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0:00it's hard to believe that one of the
0:02most evil crime sprees in Canadian
0:04history occurred in the Tiny Village of
0:07Tweed
0:08onario located on Highway 37 tweet is
0:12home to about 1,600 people as well as
0:156,000 people in the surrounding
0:18municipality Tweed also happens to be
0:21home to the smallest jail in North
0:23America founded in
0:251898 and honestly with the exception of
0:28the bars on the windows it's the most
0:30adorable jail I've ever seen it has
0:32three teeny tiny cells and stayed open
0:35for 50 years before closing in 1950 due
0:38to a lack of crime and is now a popular
0:41tourist attraction for Tweed Tweed is
0:44one of those stereotypical small towns
0:46where everyone knows everyone and nobody
0:48locked their doors that is until the
0:51fall of 2007 when strange break and
0:54Enter started to occur a fetish burglar
0:57was breaking into houses and only
1:00stealing women's
1:01underwear however most of these
1:03burglaries would go undetected the
1:06homeowners either didn't realize their
1:08home had been broken into or didn't
1:10report the burglaries to police out of
1:13embarrassment over what was taken by May
1:16of 2008 there had been 22 fetish
1:18break-ins in tweet alone that same month
1:22over 200 kilometers away in Ottawa
1:26similar Breakin enters and theft of
1:28women's underwear were occurring in the
1:31suburb community of Orleans but unlike
1:34the Tweet cases many of these Breakin
1:36enters were reported to the Ottawa
1:39Police who at first weren't too terribly
1:42concerned but after multiple thefts of
1:45lingerie in the Orleans area the Ottawa
1:48Police would issue a warning to the
1:50public on Halloween 2008 the break-ins
1:54would continue in both communities
1:56throughout 2009 and the Intruder was
1:59becoming more aggressive leaving
2:02taunting notes for the homeowners
2:04stealing their photographs and even
2:06their sex toys and then in September of
2:102009 two bizarre home invasions in Tweed
2:14were reported to the Ontario Provincial
2:17Police these crimes were so strange that
2:20the police themselves didn't take the
2:22first report seriously for a brief
2:25moment they even considered the attack
2:28had been fabricated by the victim them
2:30but after the second assault was
2:32reported just 2 weeks later the as
2:35salent now had the full attention of the
2:37police both women had been tied up
2:41blindfolded and forced to pose for
2:43explicit photographs before the Intruder
2:46vanished into the night investigators
2:49didn't connect the attacks and Tweed to
2:51The Fetish break-ins and even more odd
2:55the break-ins and lingerie theft would
2:58suddenly stop all together in late
3:00November of
3:022009 police were unaware that during
3:05this time the burglar had progressed to
3:08something much darker and then on
3:11January 29th
3:132010 27-year-old Jessica Lloyd suddenly
3:16disappeared from Belleville Ontario a
3:19joint investigation between three
3:22different police departments was
3:24immediately established and it wouldn't
3:27take long for them to link Jessica
3:29Lloyd's disappear appearance to the
3:30break-ins and attacks and Tweed as well
3:33as a murder that occurred in the town of
3:35Brighton only 20 minutes away there were
3:39just too many similarities it had to be
3:42the same offender while examining
3:45Jessica Lloyd's property for evidence
3:48unique tire tracks would be found in the
3:50snow and these tire tracks would lead
3:53police to a prime suspect a military man
3:58who up until this point wasn't even on
4:00their radar why would he be this man was
4:04the commander of Canada's largest Air
4:06Force Base not exactly their usual type
4:09of
4:10suspect but on February 7th
4:142010 after an intensive 10-hour police
4:17interview the floodgates would open this
4:21unlikely suspect would confess not only
4:24to the murder of Jessica Lloyd but also
4:27the murder of Corporal Mary France comoo
4:30in nearby Brighton
4:31Ontario as well as the two attacks and
4:34Tweed and 82 break and enters and theft
4:38to women's
4:39underwear this is the story of Colonel
4:42Russell
4:44Williams David Russell Williams was born
4:47in Cardiff South Wales in
4:491963 his parents were Cedric David
4:52Williams and Christine n Williams his
4:55father worked as a metallurgist and
4:57would relocate the family to Canada when
5:00Russell was only five after he was
5:02offered a position at a research
5:05facility in chalk River
5:07Ontario Russell also had a younger
5:10brother named Harvey the family lived in
5:13the nearby community of Deep River a
5:15town built by the federal government in
5:181945 to house the families of the
5:20scientists and other workers from the
5:22nuclear research laboratory it was a
5:25very strange town built in a mostly
5:28rural area and Deep River was also known
5:31for having one of the highest ratios of
5:34phds in the country there were 130
5:37people with Doctorate Degrees in a
5:40population of 5,000 back in
5:431971 the marriage between Russell's
5:45parents was brief lasting only a few
5:48years his mother would end up filing for
5:51divorce after catching her husband
5:53having an affair with a family friend
5:56Christine would get remarried a short
5:58time after the divorce was was Final
6:00though to a man named Jerry Suka who was
6:03a nuclear engineer and who was also
6:06recently divorced weirdly enough
6:09Russell's father would also get
6:11remarried to Jerry sua's first wife
6:14Marilyn and growing up Russell and his
6:17brother Harvey would take their
6:19stepfather's last name the new blended
6:22family would eventually move to the
6:24Scarboro Bluffs area and Russell would
6:27attend Birchmount Park collegiate in
6:29Scarboro for school in
6:321979 Jerry Suka took a job in South
6:35Korea where he would be overseeing a
6:38reactor project so the entire family
6:41packed up and moved again Russell and
6:44his brother would live in South Korea
6:46for about a year before moving back to
6:49Canada where both brothers were enrolled
6:51in Upper Canada College an elite
6:54boarding school former alumni of Upper
6:57Canada College includes judges
7:00premieres Olympic athletes Road Scholars
7:04and Lieutenant Governors several former
7:07classmates remembered Russell as a quiet
7:10and hardworking student and another
7:12classmate who attended Upper Canada
7:14college with russle said that he was
7:17pretty good at flying under the radar
7:19and that most would remember him as a
7:22mysterious student and a really good
7:24musician and then there were other
7:26former classmates who remembered him as
7:28stuck up saying that he pretty much
7:31played the trumpet and kept to himself
7:34in 1982 Russell graduated from a Canada
7:38college and that same year would enroll
7:40in the University of Toronto Scarboro
7:43campus majoring in economics and
7:46political science by some horrible
7:49coincidence another man who would also
7:52go on to be one of Canada's most
7:54infamous serial killers was also
7:56enrolled at the University of Toronto
7:59scar campus and also majored in
8:02economics graduating only one year after
8:05Russell that man was none other than
8:08Paul Bernardo who for 3 years beginning
8:11in
8:121987 was terrorizing young women in the
8:15Scarboro area he gained a reputation for
8:19stalking and attacking women usually
8:21after they got off the bus at night the
8:24media would nickname him the Scaro
8:26rapist and a total of 15 attacks would
8:29later be linked to Bernardo after
8:32Williams was arrested years later a
