Robert “Willie” Pickton: Pig farmer, party planner, prostitute poacher: Scorpian pig farmer Robert Pickton, the most prolific of Canadian serial killers, confessed to an undercover police officer that he killed 49 women, quietly lamenting his failure to reach 50: “a nice, round number”. When asked why he didn’t hit his target, he answered: sloppiness (his own, not his farm-mates’).

Pickton would lure prostitutes from the Lower Track in Vancouver BC and rape, torture and kill them and then find unique ways of disposing of the bodies on his family’s sprawling pig farm. October-born Scorpio Pickton exemplifies some of the most twisted traits of this sign: brooding, obsessive, manipulative, with dangerous desires and urges that refuse to be quieted. Scorpio is the sign of perversion and hang-ups: Who else but a Scorpian serial killer would use a dildo as a silencer for his .22 revolver?

Willie may have been a strange, shuffling loner with long, greasy hair, but he was also an accomplished party planner. While an unlikely occupation for a moody, introverted Scorpio, the Sagittarian influence on Pickton gave him the boldness to act on his most twisted compulsions, and the parties are where he procured his victims.

When not focused on the care of his charges (which included a vicious 600-pound boar that ran with the farm dogs), Willie, along with his brother, ran the “Piggy Palace Good Times Society”, a registered charity whose official mandate was to “organize, coordinate, manage special events”. The special events turned out to be huge dance parties featuring entertainment by local prostitutes. Pickton was a gracious host, supplying the drugs, drink and food (which police later suspected contained the remains of victims mixed with pork meat).