Video of a police interrogation with serial killer Robert Pickton following his 2002 arrest has been released publicly.
Video excerpts of a conversation between the Port Coquitlam, B.C., pig farmer and an undercover officer posing as his cellmate were made public Friday.
Their release follows the lifting on Wednesday of publication bans from Pickton's 2007 trial, after the Crown stayed the remaining 20 murder charges against Pickton.
The 60-year-old is serving a life sentence for the murders of six women from Vancouver's Downtown Eastside between 1997 and 2002.
In the new batch of recordings released Monday, Pickton is shown under the bright lights of a tough interrogation, admitting to horrendous crimes.
Pickton was interviewed by several officers over the course of the 11-hour interrogation.
Initially, police do most of the talking, with Pickton denying any involvement or knowledge in the murders of women who went missing from Vancouver's Downtown Eastside.
For the first several hours, most of the talking Pickton does revolves around his life on the farm and stories from his childhood.
He does not admit to anything directly and appears relaxed during the interview, even putting his feet up during several portions.
However, when the third officer — lead investigator Staff Sgt. Don Adam — enters the interrogation room, Pickton appears cagey and tentative.
He starts to give Adam some information, admitting to several details, but retracts his statements immediately.
An artist's sketch shows Robert Pickton in the prisoner's box on the first day of his trial in B.C. Supreme Court on Jan. 22, 2007. (Felicity Don/Canadian Press)Pickton attempts to broker a deal with Adam, offering information or a confession in exchange for police taking down the fences around his pig farm.
Eventually, after being questioned repeatedly, Pickton admits police might find the bodies of "two — probably two, maybe three" women on his property.
He suggests it was bad police work that allowed him to go on for so long because officers simply couldn't catch him.
Pickton also echoes the statement he made to the undercover officer in the tape released on Friday, saying he got "too sloppy" and that's why police were finally able to arrest him.
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