8:35salacious article was released based on
8:37the word of unnamed police sources these
8:40sources suggested that Williams and
8:43Bernardo were friends during this time
8:45at University and not only partied
8:48together but competed with each other
8:51however other than this one random
8:54unnamed police Source no additional
8:56evidence was ever brought forward to
8:58prove these
8:59allegations bernardo's father was even
9:02interviewed who said that Paul might
9:04have bumped into a Russ salka on campus
9:07but he definitely wasn't friends with
9:09him during his last year at University
9:13Russell decided he wanted to become a
9:15pilot and enrolled in flying lessons at
9:18Buttonville Airport just north of
9:20Toronto and in 1987 Russell would
9:23graduate from the University of Toronto
9:26and that same year would enroll in the
9:29Canadian Armed Forces around this time
9:33he decided to take back his father's
9:35last name and go by Russell Williams in
9:39the late 80s while he was in Calgary
9:41Alberta he would meet a woman named Mary
9:44Elizabeth Herman she had a degree from
9:47the University of galf in applied
9:49science with a focus on nutrition and
9:52had just completed an MBA in adult
9:56education at the time she met Russell
9:59Mary Elizabeth was working at the dairy
10:01nutrition Council of
10:03Alberta the two would marry in a small
10:05ceremony at the Winnipeg Art Gallery in
10:08June of
10:091991 Russell was 28 years old and Mary
10:13Elizabeth was
10:1533 from the beginning Russell was an
10:18ambitious military man who was promoted
10:21quickly through the ranks his first post
10:23was Portage la Prairie Manitoba then CFB
10:27Moosejaw a training base for Pilots
10:31within 3 years Russell earned his wings
10:34and worked as an instructor on the CT
10:36134 Beach musketeer at the Canadian
10:40Forces flying training school in
10:431992 Williams was selected along with
10:46four other Pilots to perform in a musket
10:49Gold's air show the air show was
10:52considered to be a huge success
10:54resulting in Russell being promoted to
10:57Captain shortly afterwards
10:59later that year the couple would move to
11:02the east coast Russell was posted to CFB
11:05sheerwater located in Nova Scotia one of
11:08the smallest Air Force bases in the
11:11country here Russell would Patrol the
11:13coast in a cc 144 Challenger 2 years
11:18later in
11:191994 the couple moved to Ottawa where
11:22Mary Elizabeth took a job with the Heart
11:24and Stroke Foundation and Russell took
11:27up a role with the 41 2 transport
11:30Squadron the only 8- wi Trenton unit
11:34based in the national capital region for
11:37six years Russell Williams primary
11:40responsibility was flying
11:42VIPs including former prime minister
11:45stepen Harper and Jean cran the governor
11:47general of Canada and the Duke of
11:50Edinburgh in
11:521995 Russell and Mary Elizabeth
11:55purchased a home in the bedroom
11:57community of Orleans a subur subb of
11:59Ottawa the house was located on wilky
12:02drive a street that was home to many
12:05members of the military and law
12:06enforcement and the couple would live in
12:09this home for the next 13 years
12:12neighbors would say that the couple was
12:13known as quiet and polite but were very
12:16private people Mary Elizabeth was known
12:20as the more talkative of the two and
12:22would make small talk with the neighbors
12:24about golf her cat and her job but for
12:28the most part
12:29they didn't share much about their
12:31private life the two could sometimes be
12:34spotted walking hand inand around their
12:36neighborhood and Russell could also be
12:38seen jogging in the evening travel was
12:41also a part of Mary Elizabeth's job and
12:45when she arrived home from one of the
12:47many trips she made as the associate
12:49executive director of the Heart and
12:51Stroke Foundation Russell could be seen
12:54carrying her luggage into the house one
12:57of their wilky Drive Neighbors described
12:59Russell and Mary Elizabeth as the
13:01perfect power couple as they both had
13:04jobs that took them away from home
13:07sometimes for long periods of time in
13:101999 Russell was promoted to the rank of
13:13major and appointed director General
13:16military careers an administrative
13:19position assessing the future of senior
13:21military Pilots a few years would pass
13:25and then in 2001 some unexpected family
13:28drama occurred Russell's mother and
13:31stepfather
13:33divorced because Russell's family
13:35distanced thems from the media spectacle
13:38after he was arrested no one really
13:41knows the exact conversation that took
13:43place we only know that after the
13:45divorce Russell would cut off all
13:48contact with his brother and mother
13:51friends would say that Russell never
13:52talked about it and they didn't push
13:55because the topic seemed to be off
13:57limits during the time though Russell's
14:00career would continue to progress
14:02upwards and he would receive Perfect
14:05reviews medals and
14:07promotions in 2004 after graduating with
14:11a master of Defense studies from Royal
14:14Military College Russell was promoted to
14:17Lieutenant Colonel and became commanding
14:20officer of 437 transport squadron at CFB
14:24Trenton the Airbus unit that flies
14:26troops supplies and VIPs
14:30overseas however Trenton is a 3-hour
14:33drive from Ottawa where the couple lived
14:36so in August of that same year Russell
14:39and Mary Elizabeth purchased a cottage
14:41on Cozy Coop Lane in the Tiny Town of
14:43Tweed Ontario just north of Belleville
14:47Tweed was just a 40-minute drive away
14:49from Trenton and just under 2 and 1/2
14:52hours away from Ottawa over the next 16
14:55months Russell would spend most week
14:58nights alone on cozy coov Lane on
15:01weekends he either drove back to Ottawa
15:04or Mary Elizabeth would visit the
15:06cottage during his two years at the post
15:09in Trenton he took on an additional role
15:12and served 6 months as the commanding
15:14officer theater support element for Camp
15:17Mirage the secret military base in Dubai
15:20that linked Trenton to the Afghanistan
15:23war effort one of the women Russell
15:25Williams would later murder Corporal
15:27Mary France Como also served at Camp
15:30Mirage in 2001 3 years before Williams
15:34arrived after Russell returned to Canada
15:37he would continue to be promoted he took
15:40on an administrative role in Ottawa and
15:42was appointed to directorate of air
15:45requirements an agency in charge of
15:47procuring airplanes he would spend 2 and
15:501/2 years in this role reporting to
15:52Lieutenant General Angus watt The Man
15:55Who Would later recommend Russell's
15:57promotion to Colonel
16:00in September of 2007 strange Breakin
16:03enters were taking place in Tweed
16:06although in most cases the homeowners
16:08weren't even aware that someone had been
16:10in their home so most of the break-ins
16:12wouldn't be reported to police this was
16:15partially because many people in Tweed
16:17at the time didn't lock their doors
16:20there was no need to Tweed was a town
16:23with hardly any crime but now a fetish
16:26burglar was on the loose with an unusual
16:29calling card he would leave money or
16:32credit cards or other expensive items
16:34untouched but would clean out the
16:36homeowner's underwear drawers on the
16:39evening of October 19th a family came
16:42home after attending a barbecue with
16:45neighbors when they entered their home
16:47they found an intruder inside wearing a
16:50hoodie shorts and running shoes the home
16:54belonged to the daughter of Russell
