Robert Pickton Documentary: Canada's Worst Serial Killer

Author: Shane Lambert

Original time of writing: May 5th, 2024

If you are looking for a pretty good online documentary for Robert Pickton, the Canadian serial killer who disappeared and murdered women from Vancouver's east side, then check out the YouTube channel for The Infographics Show. At the time of writing (May 5th, 2024), the episode is dated five months earlier, which would make it a late 2023 publication (November 7th, 2023). The documentary is entitled "The Pig Farmer - Canada's Most EVIL Serial Killer." Thus far it has just over 3,000,000 million views (as of February 2nd, 2025).   

The 34-35-minute episode goes through Pickton's life as a child on a farm, where he suffered abuse and mental trauma. It continues with his status as a social outcast among his peers growing up. This leads to his time as a serial killer.

After watching the documentary, which is critical of the Canadian police and their handling of the investigation, anyone looking to learn about the crimes will feel as though they have a good understanding of what happened, I think.

 

Is there a movie about Robert Pickton? Not that I know of but there are online documentaries.

The documentary has a well-written narrative style. It is also presented in animation but with real-life photos of some of the people central to the cases.

One central issue in the documentary has to do with how the Vancouver police managed the situation with the disappearing women. They went missing from Vancouver's east side, which is notorious for being one of the worst neighborhoods in all of Canada.

I've lived in greater Vancouver for about five years of my life, including one month when I rented a hotel room on Vancouver's east side, which would be called the "East Hastings" area by locals. Many I have talked to over the years have attributed the concentration of homelessness in the area to Vancouver's gentle winter-time climate relative to most other places in Canada. Certainly, living on the streets in Vancouver is more viable in the winter than in Edmonton, Calgary, Toronto, Montreal, Ottawa, or many of the other significant cities in Canada.

What fueled the disappearances, as presented in the documentary, is the belief that missing prostitutes were not considered to be worthy of investigation.