Col. Russell Williams - Interrogation Part 2 — Transcript
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- 0:00[Music]
- 0:35okay
- 0:36okay so where is she
- 1:02get him out um is she close to where
- 1:06she lives i've got maps of that general
- 1:10area
- 1:14which town is she near why don't we
- 1:16start there
- 1:23i'm not sure if you give me a map of
- 1:26that covers calabar down to
- 1:29the highway and over to
- 1:32tweed and stuff i'll show you
- 1:36you see what i got here i might have
- 1:38something
- 1:40is she inside outside
- 2:06um
- 2:09it's probably the biggest area i have
- 2:11there for us
- 2:14we need a real map so where am i going
- 2:16on this uh i'm here to get to her
- 2:21in this block here okay so you're
- 2:24pointing to
- 2:25a detailed map of that area i'll show
- 2:26you where she is
- 2:28okay is she close to a road all right
- 2:32um is it something where is she
- 2:36is she buried or is she somewhere where
- 2:38if you walk there you would
- 2:39you would fairly easily see her okay
- 2:43so she's south of seven uh
- 2:46east of tweed west to 41.
- 2:50and what's this road here
- 2:53i'm not sure neither am i
- 2:56okay i'll be right back okay do you want
- 2:58any water or anything
- 3:00sure okay
- 3:06how long has she been there for
- 3:09[Applause]
- 3:13a little over a week was it fairly quick
- 3:16from the time
- 3:18she left friday night
- 3:23friday night yep so where was she
- 3:25between thursday night friday night
- 3:27in tweet with you yeah long was she
- 3:32alive for
- 3:39almost 24 hours not quite okay
- 3:44russ you're doing the right thing here
- 3:49okay well again am i interested in
- 3:54making my wife's life a little easier
- 3:58and her family as well
- 4:01we share that but there's no uh your
- 4:04time in ottawa's wasted really
- 4:06i'll tell you where the members of cards
- 4:08are
- 4:09where are they they're in the house
- 4:12there but
- 4:14in ottawa yeah whereabouts
- 4:17um some in the camera bag which they
- 4:21would have found
- 4:21in my office and in the
- 4:24when you walk into the office on the
- 4:26left side there's a um
- 4:31desktop drawers set of drawers like a
- 4:34filing cabinet wooden ikea
- 4:38in one of the top two drawers and
- 4:40there's a plastic divider
- 4:42yeah and there's uh
- 4:46inside there there are two memory cards
- 4:49okay
- 4:50which are blank but i'm sure they can be
- 4:52read yeah
- 4:53and whose images are on those cards
- 4:57uh well i've erased them but i
- 5:01expect you'll be able to draw images of
- 5:05jessica and i what about marie
- 5:16there may be images on there as well
- 5:20and the two women from september
- 5:24okay do you have those images stored
- 5:27anywhere else
- 5:32yep there are two hard drives in the
- 5:35house in ottawa
- 5:38i can draw you a little picture
- 5:42sure do you want to do that now while
- 5:44i'm getting them out
- 5:51do you okay anything to eat or anything
- 5:57leave that with you okay
- 6:17but i do want to talk to you again
- 6:21that's the plan okay
- 6:29i'll be right back
- 6:46how you make it up there
- 6:51thank you
- 6:54okay making up
- 7:04somebody running around looking for an
- 7:05actual map but uh
- 7:08i did the same thing with uh the google
- 7:10maps just to glue them up a little bit
- 7:12more
- 7:14um
- 7:20this is the this is the biggest of the
- 7:23area
- 7:26this might have better parameters for
- 7:28you here's tweet
- 7:30[Applause]
- 7:52south of can't read that word
- 7:55uh east hungerford does that make sense
- 8:00oh there it is there okay how far off
- 8:03the road is she
- 8:0440 feet she bare if she covered with
- 8:07anything
- 8:10she's wrapped up and she's on the
- 8:12surface
- 8:13just agree something right there
- 8:18okay barry the obvious question i'm
- 8:21gonna
- 8:22have for you is
- 8:26and they go there and they'll be there
- 8:27shortly they're going to find her
- 8:30oh yeah okay i'll be right back
- 8:35you know how you want to say something
- 8:37just that the
- 8:38this place my wife it's been a dream for
- 8:42better part of a year so i'm keen to get
- 8:45them what they need and so they can
- 8:46leave her alone
- 8:47okay we're gonna do our best to keep
- 8:49that as low key as possible okay
- 8:52what do you want to talk about
- 8:57because it's uh pretty wide open all
- 8:59right what do you want to know
- 9:01well do you want to work forwards or
- 9:03backwards
- 9:07doesn't matter why don't we start with
- 9:09jessica
- 9:12how does that start for you
- 9:17um i saw her in her house
- 9:22on her treadmill
- 9:25wednesday nights
- 9:30and i noticed she wasn't
- 9:33there thursday
- 9:37so i got in the house look around
- 9:45then and then left
- 9:50notice she'd come home
- 9:54so i went back in
- 9:59through the back patio door
- 10:02while she was sleeping
- 10:16okay
- 10:20so i woke her up
- 10:34didn't hit her she only hit her once
- 10:39friday night
- 10:58okay
- 11:05well so i raped her in in her house
- 11:12and then i took her to the car and took
- 11:14her to tweet
- 11:27and
- 11:33spent the day and tweet
- 11:41and then i hit her as we were walking
- 11:45she thought we were leaving
- 11:51hit her on the back of the head
- 12:03okay
- 12:09well um what did they hit on the back of
- 12:12the head too
- 12:18well i was surprised that her
- 12:21her skull gave way
- 12:24she was there and immediately
- 12:26unconscious
- 12:28uh strangler okay
- 12:33what did you hit her with flashlight
- 12:38in the house or outside the house
- 12:44yeah i'll find signs of that
- 12:49where in the house this happened in the
- 12:52main portion just in front of the
- 12:54fireplace
- 12:56what do you mean they'll find signs of
- 12:57it i was quite a bit glad i hadn't
- 12:59expected
- 13:00i expected to knock her out
- 13:06that obviously generated a lot of blood
- 13:09what did she bleed onto the floor it's
- 13:12just
- 13:13a tile for okay
- 13:16did you clean it up or did you i wiped
- 13:18it up
- 13:20i know it'd be uh easily spotted well it
- 13:23makes you think that
- 13:25like if i walked in that house right you
- 13:28would advise here you wouldn't see it
- 13:29not at all but
- 13:30uh yeah
- 13:36okay um so when that happened was she
- 13:40does she have clothes on or was she
- 13:41naked she was dressed okay
- 13:44so when we find her is she gonna have
- 13:46those clothes on too
- 13:49all right um
- 13:53okay marie france
- 14:00como
- 14:06there was an open window in the basement
- 14:08of her her house
- 14:10when she was away
- 14:13i went in there a couple of nights
- 14:15before
- 14:16she came home looked around
- 14:24i went back in there late at night when
- 14:26she was at home
- 14:28she was on the phone in her bedroom
- 14:37she actually discovered me in the
- 14:38basement
- 14:42she was trying to get her cat to come
- 14:44upstairs and the cat was
- 14:46in the basement that seen me and was
- 14:48fixated on me in the corner
- 14:50she couldn't get the cat up so uh
- 14:54she came downstairs trying to get the
- 14:56cat and
- 14:58i'm not sure why she came over to me i
- 15:01guess the cat was staring at me and she
- 15:03was wondering where the cat was staring
- 15:04at
- 15:08what's wrong
- 15:17so when she spotted me i
- 15:22had the same flashlight i subdued her
- 15:30tied her up not upstairs
- 15:41and strangled her
- 15:46later in the morning
- 15:52well more suffocated hurt
- 15:58some tape
- 16:06laughter there
- 16:13how did you subdue her when you say it's
- 16:15a deuter in the basement what did you do
