Lorimer Shenher is a

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writer and former police officer. The former head of the Missing Persons Unit of the

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, 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

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. The book was a shortlisted finalist for the

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and the City of Vancouver Book Award in 2015. In his 2016 ''

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'' 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

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's $10 million inquiry, "Forsaken: The Report of the Missing Women Commission of Inquiry". Shenher wrote when Oppal was

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, 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". During his time with the Vancouver Police, he served as a technical advisor for the television series ''

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'', 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

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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.

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