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Inside the Midnight Order - Ep. 4: 'Bizarre and Inconsistent'

20/20

ABC News

True Crime

3.87.3K Ratings

🗓️ 1 August 2024

⏱️ 21 minutes

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Summary

What allowed serial killer Robert Pickton to get away with so many murders, for so long? Midnight Order members Hasti and Anjali dive deeper into the disturbing details of the notorious case. "Inside the Midnight Order" is a companion podcast to the Freeform documentary series "Sasha Reid and the Midnight Order," now streaming on Hulu. Follow the "Inside the Midnight Order" podcast on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Amazon Music, or wherever you listen. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

Hey, it's Deborah Roberts. I hope you're following inside the midnight order, a behind-the-scenes look at how a group of young women is tackling one of the biggest murder cases in North America, the case of Robert Pickton. Here's episode four.

0:17.0

Hey there, I'm ABC News correspondent, Dana Whitworth, and I'm Nancy Schwartzman, Kaina Whitworth.

0:22.6

And I'm Nancy Schwartzman, the director and executive producer of Sasha Reed and The Midnight Order.

0:28.6

From ABC Audio and Free Form, this is inside the midnight order.

0:35.0

Nancy, in this episode, Dr. Sasha Reed in the midnight order,

0:39.0

investigate the Picton family.

0:41.0

What did we learn about them?

0:42.8

Oh, wow. We learn a lot about the Picton family. I so respect the way that the team really

0:49.8

dove in. They went for the granular. They went for land titles. First let's talk about this

0:55.8

ramshackle pig farm. Oh, Robert Picton, he's the Canadian equivalent of a

1:01.8

hillbilly. He lives in a decrepit trailer.

1:05.7

They are an incredibly wealthy family.

1:08.5

The Pictons are big landowners in a very expensive part of the world. They own multiple businesses

1:15.8

under different names and their land is quite valuable. So that's first and

1:21.4

foremost really getting a sense of the scale.

1:25.0

They started a nonprofit to throw huge parties basically adjacent to where scores of

1:30.8

women were murdered.

1:32.2

There's something so sick about that.

1:34.1

So really again, and this is where it's about visiting the crime scene,

1:37.9

understanding the proximity of Piggy's Palace,

1:40.9

which was a big sort of country rave kind of thing, where people would

1:44.6

drink and party, was walking distance from the farm and from where many women were killed.

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