- 16:18well i had the same flashlight and um
- 16:24you know
- 16:28she she saw me right away so i was just
- 16:30uh
- 16:31hit her a couple of times around her
- 16:34head
- 16:34try and knock her out didn't
- 16:38but it was bleeding a little bit
- 16:48eventually draw a struggle subduer
- 16:57okay any blood from from that struggle
- 17:00oh yeah no not not a whole bunch but
- 17:04the flashlight did break her skin a
- 17:07couple of times
- 17:09okay what area of the basement did that
- 17:12take place in
- 17:15i was hiding behind the furnace so she
- 17:18spotted me
- 17:19right there okay did she recognize you
- 17:23no i had stuff on my face
- 17:30okay
- 17:36um so you go upstairs
- 17:39and you said uh she suffocated
- 17:43well i suffocated her i put tape on her
- 17:45and i put tape on her mouth
- 17:49and then i put tape on her nose and
- 17:54held it there so she couldn't breathe
- 18:01okay um what kind of tape was it
- 18:10what happened to it
- 18:15uh well i took it with me and uh
- 18:25i can't can't remember what actually i
- 18:27did with that tape but
- 18:29probably threw in the garbage
- 18:33did you use tape for any other purposes
- 18:40nope okay
- 18:44um did she ever recognize you through
- 18:46this whole episode
- 18:49what did you say you had on your face
- 18:53i had just a cover for my head just to
- 18:56you know sports
- 19:00pull over tape like just a little cap
- 19:03kind of thing
- 19:04okay just uh liquor or something
- 19:13and they um
- 19:16just a headband over my nose mouth
- 19:20covered most everything but my eyes
- 19:26um now this flashlight where is that now
- 19:30tweet in the house yeah what kind of
- 19:33flashlight is it
- 19:35it's a red three double d
- 19:40i'm not sure what brand it is but it's a
- 19:43metal you know
- 19:44all these aluminum it's like a big
- 19:54you know aircraft aluminum flashlights
- 19:57already sealer
- 19:58anyway it's a big bigger one of those
- 20:01um did you take anything out of uh
- 20:05marie francis house or jessica lloyd's
- 20:07house
- 20:09uh yeah some of their underwear
- 20:13okay that's all from where is that
- 20:18um
- 20:25it's in some boxes
- 20:30in the basement here at ottawa in that
- 20:32rec room
- 20:34so we just moved in so they're boxes
- 20:35everywhere so on the same side as the
- 20:37furnace room
- 20:40sort of the back against the wall okay
- 20:42what are the boxes look like
- 20:48um i think one's a scanner the box for
- 20:51my scanner
- 20:55they're they're all right next to each
- 20:57other so quick look through the boxes
- 21:00there
- 21:02okay how much underwear is in those
- 21:04boxes
- 21:09um
- 21:13probably 60 pieces or something all
- 21:15women's
- 21:17yeah 60 pieces of theirs
- 21:21of hoops of jessica's and
- 21:28melissa
- 21:30so you took 60 pieces from between the
- 21:33two of them yeah
- 21:34okay excellent all right
- 21:38um and they're like when you talk about
- 21:40scanner is it a computer scanner box my
- 21:42computer's scanner is up in the office
- 21:44and its box is down in the basement
- 21:46so okay it's inside that box is
- 21:49any of the underwear in those boxes
- 21:50belong to anyone other than marie france
- 21:52or
- 21:53or jessica um
- 22:01yeah there's some from each of the other
- 22:03two women
- 22:05okay uh why don't we talk about those
- 22:08two women
- 22:09um so the first one happened on the 16th
- 22:13and i don't know why i can't recall
- 22:16their names but
- 22:17uh the lady that was uh
- 22:21lived closer to you no or it was closer
- 22:25to me okay
- 22:30so the first the first one
- 22:35i just spotted her
- 22:39from our boat ashland
- 22:43and got into the house while she was uh
- 22:46asleep
- 22:47knows that she was alone
- 22:54and just
- 22:57hit her with my hand while she was
- 22:59sleeping
- 23:04subdued her
- 23:09mostly just my weight on top of her
- 23:20head her take off her pajamas
- 23:24took some pictures took some of her
- 23:27underwear and left
- 23:33and the other woman same kind of deal
- 23:38going through the back of the house
- 23:43she was sleeping in her um not in her
- 23:46bedroom but in her
- 23:48front tv very much the same story
- 23:58anything different about that story oh
- 24:00yeah pretty much same story and exactly
- 24:02the same story or two different things
- 24:03right yeah
- 24:04no not much different at all um
- 24:08i did have the flashlight that time i
- 24:11hit over the flashlight
- 24:13and thinking it would knock her out
- 24:16didn't
- 24:18so i subdued her with my weight
- 24:24took off her clothes took some pictures
- 24:25and left
- 24:34why do you think these things happen
- 24:51have we spent much time thinking about
- 24:53that about why
- 24:55yeah yeah
- 25:02but i don't have any answers
- 25:09man i'm pretty sure the answers don't
- 25:11matter
- 25:13let me let me ask you this did you like
- 25:15or dislike these women
- 25:19i didn't know any of them okay
- 25:24i had met maddie found us that one time
- 25:27in that in our airplane okay
- 25:31now but i get i guess when yeah when
- 25:32you're going through these things
- 25:34um are you
- 25:38well let me let's talk about jessica
- 25:40because she was there with you for the
- 25:42whole day
- 25:42right what kind of feelings were you
- 25:45experiencing while you were with her
- 25:46that day
- 26:03oh she's a very nice girl
- 26:15can you tell me why you killed her right
- 26:18do you know why you killed her well i
- 26:21think i killed her because i knew that
- 26:22uh
- 26:33her story would be recognized
- 26:41her story will be recognized how do you
- 26:42mean
- 26:44well because she knew i was taking
- 26:50pictures
- 26:56so because of the two
- 27:02stories in tweed
- 27:07that would have been a fairly yeah
- 27:12been quite always
- 27:17so if you didn't take pictures what
- 27:19would you have done with her
- 27:24i don't know i mean she's at your house
- 27:27right
- 27:31well let me ask you this is it uh
- 27:35two lived right and two died
- 27:39what's what was the difference in your
- 27:41mind between
- 27:43well the you know
- 27:46the attention the first two god
- 27:53was very much focused on
- 27:57obviously or for obvious reasons
- 28:01pictures i took
- 28:07so anybody else telling stories about
- 28:10pictures
- 28:11right would have been
- 28:14a fairly straight line
- 28:21okay but when when this thing happened
- 28:23with marie franz
- 28:25it was was did you believe that you were
- 28:29already
- 28:30a suspect for what happened in tweet
- 28:33no so what were you concerned about
- 28:41well because um
- 28:50i was pretty sure that
- 28:54you know she was serving military right
- 28:58it would have been it would have been
- 29:01difficult for
- 29:03investigators to ignore that connection
- 29:10okay yeah makes sense
- 29:14um
- 29:18let's go back to jessica then okay um
- 29:23you see her on the wednesday night okay
- 29:26on our treadmill how do you see her
- 29:30cheers in the basement under wide open
- 29:33on a treadmill so drove by
- 29:39okay do you did you stop to look at the
- 29:41house or
- 29:43how does that catch your eye as you
- 29:45drive by
- 29:47um i was looking to see who was who's
- 29:50where
- 29:52don't know that area very well so it's
- 29:55just keeping my eyes
- 29:56open okay
- 30:02so you spot her on the way and say yeah
- 30:05do you just keep on going or did you
- 30:06stop and
- 30:07take a closer look that night or
- 30:09anything no
- 30:11okay and you went back on the
