"My 35 years of investigative experience with
the R.C.M.P. was full of misery and frequent, compelling
tragedy; but this case in particular 'begs to be told.' This is
the story of how David William Shearing stalked a family of six
who were vacationing in the pristine wilderness of one of the
most beautiful parks in Canada. He murdered the adults and
kidnapped - for his own abominable purposes - the two adolescent
girls present. They too were later murdered. All six bodies were
loaded into the trunk of the Johnson family car and it was set
on fire.
It was a further two weeks before our manhunt found the remote
wilderness site, with its charred and now widely dispersed
evidence. This book describes step-by-step what we as
investigators faced in first piecing together this horrible
crime, and later launching the largest manhunt in Canadian
history, across some of the most remote and inhospitable
territory on the continent.
A manhunt that lasted two jarring years. Including crime scene
photographs, original journal entries, and interrogation notes,
'The Seventh Shadow' captures the immediacy and sustained
aggression of a massive and difficult murder investigation. It
makes compelling reading for true crime readers." |
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