Well I swanny, what in tarnation got into this fella?
It took eons for Canada's cops to catch Robert Pickton, the country's most prolific serial killer.
Turns out they had him but, unable to put 2 and 2 together, his dastardly deeds continued for another decade.
In the same way Ed Gein inspired The Silence of the Lambs, Pickton's farm inspired its 2001 sequel, Hannibal.
If you've seen Hannibal, you'll recall a vengeful southerner by the name of "Mason Verger" (Gary Oldman) has maniacal designs to capture Dr. Lecter (Anthony Hopkins) who has recently escaped from prison and is in the wind.
Needless to say, Verger (a former survivor who got away), aims to feed Hannibal to his pigs, but it doesn't go down that way. At all.
Back in the equally grisly real world, Pickton (who was arrested in 2002 and convicted in 2007) is currently serving six life sentences concurrently in Port-Cartier (Quebec), but is eligible for parole in 2032 because the longest possible sentence for second-degree murder under Canadian law at the time he was sentenced is a mere 25 years.
Once again, a punishment that does not fit the crime.
If this were the eye-for-an-eye world, Pickton's survivors' families would have the privilege of returning the swine to his farm for some Old Testament justice.