- 30:14thursday night right yep
- 30:19so you go back on the thursday night and
- 30:22you went you went into the house before
- 30:24she came home
- 30:30she was out okay
- 30:40um yeah she was out
- 30:43got in through the kitchen window it's
- 30:45unlocked everything else was locked
- 30:51okay so you're in there doing what
- 30:56looking around looking around to see who
- 30:58lived in the house
- 31:01it was just her okay
- 31:05and then what do you do
- 31:14well i left the house
- 31:18and
- 31:28then she came home hadn't been out of
- 31:31the house very long
- 31:35so i watched for a little bit to see if
- 31:36she was alone
- 31:41she was
- 31:52and then i went in and she went back to
- 31:53sleep punching went to sleep
- 31:59so you go in she's sleeping
- 32:02and what do you do
- 32:07well i snuck up to the side of her bed
- 32:14expecting to
- 32:20try to knock her out
- 32:24she woke up
- 32:29but she did as i said
- 32:33i didn't hit her what did you say
- 32:38does it lie down on your tummy
- 32:42okay she did i turn her up
- 32:46which tie her up with some rope
- 32:52so she's on her stomach how are you
- 32:54tying her up just telling
- 32:56you her hands behind her back okay
- 33:00she got clothes on at that point what
- 33:03kind of clothes
- 33:06sweats all right tie your hands behind
- 33:10her back and then
- 33:11then what happens i took her clothes off
- 33:22okay
- 33:30and then what happened
- 33:34i raped her
- 33:40our rape could mean a lot of different
- 33:41things what kind of sexual act
- 33:43took place
- 33:52and oral okay
- 33:56oral who was performing the oral sex
- 34:04um me on her and
- 34:08her on me okay
- 34:12any uh any condoms used or anything like
- 34:14that
- 34:15no no
- 34:19so again correct me from wrong
- 34:22vaginal intercourse uh
- 34:25her pla farming oral sex on you and you
- 34:27performing oral sex on her
- 34:29do you remember what order those things
- 34:30occurred
- 34:32yeah i
- 34:37started with the oral sex
- 34:43then i raped her
- 34:46and then
- 34:55anything any kind of conversation
- 34:57happening when this is going on
- 35:02yeah a little bit what was being said
- 35:09well i threatened her before she
- 35:10[Music]
- 35:14before i had her
- 35:17perform oral sex
- 35:20what did you say well i put a
- 35:24zip tie around her neck
- 35:27i said
- 35:31that i would pull it if i didn't like
- 35:32what she would do
- 35:35okay
- 35:38so she did what you told her to do
- 35:42any issues there any reason to pull it
- 35:48so do you remember if you ejaculated at
- 35:51that point
- 35:52or at any point um at that point but
- 35:55later on okay
- 35:58so the oral sex finishes and then what
- 36:01happens next
- 36:08well i continued to
- 36:15rape her and i had her put on some of
- 36:17her
- 36:18underwear took some pictures
- 36:22lots of pictures
- 36:26and then uh got her dressed
- 36:31back to the trip okay
- 36:34at what point did you decide that she
- 36:36was gonna leave with you
- 36:45i'm not sure that wasn't
- 36:48necessarily always the plan
- 36:54but at some point i was there for
- 37:03three three hours three and a half
- 37:13okay
- 37:17um do you remember the conversation
- 37:19about leaving was there any
- 37:22she say anything about that or what was
- 37:25she saying to you
- 37:26she was
- 37:33certainly cooperative
- 37:37okay
- 37:45a cooperative can mean a number of
- 37:46different things was she excited about
- 37:48leaving with you
- 37:49i mean i don't want to be sarcastic but
- 37:51um i don't know she just didn't put up
- 37:53too much of a fuss
- 37:55did she try and negotiate with you at
- 37:56all or
- 38:00what did she say well i told her that i
- 38:03would uh
- 38:05let her go later on okay
- 38:12so when you take her out of your house
- 38:13is she is she still
- 38:15bound or yep how is that
- 38:18done just uh hands behind her back
- 38:22okay a lot about her feet anything there
- 38:26oh she was walking through it okay
- 38:29barefoot or no she had those brown
- 38:32sweatshirts on that
- 38:34had been reported okay
- 38:39so where does she sit in your truck when
- 38:41you get to the truck
- 38:43front seat passenger side okay
- 38:48and where do you go straight to tweet
- 38:53straight to your house and tweet or show
- 38:54just the town
- 38:56no stops anywhere no okay what time do
- 38:59you remember what time you arrived there
- 39:06i don't exactly but i'd say between 4 30
- 39:09and 5 30.
- 39:12okay
- 39:15all right when you were
- 39:18when you were first there before she
- 39:20came home do you remember
- 39:22did anybody come to the door at all when
- 39:24you were in the house
- 39:29no i think somebody had come home as
- 39:31somebody to come to the house just
- 39:32before she did
- 39:34because i thought it was her but then
- 39:35they left i was outside at the time
- 39:39did you see who that person was or what
- 39:40kind of vehicle they were in or anything
- 39:43saw the lights they assumed it was her
- 39:44and then all of a sudden
- 39:46they left so i don't know what happened
- 39:48okay
- 39:50um where were you when that first
- 39:52vehicle pulled up
- 39:53in the back back here okay
- 39:58so you didn't have a view of the vehicle
- 39:59you could just tell that there was a
- 40:00vehicle there is that fair
- 40:02okay so you get home
- 40:06but 4 35 you say
- 40:10okay and then what happens
- 40:17uh well she should go to the bathroom
- 40:25a quick
- 40:27shower washer
- 40:31and we went into my bedroom
- 40:37and to sleep a little bit
- 40:41she was tied up
- 40:46how was she tied up at that point
- 40:52i put tape over her eyes from the
- 40:55beginning
- 40:57so that's what she did okay
- 41:02when they find her is that tape gonna be
- 41:04there or was it ever removed
- 41:10what kind of tape all right
- 41:17the duct tape that you used where's the
- 41:19where's that rule
- 41:21uh it's all gone
- 41:25i used it to use the rest of it to
- 41:29bind her on her body
- 41:35so by all gone is it is it with the body
- 41:38now
- 41:39okay so
- 41:42you said who went to sleep when you came
- 41:43home you had a her she had a shower
- 41:47well we both got in i washed her off
- 41:48after she get into the bathroom
- 41:51we both went to sleep but she was tied
- 41:54up and i
- 41:55tied the rope so
- 41:58i could fall asleep a little bit
- 42:05i'm trying to picture how that would be
- 42:07so the rope's tied to what on her
- 42:09just tied her hands behind her back okay
- 42:14and then the rope just wrapped around me
- 42:16a couple of times so
- 42:18there's no slack okay do you remember
- 42:21how long you slept for
- 42:23oh well maybe a couple hours do you know
- 42:26if she slept
- 42:29i don't know okay
- 42:32so you wake up and it was we were up and
- 42:35down
- 42:37so it wasn't two hours straight it was
- 42:39about two hours a bit but
- 42:42there wasn't much sleep just lying there
- 42:44probably
- 42:48so you wait you get up from that and
- 42:50what happens next
- 42:56um she had a seizure
- 43:02actually
- 43:07she felt it coming on and
- 43:12because she had some before
- 43:19lasted uh
- 43:23quite a while got her dressed
- 43:28into the family room and
- 43:36anyway she
- 43:40she recovered she got uh
- 43:44it was obviously stress
- 43:50but uh
- 43:55yeah probably probably went on for about
- 43:5815 minutes
- 44:09so how do you know she had them before
- 44:12she told me did she tell you why she
- 44:15gets them
- 44:16well she suggested the stress
- 44:20yeah so she felt herself started to
- 44:23tense up and
