CNN —Canadian serial killer Robert Pickton - who was convicted of killing six women and confessed to killing dozens more - died after being attacked earlier this month by another inmate, prison authorities said. Pickton is one of the most notorious serial killers in Canadian history, bringing his victims to his pig farm and feeding their remains to his animals. Pickton had been operating a pig farm in the nearby city of Port Coquitlam, where police found the remains of 33 women. However, Pickton confessed to murdering 49 women when talking to an undercover police officer in a jail cell. The case became the largest serial killer investigation in Canada’s history and Pickton’s pig farm became the largest crime scene in Canadian history, with investigators taking 200,000 DNA samples.

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Persons: Robert Pickton, Pickton, Pickton’s, “, Cynthia Cardinal, Georgina Papin, Michele Pineault, Stephanie Lane, ” Organizations: CNN, Cartier, Correctional Service Canada, CSC, Canadian, Globe Locations: Canadian, Canada’s Quebec, Downtown Eastside, British Colombia, Port Coquitlam, British Columbia