By Lori Shenher
ISBN-10: 1771640936
ISBN-13: 9781771640930
An ex-police detective’s searing own account of sexism, racism, and mishandling within the research of lacking and murdered ladies.
In That Lonely component of Hell, police detective Lori Shenher describes her function in Vancouver’s notorious lacking and Murdered ladies research and her years-long fight with Post-Traumatic rigidity illness due to her paintings at the case. From her first project in 1998 to discover a rise within the variety of lacking girls to the harrowing 2002 interrogation of convicted serial killer Robert Pickton, Shenher tells a narrative of huge police failure—failure of the police to exploit the data approximately Pickton to be had to them, failure to appreciate the darkish global of drug dependancy and intercourse paintings, and failure to avoid wasting extra girls from their killer. That Lonely element of Hell passionately pursues the deeper truths at the back of the factors of this tragedy and the myriad methods the procedure didn't safeguard weak girls.
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