‘Happy tears’ of victim’s sister after prison attack on serial killer Robert Pickton

By Morgan Lowrie in Montreal and Nono Shen and Chuck Chiang  in Vancouver  The Canadian Press  21/05/2024 16:41 Cynthia Cardinal says she was “overwhelmed” with happiness when she received a text message on Monday with the news that serial killer Robert Pickton, who murdered her sister Georgina Papin, was in a life-threatening condition after being attacked in prison. She calls it “karma.” The text came from a cousin of Tanya Holyk, another missing woman whose DNA was found at Pickton’s pig farm in Port Coquitlam, B.C. “I don’t think anybody that evil should be walking on Earth, as far as I’m concerned,” Cardinal said on Tuesday. “I have happy tears. Very happy tears.” Correctional Service Canada confirmed Tuesday that the B.C. serial killer was the inmate injured in a “major…

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