Lorimer Shenher

Lorimer Shenher is a Canadian writer and former police officer.[1] The former head of the Missing Persons Unit of the Vancouver Police Department,[2] 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,[3][4] about the regulatory and bureaucratic failures that hampered his investigation of serial killer Robert Pickton.[5] The book was a shortlisted finalist for the Edna Staebler Award[5] and the City of Vancouver Book Award in 2015.

In his 2016 Literary Review of Canada 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 Wally Oppal's $10 million inquiry, "Forsaken: The Report of the Missing Women Commission of Inquiry".[6] Shenher wrote when Oppal was Attorney General of British Columbia, 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".[4][3]

During his time with the Vancouver Police, he served as a technical advisor for the television series Da Vinci's Inquest,[4] 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 transgender man 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.[7]