This story is just rocking Canada right now... :-(

[Catty1]

He apparently kept his video 'journals' on hard drives hidden in the rafters in the basement. At his first interview, he told police where to find the drives (as well as all the female lingerie he had stolen and collected), and told them where the one woman's body was.

From all the stories I have read, there is no sense of anything being 'untold'. Serial sexual predators/killers have often been defined as coming from a certain station in life. This guy made it to the rank of Colonel and presented very very well. He started off with breakins and over time moved to riskier and riskier actions...it was a gradual thing.

Perhaps in some sick way he was relieved to be caught. He certainly confessed without much prodding. WEIRD.

[Laura's Babies]

That was SICK! He don't need life, he needs to have done to him what he did to that defensless woman and make him beg for his life before they kill him!

[lvpets2002]

Same here..

That was SICK! He don't need life, he needs to have done to him what he did to that defensless woman and make him beg for his life before they kill him!

[Catty1]

Unfortunately, we don't have capital punishment in Canada....

[Miss Z]

That article read like something out of a crime-thriller, not as if it should have actually happened in reality. How truly horrific and disturbing.

The suffering of the victim sends a really cold shiver down my spine - it seems you can't be safe anywhere.

[wombat2u2004]

Unfortunately, we don't have capital punishment in Canada....

That's a shame. I'd be the first to put my hand up as a volunteer to throw the switch....no problems.

[Marigold2]

You and me both John.

[Catty1]

For those who wish, there is a photo gallery here...this underscores what I have read in some articles - that serial killers often appear so normal and unremarkable that even looking back, people who knew, lived, and worked with them suspected nothing.

One former wife of a US serial killer said: "I loved the man who was my husband - and I hate the man who took him away [i.e. his 'other', killer, personality]."

http://www2.macleans.ca/2010/02/18/p...ge-of-command/

Williams' Statement before sentencing, which judge "Scott found...sincere, but considers him a sick and dangerous man.":

Your Honour. I stand before you indescribably ashamed. I know the crimes I have committed have traumatized many people. The family and friends of Marie-France Comeau and Jessica Lloyd in particular have suffered and continue to suffer profound, desperate pain and sorrow as a result of what I’ve done. My assaults of Ms. [name redacted because of publication ban] and Ms. Massicotte have caused them to suffer terribly as well. Numerous victims of the break and enters I have committed have been very seriously distressed as a result of my having so invaded their most intimate privacy. My family, your honour, has been irreparably damaged. The understandable hatred that was expressed yesterday and that has been palpable throughout the week has me recognize that most will find it impossible to accept. But the fact is I deeply regret what I have done and the harm I know I have caused to many. I committed despicable crime, your honour, and in the process betraying my family, my friends and colleagues and the Canadian Forces.

Read more: http://www.cbc.ca/politics/story/201...#ixzz130fWSEGv

A judge has sentenced Col. Russell Williams to life in prison with no chance of parole for 25 years for the first-degree murders of Cpl. Marie-France Comeau and Jessica Lloyd.

The decorated former commander of Canadian Forces Base Trenton was also sentenced in Ontario Superior Court in Belleville on Thursday to 10 years for each of his two sexual assaults, as well as a year for each of the other 84 lesser charges he faced.

Williams's sentence also includes:

* that he be prohibited for life from possessing weapons.
* that he be registered for life as a sex offender.
* that he submit DNA samples to the police data bank.
* That he pay a $100 victim surcharge for each charge, for a total of $8,800.

After being sentenced, Williams was taken directly from court to begin serving his sentence at the Kingston Penitentiary.


Read more: http://www.cbc.ca/politics/story/201...#ixzz130hxe0yV