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On February 5th, 2002, the property of Robert Pickton and his three siblings was searched by police for illegal firearms. While searching the property personal items belonging to missing women were found, therefore he was taken into custody and police obtained a second court order to search the property as part of the BC Missing Women Investigation. Pickton was charged with possession of multiple firearms without licenses, but then released and put under police surveillance. =====

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Weeks after Pickton was charged, he was arrested and charged for several murders in the first-degree. Between February 22nd and October 3rd of 2002 he was charged with a total of 15 murders, the largest of any serial killer in Canadian history. Three years later he was charged with 12 more murders, bringing the total to 27 charges of first-degree murder. =====

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In December 2007, Pickton was convited of 6 out of the 27 muders. He was sentenced to life in prison, with no possiblity of parole for 25 years. This is the longest sentence possible under Canadian law for murder. =====



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In October of 1966, a girl in Riverside, San Francisco was violently murdered after asking a man to help start her car. This began a series of murders in the San Francisco area. The killer identified himself as Zodiac. He taunted the police with phone calls and messages, like the one below. The police had over 2,500 suspects, but never found the Zodiac killer. This case remains one of the most famous unsolved cases. =====