Robert Pickton Case Study

Arthur Shawcross is a man that committed his life to killing people. He was born on June 6, 1945 in Kittery, Maine. “Serial killer Arthur Shawcross was born on June 6, 1945, and died on November 10, 2008 while serving a life sentence for the murder of 11 women” (Arthur Shawcross 2015). Arthur is what is called a serial killer/murder. The term “serial murder” from our class notes means, “The killing of several victims in three or more separate incidents over time (separated by weeks or more)” (Miyuki 2017: Chapter 9, 27). Soon after Arthur was born, his family moved to Watertown, New York. Shawcross claims when he was a child, he was abused by his mother and the relationship he had with his father was not much better. Also, he claimed that this

A serial killer is a person who commits a series of murders often with no apparent motive and typically following a characteristic predictable behavior pattern. According to the FBI a serial killer is somebody who murders over three or more people within a month with an emotional cooling off period in between. Robert Lee Yates born on May 27, 1952 is an American serial killer from Washington. From the years 1996 to 1998 Yates murder over 13 women. Oh 13 woman were prostitutes working on E Sprague Avenue in a town in Washington. He’s currently on death row at the Washington State penitentiary. Yates grew up in Oak Harbor a town in Washington. He was in an average middle-class family who attend a small church close to his home. In 1975, he was hired to be a corrections officer in Washington state penitentiary shortly after that in 1977, After working there for six months, Yates enlisted in the United States Army, in which he became certified to fly civilian transport airplanes and helicopters. Yates was stationed in various countries outside the continental United States, including Germany and later Somalia during the United Nations peacekeeping mission of

In Hunt’s estimation, which she precludes with her own experience and knowledge taken from research within her own community—Vancouver’s downtown Eastside—there has been a significant uptick of missing Indigenous women since at least the early 1990s, “mainly women who were marked as ‘outsider’ by a society that shuns sex workers, substance users, the poor, and the homeless, among many others” (96). In the case of Pamela George, this was no different.

5. Leyton argues that it may be irresponsible to assume that a serial killer may be at work in Vancouver. The RCMP task force has repeatedly said that it cannot speak about the ongoing investigation and only concedes that a serial killer may be

In determining, Robert Pickton's mental capacity during his crimes, his defense attorneys argued that he possessed a limited intelligence. This statement would differ from the prosecutions position, as they believed his IQ surpassed that of mental retardation. In all actuality, Pickton had spent many years in special education and only managed to finish parts of high school. Thus, affirming that he was by no means a wise man. However, without any kind of strong formal education, the simple-minded pig farmer was able avoid arrest, for one of Canada’s largest killing sprees to date. This is largely because Pickton's choice of victims, as well as the Vancouver police departments reluctance to investigate, aided in concealing his identity. Contrary to public belief, the behavior illustrated by Robert Pickton was not eccentric or unheard of, as when placed with the profile of a serial killer, he is an identical match. His history of social isolation, drug use, and record of violent offenses, are further commonalities in which serial killers share. Similarly to most serial killers, Pickton choose his victims based on their vulnerability. By deciding to murder easily available prostitutes, Pickton was targeting people that were likely to be the forgotten members of society. This strategical method of crime

If someone ever met Andrew Urdiales he would be the type that one would forget. He is not very outgoing and would keep to himself, during his childhood he did not have many friends and was an average student. Urdiales was a marine stationed in Southern California when he committed his first murder killing Robbin Brandley a twenty-three year old college student. From July 1988 to August 1996 Urdiales would go on to kill seven more women. Most serial killers kill each victim similar to all the other victims, Urdiales was different though his first murder he stabbed the victim to death while his last he shot in the head.

In 1979, children and teens seemed to simple vanish. Each child met certain criteria: young, black, and from Atlanta. The first two victims, Edward Smith and Alfred Evans, who were both 14 years old, disappeared four days apart in June. Both of their bodies were found close together in a remote, wooded area of South Atlanta one month later. Nine-year-old Yusuf Bell went missing on October 21st, 1979 and his body was recovered November 8th of the same year. Police did not connect the dots with Bell’s murder because he was fully clothed, found in a remote area, but was strangled to death, unlike Smith and Evans, who were shot with a .22 caliber. Williams’ next alleged victim, 12-year-old Angel Lenair, was also strangled. She was found in an abandoned lot, fully clothed, with child underwear stuffed in her mouth.