16:55Williams nextdoor neighbor a man named
16:58Larry Jones
16:59the house was dark so no one was able to
17:02get a detailed description of the man
17:04before he ran off into the woods the
17:07family looked around their home and they
17:10didn't notice anything had been stolen
17:12so they initially didn't report the
17:14Breakin to the
17:16police however 10 days later they would
17:19contact authorities after hearing about
17:21another Breakin in the area and assumed
17:24the two were related even though the
17:26family was certain that nothing had been
17:29stolen from the home they couldn't have
17:31been more wrong the burglar had made off
17:34with 14 pieces of clothing including
17:36underwear bras and bathing suits and
17:40they also didn't notice that the
17:42Intruder came back again the next night
17:44and broken again through an open door
17:47this time stealing another nine pairs of
17:49underwear 8 months later starting in May
17:53of 2008 similar break-ins involving
17:56theft of lingerie were taking place in
17:59the bedroom community of Orleans the
18:02first reported event involved homeowners
18:04who lived with their daughter who was a
18:07young adult at the time of the incident
18:10she noticed some lingerie she had
18:11recently purchased was missing and on
18:14June 3rd 2008 she realized the screen to
18:18a living room window was also missing
18:21the family contacted police who examined
18:23the home and the exterior but other than
18:26the missing screen there was no other
18:28damage to the house that Breakin netted
18:32the thief a total of 15 pieces of bras
18:34and
18:35underwear in mid June there would be
18:38another Breakin on nearby Carol cresen
18:40in Orleans a woman who lived with her
18:4324-year-old daughter arrived home to
18:46find her front door was unlocked and her
18:49basement window had been pushed open she
18:52didn't notice anything missing at first
18:54however when her daughter arrived home
18:57she noted that numerous ous pieces of
18:59bras underwear and sex toys were missing
19:03from her dresser drawer this time the
19:06burglar made off with 87 pieces of
19:09lingerie Ottawa Police were once again
19:12contacted about the break and Enter and
19:14the contents that were stolen from the
19:16house and they were starting to get
19:18concerned about the nature of these
19:20crimes then in October of 2008 a woman
19:24was getting ready to go to the gym when
19:27she noticed that all of her underwear
19:29was gone from the basket in the closet
19:31where she normally kept them after
19:33hearing about similar underwear theft in
19:35the area she too would contact the
19:38police who noticed that the screen to a
19:41rear window had been cut altogether 24
19:45pieces of clothing including underwear
19:47bras slips and tops were stolen from the
19:51home that same month from October 24th
19:55to the 26th a family with four children
19:58were out of town they lived in Orleans
20:01on nearby Apollo Way and when they
20:04returned they immediately noticed
20:06someone had been in the house the
20:09basement window was open half an inch
20:11and there were mud streaks on the wall
20:13underneath the window as well as a trail
20:16of leaves leading from the basement up
20:18to the main floor the back door was also
20:21unlocked and the homeowners were
20:24positive the house was secured before
20:26they left one of the daughters also
20:29found several of her photo albums and
20:31photographs laid out on the floor of her
20:34bedroom police were contacted who
20:37advised the family about the recent
20:39underwear thefts in the area they were
20:41told to check all the dresser drawers
20:44and laundry the underwear Thief had
20:47struck again this time running off with
20:4939 pieces of underwear then the youngest
20:53daughter a 12-year-old girl would log
20:56into her computer the following day only
20:58to find a creepy message left behind
21:01someone had opened a Word document and
21:04left it open with the word mercy the
21:06French word for thank you a folder on
21:09her computer containing pictures of her
21:11and her family had also been opened
21:14initially the Ottawa Police had not been
21:17too concerned about the stolen
21:19lerie after all it was just
21:22underwear no one had been home when the
21:24burglar struck and at the time there
21:27were several lingerie
21:29operating in the Ottawa area which is
21:31disturbing in more ways than one one man
21:34was even spotted sneaking out of an
21:37apartment building carrying a laundry
21:39basket filled with women's underwear but
21:42by October 31st 2008 the Ottawa Police
21:46would issue a press release warning the
21:48public about the strange Breakin enters
21:50in the area it read quote due to The
21:54Peculiar nature of these instances the
21:57Ottawa Police wish to remind the public
21:59to be vigilant and ensure they secure
22:02their home at all times by this point 15
22:06fetish burglaries had taken place in
22:09both Orleans and Tweed all of them
22:11occurring on streets close to Russell
22:14Williams home after issuing their press
22:17release in the fall of 2008 the Ottawa
22:21Police Department would take these
22:23break-ins and theft of women's underwear
22:26seriously they began a surveillance
22:28operation hoping to catch the thief in
22:31the ACT they used unmarked Vehicles as
22:35well as undercover officers would stroll
22:37the neighborhood of Orleans throughout
22:39the evening pretending to be residents
22:41out for late night walks they also went
22:44door too and warned homeowners about the
22:46bizarre lingerie burglar the Rashia
22:49fetish break-ins in 2008 left many in
22:52the neighborhood of Orleans feeling on
22:54edge many homeowners would end up
22:57installing bars on basement windows and
23:00surveillance systems as a deterrent in
23:03early December of 2008 the owner of a
23:06home on wilky Drive was on vacation with
23:08his girlfriend who also kept many
23:11personal belongings at his house on
23:14December 10th the couple would receive a
23:16call from the homeowner's brother who
23:18was watching the house for them while
23:20they were away he informed them that the
23:23house had been broken into police were
23:25once again contacted and they would disc
23:28C footprints in the snow in the backyard
23:31the prints led directly to the patio
23:33door which was unlocked with the screen
23:35pushed open when the homeowner returned
23:39on December 14th he also found that
23:42several window locks had been damaged on
23:44the main floor nothing looked like it
23:47was missing from the home until his
23:49girlfriend checked her underwear drawer
23:52and found that 20 pieces of lingerie and
23:54seven sex toys were missing the strange
23:57underwear heists in Orleans would
24:00continue into the new year of
24:022009 from December 29th to January 2nd a
24:07family who lived on car Crescent was out
24:09of town when they arrived home their
24:1215-year-old daughter noticed that all of
24:15her underwear including bathing suits
24:18dresses tank tops and many of her
24:21photographs including head shot from
24:23modeling agencies were missing the
24:26burglar had upped the ante
24:28he made off with 68 pieces of assorted
24:32clothing the teenager also noticed that
24:35many items in her room such as paintings
24:37had been altered or moved again police
24:40were called to the home and a report was
24:43filed and while searching her bedroom
24:46for additional evidence dried seamen
24:49would also be found on top of her
24:51dresser a sample was sent to the center