- 44:26said she thought she was gonna have a
- 44:27seizure
- 44:35you know so she was she was it was
- 44:39you know convulsions that's what she was
- 44:40saying
- 44:42okay so she was
- 44:46recovered from that yeah she
- 44:50stayed with her and talked her through
- 44:51it
- 44:54make sure she
- 44:57light her tongue
- 45:02okay
- 45:05and then what happened well then we had
- 45:09a little lie down right there because
- 45:10she was
- 45:11obviously exhausted
- 45:16put a cover over her
- 45:20went to sleep
- 45:26wait for an hour or so
- 45:29and i had told her earlier that before i
- 45:32let her go i wanted to take some
- 45:35pictures of her in her underwear
- 45:44and
- 45:46have sex with her
- 45:56so after she'd had the rest for an hour
- 45:59or so
- 46:03i had her put on
- 46:10remember the outfit she had
- 46:13i'm sorry put on a number you know pears
- 46:18pennies bra that she had got taken from
- 46:22theirs
- 46:26so she put those on and i took pictures
- 46:30okay
- 46:34are you in any of these pictures
- 46:40yep
- 46:43what kind of what kind of images are you
- 46:45in
- 46:54um
- 46:57well i'm with her there's
- 47:00on the hard drives you'll see there's
- 47:02video as well
- 47:05so there's video of the um
- 47:14almost four hours i guess
- 47:18i have what
- 47:25well of uh
- 47:32initially at her place of raping her
- 47:40and then
- 47:44yeah so i was running the video
- 47:47and then taking still pictures so the
- 47:49video pretty much covers everything
- 47:53did you use video at other places
- 47:57uh to manage analysis as well
- 48:02you know is that video on the hard
- 48:03drives
- 48:05same type of uh activity
- 48:09yeah oh i didn't ever put on any
- 48:12stuff okay
- 48:17so jessica poses for these pictures and
- 48:21there's videos and
- 48:23then what happens
- 48:30then i got her dressed because she
- 48:34thought she was leaving
- 48:41fruit
- 48:45and then as we were walking out struck
- 48:47around the back of the head
- 48:52okay when did you decide to do that
- 49:13well i was pretty sure that i wasn't
- 49:15going to let her leave
- 49:17but
- 49:24the idea of striking her on the head was
- 49:28developed in the afternoon
- 49:34and what was that strike supposed to
- 49:35accomplish in your mind what was the
- 49:38intent of
- 49:39doing that well i thought i would be
- 49:42able to knock her out and then i was
- 49:44i was going to strangle her
- 49:47okay so when you actually do striker
- 49:51what's the result
- 49:55her skull gave way a little bit
- 50:00felt like there was a lot of blood so i
- 50:02think that's what happened
- 50:05she was immediately unconscious
- 50:19and then i strangled her
- 50:24how'd you strangle her
- 50:27uh same rope just put her on her neck
- 50:32okay well she was
- 50:38unconscious
- 50:41now what happened to the zip tie that
- 50:42was around her neck earlier
- 50:49i took it off
- 50:56around that i guess
- 51:02did you take it off before you put the
- 51:04rope around her neck or after or do you
- 51:05remember
- 51:06after she was dead
- 51:10oh okay so the zip tie was around her
- 51:11neck while you use the rope
- 51:14did you leave the rope around her neck
- 51:17no
- 51:18okay and how did you know she was dead
- 51:35well her she stopped moving
- 51:42okay so what did you do after that
- 51:48i uh i bound her up
- 51:55there's her field position
- 52:07and cleaned up the floor
- 52:24don't you say you bound her up is are
- 52:25you referring to the duct tape that you
- 52:26talked about earlier
- 52:27yeah okay so then what did you
- 52:35i put her in the garage
- 52:40it was very cold
- 52:47and then i went into the base
- 52:51okay
- 52:55why'd you go to the base heard me why'd
- 52:57you go to the base
- 52:59because i was flying early the next
- 53:01morning
- 53:02okay so what time did you leave to go to
- 53:05the base
- 53:08well i told you that between nine and
- 53:10ten or so
- 53:12on the friday night yep okay
- 53:16so you fly and
- 53:20then i drove home.
- 53:25so which name would you saturday night
- 53:29so you land uh and what time are you
- 53:33landing
- 53:34six six thirty okay did you go buy the
- 53:38house and tweet on your way to ottawa
- 53:40no um
- 53:43so you drove straight home to ottawa
- 53:46what time did you get there you remember
- 53:48sometime before midnight i can't quite
- 53:50remember but
- 53:52i think i went into the office first did
- 53:54some work
- 53:58so i think i get home dot a lot just
- 54:01before midnight
- 54:04i think i'm not sure i
- 54:08i slept for a little bit at the tim
- 54:10hortons in brockville
- 54:13so it might be late right honestly
- 54:14remember when i get out of it
- 54:16okay yeah midnight ish
- 54:22saturday
- 54:34so you get home here in ottawa what do
- 54:37you do
- 54:38go to bed or yeah stay up okay
- 54:42so then what do you do the next day
- 54:48my wife and i did some stuff i can't
- 54:51remember what uh
- 54:54what was going on that day
- 54:58putting together the new house
- 55:03then i headed back to tweed that night
- 55:10sorry um
- 55:14no i didn't i had i had monday off
- 55:19that's right i had monday off and then i
- 55:21was visiting
- 55:22one of the units in ottawa on tuesday
- 55:26so i didn't head back to tweet till
- 55:27tuesday night
- 55:32okay
- 55:35so you get back to tweet and what
- 55:38happens next
- 55:42i took jessica's body to that spot
- 55:46okay that happened on tuesday night
- 55:50just this past tuesday obviously okay do
- 55:53you remember what time
- 55:54that was it's pretty late it was uh
- 55:58midnight ish i'd say between midnight
- 56:01and 1
- 56:03on wednesday morning
- 56:07okay um
- 56:11what made you decide to to measure that
- 56:14distance
- 56:15that point seven kilometers
- 56:19that's just the way i am numbers
- 56:22i have to know the numbers okay
- 56:27and um how did you leave her
- 56:33i just left her took me behind a fairly
- 56:36large rock
- 56:39is that duct tape still on
- 56:43um her what else is on her
- 56:47a couple of towels wrapped around her
- 56:49head
- 56:51and the top and pants she was wearing
- 56:54jeans
- 56:56okay
- 56:59did you ever go back there
- 57:03all right
- 57:09what other type of cleaning and things
- 57:11like that did you do
- 57:12anything else to kind of cover your
- 57:14tracks you can think of
- 57:17i vacuumed the house and i wiped the
- 57:21floor
- 57:22washed the floor okay
- 57:27what about your truck did you do
- 57:28anything with that
- 57:30just the wash today because it was a
- 57:34mess
- 57:36vacuum okay
- 57:47um
- 57:51so marie franz
- 57:54when did when did her first occur to you
- 57:57to go to her house
- 58:07well uh in october
- 58:11october november not quite sure the
- 58:13summer in that timeframe
- 58:20and do you really remember why that you
- 58:23thought to
- 58:25um to do that
- 58:34uh well you know she had said she lived
- 58:38alone
- 58:40when the one time i met her
- 58:57um
- 59:01just trying to understand why her versus
- 59:04you know the dozens of other
- 59:05women you probably come across on a
- 59:06daily basis
- 59:13i don't know
- 59:24and i went out there when she wasn't
- 59:26home just to see where she lived
- 59:32when did you do that a couple of nights
- 59:35before
- 59:38how did you know her address
- 59:42all right this is a nominal rule for the
- 59:45basement
- 59:46okay so when you go out there
- 59:50a couple of nights before do you
- 59:51remember what night that was you were
- 59:53there first time
