. You didn't listen. Like, no, everybody was calling and saying stuff. And, like, everybody knew that something was up. Except, like, that's nice.
Starting point is 00:43:18 Nice words. But it's like you guys acted way too, way too late. Too little too late. And according to a lot of our listeners in Canada, they're still not acting on these, especially indigenous women and women working as sex workers and women who are, you know, marginalized society. It's like, wake up. Yeah, it's crazy to me.
Starting point is 00:43:38 Like, this should have. you. The thing that bothers me too is that I feel like sex work is becoming more and more mainstream now. Yeah. Like look at OnlyFans. I just watched an entire documentary about it. So that is, that's also sex work. If somebody went missing and they had an OnlyFans page, are they not going to investigate that? Yeah. It's like, is they less dead? It's just, it's so, it's weird. Right. It's just weird. It's just weird. It's a person. Right. No matter what, like sex worker, hairdresser, autopsy technician, fucking, I can't think of another job. But you know what I mean? no other jobs in the world. That's all there is. But like, work at a grocery store, a fucking dog groomer.
Starting point is 00:44:15 We're all humans. Exactly. You know? It's just crazy. I don't get it. It really is. Well, in January 2006, there was the trial began. Yeah. He pled not guilty to 27 charges because they removed the Jane Doe charge. Why did he? In August, those charges were then, that was when it was split to the six and 20. Okay. Because, of course. So a year later, he faced the trial for the. the six, the jury came back not guilty on first-degree murder and actually guilty on second-degree murder, which does not make sense to me in the least. Why? Don't know, but people were very upset about it. Canada, what the fuck is up? Well, Canada was like, what the fuck is up? I think that's Canada was like, huh? It was, I have no idea. I don't know. I couldn't find anything that
Starting point is 00:45:03 justified it. So, yeah, that's strange. Initially, there is like a happy twist to this, though. Initially, he was, up for parole in like 10 years, 10, 15 years. He was going to be able to have parole. Because that was for second degree murder. That's the traditional one. But after reading, I think it was 18 victim impact statements, the judge decided that he changed it to life without the possibility of parole until 25 years, which is the max he could give for second degree murder. Yeah. And is actually, I think it's actually what they give for first degree murder. I believe I read that somewhere. So he really changed it be like, no. Yeah, like that's ridiculous. And he's not going to get paroled. Like, it's not going to happen. I hope not. And it's like he will very likely die in prison. In October 2010, just to update on a different
Starting point is 00:45:53 part, there was a lot of pressure from the community, especially in Vancouver. And it was on the Canadian government to open an inquiry into the disappearances of these women, these women, missing women and girls and how it wasn't handled well by law enforcement and how this could have been so much less than what it was if they had just acted when they when they should have and it concluded this inquiry that this investigation was grossly mishandled and that they did not do their best to solve these cases and that they haven't done their best to solve all the other missing women in girls cases so they did start putting a little bit of changes into effect but on December 8th 2015 Canada launched a national public inquiry into the insanely disproportionate amount of indigenous women who go missing and murdered each year in Canada.
Starting point is 00:46:45 And in 2014, the Royal Canadian Mounted Police actually stated that there were 1,200 missing and murdered indigenous women between 1980 and 2012. 1,200? Oh yeah, but indigenous women's groups, they document it at somewhere around 4,000. How do you not realize that 4,000 people in your community are dead? Well, a lot of it is because of underreporting because you saw there were a few instances in part two where Willie, you know, somebody got away from him and they were like, I didn't report it because they wouldn't care. Right.
Starting point is 00:47:20 So there was tons of that. And then it's also just unreported. It's underreported anyways by the police as well. And the police didn't look into them a lot or didn't create any kind of database for it. there was just nothing done. There was no organization done to try to fix this, like, plague that's happening. That whole place needs a revamp. And I found a crazy stat from Canada, actually.
Starting point is 00:47:46 The homicide rate between 1997 and 2000, it was seven times higher for non, for indigenous women over non-indigenous women. Wow. So that's just like a crazy stat. Yeah. And the National Inquiry's final report was completed in 2019. They said that it was, I think I actually found, yes, the website, it's for the missing and murdered indigenous women and girls. It's www.m.m.w.g.
Starting point is 00:48:19 And what it said in the first page you'll see of the website when you go find like the final report, they've posted it on there. What they wrote on their website was the National Inquiry's final report reveals that persistent and deliberate human and indigenous rights violations and abuses are the root cause behind Canada's staggering rates of violence against indigenous women, girls, and two S-L-G-B-T-Q-Q-I-A people. The two-volume report calls for transformative, transformative legal and social changes to resolve the crisis that has devastated. indigenous communities across the country. And then it says the final report is comprised of the truths of more than 2,380 family members, survivors of violence, experts, and knowledgekeepers shared over two years of cross-country public hearings and evidence gathering. It delivers 231 individual calls for justice directed at governments, institutions, social service
Starting point is 00:49:21 providers, industries, and all Canadians. As documented in the final report, testimony from... from family members and survivors of violence spoke about the surrounding context, marked by multi-generational and intergenerational trauma and marginalization in the form of poverty, insecure housing, or homelessness, and barriers to education, employment, health care, and cultural support. Experts and knowledgekeepers spoke to specific colonial and patriarchal policies that displaced women from their traditional roles in communities and governance and diminished, sorry, diminished, their status in society, leaving them vulnerable to violence.