24:54for forensic science however it was
24:57deemed not suitable for
24:59DNA nothing else had been taken from the
25:01home and it was clear to police that the
25:04teenager was the primary target of
25:07whoever entered the house following the
25:10Breakin the young girl was so terrified
25:13she wouldn't sleep in her bedroom and
25:15instead slept in the spare room with the
25:17family dog for the next 3 months Jim Van
25:21Allen was a criminal profiler with the
25:24Ontario Provincial Police Behavioral
25:26Science unit he would be brought in to
25:29assist the Ottawa Police with their
25:31investigation and was asked to create a
25:34criminal profile of the offender it was
25:37his opinion that the break-ins were
25:39becoming more aggressive and he was
25:41afraid the crimes would escalate further
25:44because of their sexual nature stealing
25:47underwear was one thing but the trail of
25:49mud and leaves on the floor the
25:51scattered photographs the open message
25:53on the computer screen and the bodily
25:56fluids left behind at the scene
25:58suggested to detective Van Allen that
26:01the Intruder was getting a thrill out of
26:03invading the homeowner space it was also
26:06his opinion that it was only a matter of
26:08time before the perpetrator hurt someone
26:12physically in the meantime Ottawa Police
26:15were still completely unaware that the
26:17same type of fetish break-ins were
26:19occurring over 200 km away in Tweed
26:23because Tweed was under a different
26:25police jurisdiction and the two
26:27departments were not communicating and
26:29while Ottawa Police had issued a warning
26:32to the public reminding residents to
26:34stay vigilant no alert was ever issued
26:37for the community of Tweed this was
26:40primarily because most of the break-ins
26:42in Tweed were not reported to the
26:44Ontario provincial police and they were
26:47completely unaware there was even an
26:49issue in the first
26:50place in January of 2009 Russell
26:54Williams was posted to the Canadian
26:56Forces Language School in gatau Quebec
26:59for 6 months of intensive French
27:02language training gatau is across the
27:05river from Ottawa and about a 30-minute
27:07drive away from Orleans and during this
27:10time Ottawa Police still had no suspects
27:13for the fetish break-ins and the
27:15Intruder was about to become more Brazen
27:18in April of 2009 the underwear Thief
27:22would break into the same house in Tweed
27:24three nights in a row and then hit up
27:27the same address again two more times in
27:30May and then on June 19th of 2009 The
27:34Fetish burglar broke into a home on Cara
27:37Crescent in Orleans and stole every
27:40piece of underwear in the house a
27:4224-year-old woman lived at this home
27:45with her father and the two were out of
27:47town from June 18th to the 20th before
27:51they left she made sure that a wooden
27:53dowel was lodged behind the backsliding
27:56door to keep it secure
27:58they would return home late in the
28:00evening on June 20th but didn't notice
28:03the house had been broken into until the
28:05following morning her underwear drawer
28:08had been completely emptied and she was
28:11also missing brasen underwear from the
28:13clean clothes pile as well as the dirty
28:15laundry basket dresses and bathing suits
28:18were missing from her closet and she
28:20also noticed some of her ID had been
28:23laid out on the dresser of the spare
28:25room the theft of all her underwear and
28:27other lingerie was already strange
28:30enough but she was stunned to discover
28:32that expensive jewelry she owned had not
28:35been stolen when she walked around the
28:37house to determine where the Intruder
28:40entered she noticed the wooden stick
28:42behind the back patio door had been
28:45removed a screen to a basement window
28:47was also missing and the frame had been
28:50pushed in a grand total of
28:53186 pieces of clothing were stolen from
28:56the home one month after this incident
29:00Russell Williams would be promoted to
29:02the rank of Colonel and was now the base
29:05commander of awing at CFB Trenton
29:09Canada's largest Air Force base with
29:11over 3,000 employees as well as 600
29:15civilians during times of War Ewing is
29:18where the bodies of soldiers first
29:20arrive home Arctic operations are also
29:23stationed on the base as well as
29:25disaster relief Russell was given living
29:29accommodations on the basee but he chose
29:31to stay at his Cottage on Cozy Cove Lane
29:33during the week which was a short
29:3540-minute drive away from CFB Trenton
29:39and on the weekends he would make the
29:40drive back to Ottawa or Mary Elizabeth
29:43would join him in Tweed it didn't take
29:46long after being sworn in his base
29:48commander for Russell Williams to resume
29:51his double life and after he was
29:53promoted the frequency of his break and
29:55enters did not slow down if anything
29:58they intensified there were a total of
30:0110 homes broken into during his first
30:04two months on the job in his new role as
30:07base commander a house is broken into on
30:10July 21st on Cozy Cove Lane the same
30:13street where Russell lived and a nearby
30:16house on Sufi Road was broken into on
30:19the 24th 25th and
30:2226 and on the last weekend of the month
30:25of July a host on Matthew Drive and
30:28Orleans was broken into 2 days in a row
30:31the Intruder actually had the nerve to
30:34return a third time on the 27th but
30:37noticed that the homeowners were in the
30:39House 52 items were stolen from these
30:42break-ins including dozens of
30:45photographs and throughout all of this
30:47Russell Williams was able to stay on top
30:50of his duties as base commander of CFB
30:53Trenton during the month of August he
30:56kept up appearances with multiple events
30:59and charity functions he was also busy
31:02building Community relationships and
31:05meeting with John Williams the mayor of
31:07quinty West almost every week in
31:11mid-september Russell would invite mayor
31:13Williams to join him on a 3-day trip to
31:16alert the most northern continuously
31:19inhabited place in the world located on
31:22ellare island alert has no permanent
31:25residents who live there and it was
31:28first settled as a weather station back
31:30in the
31:311950s today Canadian Armed Forces
31:35Personnel Department of National Defense
31:37employees and Environment Canada make up
31:41the entire population of CFS Alert with
31:44about 55 full-time Personnel at the
31:47station typically serving between 3 to 6
31:50months tours of Duty there Russell
31:53Williams and his group flew out to the
31:56Arctic on September 14th
31:58on an exhausting 12-hour flight each way
32:02they would land back in Trenton in the
32:04early evening of September 16th everyone
32:07who participated on that trip went
32:09straight home afterwards it was assumed
32:13that Russell Williams did too but he
32:16didn't at this point in the story he had
32:19committed more than 30 fetish break-ins
32:22in the town of Tweed alone and things
32:25were about to take a more disturbing
32:27turn
32:28in the early morning hours of September
32:3117th a young mother would be attacked in
32:34her own home she will be referred to as
32:37Jane Doe because her identity is
32:39protected by a court-ordered publication
32:42ban 20-year-old Jane lived with her
32:45boyfriend in Tweed and her two-month-old
32:47daughter although her boyfriend was a
32:49truck driver and worked out of town most
32:51nights during the week so she was
32:53usually alone with her child on
32:56September 16th between 9: and 10 p.m.
