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Hello and welcome back to Cult Leader. I'm your Cult Leader, Spencer Henry. What's up, my cult baves? Old and new.

If you're new here, Cult Leader is a podcast about dismemberment and the disposal of body parts. Robert Willie Pickford is the subject of today's episode.

Before we get into that, I know a lot of you have noticed the merch shop is currently closed. It will remain closed until I reopen it.

I'm going to relaunch it within the next couple of weeks here and make it available internationally.

Because I know so many of you don't live in the US and it's not fair that you don't get your cult merch.

I want to make sure that it's available for everyone and speak enough. Today's episode takes place in Canada.

So what's up, my Canadian Cult Baves? We are talking about Robert Willie Pickford aka the Pig Farm Killer.

Born on October 24, 1949, making him a Scorpio, I believe.

Two Leonard and Louise. They lived 15 miles outside Vancouver and he was raised on their family farm that ran as a livestock slaughterhouse.

Life on the farm was messy, the animals were free to run around and they'd just come and go as they pleased in and out of the house.

It was so dirty in fact that Willie's older sister Linda was actually sent to live with relatives in Vancouver.

Because Leonard, the dad, was like, this is no place for a girl to grow up.

Willie and his younger brother David, however, were really thrown into work from a really young age. They would do a lot of manual labor, they had to clean up a lot of pig shit.

Their mom was the shrill ruthless woman. She was often referred to as the tyrant constantly heard yelling at the boys, ordering them around.

And in her eyes, I think that the pigs came first and her kids came second.

Willie and David were known around town for constantly smelling awful. I mean literally like pig shit.

So I guess we'll say manure because that's the correct term, but gross either way.

I do feel for them though because I guess when they were like riding the bus to school, other kids refused to sit next to them and they called them stinky piggies.

Which is a bummer. Willie had a hard time at school. He wasn't as proficient as most of the other students and teachers came up with separate lessons for him because he was quote unquote slow.

Regardless, Willie and David hated school. They tried to be there as little as possible and on numerous occasions they would just stay home and hide under their beds.

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