Robert William Pickton said he would give up his life to bring back the women he's accused of killing and that he just "wants to die" in a videotaped police interview watched by the jury Wednesday.

For a second day, jurors in the courtroom in New Westminster, B.C., listened to the videotaped police interrogation with Pickton, conducted shortly after he was arrested in February 2002.

Robert Pickton, shown in a sketch while in B.C. Supreme Court in New Westminster on Wednesday, watches a police video of himself being questioned about missing women following his arrest in February 2002.
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Pickton, on trial on six counts of first-degree murder, said in the interview that he's "a plain little farm boy" and had nothing to do with the deaths of several missing Vancouver women.

Pickton, 57, is being tried in the deaths of Sereena Abotsway, Mona Wilson, Andrea Joesbury, Marnie Frey, Georgina Papin and Brenda Wolfe, who all disappeared from Vancouver's Downtown Eastside.

Pickton also faces another 20 first-degree murder charges involving missing women, which will be dealt with at a separate trial. He has pleaded not guilty to all charges, none of which have been proven in court.

Throughout the videotape, Pickton insisted that he had nothing to do with their deaths.

At one point in the tape, Pickton told RCMP Sgt. Bill Fordy that he bought broken-down cars at Vancouver Police Department auctions and searched them for valuables.

He said that he sometimes found women's belongings, such as bras and blouses.

An inhaler was also mentioned in the interview, but Pickton said he knew nothing about it. Earlier in the week, the prosecution told the jury an inhaler was discovered on Pickton's property, and that it belonged to Abotsway.

'I didn't do that': Pickton says of dead woman

Pickton also spoke about taking a woman from his farm to the bus depot and giving her $100.

When Fordy told him the woman was dead, Pickton replied, "I didn't do that. I didn't."

The questioning also turned to Wilson. Fordy told Pickton her blood was found on a mattress on his property.

"That doesn't mean I did it," replied Pickton.

The police officer said: "Your DNA is with Wilson's. You two are tied together through DNA."

Pickton replies: "I don't know her."

Fordy showed Pickton a videotaped statement by a man known as Dwayne Scott Chubb, someone Pickton said he had known for years.

"Is that Scott?" he asked repeatedly.

He asked Fordy whether Chubb was going to give evidence and then told the officer he wanted to return to his cell.

Fordy refused. Pickton said he felt sick in the knowledge he was being charged with two murders, and he could not get over Chubb's statement to police.

Pickton insists he's 'plain little farm boy'

Pickton told the officer that he owns a gun, but then said he shouldn't be talking, adding: "I'm just a plain little farm boy."

At that point, Pickton was crying, and pointed to photos of the missing women.

"I'm sorry for living, and ah, you know if I can, I'll take my life for any one of those people … just to have them alive," he said.

Fordy continued to push, telling him there was a freight train of evidence building against him, including DNA, body parts and witnesses.

'I'm sorry for living, and ah, you know if I can, I'll take my life for any one of those people … just to have them alive' -Robert William Pickton

He urged Pickton to confess, saying he would feel better.

Pickton gave his most animated responses when Fordy mentioned that he was on the front page of every newspaper in the country.

Pickton responded, "I'm in the paper today?"

He also referred to the newspaper coverage again later on: "So my picture's all over the front page? I never did anything."

Later, Fordy leaves the interrogation room and is replaced by Const. Dana Lillies, a female officer who had spoken to Pickton a week before his arrest.

"I should be on death row. I'm finished. I'm finished. I'm dead," he said. But he continued to deny he had anything to do with the women's death.

Lillies told him that since he was going to go to jail, he should tell the truth.

Pickton responded: "I want to die."

Shown images of missing women

In an earlier part of the interview, shown Tuesday, Pickton was shown a poster board with the faces of 48 missing Vancouver women.

Fordy walked Pickton through each one, asking if he recognized any of them.

Pickton leaned forward to see them more closely. Several times, he said "she's pretty" about a woman, but denied knowing any of them.

When asked whether he had killed the missing women, Pickton was insistent, saying, "I don't know anything about it. I'm just a pig man."

He said he was being set up on murder allegations.

Pickton recalls pet, former fiancée

Fordy spent a lot of time early in the interview talking about Pickton's childhood, establishing that he was close with his mother, but not his father.

The biggest show of emotion from the accused came when he spoke about a childhood pet, a calf he had when he was about 12.

He said he would often sleep with the calf, and appeared to become emotional when recalling how he came home one day to find the calf had been slaughtered. Pickton said he didn't speak for four days, adding that the incident made him realize life was fleeting.

Pickton also told Fordy he had a pen pal named Connie when he was about 24, and that they became engaged when he went to Michigan to meet her.

But her parents wouldn't let her leave home and he couldn't leave the pig farm, he said, so the relationship ended.