33:00Jane returned home from a visit with her
33:02mother she made sure the front door was
33:05locked but did not check the back patio
33:07door she assumed it was still locked
33:10from the previous night at around 11:00
33:13p.m. Jane would fall asleep in the
33:16middle of the night she would suddenly
33:18be woken up by someone holding down her
33:20head Jane thought she was having a bad
33:23dream at first but would quickly realize
33:26an intruder was in her home home there
33:28was a struggle and she broke a chain
33:31that was around his neck but the man was
33:33able to restrain her by pinning her down
33:36for what Jane estimated to be 30
33:39minutes she asked him if he was going to
33:42kill her the man said no but would not
33:45say what his intentions were he then
33:47asked Jane how long had she lived at
33:50that address and where the father of her
33:52child was she replied she had lived
33:55there for a month but ignored his second
33:58question refusing to answer him the man
34:02would then tie Jane up and then force
34:04her to pose as he took photographs of
34:07her he had also blindfolded her so Jane
34:10was unable to get a description of the
34:12intruder's face at one point it sounded
34:16like the man left the room and then
34:18returned but because Jan was blindfolded
34:21she couldn't be sure but it sounded to
34:24her like he was digging through her
34:26underwear drawer
34:28she would later note that several pairs
34:30of underwear and bras were missing
34:33finally the man would tell her he was
34:35leaving and wanted her to count to 300
34:39Jane got to 70 and then stopped but he
34:42was still in the home and told her to
34:44keep counting when Jane reached 200 she
34:48yelled out but no one responded she
34:51untied her blindfold and immediately
34:54called
34:55911 the time was now 3 and the morning
34:58when police arrived she told them that
35:01although she was blindfolded to her the
35:04man seemed like a dad and estimated his
35:07age to be between 30 and 50 years old he
35:11was wearing hiking boots and had a ring
35:13on his finger although she couldn't be
35:15sure which hand it was he was also
35:17wearing a tight sweater which she ripped
35:20during the struggle with her attacker he
35:23also tried to manipulate his voice when
35:25he spoke by speaking in a deep raspy
35:28voice the camera he used looked
35:31expensive and she thought he took about
35:34seven
35:35photos so police would get to work and
35:38conduct a door to-door search asking
35:41neighbors if they saw or heard anything
35:44suspicious one of the neighbors who was
35:46questioned was Larry Jones who lived
35:49next door to Russell Williams and who
35:51also lived on Cozy Cove Lane for 43
35:54years while speaking to Larry one of of
35:57the officers would ask him who owned the
36:00house next door to him when Larry told
36:03the officer Colonel Russell Williams
36:05lived there the cop initially thought
36:07that Jones was joking when he realized
36:10that Larry was being serious the officer
36:13responded quote well I guess we don't
36:16have to look at him then police
36:19continued to search the Cozy Cove Lane
36:21area including the lake for boats but
36:24found nothing or no one who seemed
36:26suspicious
36:28however when the opp forensic team
36:31arrived to Jan's a few hours later they
36:34found that a screen had been cut on one
36:36of the side windows of the home they
36:39also found that all the sheets and
36:41blankets had been stripped from Jane's
36:43bed a duvet on the floor had been
36:45stripped of its cover and a male DNA
36:48sample was found on the back of her neck
36:50Jim Van Allen of the opp who was
36:53assisting the Ottawa Police with their
36:55fetish break-ins opened a new file for
36:58Jane Doe's attack the crimes were over
37:01200 km apart and at this point there was
37:05nothing to suggest the crimes were
37:07linked because hardly any of the
37:09underwear Breakin enters and Tweed had
37:11been reported to police there was also
37:14the added conundrum of Van Allen not
37:17entirely believing that the assault
37:19happened in the first place based on
37:22Jane's statement some of the things the
37:24Intruder had said to her seemed odd to
37:27van Allan for example the man had told
37:30Jane to roll over on her tummy so he
37:33could tie her up in Van Allen's words he
37:37had never heard a sex offender used the
37:39word Tummy in his entire life after
37:43giving her statement to police Jane Doe
37:46packed up some belongings and went to
37:48stay with a friend in Belleville she
37:50would never again return to that home
37:53only a few hours after the assault on
37:55Jane Doe William was back to Keeping Up
37:58Appearances at the base he had a meeting
38:01in Belleville to discuss a charity event
38:04with members of criminal intelligence
38:06Service Ontario and watched as Kevin
38:09fast from cerg broke a Guinness World
38:12Record as he pulled a c17 globe Master
38:16down the
38:17tarmac after that the colonel visited
38:20the base engineering shop where Russell
38:22spent a couple of hours talking with the
38:25troops changing a tire doing a bit of
38:28welding and tinkering with some weapons
38:32his day would end with a barbecue back
38:34at headquarters he did all of this with
38:37little to no sleep over the course of
38:39several days and nobody suspected a
38:43thing meanwhile it didn't seem the
38:46Ontario Provincial Police appreciated
38:49the seriousness of this recent sexual
38:51assault there was a man out there
38:54targeting the homes of women who lived
38:56alone and for whatever reason the opp
39:00didn't bother issuing a safety warning
39:02to the public this in hindsight would be
39:05a huge mistake because 2 weeks later
39:08there would be another attack and Tweed
39:10normally the identity of a sexual
39:12assault victim is protected by a
39:15court-ordered publication ban however
39:18the second victim Lori masot would apply
39:21to have the publication ban on her
39:23identity lifted in an interview with CBC
39:26News she said that speaking out about
39:29the assault was part of her personal
39:31healing on September 30th 2009
39:3546-year-old Lori mazot was curled up on
39:38her couch watching Law and Order and
39:41Without a Trace she was exhausted after
39:44a busy day of cleaning and rearranging
39:46furniture and at some point in the
39:48evening would fall asleep on the couch
39:52when she woke up hours later she was
39:54being hit in the head with a flashlight
39:56and smother by a blanket and she also
39:59heard a man's voice saying that a gang
40:01was in her house and she was being
40:04robbed then the Intruder did something
40:06odd after Lori told him that she had a
40:09headache from being hit the man got her
40:12a glass of water and an aspirin he would
40:15then blindfold and restrain Lori and
40:18then cut the clothes off her body with a
40:20large knife for an agonizing 3 and 1
40:23half hours the Intruder would force Lori
40:26to pose while he photographed her after
40:30the man fled the scene she managed to
40:32call
40:33911 however Lori was left tied up in a
40:37makeshift straight jacket her arms were
40:40cinched to her sides and she was forced
40:42to stay like this for another 5
40:45hours police apparently told her they
40:48needed to wait for op photographers to
40:51take pictures of her restraints first
40:54during this time she was still naked
40:56with a comforter on top of her and would
40:59say that she was denied medical
41:01attention when Lori was finally untied
41:05she was allowed to put on a bathrobe and
41:07was taken outside to wait for another 3
