Canada has its share of deviant and sadistic minds.
According to the FBI, a serial killer is anyone who kills three or more people, with a cooling off period between each murder.
Here's a list of convicted Canadian serial killers.
Robert "Willie" Pickton - The Pig Farmer
Vancouver pig farmer Robert Pickton is Canada's most prolific serial killer. He confessed to killing and butchering 49 women between 1983 and 2002. His victims were sex trade workers and drug addicts from Vancouver's notorious Downtown Eastside.
Pickton invited them, with other guests, to wild parties at the pig farm. In 2002, police raided the farm looking for firearms. They discovered human remains, and personal belongings of women on Vancouver's "missing" list. Pickton had fed some of his victims to the pigs.
He is charged with twenty-six murders, and has been convicted on six. An appeal hearing is tentatively scheduled for March, 2009 in Vancouver.
Clifford Robert Olson Jr. - Beast of British Columbia
In 1980 and 1981, Clifford Olson drove around B.C. on a spree of rape, torture and murder. Olson killed eleven children and teens, and sent letters to their parents, detailing the tortures and deaths. In August, 1981, police arrested him when he tried to abduct two girls.
Olson confessed, and offered to show police the location of the bodies in return for a payment of $100,000, made to his wife. The demand sparked public outrage, but the payment was made, and Olson located the bodies.
Clifford Olson is serving eleven concurrent life sentences at the Special Handling Unit in Quebec, Canada. He is now eligible to apply for parole every two years.
Wayne Clifford Boden - The Vampire Killer
Boden killed at least three women in Montreal and one in Calgary, between 1969 and 1971. He had a penchant for savagely biting the breasts of his victims.
Unlike many serial killers, Boden knew most of the women he killed. Friends and co-workers of the Montreal victims identified him, but police circulated the wrong suspect photo. Boden fled to Calgary.
There, he murdered a schoolteacher. The woman's breasts had been mauled, and Calgary police made the connection to the vampire killings in Montreal.
Boden's trial was the first in North America to use orthodontological evidence, or bite marks, to convict a killer. Boden received three life sentences, and served time at the Kingston Penitentiary. He died of cancer in 2006.
Russel Maurice Johnson -The Bedroom Strangler
Johnson climbed balconies to the height of fifteen stories. Between 1973 and 1977, he killed at least seven women in the towns of Guelph and London, Ontario.
The first four victims seemed to have died of natural causes. Apartment doors were locked, and there were no signs of a struggle. After that, the attacks grew in savagery. Police tracked down Russell Johnson, an auto worker with a criminal past.
Johnson pleaded not guilty by reason of insanity to three murders. Later, he confessed to raping and killing four more victims. He is incarcerated at the Mental Health Centre in Penetanguishene, Ontario. He has confessed to seven additional murders, and 17 attacks, but has not been charged.
Allan Legere - Monster of the Miramichi
Legere terrorized the Miramichi region of New Brunswick for seven months. He was already serving a life sentence for a brutal murder and rape when he escaped custody at a hospital in Moncton, New Brunswick, in 1989.
While at large, he beat 75-year-old Annie Flam to death, and raped and beat her sister, Nina, then set their house on fire. In October, he attacked two sisters in their forties. He beat, raped and murdered them both, and again set fire to the house.
Gun and home security sales rose in the Miramichi region. People moved in with friends, and Halloween trick-or-treating was canceled. In November, an elderly priest failed to show up for mass. Parishioners found him brutally beaten to death.
After one of the most massive manhunts in Canadian history, police recaptured Legere on November 19, 1989. He is currently one of ninety inmates at the Special Handling Unit in Quebec, a dubious distinction he shares with child killer Clifford Olson.
Gilbert Paul Jordan - The Boozing Barber
Jordan was the first known serial killer to use alcohol as a murder weapon. A retired barber, he drank over fifty ounces of vodka a day, and craved drunken sex. His victims were transient addicts and prostitutes in Vancouver's notorious Downtown Eastside.
Between 1965 and 1988, he killed at least ten women, and probably more. Jordan would pay a woman for sex, take her to a hotel and encourage her to drink until she passed out. He continued to force alcohol down her throat until she died.
Eventually, police linked fingerprints at one crime scene to another, and put Jordan under surveillance. They rescued his next intended victim as Jordan was plying her with alcohol.
