That lonely section of hell : the botched investigation of a serial killer who almost got away

Summary: Ex-police detective Lori Shenher describes her harrowing experience of working on Vancouver's infamous Missing and Murdered Women Investigation and how police failures almost enabled convicted serial killer Robert Pickton to get away with his crimes.

Record details

ISBN: 9781771640930 (hardcover)
Physical Description: xviii, 348 pages ; 23 cm.
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Publisher: Vancouver : Greystone Books, [2015]
Copyright: ©2015

Content descriptions

Formatted Contents Note:

part one. Becoming One of Them -- Paid to Play in the Strike Force -- How It All Began -- The Initial Pickton Information -- A Letter to Anderson -- Working with Bill Hiscox -- Watching Our Investigation Stall -- The Missing Women -- A Letter to Sarah de Vries -- Looking for Links -- Project Amelia (the Missing Persons Review Team) -- Other Cases, Other Avenues -- A Letter to Janet Henry -- The Families -- A Letter to Marnie Frey -- The Second Pickton Tip -- Another Opportunity with Lynn Ellingsen -- Dead in the Water -- Finding Four Women -- Investigating Person of Interest (POI) 390 -- Salvaging Project Amelia -- The Creation of Project Evenhanded -- Post-February 5, 2002 -- A Letter to Sereena Abotsway -- Interrogating Robert Pickton -- Part two. Soldiering On -- Salvaging a Career -- The Missing Women Commission of Inquiry -- Defending My Writing -- Testifying for the Last Time -- Losing My Grip, Again -- Shaking Hands with My Own Devil -- Doing the Hard Work.