41:09hours while the police searched her
41:11house for evidence the opp seriously
41:15bungled this investigation while
41:17questioning neighbors of Lori they let
41:19it slip out that they thought she was
41:21lying and was trying to copy the first
41:24attack on Jane Doe except that Lori
41:27didn't know anything about the attack on
41:29Jane Doe nobody did because the police
41:33never issued a media release regarding
41:35the incident Lori would then be
41:38interviewed by police she told them that
41:41the man was between 30 and 40 years of
41:43age and she thought she had heard his
41:45voice before finally police would
41:49confess to her they had been
41:50investigating a similar incident that
41:53occurred only 2 weeks earlier but they
41:56didn't warn the public public telling
41:58her quote we're very sorry we didn't get
42:01this out to the public I can guarantee
42:04you this will make the news tomorrow
42:06morning the next day as police cruisers
42:09still surrounded Lorie's house Russell
42:12Williams would ask another neighbor what
42:14all the commotion was about he then
42:17headed to work where he awarded a
42:19service medal to a fellow Airman and met
42:22with engineering officials to discuss
42:25ongoing construction projects at the Bas
42:28by this stage 58 break-ins and thefts of
42:31underwear had occurred in the Tweed and
42:33Ottawa areas many of them occurred on
42:36Cozy Cove Lane the same street where
42:38Russell Williams lived in Tweed and most
42:41of these break-ins occurred on Friday
42:43and Saturday nights investigators still
42:46had no reason to consider Williams a
42:48suspect instead they were focusing on
42:52his nextdoor neighbor Larry Jones
42:54because Lori mazot had told police her
42:57attacker's voice sounded like Larry's on
43:00October 29th 2009 Larry Jones had
43:04returned home from a partridge hunt only
43:07to find his house crawling with OP
43:09officers who had executed a search
43:11warrant they informed him that he was a
43:14suspect in the attacks on both women and
43:17that they were looking for thong
43:18underwear bras and a baby blanket which
43:22were some of the items missing from the
43:24victim's homes Jones would also agreed
43:27to be interviewed by police as well as
43:30provide fingerprints DNA and was also
43:33subjected to a 3-hour
43:35polygraph uh my dog and I come back from
43:37prac C in the Jeep and uh we pulled into
43:39our road here and noticed a lot of cars
43:42that our at our house and I said God
43:43looks like a party going on that I
43:45wasn't invited to and got a little
43:47closer and I noticed one of the op
43:48markings on the vehicle had been painted
43:50over and I said geez it looks like
43:52police are here so I got closer pulled
43:54in the driveway two officers dressed in
43:56Suits come out the door and uh they uh
44:00uh said you Larry Jones said yes uh well
44:03we have a search warrant for your house
44:04and they fash this paper at me and and
44:07uh I said what's going on he say well we
44:09can't tell you right now I want you to
44:11come in the house and unlock your safes
44:13and I and I they they pushed the paper
44:15in my hand which apparently was a search
44:16warrant and I started to look at it and
44:19he said you haven't got time to look at
44:20that now we want you downstairs so no
44:21safe so follow me so I started in he put
44:24his hand on my elbow and kind of guided
44:26me in so far and I was looking around
44:27what's going on and I asked him a couple
44:29times well did my house get broken into
44:32or what's going on here and he said I
44:33can't tell you so it took it downstairs
44:35and uh unlocked all the safes and uh our
44:38gun safes and stuff ammunition safe and
44:41uh then they said Well we'd like to take
44:43you over made off for questioning so
44:44they escorted me back outside and uh
44:47with the hand on my elbow through the
44:49door and put me in this car and took me
44:52to M out for questioning which I didn't
44:54think I had any choice in the matter cuz
44:56they seemed like they they're quite
44:57forceful in what they're doing and
44:58they're going to do it either that or
44:59handcuffs me and take me away so I went
45:02voluntarily CU I had done nothing wrong
45:04and uh on the way to Mok they uh told me
45:07that uh that I may be a suspect for the
45:10two uh two assaults down the road and I
45:13said you got to be kidding I just woke
45:15passed out I couldn't believe it and I
45:18said well I had nothing to do with this
45:19I said and you won't find anything in my
45:21house that had anything to do with this
45:23and uh went to made up for a three and a
45:25half hour interrogation
45:27it was quit an ordeal according to Larry
45:30his family was endlessly harassed by
45:33police for weeks before they realized he
45:36wasn't the right suspect the same day
45:39Jones was being interrogated by police
45:41Russell Williams was once again posing
45:44for a photo op this time with former
45:47General Rick Hillier at a store at CFB
45:50Trenton where Hillier was plugging his
45:53book several weeks would pass before the
45:56attacker would strike again he was well
45:59aware the police had opened an
46:01investigation regarding both assaults
46:03and tweet and was laying low at least
46:07for
46:08now November 17th 2009 was an Marson
46:12Cook's 48th birthday Anne lived in a
46:16rural area just outside of Belleville a
46:19town of 50,000 about halfway between
46:21Toronto and Ottawa her home sat just off
46:25of Highway 37 and she lived here with
46:28her husband who often worked out of town
46:30on business an had been away from her
46:33house the previous evening on the
46:35afternoon of the 17th she arrived home
46:38to change her clothes for her birthday
46:40party that evening at a friend's house
46:43as she was getting ready she noticed her
46:45dresser drawers beside her bed were open
46:48and all of her sex toys were gone at
46:51first Anne thought it was a prank when
46:53her neighbor Howard gray arrived to pick
46:55her up for the evening she asked him if
46:58she should call the police but Howard
47:00would talk her out of reporting the
47:02Breakin and said that the missing sex
47:04toys would only be a huge laugh down at
47:07the police station and that they
47:09wouldn't take it
47:10seriously an knew about the attacks and
47:13Tweed but at the time wouldn't connect
47:16these crimes to her stolen sex toys it
47:19was decided that Anne would sleep at
47:21Howard's house that evening but before
47:23they left they would walk around her
47:25home and make sure every door and window
47:28was locked first when an returned home
47:31the next morning she would discover that
47:33her underwear drawers were open and all
47:35of it was missing 116 pieces to be exact
47:40and an older computer had also been
47:42turned on in her office the screen saver
47:45had been disabled and a Word document
47:48was open with a chilling message typed
47:50out in large font it read go ahead phone
47:54the police I want to show the judge
47:56you're really big dildos the message
47:59indicated that the Intruder had been
48:00hiding somewhere in the house when Anne
48:03returned home to change her clothes the
48:04day before and had overheard the
48:06conversation with her neighbor this time
48:09Anne would report the Breakin to the
48:12Belleville Police and she started to
48:14suspect it could have some connection to
48:17the crimes taking place in tweet but
48:19when Belleville police came to her house
48:21to search for evidence they could only
48:23find a partial fingerprint that could be