- 59:58i don't uh but i it was within two or
- 1:00:01three nights i think
- 1:00:04okay probably well no more than four or
- 1:00:06anything
- 1:00:07like that and did you actually go into a
- 1:00:10house on that occasion or did you uh
- 1:00:12okay so what happened that night how did
- 1:00:14you how did you get into her house
- 1:00:16this window on the side of the basement
- 1:00:18sidewinder
- 1:00:20okay just the back step of it
- 1:00:24how did you get to her house that that
- 1:00:26first night you went there
- 1:00:28i drove what did you drive
- 1:00:34uh i think i drove my truck
- 1:00:37what kind of finder did you remember
- 1:00:40where you parked it
- 1:00:43yeah i parked it
- 1:00:47a bit of a division in the residential
- 1:00:50areas there i parked it on another side
- 1:00:54it's like 700 meters away okay
- 1:00:57so not on her street on different street
- 1:00:59remember what street you parked on
- 1:01:01no but it's uh actually might be the
- 1:01:02same street but there's an interruption
- 1:01:04in the street
- 1:01:05where there's a construction zone so
- 1:01:08there's a pathway in between so i think
- 1:01:11it's probably the same street
- 1:01:13okay so uh you go to her house
- 1:01:16and when you went there that night did
- 1:01:19you know that she was away
- 1:01:24i'm not sure if i knew entirely but i i
- 1:01:28think i thought she was right
- 1:01:30okay is that based on her schedule or
- 1:01:34or how would you know uh
- 1:01:37well my yeah because i fly with the
- 1:01:40squadron i have access to the schedule
- 1:01:41and
- 1:01:43i can say a slightly different schedule
- 1:01:45she has but
- 1:01:46that's probably how i know you don't
- 1:01:49know for sure
- 1:01:53i think that's probably how you okay
- 1:01:56so you go to our house and what do you
- 1:01:59do that night
- 1:02:01the first night i
- 1:02:04looked around and
- 1:02:10make sure that she was living there
- 1:02:12alone
- 1:02:17and i'm sorry did you say i can't
- 1:02:19remember if you said how did you get in
- 1:02:21same same way side
- 1:02:25basement window side basement window
- 1:02:27okay do you remember what kind of window
- 1:02:28it is like what made it uh
- 1:02:30well i just noticed it was the
- 1:02:33flashlight i could see that it was not
- 1:02:34locked it had been opened slightly
- 1:02:38so i removed the screen so that it
- 1:02:39opened
- 1:02:41okay so you go in and uh
- 1:02:45you're in her house figuring out she
- 1:02:47lives alone and
- 1:02:49do you do anything that night
- 1:02:54yeah i was playing with her
- 1:03:00underwear
- 1:03:04you mean playing with her underwear
- 1:03:11wearing it okay
- 1:03:15doing anything else
- 1:03:22i didn't touch her stuff
- 1:03:29what do you mean you didn't touch your
- 1:03:30stuff i mean you touched your underwear
- 1:03:32but
- 1:03:32yeah something nothing else
- 1:03:36did you take any of the underwear with
- 1:03:37you that night
- 1:03:40yeah a few pieces where did you find the
- 1:03:43underwear when you went in
- 1:03:51was it clean was it used for cleaning
- 1:03:57um anything else you can remember doing
- 1:04:00that evening
- 1:04:01yeah no
- 1:04:04all right
- 1:04:08so um after that first visit
- 1:04:12did you return again before meeting up
- 1:04:14with her
- 1:04:15no okay
- 1:04:19so which day did you go to her house
- 1:04:22when she was there
- 1:04:28well the night before i went to auto so
- 1:04:30i think that was monday night
- 1:04:34all right all right
- 1:04:38so let's walk through that uh what time
- 1:04:40do you think you got there
- 1:04:44about 11 or so probably 10 30 11.
- 1:04:52okay
- 1:04:54so she was on the phone in her room
- 1:04:58you could hear that from the backyard
- 1:05:04i got in through the side window
- 1:05:08the same basement window
- 1:05:11how could you hear from the backyard
- 1:05:13what was uh just your hair on the phone
- 1:05:17front beside me inside the house
- 1:05:20you could hear her through the walls
- 1:05:21that she was on the phone okay
- 1:05:24any idea who she was talking to or what
- 1:05:26she was talking about no
- 1:05:29okay so you go in through the basement
- 1:05:31window
- 1:05:33what are you wearing when this is
- 1:05:34happening
- 1:05:38um
- 1:05:44sweatshirt
- 1:05:47dockers i guess and the
- 1:05:51two pieces on my head okay
- 1:05:56where are those two pieces now pieces
- 1:05:59that you were on the head
- 1:06:04uh they're probably in my bag in my
- 1:06:06luggage bag and
- 1:06:08it is in the bedroom
- 1:06:11what's your luggage bag look like that's
- 1:06:14a
- 1:06:16blue duffle bay type thing
- 1:06:20what's right beside the bit is it the
- 1:06:23only blue duffel bag in your bedroom
- 1:06:25um and these pieces what do they look
- 1:06:28like again
- 1:06:30it's a blue headband okay
- 1:06:33standard blue you know winter headband
- 1:06:37and black
- 1:06:41skull cap type thing
- 1:06:44any insignias or anything on them yeah
- 1:06:46there are but i don't know
- 1:06:48the blue headband has something
- 1:06:50extensive
- 1:06:53you know stitched a name of some sort
- 1:06:55stitched on it
- 1:06:58and the skull cap has some sort of
- 1:07:00emblem on white emblem on the black
- 1:07:03i don't know what it is are they like
- 1:07:05sports emblems or
- 1:07:06company emblems or it's the
- 1:07:09manufacturers
- 1:07:12okay anything else in that blue uh
- 1:07:15duffel bag
- 1:07:21is it full of of things just just my
- 1:07:23clothes
- 1:07:24okay um
- 1:07:29so you go in uh remember what you had on
- 1:07:32your feet
- 1:07:36in the house there when you went to
- 1:07:38marie france's house
- 1:07:42probably running shoes there wasn't snow
- 1:07:45on the ground
- 1:07:49so you go in and you're in the basement
- 1:07:52and whereabouts in the basement area
- 1:07:58um by the furnace
- 1:08:01okay and what are you doing like what uh
- 1:08:03what's your what's your sort of
- 1:08:05plan at that point i was waiting for a
- 1:08:07little bit
- 1:08:10okay and how long did that take
- 1:08:13well she didn't then she came down
- 1:08:15looking for the cat
- 1:08:19all right and
- 1:08:22uh what happens next well
- 1:08:25as i described i subdued her
- 1:08:28give me the flashlight
- 1:08:34but essentially
- 1:08:39wrestled her to the ground and tied her
- 1:08:41up
- 1:08:46okay and what did you use the tie rod
- 1:08:49same real green rope it's in tweed
- 1:08:54is it just green or like uh how long is
- 1:08:58this piece of rope
- 1:09:00it's probably um 20 feet
- 1:09:06it's a boat boat bro it's got some red
- 1:09:08specks in it i think
- 1:09:11okay is there lots of ropes and tweed or
- 1:09:14is this probably the only
- 1:09:16rope no this uh
- 1:09:20there are two two lengths
- 1:09:25two lengths of the same green rope and
- 1:09:28were they both used
- 1:09:31uh well i finally ever had one with me
- 1:09:33so i don't know if i used the same piece
- 1:09:36both times or not but only two lines are
- 1:09:39up
- 1:09:40okay so you tire tire up how did you tie
- 1:09:43her out
- 1:09:44when you obviously do that okay
- 1:09:48and what is she wearing at that point
- 1:09:50she wasn't wearing anything to start
- 1:09:52with
- 1:09:54so when she came down to the basement
- 1:09:55she had no clothes on
- 1:09:57she had some sort of a shawl over her
- 1:09:59shoulder
- 1:10:00okay she immediately dropped when she
- 1:10:02saw me
- 1:10:04did she say anything when she saw you
- 1:10:09she did she called out you
- 1:10:14bastard
- 1:10:16okay and then what happened
- 1:10:21then i subdued her as i described by
