That Lonely Section of Hell by Lori Shenher

Author:Lori Shenher
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 978-1-77164-094-7
Publisher: Greystone Books
Published: 2015-08-13T16:00:00+00:00

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Investigating Person of Interest (POI) 390

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“If two men on the same job agree all the time, then one is useless. If they disagree all the time, both are useless.”

DARRYL F. ZANUCK

WAYNE MYERS AND Gary Fisk joined Project Amelia in July 1999 utterly convinced Person of Interest (POI) 390 was responsible for killing these women. Although their conviction and tenacity were admirable, this certainty was based on nothing more than the hair on Myers’s neck. I wondered if I wasn’t the same in my interest in Pickton. I felt we had more solid evidence that indicated Pickton could be our guy, but on bad days I wondered if I wasn’t just like them, hanging my hat on nothing more than my gut feeling.

Repeatedly, they would tell anyone who would listen about the time Myers and his patrol partner pulled POI 390 over in a Downtown Eastside traffic stop, about the sick feeling Myers got from the man, and about how that made him their number one suspect in the missing women investigation. There was no other evidence that elevated POI 390 to this status or made him any different from the hundreds of other men who used and abused the women on the low track on any given day. Still, Fisk and Myers would ride POI 390’s considerable back into this investigation and bring what semblance of a team we had to its knees.

POI 390 was an interesting subject, no question. The adopted son of recently deceased elderly parents from Lethbridge, Alberta, he led a strangely nomadic life, driving exotic sports cars often fifteen or twenty hours nonstop between Lethbridge, Calgary, and Vancouver, selling contraband cigarettes and picking up sex workers. He was an extremely large man—almost a giant—with a rock star hairstyle and piercing eyes. He had a huge crack habit and would flash a bag full of rocks or a wad of money at the girls on the street, enticing them to come along for the ride. He was a regular on the bad date sheets—regular newsletters published and distributed by the Downtown Eastside Youth Activities Society (DEYAS) to warn sex workers of known bad dates—more often for bad driving and not paying for dates than for violence.

The rest of us on Project Amelia tried to maintain open minds where suspects were concerned. We were desperate for someone to pursue. I was growing so tired of dead ends and leads that went nowhere. Still, POI 390 remained nothing more than a sex offender with no evidence to suggest he had killed anyone, and Fisk and Myers were assigned to find out whether he could be responsible for more. POI 390 dated the same sex workers repeatedly and had a long-term relationship with a woman outside of the sex trade. His DNA would later match that found in the sexual assault examination of a North Vancouver sex worker who had since died of AIDS. Still, there seemed to be nothing to link him to any of our victims.

Constable

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