This case is an example of the feminist theory and of female oppression. Robert could have believed that since he was a male he was the more dominant sex and this could have led him to express his superiority towards women through the murders. This is an example of radical feminism. Radical feminism looks at the exploitation of women and their role in the patriarchy. Marxists feminism theory focuses on the unfair divide between men and women and how each are expected to have certain roles in society. Women are most likely expected to be stay at home moms where men are expected to have a higher income and have more serious jobs. Robert only attacked women that were sex workers or drug addicts. There must be a reason for this pattern and it could be that he was attacking women that were in a lower class then he was. It was just another way of making himself feel more powerful then the women. Roberts’s anger towards women could be because of his relationship with his mother when he was a child. She wasn’t always the most affectionate and supportive mother and the anger he felt towards his mother could be the reason he feels anger and aggression towards women. If he kept the feelings he had towards his mother locked up inside him that could be what brought him to the point of murdering all of these women. The feminism theory can shed some light on why Robert Pickton decided to murder these

But in Canada, any type of public communications for the purpose of having sex, in other words procuring in Section 213 of the Criminal Code of Canada, is against the prostitution law. If that’s not enough to ban the existence of pimps, the complex relationship between the pimp and the prostitute can turn possessive and abusive as time goes on. The pimp’s approach in stabilizing the relationship is by psychological intimidation, manipulation, long hours of starvation, any type of rape, severe beatings, small confinements, force them to take drugs, death threats towards the prostitute’s family, and etc. Although, the prostitutes had agreed to sexual services in order to support either themselves or fund their drug addiction, they are not doing this for the sake of pleasure but to earn fast money. In most cases, women are under the control of the pimp and most often could not defend themselves alone and must submit to the pimp’s wishes in order to survive. Pimps can be charged with an applicable offence that includes sexual assault, uttering threats, intimidation, and forcible confinement. A ‘missing people’ article dated back in April of 2000 reported a pimp named Barry Thomas Niedermier, 43, had something to do with 27 prostitutes that were missing in Vancouver, British Columbia. He has a bad history with the law, once involving himself pimping a 14

Harvey Robinson, then 19, is a serial killer who operated between 1992 and 1993, where he killed three women and attempted to kill a fourth. His victims were, in chronological order: Joan Burghardt, 29, Charlotte Schmoyer, 15, and Jessica Jean Fortney, 47. His fourth victim, Denise Sam-Cali, managed to survive the attack and escape. Robinson murdered Joan by bludgeoning her in her home, Charlotte was kidnapped and stabbed to death, and Jessica died from strangulation. His final victim, Denise, was beaten. Each of the four victims had been raped as well.

Richard Kuklinski was a convicted murderer and contract killer who was born on April 11 in 1935. Kuklinski claims to have killed over 200 people over the course of his “career” during 1949 to 1986. At first, he would simply kill people who annoyed him, got on his nerves, or who he ‘needed’ to kill. When the mob caught wind of a man who killed as frivolously as Kuklinski, they began to hire him out as a contract killer. He lived in New Jersey and New York and committed most of his crimes in that area. In 1988, he was caught and sentenced to life in prison -- he later died in prison in March of 2006

Gary Leon Ridgway has confessed to 48 killings attributed to him. His cooperation lead to finding four sets of remains. His killings spanned from 1982 to 1998. Ridgway plead guilty to murdering 48 Green River Killer victims on November 5, 2003. Ridgway says strangling young women was his "career."

In World War II Hitler came to power. His group was the Nazis. They mistreated people who were different. Many people stood by and did nothing, but Sir Nicholas Winton made good choices and help.

Countless of different patients come to seek healthcare and advice for a variety of reasons including certain signs and symptoms they feel that their health is threatened by. It is a crucial skill that health practitioners have a working knowledge of different pathologies patients can present with to direct the patient appropriately towards the correct diagnosis and thus, prescribe the most effective treatment in return. Mr Smith is a 63-year-old male suffering from hypertension and diabetes for the last 20 years. He irregularly monitors blood pressure and blood glucose levels as well as inconsistently uses Minidiab and Tritace for treatment. He presents with shortness of breath worsening over the past five weeks as well as other multiple symptomologies. Throughout this case study, we will examine the pathophysiology of Mr Smith’s health concerns, clarify and interpret the physical examination outcomes and laboratory tests. Through the exams, we will then propose a number of possible and justified diagnoses and after that lead to further diagnostic tests suggested as a result of these interpretations.

Murders were not unusual in the “east end” of London. Some historians thinks, there were dozen murders and a few say only five.