- 1:10:24hitting her with that red flashlight
- 1:10:28okay although they were more glancing
- 1:10:32glancing blows cut her skin but
- 1:10:35weren't doing much else okay she fell
- 1:10:39over and then i subdued it
- 1:10:41she tripped
- 1:10:44how did you tie her at that point like i
- 1:10:47know you used the rope but
- 1:10:48where did you tie her up like
- 1:10:51just told her to put her like pulled her
- 1:10:53hands behind her back and just
- 1:10:55tied her wrists together okay
- 1:10:59and then then what happened after that
- 1:11:02then i took her upstairs
- 1:11:09did she go upstairs under her own power
- 1:11:11or did you carry her
- 1:11:13no she passed out on the stairs
- 1:11:19and then i carried her up
- 1:11:23why do you think she passed out
- 1:11:26i expect
- 1:11:29from the heads to her head
- 1:11:35to carry it up to where she were better
- 1:11:37put her on the bed
- 1:11:39okay and
- 1:11:42then what happened
- 1:11:52uh well
- 1:11:55as i described i think i um
- 1:11:58on the bed i raped her
- 1:12:01over a period of time
- 1:12:05okay and again just to be specific with
- 1:12:08what sex acts
- 1:12:09took place just vaginal
- 1:12:13your penis in her vagina yeah any condom
- 1:12:16use
- 1:12:18did you ejaculate
- 1:12:22did you exactly to any point with her no
- 1:12:26okay um
- 1:12:31but just before i forget you i think i
- 1:12:33asked you
- 1:12:35don't mean to bounce around and hear us
- 1:12:36but with jessica
- 1:12:39i asked you about ejaculation you said
- 1:12:41you didn't at that point when did you
- 1:12:42ejaculate with jessica
- 1:12:45um the
- 1:12:48second time or third time that i had her
- 1:12:53for a moral sense and was that at her
- 1:12:56residence or yours
- 1:12:58hers okay any other times that you
- 1:13:02ejaculated with her
- 1:13:09when you ejaculated with jessica did you
- 1:13:11use anything to clean up or
- 1:13:16no
- 1:13:18what happened to the ejaculate
- 1:13:22she swallowed it
- 1:13:26um so getting back to marie france
- 1:13:30it's just straight vaginal sex no condom
- 1:13:32no ejaculation
- 1:13:34is that right yeah okay um
- 1:13:38how long does that go for like how long
- 1:13:42were you engaged in that activity
- 1:13:48uh cup well
- 1:13:53i don't have two rz okay
- 1:13:57and then what happens next
- 1:14:03well as i described i suffocated her
- 1:14:06using
- 1:14:07duct tape
- 1:14:13why did you decide to do that
- 1:14:23well again because of the
- 1:14:27as i pictures here it would have
- 1:14:31it was going to be a pretty straight
- 1:14:32line back to tweet
- 1:14:37okay but why why why did you decide to
- 1:14:40use that method
- 1:14:42versus something else
- 1:14:55i had
- 1:14:58thought about strangling her earlier
- 1:15:07that's on the video what is
- 1:15:11my uh
- 1:15:14well
- 1:15:17it was a short short-lived attempt
- 1:15:20because she struggled quite a bit
- 1:15:24and then i
- 1:15:28decided that i needed to suffocate her
- 1:15:34so the short-lived tempest strangler and
- 1:15:38what's on the video the suffocation or
- 1:15:39the strangling
- 1:15:41well just me putting my hand on her
- 1:15:43throat
- 1:15:50and then they're responding
- 1:15:54no surprise very aggressively
- 1:15:59okay any videos of the
- 1:16:02suffocation part or pictures of that
- 1:16:08um now you mentioned that you brought
- 1:16:10the rope with you where did the duct
- 1:16:11tape come from
- 1:16:13i brought it
- 1:16:16and what did you do with it afterwards
- 1:16:21i think it uh
- 1:16:24did it stayed in tweet what color
- 1:16:28of duct tape are we talking about i know
- 1:16:29it comes in a variety of colors but
- 1:16:30great
- 1:16:32great um
- 1:16:36so before uh the suffocation
- 1:16:40um obviously how long do you think you
- 1:16:42were with her
- 1:16:45from the point well how long do you
- 1:16:46think you were in that house from the
- 1:16:48point you went in that window to the
- 1:16:49point you left
- 1:16:54probably four hours
- 1:16:58okay so correct me if i'm wrong did you
- 1:17:02say you were they got there at 11
- 1:17:05or around 11 i think that's right
- 1:17:08okay so you they've
- 1:17:12left around three in the morning
- 1:17:17well i was in the basement for quite a
- 1:17:18while before she
- 1:17:21came down and she wasn't going to bed so
- 1:17:24i was probably in the basement for 30-40
- 1:17:26minutes
- 1:17:27okay so
- 1:17:31by the time she saw me it was probably
- 1:17:35closer to midnight
- 1:17:38all right um
- 1:17:42but i didn't have a watch on so i'm not
- 1:17:43sure
- 1:17:48any gloves i don't think so
- 1:18:00did you wear gloves with jessica
- 1:18:03uh only to get in the house
- 1:18:06it's a very cold night
- 1:18:10and what about the two women in uh in
- 1:18:12tweed
- 1:18:14douglas so while you're with
- 1:18:18marie franz what kind of conversations
- 1:18:22are taking place you
- 1:18:23anything and she said do you stick out
- 1:18:24your mind no
- 1:18:26no i taped your mouth there's no
- 1:18:29conversation
- 1:18:31okay when did you tape her mouth
- 1:18:35as soon as i got her up to the bedroom
- 1:18:37why'd you decide to do that
- 1:18:40because she was
- 1:18:47you know quite aggressive
- 1:18:51in what way i was confident she was
- 1:18:54would have screened given the chance
- 1:19:01what wait was she did initially did she
- 1:19:04in the basement so in what way was she
- 1:19:07aggressive well justin
- 1:19:09you know when she discovered me she was
- 1:19:13very vocal screamed quite a bit
- 1:19:18until i subdued her so i expected she
- 1:19:21would scream again given the chance
- 1:19:25okay do you remember how you left her
- 1:19:28residence
- 1:19:33back door door
- 1:19:37okay to take anything with you
- 1:19:41that night some of her underwear
- 1:19:47anything else
- 1:19:50all right um did you do anything
- 1:19:54else to try and uh cover your tracks
- 1:19:57with me france
- 1:20:05um
- 1:20:09well i had turned off my blackberry
- 1:20:10before i left trent
- 1:20:15other than that
- 1:20:20do you remember trying to destroy any
- 1:20:22kind of evidence there or anything
- 1:20:24you thought may have uh produced
- 1:20:26evidence or anything
- 1:20:28oh i took her sheets off the bed and ran
- 1:20:30them through the laundry
- 1:20:35like the laundry where at in her house
- 1:20:38okay did you run them completely through
- 1:20:40did you wait for it to finish or
- 1:20:42no i just put them in and put a whole
- 1:20:44bunch of bleach in and
- 1:20:46let it go okay
- 1:20:49so the night you went to her house and
- 1:20:51got through at 11 you came
- 1:20:53from where
- 1:20:56you said you left trenton you turned off
- 1:20:58your blackberry
- 1:21:03did you talking about the base are you
- 1:21:05talking about uh where did you leave to
- 1:21:07go to her house
- 1:21:08well no i just turned off my blackberry
- 1:21:10before i left the trenton area um
- 1:21:15i would have left from the base after
- 1:21:16work
- 1:21:18all right when did you turn when did you
- 1:21:20uh what time do you think you turned
- 1:21:22your blackberry off
- 1:21:28well it's only a half hour drive to
- 1:21:29brighton so
- 1:21:32yeah probably in the 9 9 30
- 1:21:36range remember what uh
- 1:21:41one time you would have turned it back
- 1:21:42on
- 1:21:45when i was back on the four one heading
- 1:21:46to auto by the next morning
- 1:21:48what time would that be so
- 1:21:52six plus or minus 30 minutes okay
- 1:21:56so you leave her house three-ish
- 1:21:59no i think it was later than that so the
- 1:22:00four hours obviously was
