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Possible serial killer book removed from Amazon amid outrage

VANCOUVER, British Columbia (AP) — A book reportedly written by a Canadian serial killer has been removed from Amazon's website within hours of being put on sale online.


Outskirts Press, which published the book, issued a statement Monday saying it had asked Amazon to remove the book from its website and apologizing to victims' families.

Robert Pickton was convicted in 2007 of six counts of second-degree murder in the deaths of sex workers. Pickton slaughtered the women at his pig farm and fed some remains to his pigs. He was sentenced to life in prison.

By Monday afternoon, the 144-page memoir titled "Pickton: In His Own Words" was no longer available from online retailer Amazon.

Canadian Public Safety Minister Ralph Goodale told Parliament the Correctional Service of Canada is investigating how the manuscript was smuggled out of prison.

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-- (c) Associated Press 2016-02-23

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Don't know the law in Canada but in the US the federal government has no laws on criminals profiting from their crimes, that is left up to the individual states

New York for instance has what is called The Son of Sam Law, that was passed to insure that David Berkowitz the so called .44 Caliber killer could not profit from his crimes and many other states have followed New York's lead and passed similar laws

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