Starting point is 00:50:00 Oh, yeah. So what they're saying is the final report was like, what the fuck? Yeah. The cliff notes on that are, do fuck? What are you doing about it? It's like insane. So what are they doing about it? Well, unfortunately, I guess this is a very ongoing thing.
Starting point is 00:50:17 I'm hoping, I mean... Since 2000, it's been 21 fucking years. I honestly urge everyone to go, especially if you want to look into this particular thing that's going on, go to www.m-M-I-W-G-F-F-A-D-A-D-A-D-F-F-A-D-A-A-D-A-G. Okay. And that's going to take you to that website. It's missing and murdered,
Starting point is 00:50:39 missing and murdered, indigenous women and girls. And it tells you everything. It tells you all the events that are going on, places you can donate. All the updates are on there. I think our next big show, we know where we're donating. Yeah, it's insane. Holy cow.
Starting point is 00:50:53 And I had shared on my Twitter the other night an Etsy shop from a listener's friend. You did, yeah. And it's an indigenous run shop. And she does have like a red dress pin and sticker that if you bought that, she donates 50% to the missing and murdered indigenous women and girls. Love that. So I think anything you can do like that, anything we can find, definitely share it out,
Starting point is 00:51:18 get people listening to it. Yes. Now, unfortunately, on August 4th, 2010, Crown Prosecution, stayed the balance of pending murder charges against Willie Picton. So that means that there's no future trials for any of the other missing women. Why? Don't know. I'm a little mad at the crown. So that's a little mad at the crown. I'm not going to lie. The Netflix show, it really bummed me up. I've never watched that. I haven't either. I kind of wanted to, though. But yeah. So I mean, he's he's in jail. He's not going anywhere. He's just living his life disgusting.
Starting point is 00:51:56 I didn't find any updates on him, but I don't want him to go through another trial because I'm sure he like derives some kind of pleasure from that and like relives it somehow. But I want the families of the women. Yeah, it's really a catch-22 to get their chance to read their victim impact statements. And I know that's the thing. You know, that's the thing. Because those really made a difference in the first trial, obviously. And it makes a difference when you get to see somebody put away for your daughter's murder. Yeah, exactly, for your family members, not just, you know, figure it. You know, not just like a symbolic gesture. There's not even any fucking symbolic gestures here. Yeah. It's just like, nothing. Well, because they're being like, he's in prison. So like for all of it. And it's like, no, but that's not enough.
Starting point is 00:52:38 That's just a blanket over everything. Right. And again, I want them to find more. I want them to be able to identify more of these remains. It's killing me. I feel like if they went back, they would still find stuff to this day. They definitely would. And the ones they already have that they haven't been able to identify.
Starting point is 00:52:51 That kills me. Well, now especially. I mean, we saw the fucking Golden State killer. Come on. I mean, it's a possibility. This thing will go on forever. The familial DNA hopefully will help. Let's hope. Fingers crossed. So that's Willie Picton. That was a huge bummer. He's a lot. And he's terrible. And his family's terrible. And his farm is terrible. He's terrible. But he's in prison. And Canada, I'm really glad he's in prison. And to all our Canadian listeners who reached out and like gave us tips and tidbits and stories. and I read every single email that like came in about this like that from every single person that was like, oh, let me just tell you my quick little thing or let me help you with this farm thing and all that. So like if this was a team effort, just know that like you guys really helped like put this together. So you guys were awesome with that. Yeah. We're so cool. So thank you so much. Wow. I'm glad to be out of Willie Pickton's worlds and I need to get out of it. Yeah, I'm ready to get out of it. But you know next episode we're going to get into somehow. an even more fucked up world. Yeah, we're going to drag you right back down. But, you know,
Starting point is 00:53:59 for like a couple days, we're out of it. Yeah, just like, you know, what, till Saturday? Yeah. Into our patrons, uh, we have something fun that we're going to be giving you in the next, like, March first. March first, right? Yeah. So Monday. So Monday. No, Sunday. Sunday. I believe. Either one of know. Someday. It's Monday. You're getting it. One of those days. We've been working on like a fun different surprise. It's just a fun little thing that we wanted to do. It's just little. Don't get too excited. It's just tiny. Okay. It was like something fun, so we're excited about it. And yeah, so thanks, everybody.
Starting point is 00:54:29 Yeah, thanks. I love you. In the meantime, you can follow us on Instagram. At Morbid Podcast. Hit us up on Twitter at a morbid podcast. I don't know who's there right now, but both of us are on Twitter breaks. I'm just taking a hiatus from social media. It's just like depressing.
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