Justin Ling is a Canadian investigative journalist. He is most noted as the author of the 2020 book '' Missing from the Village'', about the

2010–2017 Toronto serial homicides Between 2010 and 2017, a total of eight men disappeared from the neighbourhood of Church and Wellesley, the Gay village, LGBTQ village of Toronto, Ontario, Canada. The investigation into the disappearances, taken up by two successive police task ...

by Bruce McArthur.

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"Missing from the Village: The Story of Serial Killer Bruce McArthur, the Search for Justice, and the System That Failed Toronto’s Queer Community, by Justin Ling"
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'', November 2020.

Career

Ling is a

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-based freelance journalist who writes about security, privacy, politics, foreign policy, law, and defence. He has written for publications including ''

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'', ''

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'', ''

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'' and ''

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''. His book ''Missing from the Village'' won the 2021 Brass Knuckles Award for Best Nonfiction Crime Book from the

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, and was shortlisted for the

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in 2021. Ling has also hosted three seasons of the

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podcast ''

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'', exploring both the McArthur case and other similar cases of unsolved murders in the

Church and Wellesley Church and Wellesley is an gay village, LGBT-oriented enclave in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. It is roughly bounded by Gerrard Street (Toronto), Gerrard Street to the south, Yonge Street to the west, Charles Street to the north, and Jarvis Street ...

area of Toronto under the season-long title ''The Village''. He won an Amnesty International Canada media award for the second season.

References

External links

Official website
{{DEFAULTSORT:Ling, Justin Living people Canadian investigative journalists Journalists from Montreal Canadian podcasters 21st-century Canadian non-fiction writers Writers from Montreal Canadian crime writers Year of birth missing (living people) 21st-century Canadian male writers 21st-century Canadian journalists Canadian newspaper journalists Canadian magazine journalists Canadian radio journalists Canadian LGBTQ journalists 21st-century Canadian LGBTQ people