[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.
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.
[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.