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War Against Talent - Detective Inspector Kim Rossmo and the Vancouver Police Department

Stefania Sigurdson Forbes Season 1 Episode 9

The topic of today’s podcast, “War Against Talent”. This is somewhat a play on words, if you are a corporate insider. You see, people in the recruiting industry talk about the “War On Talent” that we are all fighting to get the best people on the team. But, in reality, there is a “War Against Talent” with people hurting the talented people on the team.

Today’s story that we are going to focus on the botched hunt for Canada’s worst serial killer, Robert Pickton, and Geographic Profiler for the Vancouver Police, Kim Rossmo, who tried to warn them.

Research

https://www.thestar.com/news/canada/2011/10/12/investigator_tried_to_warn_of_serial_killer_pickton_inquiry_told.html 

https://web.archive.org/web/20110706182046/http://www.hamiltonhowell.ca/cases/rossmo.htm

https://bc.ctvnews.ca/changes-needed-to-prevent-another-b-c-serial-killer-profiler-1.544998

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kim_Rossmo

http://tevlingleadle.com/rossmo-v-vancouver-police-department/

https://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/british-columbia/ex-detective-stands-by-his-pickton-testimony/article4197532/ 

https://nationalpost.com/news/canada/former-profiler-expected-to-tell-pickton-inquiry-why-the-police-ignored-his-serial-killer-warning

https://www.aptnnews.ca/the-disappearance-of-natasha-lynn-starr/ 

https://canadiantruecrime.ca/episodes/2017/12/6/15-robert-pickton-part-1 

http://tevlingleadle.com/rossmo-v-vancouver-police-department/ 

https://hbr.org/2010/04/envy-at-work 


Music

Kai Engel
November
Downpour
Smoldering 

Chris Zabruskie
They Call it Nature 
Last Night I Dreamed I Saw True Love In Your Eyes
That Kid in Forth Grade Who Really Liked the Denver Broncos 

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