The Piggy Palace Massacre (*MATURE AUDIENCES ONLY*)

if you have heard of piggy palace the focus of today's story then you know how horrific this story is if you've never heard of piggy palace well viewer discretion is advised but before we get into today's story if you're a fan of the strange dark and mysterious delivered in story format then you come to the right place because that's all we do and we upload three or four times every week so if that's of interest to you please set the like button up for a practice sales call with william m buttlicker also please subscribe to our channel and turn on all notifications so you don't miss any of our weekly uploads alright let's get into today's story robert picton was born in 1949 in port coquitlam in british columbia which is about 15 miles to the east of vancouver he along with his brother and sister were raised by their parents on a big pig farm in the 1970s their parents passed away and so the property was handed down to them robert and his brother took over the daily operations of the farm and their sister decided to just move away over the next couple of decades robert and his brother attempted to run the pig farm but pretty quickly they stopped taking care of it and it fell into decline neighbors and visitors were called seeing the pigs that were still there free-roaming the property and as for the brothers it appeared they had just stopped bathing and despite walking all day in mud and pig feces it seemed like they never took off their boots when they went inside one of the few farm workers that stayed with the pictons through the farm's decline was a guy by the name of bill hisscox and he said the farm was a really creepy place and he also said robert was a really creepy guy that was prone to just totally bizarre behavior even though he didn't smoke or drink or use any substances eventually the picton brothers realized they were not cut out to run the pig farm like their family had for generations before them and they decided their best move was just to sell portions of their land but neither of them could have guessed just how much their land was worth from 1994 to 1995 they managed to sell off almost all of their property to an urban developer for over 5 million and so suddenly these filthy failed pig farmers had become millionaires and neither of them knew what to do with the money after a year of just sitting on the money and not doing much with it they decided they wanted to do some good with their money and so they established an official charity in 1996 called the piggy palace good times society their charity's purpose at least on paper was to help raise money for various organizations that they deemed worthy by running events like dances and shows and while that might have been their original intention for this charity what it ultimately became was a guise to host these wild drug and alcohol fueled parties inside of their slaughterhouse which even though it wasn't being used anymore because they were no longer really doing any pig farming it still conspicuously had big hooks coming down from the ceiling and blood stains all over the ground underneath them these piggy palace parties became infamous in coquitlam drawing crowds of up to 2000 people predominantly bikers drug addicts and prostitutes from the poverty-stricken downtown east side of vancouver robert had become familiar with that part of vancouver because he used to go through there all the time to dispose of animal waste products at their rendering plan once the piggy palace charity was in full swing robert started going back into that neighborhood where he would cruise down the 10 block strip called the low track and would attempt to recruit people to come to his parties most of the people he recruited were down on their luck women who only agreed to go because he was offering them food and money and drugs and alcohol at the same time robert was running this recruiting campaign women from the downtown east side began disappearing in droves these disappearances were noticed by the men and women in the downtown east side but they didn't report them because they had a general distrust of the police and of authority figures in general but as more and more and more women disappeared from the downtown east side rumors of a serial killer operating in that area started to circulate residents began only going outside if they could walk around in a big group of people and everybody was just totally on edge keeping careful look out for anything odd about the neighborhood people that shouldn't be there cars that shouldn't be there but despite this heightened security women continued to go missing at a rapid rate and nobody knew why when the police were finally contacted about all these missing women their response was lacking to say the least since there were no bodies of these missing women the police said it was reasonable to assume that the women were to blame that their lifestyles must have caught up with them and they either ran off somewhere or perhaps they overdosed somewhere and their bodies just haven't been found yet despite residents of the downtown east side saying no this is different there's something wrong here the police basically said we're not getting involved when the newspapers found out about this totally apathetic response from the police they criticized them for intentionally de-prioritizing these missing women because the majority of them were drug addicts and prostitutes and so therefore weren't worthy of a full investigation the police rejected this claim on the evening of march 22nd 1997 so one year after the piggy palace had been stood up and they started throwing all these parties and one year after dozens of women have gone missing from the downtown east side the picton's neighbor heard a frantic knock on their front door they ran over they opened it up and what they saw was this woman who was hunched over with one hand on her bleeding stomach and dangling from her wrist was a handcuff the neighbor was obviously shocked at what they were seeing but they quickly ushered the woman in and they called her an ambulance the woman was rushed to the hospital where she immediately was put into emergency surgery afterwards while she was in recovery she told her nurses that her name was wendy and she had been at one of those piggy palace parties and one of the owners of the farm robert picton had tried to put a handcuff on her and when he did she fought back he drew a knife he stabbed her in the stomach she was able to get the knife back she stabbed him in the face before turning and running out the door and making it to the neighbor's house right after she told this story robert picton actually showed up at the exact same hospital with a serious laceration on his face that was consistent with being stabbed the medical staff had already