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Surviving the Survivor: #BestGuests in True Crime

How #BestGuest Criminal Profiler Jim Van Allen Tracked a Toronto Killer

Surviving the Survivor: #BestGuests in True Crime

Big Pond Podcasts

True Crime, News, Society & Culture

4.61.2K Ratings

🗓️ 25 September 2023

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Support STS Https://www.patreon.com/survivingthesurvivor [https://www.patreon.com/survivingthesurvivor] Connect via Social Media Https://linktr.ee/stspodcast [https://linktr.ee/stspodcast] STS Website Http://SurvivingTheSurvivor.com [http://survivingthesurvivor.com/] STS Store Https://www.bonfire.com/store/sts-store/ [https://www.bonfire.com/store/sts-store/] Welcome to another episode of Surviving The Survivor, the podcast that brings you the #BestGuests in all of #TrueCrime. In this STS Special Series, Surviving My Biggest Case, Host Joel Waldman Interviews #BestGuest Expert Criminal Profiler Jim Van Allen about one of the toughest and most impactful cases of his 31+ years in law enforcement. #TrueCrime #Crime #TrueCrimeCommunity #STSNation #criminalprofiler #justice #criminaljustice #murdermystery #news #crime_news

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0:00.0

Welcome to the Global Phenomenon, Surviving the Survivor, where we bring you the best guests in all of TrueCrown.

0:08.0

This is a HSTS special, Surviving My Biggest Case.

0:12.0

Here's your host, Emmy Award winning journalist Joel Waldman.

0:17.0

What's up, STS Nation, and welcome to another episode of Surviving the Survivor,

0:22.0

the podcast that promises to bring you the very best guess in true crime.

0:27.4

And this is an STS special.

0:30.2

Surviving my biggest case with a face that is familiar to you all one of our best

0:36.0

guests he is Jim Van Allen a certified profiler and experienced threat and risk

0:41.4

assessment specialist.

0:43.3

He has over 31 years of experience in law enforcement

0:46.9

and investigations with the Ontario Provincial Police,

0:51.0

15 of which were spent as the manager of the OPP Criminal Profiling Unit.

0:57.0

Jim, great to see you again.

0:59.0

Thank you for always offering your great insights into the criminal mind and this is a story

1:05.0

that you personally dealt with that dates back I believe to 2002 so we're talking

1:12.1

like 21 years ago.

1:14.1

Paint the picture.

1:16.4

What were you doing at that time?

1:17.7

How did you get called into this case?

1:19.3

What was it all about?

1:21.2

At the time I was the manager of the profiling unit. We had a number of other profilers there. There were two other profilers as well. earlier. And we would often host these people and they would come out to our cases with us and work.

1:44.3

The case happened in November 2003 and we got a call from the homicide unit of the Toronto Police Service that they had been working

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