That lonely section of hell
Subtitle: the botched investigation of a serial killer who almost got ... away
Publisher: Greystone Books
Published: 2016
Place of publication: Vancouver, British Columbia
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9781771642576
Subjects: Post-traumatic stress disorder; Patients; Investigation; Police; Missing persons; Serial murder investigation; Biography
Description: "In That Lonely Section of Hell, police detective Lori Shenher describes her role in Vancouver's infamous Missing and Murdered Women Investigation and her years-long struggle with Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder as a result of her work on the case. From her first assignment in 1998 to explore an increase in the number of missing women to the harrowing 2002 interrogation of convicted serial killer Robert Pickton, Shenher tells a story of massive police failure?failure of the police to use the information about Pickton available to them, failure to understand the dark world of drug addiction and sex work, and failure to save more women from their killer. That Lonely Section of Hell passionately pursues the deeper truths behind the causes of this tragedy and the myriad ways the system failed to protect vulnerable women."--