Lorimer Shenher
Lorimer Shenher is a Canadian writer and former police officer.[1] The former head of the Missing Persons Unit of the Vancouver Police Department,[2] he is most noted for his 2015 non-fiction book Lonely Section of Hell: The Botched Investigation of a Serial Killer Who Almost Got Away,[3][4] about the regulatory and bureaucratic failures that hampered his investigation of serial killer Robert Pickton.[5] The book was a shortlisted finalist for the Edna Staebler Award[5] and the City of Vancouver Book Award in 2015.
In his 2016 Literary Review of Canada review of They’re Still Missing, journalist Robert Matas wrote that the book was a scathing account of the lack of focus on the initial police investigations and Wally Oppal's $10 million inquiry, "Forsaken: The Report of the Missing Women Commission of Inquiry".[6] Shenher wrote when Oppal was Attorney General of British Columbia, he had ruled that a provincial inquiry was unnecessary. According to Shenher, the results of the inquiry continued to be "ignored" in 2015 and the Vancouver Metro police force was still a "patchwork of municipal police forces and RCMP detachments" in 2015".[4][3]
During his time with the Vancouver Police, he served as a technical advisor for the television series Da Vinci's Inquest,[4] and received a writing credit on the Season 5 episode "For Just Bein' Indian".
His second book This One Looks Like a Boy, a personal memoir of his experience transitioning as a transgender man in 2015, was slated for publication in March 2019. In this non-fiction, Lorimer Shenher describes how he knew from the time he was a child, that he was a boy being raised as a girl. Shenher underwent surgery in his 50s and came out as transgender.[7]
References
[edit]- ^ Stueck, Wendy (September 4, 2015). "Former Vancouver detective pens memoir on Robert Pickton case". The Globe and Mail.
- ^ Jolly, Joanna (June 1, 2017). "Why I failed to catch Canada's worst serial killer". BBC News. Retrieved April 29, 2019.
- ^ a b Shenher, Lori (2015). Lonely Section of Hell: The Botched Investigation of a Serial Killer Who Almost Got Away. Greystone Books. p. 348. ISBN 9781771642576.
- ^ a b c Matas, Robert (7 January 2016). "They're Still Missing". Literary Review of Canada. Retrieved April 29, 2019.
- ^ a b Smith, Charlie (March 10, 2016). "Recovering cop and author Lorimer Shenher richly deserves his nomination for a B.C. Book Prize". The Georgia Straight.
- ^ Oppal, Wally T. (November 19, 2012), Forsaken: The Report of the Missing Women Commission of Inquiry (PDF), archived from the original (PDF) on April 29, 2019, retrieved April 29, 2019
- ^ "19 works of Canadian nonfiction to check out in spring 2019", CBC Books, Spring Book Preview, January 28, 2019