- 1:22:04i think uh man i think it went in about
- 1:22:08eleven
- 1:22:10i was in the basement for quite a while
- 1:22:13probably left her house closer to four
- 1:22:15or thirty somewhere in there
- 1:22:19okay and where do you go
- 1:22:24uh i drove to hello straight title
- 1:22:28did you go by your house and tweet or
- 1:22:30anything or did you just go straight
- 1:22:32remember what route you took
- 1:22:36uh yeah 4-1
- 1:22:40but from her place uh
- 1:22:44i think i went straight north on uh
- 1:22:46whatever the road is that goes straight
- 1:22:47through brighton up to the 4-1
- 1:22:49at the 4-1 and headed east
- 1:22:53okay and so you're going to
- 1:22:57what's the meeting you're having that
- 1:22:59day in ottawa remind me
- 1:23:00a meeting on the c-17 acquisition
- 1:23:03project
- 1:23:04okay and who ran that meeting the
- 1:23:07project manager
- 1:23:08miss uh sue hale okay
- 1:23:13is that the only meeting around that
- 1:23:15time period you would have went to on
- 1:23:16that issue with sue hill
- 1:23:19there wasn't like a weekly meeting or
- 1:23:20anything like that i know this is sort
- 1:23:22of a quarterly
- 1:23:24all right um
- 1:23:26[Music]
- 1:23:28so the night you went tonight this
- 1:23:31happened
- 1:23:33where did you park uh that night
- 1:23:37as i said across the gravel a little
- 1:23:40roadway probably
- 1:23:41it's probably the same road okay similar
- 1:23:44location to the first night
- 1:23:46yeah okay all right
- 1:23:49same same vehicle
- 1:23:54yeah truck okay
- 1:23:58all right um
- 1:24:03okay let's talk about uh the well seeing
- 1:24:06as we're going backwards in time here
- 1:24:07why don't we talk about the second
- 1:24:08incident in tweed
- 1:24:10um
- 1:24:14with uh lori masakai
- 1:24:17one that's a 76 cozy cove
- 1:24:26how did you decide on her
- 1:24:31i knew she lived alone
- 1:24:36how did you know that
- 1:24:41three doors down and uh
- 1:24:45didn't know her but i knew she was
- 1:24:48pretty long she had
- 1:24:49a boyfriend and hadn't seemed to be
- 1:24:53had been around
- 1:25:01you know uh looked in the window and
- 1:25:05she's alone so she she had a boyfriend
- 1:25:09but he wasn't
- 1:25:10too frequent okay well she told me that
- 1:25:13they were fighting so
- 1:25:14that's why he hadn't been there okay
- 1:25:19so um
- 1:25:24did you look in her house before the
- 1:25:26night that this
- 1:25:27this incident happened or when did you
- 1:25:30do that i had been in uh
- 1:25:33within the week
- 1:25:36probably a couple of nights earlier
- 1:25:39what'd you do that night
- 1:25:43i um
- 1:25:46i looked around to see if there any
- 1:25:50permanent signs of her boyfriend i guess
- 1:25:56took one or two pieces of underwear
- 1:26:05that's all
- 1:26:08okay so the night you go there
- 1:26:13um when the incident happens uh remember
- 1:26:15what time that was
- 1:26:18it was pretty late um i probably got
- 1:26:21into the house around midnight
- 1:26:23she was asleep on the couch well i
- 1:26:25didn't know that but
- 1:26:27i knew she was in there and how did you
- 1:26:30get in sorry
- 1:26:32a window in the back of the house
- 1:26:39was it just something you had to slide
- 1:26:41or how did you
- 1:26:43remove the screen and slide it up okay
- 1:26:51so i got into the house and
- 1:26:55she was asleep in front of the tv
- 1:27:02wearing anything on your face that night
- 1:27:05yep same things
- 1:27:06okay the headband and the the cap
- 1:27:10okay um
- 1:27:13what kind of clothes did you have on
- 1:27:22right so she's asleep on the couch
- 1:27:25you're in there and then what happens
- 1:27:30we have been through this eh i know i
- 1:27:33struck her with the
- 1:27:34uh flashlight thinking about knock her
- 1:27:36out it didn't
- 1:27:38we struggled i subdued her
- 1:27:41took some pictures left it's probably in
- 1:27:43the houseboat
- 1:27:46two and a half hours
- 1:27:51it's a pretty short description for two
- 1:27:53and a half hours
- 1:27:57well and we talked i
- 1:28:06told her i was going to hurt her
- 1:28:14i um i told her that there were
- 1:28:18other guys in the house robbing her
- 1:28:23my job was just to control her
- 1:28:35what did she say to that
- 1:28:38she's scared
- 1:28:43worried she was going to be seriously
- 1:28:45hurt
- 1:28:49did she say that or did you just assume
- 1:28:51that no no she said that she was
- 1:28:59she was worried she was going to be
- 1:29:00killed i said i'm not going to kill him
- 1:29:05what did you do with uh you said you
- 1:29:08took pictures of her um
- 1:29:09clothed unclothed uh both
- 1:29:14clothed ashley and then unclothed
- 1:29:21are you in any of those pictures
- 1:29:25i don't think so you just took them at
- 1:29:27her
- 1:29:29what kind of camera are you using by the
- 1:29:31way
- 1:29:34it's a digital uh song
- 1:29:38you just have the one camera yeah
- 1:29:41and the video camera also they're two
- 1:29:44separate
- 1:29:46some cameras take video right um
- 1:29:49and where is the camera and the video
- 1:29:52camera
- 1:29:56then tweet
- 1:30:00was it the only camera and video camera
- 1:30:02in that house
- 1:30:04yeah okay all right
- 1:30:07um so you take pictures over
- 1:30:11and how do you end up leaving thank you
- 1:30:17i just told her to
- 1:30:22count or wait for a number of minutes
- 1:30:26before
- 1:30:29of course you call the police okay
- 1:30:33you leave immediately or did you stay
- 1:30:35there for a while see what she was going
- 1:30:37to do or
- 1:30:39um and where do you go home
- 1:30:43straight home did you
- 1:30:48did you wait to see if the police showed
- 1:30:49up or anything or
- 1:30:51nope
- 1:30:55so what did you do when you got home on
- 1:30:56your feet
- 1:30:59i went to sleep okay
- 1:31:03i would do the next day
- 1:31:07you wanted to work normal time
- 1:31:10okay a couple hours later
- 1:31:16all right um
- 1:31:21do you remember how her clothing was
- 1:31:28removed
- 1:31:30uh well because their hands were tied
- 1:31:32behind your back i think i cut off her
- 1:31:33top
- 1:31:34and then pulled off her bottle what did
- 1:31:37you use the cutter top
- 1:31:45i can't remember if it was a knife or
- 1:31:48like a folding
- 1:31:49exacto knife or leatherman or one of the
- 1:31:52two
- 1:31:54are these items that are in your house
- 1:31:56and tweet yep
- 1:31:58okay was there ever any other time you
- 1:32:01used a a knife to
- 1:32:03cut off clothing or anything else do you
- 1:32:06remember
- 1:32:08i cut off jessica's top with a knife
- 1:32:12so our hands were tied behind your back
- 1:32:15that's all okay where's that knife which
- 1:32:18knife do you have
- 1:32:20that was leather this is the only
- 1:32:23leatherman in tweet
- 1:32:25okay um
- 1:32:29so on the 16th september
- 1:32:33when you went in that night was that the
- 1:32:35first time you've been in her house
- 1:32:39and why her just because i had seen her
- 1:32:42and
- 1:32:44she was cute that's it
- 1:32:49okay so there was no
- 1:32:54you didn't go into her house before that
- 1:32:55that night no
- 1:32:58all right um
- 1:33:01so you go in and how did you get into
- 1:33:03her house
- 1:33:06side window the uh
- 1:33:11was not locked cut the screen slid the
- 1:33:14window
- 1:33:15curled in okay
- 1:33:20and uh what you're wearing
- 1:33:23same switch your dark pants
- 1:33:27in the same hat and
- 1:33:30okay uh
- 1:33:34and where do you find uh in bed
- 1:33:37sleep okay and what do you do
- 1:33:43stood over her for a while and i um
- 1:33:46hit her on the left side of her head
- 1:33:48with my hand
