By Jeremy Hainsworth

NEW WESTMINSTER, British Columbia (AP) — Jurors in the trial of a farmer accused of killing 26 women watched videotaped interviews Wednesday in which he denies knowing the victims and asks a police officer: "Do I look like a murderer?"

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Robert William Pickton, 56, is charged with 26 counts of first-degree murder in the most sensational murder trial Canada has ever faced. Most of the victims were prostitutes and addicts who vanished from a drug-ridden Vancouver neighborhood in the 1990s.

He is accused of luring women to his pig farm outside Vancouver, where investigators say he threw drunken raves with prostitutes and drugs.

The first trial covers the murders of Sereena Abotsway, Mona Wilson, Andrea Joesbury, Brenda Wolfe, Georgina Papin and Marnie Frey. Pickton has pleaded not guilty to the first six counts of murder and a separate trial will be held for the other 20 killings.

In the videotape shown Wednesday, Pickton is slumped in his chair, often with his head in his hands as he is interviewed by Royal Canadian Mounted Police Sgt. Bill Fordy.

Fordy is seen telling Pickton a "huge amount" of blood was in his trailer on the farm.

"That's human blood, lots of it," Fordy says. "That's Mona Wilson's blood. This is where she'd been dumped. There's DNA all over the place; it's on the floors, it's on the walls."

"But that don't mean I did it," Pickton says.

Prosecutors have said Pickton told an undercover officer planted in his jail cell that he killed 49 women and intended to make it "an even 50."

When the trial began Monday, prosecutors laid out some of the gruesome evidence against Pickton, including skulls of women found at Pickton's farm.

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