Lorimer Shenher

Lorimer Shenher is a Canadian writer and former police officer. The former head of the Missing Persons Unit of the Vancouver Police Department, 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, about the regulatory and bureaucratic failures that hampered his investigation of serial killer Robert Pickton. The book was a shortlisted finalist for the Edna Staebler Award 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".