Justin Ling is a Canadian investigative journalist. He is most noted as the author of the 2020 book Missing from the Village, about the 2010–2017 Toronto serial homicides by Bruce McArthur.[1]

Career

Ling is a Montreal-based freelance journalist who writes about security, privacy, politics, foreign policy, law, and defence. He has written for publications including Vice, Maclean's, Foreign Policy and The Globe and Mail.[1]

His book Missing from the Village won the 2021 Brass Knuckles Award for Best Nonfiction Crime Book from the Crime Writers of Canada Awards of Excellence,[2] and was shortlisted for the Toronto Book Awards in 2021.[3]

Ling has also hosted three seasons of the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation podcast Uncover, exploring both the McArthur case and other similar cases of unsolved murders in the Church and Wellesley area of Toronto under the season-long title The Village.[4] He won an Amnesty International Canada media award for the second season.[5]

References

  1. ^ a b Shawn Syms, "Missing from the Village: The Story of Serial Killer Bruce McArthur, the Search for Justice, and the System That Failed Toronto’s Queer Community, by Justin Ling". Quill & Quire, November 2020.
  2. ^ Qiao, Vicky (28 May 2021). "Will Ferguson among the winners of 2021 Crime Writers of Canada Awards". CBC Books.
  3. ^ Qiao, Vicky (11 August 2021). "Missing From the Village by Justin Ling among six books shortlisted for $10K Toronto Book Awards". CBC News.
  4. ^ Diane Anderson-Minshall, "Justin Ling Reveals the Full Story of Gay Serial Killer Bruce McArthur". The Advocate, March 24, 2021.
  5. ^ "Amnesty International Canada announces winners of 2021-2022 Media Awards". Amnesty International Canada. 2022-09-14. Retrieved 2023-02-09.

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