Beyond the headlines: Rethinking missing persons cases

About this episode

Evan Bray interviews Lorna Ferguson about missing persons cases and her research on the topic.

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.

People in this episode

Host: Evan Bray

Guest: Lorna Ferguson

Topics covered

• missing persons
• awareness
• Saskatchewan
• justice studies
• research
• disappearances

Keywords

• missing persons
• Saskatchewan Missing Persons Week
• Lorna Ferguson
• justice studies
• disappearances

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: University of Regina, Canada’s National Missing Persons Research Hub

Books & works: Missing Persons: Beyond Serial Killers and Unexplained Disappearances

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