48:25of interest and when Anne asked the
48:28police if the break-ins could possibly
48:30be related to the attacks and Tweed cops
48:32didn't know what she was talking about
48:34even though Tweed was only a short drive
48:37away the Belleville Police and the
48:39Ontario Provincial Police were also not
48:42communicating an Marson cook had dodged
48:44a bullet that night only one week later
48:48the Intruder would graduate from
48:50stealing underwear and sex toys to
48:52becoming a
48:53killer 37-year-old Corporal Mary friend
48:57KO was born in Quebec City but grew up
49:00in various places spending parts of her
49:03childhood in Quebec New Brunswick and
49:06Germany she was from a military family
49:09with her father grandfather and four
49:12other family members all serving and she
49:15would eventually follow in their
49:17Footsteps in 1995 Mary France joined the
49:21reserves and by the early 2000s she was
49:24part of operation Apollo which was
49:27Canada's first deployment of military
49:29personnel to
49:31Afghanistan in 2008 after serving over a
49:34decade in the armed forces Mary France
49:37became a flight attendant with 437
49:40transport squadron at CFB Trenton Mary
49:43France lived alone in a developing
49:45neighborhood in Brighton Ontario that
49:47was home to many military members one
49:50cooworker who worked with Mary France at
49:53CFB Trenton described her as a wonderful
49:55person who was is always smiling in
49:58November of 2009 she would accompany
50:01Prime Minister Steven Harper on a round
50:03World trip to Japan Singapore and India
50:08this would be her final mission after
50:11returning home from this trip Corporal
50:13KO noticed that someone had been through
50:15her underwear drawer she blamed her
50:18boyfriend Paul who would strongly deny
50:20it on the evening of November 23rd Mary
50:24France spoke to Paul on the phone before
50:26going to bed and the two would make
50:28plans to meet for dinner the following
50:30night but Mary France didn't show up and
50:33she wasn't answering her phone by
50:36November 25th Paul was becoming
50:38concerned for her welfare so he drove to
50:41Mary Francis House and knocked on her
50:43front door her car was in the driveway
50:47but she didn't answer the door finally
50:50Paul would go to the back of the house
50:52where he found the back patio door
50:54unlocked he would be the one to discover
50:57Mary France's body on her bed wrapped in
51:00a duvet her death was Brighton's first
51:04homicide in over 30 years there were
51:07initial police reports that her death
51:09was a suspected suicide which was just a
51:12ridiculous assumption an autopsy report
51:16showed that she had suffered at least
51:18five blows to her head there were blood
51:20drops all over the basement floor where
51:23it was clear that a struggle had
51:24occurred and there were also blood
51:26stains on the floor in a pattern
51:29consistent with blood soaked hair
51:31Footprints and blood were also
51:33discovered in the basement as well as an
51:36obvious dent in the drywall at the
51:38bottom of the basement stairs Mary
51:40France had been badly beaten and had
51:43definitely put up a fight with her
51:44attacker there were also remnants of
51:47tape on her face suggesting that her
51:49nose and mouth had been covered at one
51:52point and wide ligature marks were left
51:55on her wrists made by a restraint at
51:58least half an inch wide but when the
52:00police realized they were dealing with a
52:02murder they told the public there was no
52:04need for concern thinking they were
52:07dealing with a domestic violence issue
52:09her boyfriend Paul was immediately
52:12considered the main suspect there were
52:14rumors the two weren't getting along
52:17however he had an airtight Alibi and
52:19passed a polygraph her former common law
52:22partner Al was also interviewed and
52:25cleared by police
52:27again police had no reason at least not
52:30yet anyway to connect the slaying of
52:32Corporal Mary France Como to Russell
52:35Williams or the Tweet assaults but the
52:38initial op press release seemed to
52:41contradict the violent bloody crime
52:43scene that was left behind in her house
52:47it read quote there are presently no
52:50issues with regards to Public Safety
52:53that didn't do much to ease people's
52:55nerves and brighten
52:57but police weren't saying much else they
53:00wouldn't release Mary Francis cause of
53:02death as it was their hold back evidence
53:05and the public was also unaware that a
53:08bloodied Footwear impression had also
53:10been left behind male DNA belonging to
53:13their suspect was also found on the sink
53:15of her bathroom the day after Mary
53:18France colo's body was discovered was
53:21business as usual for Russell Williams
53:24he took part in a charity event at the
53:26bay called jail and bail where he was
53:28photographed smiling after being mock
53:31arrested for being too young to be a
53:32wing
53:33Commander a few days before Mary Fran's
53:36funeral her father would receive a
53:38letter from base commander Colonel
53:40Russell
53:41Williams it read Dear Mr KO I would like
53:46to take this opportunity on behalf of
53:48the men and women at Ewing Trenton to
53:51express my sincere condolences on the
53:53tragic death of your daughter Mary
53:55France was a professional caring and
53:58compassionate woman who earned the
54:00respect of all with whom she came into
54:02contact she set high standards for
54:05herself and others and was devoted to
54:07the well-being of those around her Mary
54:10France made a lasting impact in Trenton
54:12and will be sorely missed by her friends
54:15please let me know whether there is
54:17anything I can do to help during this
54:19very difficult time you and your family
54:21are inner thoughts and prayers our
54:24dearest sympathy David Russell Williams
54:28on December 4th Mary France kom's
54:31funeral service was held and attended by
54:33hundreds of friends and family and
54:36military personnel despite his offer of
54:39support Russell Williams did not attend
54:41her funeral service she would be buried
54:44at the National military cemetery in
54:47Ottawa a Facebook page set up in her
54:50memory described Mary France as Charming
54:53intelligent Sparky bubbly generous funny
54:58reliable and
54:59hardworking meanwhile life for Russell
55:02Williams will be busy in the months of
55:04December 2009 and into the new year in
55:08mid December Russell and his wife moved
55:11from the home on wilky drive to a new
55:13home on Edison Avenue in Westboro where
55:16Mary Elizabeth would live during the
55:18week and Russell would continue to stay
55:20at the cottage he also attended a press
55:23conference for the Olympic torch relay
55:26issued his Christmas message to the base
55:29and was honored with the Canadian
55:30forces's first clasp an award that
55:33recognizes military members with 22
55:36years of service and then on January
55:3812th 2010 a massive earthquake struck
55:42the country of Haiti killing over
55:44200,000 people Russell was in charge of
55:47the relief operation and managing the
55:50deployment of over 2,000 soldiers and
55:53thousands of kilog of food water and
55:56medical supplies on January 17th the
56:00defense minister Peter McCay and the
56:02chief of the defense staff Walter ntini
56:06stopped by for their tour of CFB Trenton
56:09where they met with Russell and watched
56:11the troops load relief supplies Bound
56:14for Haiti only 11 days later Jessica
56:17Lloyd would go
56:19missing 27-year-old Jessica Elizabeth
56:22Lloyd was born in Ottawa her dad was in
56:25the na
56:26he would pass away from cancer when