- 1:33:53just woke her up he struggled
- 1:34:00you know just lay on her
- 1:34:08and very much like i described a little
- 1:34:11bit ago
- 1:34:14took off her pulled her top down
- 1:34:19and took off her pants took some
- 1:34:22pictures
- 1:34:22left do you remember her saying anything
- 1:34:26to you
- 1:34:27yes what did she say here
- 1:34:31all kinds of things um
- 1:34:35you know she had a a young baby just
- 1:34:40next door the other room eight months or
- 1:34:44so
- 1:34:46she's obviously concerned about the baby
- 1:34:50let's turn for herself i assured her i
- 1:34:52was not going to hurt her
- 1:34:58physically
- 1:35:07right um any underwear taken from
- 1:35:12or pory yeah both and where would they
- 1:35:15be located
- 1:35:17in tweed
- 1:35:25and why are they in tweed as opposed to
- 1:35:29marie franz and jessica's underwear
- 1:35:42remember how much of their underwear you
- 1:35:43took
- 1:35:46um
- 1:35:53not very much from lori did they know
- 1:35:56that you took
- 1:35:57their underwear i don't know
- 1:36:00you didn't discuss it with them or
- 1:36:02anything
- 1:36:04um
- 1:36:07so wear and tweed would their underwear
- 1:36:09be
- 1:36:22um
- 1:36:26in the um it's a laundry room area
- 1:36:32okay just between the house and the
- 1:36:34garage
- 1:36:36right
- 1:36:44so where in that laundry area would they
- 1:36:46be kept
- 1:36:47there's a cupboard up top
- 1:36:50and duffel bag what's the default bag
- 1:36:53look like
- 1:36:54it's a green army definitely
- 1:36:58are they all in the same duffel bag is
- 1:37:00there anything else in that duffel bag
- 1:37:05just anywhere okay
- 1:37:10um
- 1:37:17on these when these pictures
- 1:37:20are looked at you talked about being in
- 1:37:23marie franz's underwear
- 1:37:24on the first night you went in did you
- 1:37:26take photographs of that
- 1:37:27yeah what about anybody else's underwear
- 1:37:32yep photos of you in their underwear
- 1:37:37and where were those photos taken
- 1:37:46um
- 1:37:48well sometimes in
- 1:37:56this in in maddie francis case in her
- 1:38:00house
- 1:38:02the others in my house
- 1:38:05and tweet so is this a matter you would
- 1:38:09take the underwear go back and
- 1:38:11and then at some point put them around
- 1:38:13and take pictures
- 1:38:16what about jessica's underwear
- 1:38:22uh she's only her friend
- 1:38:27so you don't have pictures of you and i
- 1:38:29remember
- 1:38:31all right um
- 1:38:37okay well
- 1:38:40i guess uh i just have a couple of
- 1:38:43questions
- 1:38:44for you i mean i'm sure there's going to
- 1:38:45be more questions but i guess what's on
- 1:38:47my mind right now
- 1:38:48for us is what made you decide
- 1:38:51to tell me this tonight
- 1:39:01mostly uh to make my wife's
- 1:39:04life easier okay
- 1:39:10is what you've told me tonight the truth
- 1:39:13yeah okay
- 1:39:21how do you feel about what you've done
- 1:39:22like what
- 1:39:39disappointed okay
- 1:39:44let me ask you this if um
- 1:39:48if this didn't come to the point it's at
- 1:39:49right now
- 1:39:51if whatever reason you didn't end up on
- 1:39:53our on our radar so to speak
- 1:39:56uh do you think it would have happened
- 1:39:57again
- 1:40:06i was hoping not that i can't answer the
- 1:40:08question
- 1:40:11okay um
- 1:40:15not too much here russ just a few
- 1:40:17details that
- 1:40:18i wanted to cover off and specifically
- 1:40:21dan with marie france
- 1:40:23um in the basement of her house
- 1:40:28uh there's a hole in the drywall
- 1:40:33do you recall how that happened
- 1:40:36whereabouts i don't know specifically
- 1:40:39but
- 1:40:39it's downstairs i don't remember that
- 1:40:42okay do you remember doing anything with
- 1:40:46her in the basement uh where you may
- 1:40:47have used some clothing or something to
- 1:40:50to secure her yeah i tied her up against
- 1:40:54one of the
- 1:40:56poles in the basement initially
- 1:41:00i went outside and put the screen back
- 1:41:03on and
- 1:41:03secure the window okay
- 1:41:07well she was tied to the pole yep and
- 1:41:10what was your thinking behind doing that
- 1:41:11at that point
- 1:41:14just to cover up how i'd come in
- 1:41:18okay now by the time she's tied to that
- 1:41:21pole is that in the very
- 1:41:23initial few minutes kind of thing of the
- 1:41:24confrontation or that was
- 1:41:27shortly after i'd subdued her and tied
- 1:41:29her up yes okay
- 1:41:30does she have the duct tape on her mouth
- 1:41:32yet
- 1:41:38i think probably pictures will show it
- 1:41:42all right now in the upstairs bathroom
- 1:41:45by her bedroom
- 1:41:47there's uh looks like something's
- 1:41:49occurred in there
- 1:41:51remember that yep what happened there
- 1:41:54she had passed out on the bed and i had
- 1:41:57gone to look at the front window
- 1:41:59see if anybody was coming and
- 1:42:04she got up and closed the bedroom door
- 1:42:07and raced into the bathroom
- 1:42:08trying to get somebody's attention
- 1:42:13but her mouth was taped and her hands
- 1:42:15were tied
- 1:42:18what did you do as a result of that well
- 1:42:20i just got in
- 1:42:24some deuter again and got got her back
- 1:42:26in the bitter
- 1:42:28and do anything just regain control over
- 1:42:33okay if i remember correctly there's a
- 1:42:34bit there's a bit of blood in there do
- 1:42:36you know where that blood would have
- 1:42:37how that that would have occurred all
- 1:42:38the blood was from
- 1:42:41the initial hits as i was trying to
- 1:42:43subdue her
- 1:42:44okay her skin breaking with the
- 1:42:48blows to her head okay do you recall
- 1:42:51blood being in the bathroom
- 1:42:53no actually i didn't have a light on
- 1:42:54there but
- 1:42:56it doesn't surprise me okay
- 1:42:59um there's a pair of underwear and some
- 1:43:02socks on the floor of that bathroom
- 1:43:05that belonged to her do you remember how
- 1:43:07they got there i don't remember seeing
- 1:43:11what do you recall doing to her breasts
- 1:43:14it's pretty clear that there was some
- 1:43:16something happened to her breasts do you
- 1:43:18remember
- 1:43:19what that might have been no i certainly
- 1:43:22touched her breasts i didn't
- 1:43:24do anything to hurt them i remember that
- 1:43:27no
- 1:43:28okay all right
- 1:43:31um well russell
- 1:43:34when i suffocated her she was on her
- 1:43:38her front so
- 1:43:42may have been something there but what
- 1:43:44do you mean
- 1:43:46well she was lying on the floor in the
- 1:43:48bedroom as i suffocated her and
- 1:43:49obviously struggled
- 1:43:51maybe an error that something happened
- 1:43:53but i didn't do anything specifically to
- 1:43:55her breasts
- 1:43:56okay so when you suffocate here that's
- 1:43:59when you have the duct tape over mouth
- 1:44:00and nose
- 1:44:01and that's on the floor yeah and
- 1:44:04then what happens after that
- 1:44:08well she died and i um
- 1:44:12and took the duct tape off her head and
- 1:44:15put her on the bed
- 1:44:17and covered her up with a duvet
- 1:44:20okay and what was your thinking behind
- 1:44:22doing
- 1:44:33all that um as you might expect here
- 1:44:37russ
- 1:44:38uh certainly uh even now one of the
- 1:44:41ottawa investigators mentioned to me
- 1:44:43that um there's a number of incidents
- 1:44:45that uh
- 1:44:46that have gone unsolved over the years
- 1:44:51can i i was gonna get into that can i go
- 1:44:54to the washroom quickly
- 1:44:55yeah i can get somebody to take the
- 1:44:56washroom okay
- 1:45:07you
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