30 July, 2010 - On the Farm: Robert William Pickton and the Tragic Story of Vancouver’s Missing Women, published by Knopf Canada, will be available as an e-book this Saturday — August 14, 2010 –through Indigo and Amazon – and the hardcover copies a week later. On the Farm has 752 pages with 50 pictures.
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Thanks, for the comments, Ian. There is certainly still a lot of skepticism about profilers within old-fashioned police forces, and police forces tend to be –and this is not always a bad thing — very conservative. John Douglas, one of the most famous Quantico-trained profilers had great successes and some failures, as he would admit. But profilers are also skilled homicide detectives and experienced in dealing with all kinds of serial offenders — rapists, bombers, arsonists, killers. The Ontario Provincial Police, at their Orillia, headquarters has the finest, and largest, profiling unit in Canada. Led, until a few months ago by Quantico-trained Detective Chief Superintendant Kate Lines, who has retired to consult with other forces, it boasts the skills of profilers such as Jim Smythe who took very little time breaking down Trenton Airforce base commandant, Russell Williams, to admitting his murder of Jessica Lloyd. Kim Rossmo, the former Vancouver police officer and profiler with a Ph.D in criminology from Simon Fraser, was bullied by his fellow officers for his skills but he has trained police forces all over the world — including Scotland Yard and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms in the U.S. — in geographic profiling, a mathematically-driven specialty that actually works. If the Vancouver Police had used his skills instead of firing him, I am convinced they would have caught Willie Pickton much sooner and saved several lives.
I just saw the story last night on the Investigation Discovery channel. My heart goes out to all the families for their great loss. Theirs is a very tragic story. I will pray for the families to find comfort in their loss, and I hope you get some sort of financial remuneration from the fellow that committed these crimes (I understand he may have some financial means). I know it will not help to ease their pain, but he certainly owes it to the families. God bless you all. Lisa