called the police who showed up minutes later and when they went inside they searched robert and they found in one of his pockets a handcuff key and that handcuff key opened the handcuff that was still on wendy's wrist and so when the police saw that they arrested robert on attempted murder while robert was in custody he explained to officers that wendy was lying she was a drug addict and she had come to one of their piggy palace parties and he had caught her trying to rob them he had confronted her she drew a knife and that's when a struggle ensued and both of them got stabbed and robert said he was just lucky to be alive the police believed him and dropped all of his charges and let him go when robert got back to the farm bill hiscox the one worker who still worked for the pictons he grew very suspicious of robert he had read all about the missing women from the downtown east side and he knew robert regularly went over there to pick up women and brought them back to his parties and bill just always had that gut feeling that something was off about robert and so he sat on this gut feeling for a couple of months until finally he decided he had to tell someone and so he called the crime stoppers tip line and he told them that he thought robert had actually attacked wendy not the other way around and that actually robert was most likely behind some or all of these missing women from the downtown east side bill also said that a recent female party guest at the farm had seen a pile of women's clothing inside of robert's trailer along with at least 10 purses and women's id cards the police followed up with lisa to confirm what she saw but she was scared of robert and said she wasn't going to cooperate and so the police without this testimony were unable to secure a search warrant to investigate this further and so they kind of just forgot about it and moved on to other cases over the next few years the pictons continued to throw these huge piggy palace parties until the city finally shut them down and dozens more women disappeared from the downtown east side without a significant police investigation despite the fact that bill was calling them all the time to say he believed robert picton was behind all of these disappearances but they weren't taking him seriously finally in 2002 a former employee of the picton farm came forward to police and said that he personally had seen illegal weapons inside of robert's trailer and this was enough information for the police to get a search warrant and raid the pig farm and in february of that year they did just that and they found inside of robert's trailer the illegal guns as well as several items directly connected to some of the missing women from the downtown east side robert was arrested but let out on bail he was put under surveillance and told he could not go back to the farm until they were done conducting a more thorough search and during that more thorough search they found blood from one of the missing women inside of robert's trailer and so robert was rearrested and charged with murder while he was being held in jail he shared his cell with another man who he believed was just another detainee but he wasn't a detainee he was actually an undercover police officer and their entire interaction was being recorded and on this recording robert makes a few shocking statements [Music] [Music] than is [Music] um [Music] is [Music] bigger [Music] as robert admits in this video he killed 49 people who would turn out to be the majority of the missing women from the downtown east side after a lengthy investigation it was determined robert's killing spree began in 1991 but it really kicked up a notch in 1996 when he and his brother started piggy palace because he was able to use their huge parties to lure more victims to his farm faster and once they were at his farm he would lure them into his trailer where he would handcuff them tell them it's over now and he would inject antifreeze into them or he would strangle them to death afterwards he would move the victim's body to the slaughterhouse where he would butcher them like a pig a large portion of his victim's remains would be fed to his pigs and the parts he didn't feed to his pigs he would bring to the rendering plant in the downtown east side which is not far from where the victim was most likely picked up a rendering plant takes animal waste products crushes them up and turns them into a gelatin this gelatin is used in many everyday products from candy to cosmetics which means robert's victims wound up in things like lipstick and gummy bears also sometimes while robert was going through this horrific disposal process he would set aside some of the best cuts of meat and grind them up with pork and turn them into sausage this sausage was served at piggy palace parties it was also given to neighbors and food banks and orphanages after sifting through three hundred thousand cubic meters of soil and pig feces underneath the pickton farm investigators were only ever able to find little bits of remains of 26 women robert was charged with all 26 murders but only six turned into convictions due to a lack of evidence he was sentenced to life in prison and is still alive today his brother and sister were never charged in connection with the crimes so that's gonna do it guys if you found the secret in today's episode let us know in the comments what it is and where you found it so give us the time stamp and if you're the first to do that we'll pin you at the top of the comment section if you enjoyed today's video and you haven't done this already please set the like button up for a practice sales call with william m butlicker also please subscribe to our channel and turn on all notifications so you don't miss any of our weekly 3 or 4 video uploads if you want to get in touch with me you can direct message me on instagram or on twitter my username for both platforms is the same it's john ballin416 i also have a ton of content over on tick tock where my username is mr ballen i also have a second youtube channel called mr ball and shorts where i post 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Views: 2,709,544

Rating: 4.9585562 out of 5

Keywords: strange, dark, mysterious, true, story, scary, scary story, horror story, disturbing, narration, narrator, storyteller, storytime, storytelling, unsolved mystery, solved mystery, true crime, oof, nope, serial, pig, farm, Rober pickton, pig farmer, savage, dangerous, horrible, scared, terrifying, canada, crime, worst crime, horrible crime, body count, horror, horror narration, canadian, biker gang, piggy palace, bikers, biker, addict, addicts, skid row, poverty, poor, rendering plant, slaughter, wow, massacre, fear

Id: Rj4Tl850GxA

Length: 13min 23sec (803 seconds)

Published: Fri Apr 02 2021

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