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As serial killer Robert Pickton remains in hospital in Quebec following an attack by a fellow inmate, thoughts turn to the victims and their families and their pain.
Alan Mullen, a former corrections officer at the Kent Institution in Agassiz, BC when Pickton was incarcerated there, told Global News on Wednesday that some of that pain comes from knowing that if Pickton dies now, some the truth dies with him.
“It’s no secret that Robert Pickton didn’t act alone here,” Mullen said, referring to the number of missing and murdered women believed to have been killed on the Pickton farm. “If you talk to (Pickton) or listen to (Pickton), it’s pretty clear that he wasn’t acting alone,” Mullen added.
Although many never want to hear about Pickton again, Mullen said, this is about getting justice for the victims and their families and loved ones.
“If he dies, yes, a lot of information and truth that we can possibly glean from him through further investigation, dies with him and that worries me,” added Mullen.
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More than 14,000 exhibits were seized from the Pickton farm during the investigation and as more technological advances are made in DNA analysis and forensics, Mullen said the hope is always that more information will come to light.
Meanwhile, many are also wondering how the attack happened in the first place. Mullen said that when Pickton was incarcerated at Agassiz, he never had any contact with other inmates.
“He was living in a unit by himself,” Mullen said. “So to hear that he was seriously assaulted at the Port-Cartier Institution in Quebec, I’m actually very shocked. I’m at a loss as to how that would happen.”
Mullen said the information he was given is that Pickton was housed with the inmate who assaulted him and that inmate had just been released from segregation for assaulting another inmate.
“It makes absolutely no sense why the most notorious, prolific serial killer in Canadian history would be housed with such an individual.”
Pickton is serving a life sentence with no chance of parole for 25 years after being found guilty of six counts of second degree murder.
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