Beyond the headlines: Rethinking missing persons cases

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This week is Saskatchewan Missing Persons Week, a time to raise awareness about people missing across the province. Our next guest has spent more than a decade studying this issue. Lorna Ferguson is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Justice Studies at the University of Regina, founder of Canada’s National Missing Persons Research Hub, and author of Missing Persons: Beyond Serial Killers and Unexplained Disappearances. She joins Evan to talk about her book and what we get wrong about missing persons cases.
4 May 11AM English Canada News Commentary

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