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Welcome to Canadian True Crime, Episode 16, Robert Picton, Part 2.

This is Christy.

When we left off, Wendy Lynn Isstetter had survived a knife attack with Robert Picton.

She'd been picked up and taken to hospital, still with handcuffs on. Robert arrived sometime later at the same hospital, along with the

key that opened the handcuffs. He had been charged for instigating the attack. Robert was kept at

the hospital for three days for his stab wounds.

He told his brother David, his side of the story, that some bitch had stabbed him.

He was released from the hospital on a $2,000 cash bond, with an order for him to stay at the farm, not contact Wendy, and not use any alcohol or drugs,

which of course he didn't use anyway.

Robert needed to be cared for post-surgery, but David didn't have the time to do it,

so arranged for Robert's old friend Lisa yelled to come and do it.

The tale he told her was that he'd been snoozing in his truck

and a sex worker woke him up. He said she went back to the trailer with him and she saw a wad of

cash on the table, grabbed a knife and threatened him. He tried to protect himself and the rest is

history, he said. Lisa noted he was clearly very bitter about Wendy.

Lisa told him to let it go that it was done, but the brothers didn't forget Wendy and

hired a private investigator to get background information on her.

On April 8, 1997, the police charged Robert with attempting to murder Wendy and with unlawful

confinement and aggravated assault. Robert hired an expensive and well-known lawyer to defend himself,

telling his friends he'd paid $80,000. Whether or not she knew she was being investigated by Robert and his team,

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