56:29Jessica was only 14 she graduated from
56:32quinty Secondary School in 2000 and
56:35studied business administration at Lola
56:38college she had an older brother Andy
56:41who would describe his sister as a witty
56:44very social person with lots of friends
56:47one friend would say Jessica had a
56:49unique sense of humor and was quick with
56:52the onliners and funny comments life was
56:55going well for Jessica she had found a
56:58career as a Transit planner at tri board
57:00student transportation services and she
57:03had just purchased her childhood home
57:05from her mother roxan a year earlier on
57:08the evening of January 28th 2010 Jessica
57:12went over to a friend's house to watch a
57:14movie later when she returned home she
57:18sent that friend a text message to let
57:20them know she arrived home safely the
57:23time was
57:2410:36 this would be the last time anyone
57:27heard from Jessica again the next day
57:31when she failed to show up for work her
57:33co-workers immediately sensed that
57:35something was wrong she had worked for
57:38this company for 2 years and had never
57:40once arrived late she was known as
57:43someone who was responsible Jessica's
57:45mother Roxanne used to work for the same
57:48company so her co-workers reached out to
57:51her to see if she knew anything about
57:53Jessica's whereabouts both Rox and and
57:56Andy would go over to Jessica's house to
57:59check up on her when they arrived they
58:01found Jessica's car parked in the
58:03driveway the doors were locked and there
58:06was no sign the house had been broken
58:08into all of her possessions were inside
58:11the home including her car keys cell
58:14phone purse wallet eyeglasses and
58:19identification also Jessica lived alone
58:22on the outskirts of town so she wouldn't
58:25have gone anywhere without without her
58:26car which was parked in the driveway her
58:29family then contacted Belleville Police
58:32and a missing person's investigation was
58:34opened from the beginning the police
58:37took this case seriously and considered
58:40her disappearance
58:41suspicious a ground search commenced
58:44that included members of the Belleville
58:46Tactical Team the ATV unit and the
58:50auxiliary police unit a forensic team
58:53was also dispatched to the house to look
58:55for Clues
58:56and the opp also conducted an aerial
58:59search over Belleville the CFB Trenton
59:02search and rescue helicopter also aided
59:05in the search for Jessica which would
59:07have had to have been approved by
59:09Colonel Russell
59:11Williams a public alert was also issued
59:14to warn women in the area living alone
59:17to take extra precautions when securing
59:20their home and to change their personal
59:23routine in the meantime the the
59:26community rallied around the Lloyd
59:28family and dropped everything to search
59:30for Jessica friends and family of
59:33Jessica Lloyd and hundreds of volunteers
59:36handed out missing persons posters in
59:38Belleville and the surrounding area and
59:41a Facebook group dedicated to finding
59:44Jessica grew to over 45,000 people in an
59:48interview with the crimebeat podcast
59:51Andy spoke about how he discovered tire
59:53tracks and footprints in the snow in the
59:56field near Jessica's house and that the
59:59footprints were leading straight to her
1:00:01home the night before in the early
1:00:04morning hours of January 29th around
1:00:073:00 a.m. a man named Lyle Barker and
1:00:10his cousin were driving South down
1:00:13Highway 37 going past Jessica's house he
1:00:17would spot an SUV parked in a field
1:00:20nearby he thought the vehicle looked
1:00:22suspicious it was quite a distance from
1:00:25the road and the nearest house and given
1:00:28that it was the middle of winter and the
1:00:30middle of the night the car looked at a
1:00:33place when the two men returned a few
1:00:35days later they saw the missing person's
1:00:38posters of Jessica in the area as well
1:00:41as the police presence around her home
1:00:43and they immediately reported what they
1:00:45saw in the field that night to the
1:00:47Belleville Police what they saw would be
1:00:50corroborated by another witness who also
1:00:53spotted the SUV around 9:30 p.m. on
1:00:57January 28th when Jessica was out
1:01:00visiting a friend a Belleville Police
1:01:02Officer spotted that same suspicious
1:01:05vehicle parked in the field beside
1:01:07Jessica's house she stopped and knocked
1:01:10on Jessica's door but of course nobody
1:01:13was home at the time she made notes
1:01:15about the vehicle but for whatever
1:01:17reason she didn't write down the
1:01:19vehicle's make or license plate number
1:01:22although at this time she really didn't
1:01:25have a reason to to do so at this point
1:01:27in the story it was just a random car in
1:01:30a field it hadn't been linked to a crime
1:01:33not yet anyway what that officer didn't
1:01:36know was that the owner of the SUV was a
1:01:40predator who at that very moment was in
1:01:43Jessica's backyard waiting for her to
1:01:46arrive home in hindsight not writing
1:01:50down the vehicle's make and license
1:01:52plate number was a mistake that would
1:01:54come back to haunt the Belleville Police
1:01:57Department the next morning Jessica
1:01:59Lloyd would be reported missing and a
1:02:02simple license plate search would have
1:02:04led police to Russell Williams Tweed
1:02:06Cottage where she was being held captive
1:02:10there was also the added conundrum of
1:02:12the three police departments not
1:02:14communicating with each other Jessica's
1:02:17disappearance initially wasn't linked to
1:02:19the sexual assault cases and tweet or
1:02:22the murder of Mary France KO in Brighton
1:02:25or the break-ins and theft of underwear
1:02:28in Belleville Tweed and
1:02:30Orleans this would all change however
1:02:33when the Belleville Police Department
1:02:35realized they were in over their head
1:02:37and needed help with their
1:02:39investigation they would reach out to
1:02:41the Ontario Provincial Police for
1:02:43assistance and possible links to other
1:02:45crimes the op were already investigating
1:02:49the murder of Mary France comoo the
1:02:51sexual assaults against Lori mazot and
1:02:53Jane Doe and the fetish break-in
1:02:56and they also had access to what was
1:02:58known as the viass database viass stands
1:03:02for the violent crime linkage system the
1:03:05database was developed during the 1980s
1:03:09as a way to look for links in unsolved
1:03:11cases and is mostly used by the
1:03:14RCMP the similarities between these
1:03:17cases and Jessica Lloyd's disappearance
1:03:20couldn't be ignored all of these crimes
1:03:23occurred at night all of them involved
1:03:25breaking into homes and all of these
1:03:28crimes occurred within an hour's Drive
1:03:31of each other the military had also open
1:03:34their own investigation into the murder
1:03:37of Mary France Como and it would take
1:03:39the cooperation of local provincial and
1:03:42military police before an arrest would
1:03:45be made to protect their evidence and
1:03:47their case police typically don't like
1:03:50to share information with other police
1:03:53agencies however they also risked
1:03:55botching the investigation by not
1:03:58talking to each other one of the most
1:04:00important Clues left behind in this case
1:04:03were the tire tracks left in the mud in
1:04:05the field where the SUV was spotted
1:04:09after Consulting with multiple tire
1:04:11shops as well as the Yukon RCMP database
1:04:15of over 1,100 Tire Impressions it was
1:04:19confirmed the tire tracks belong to a
1:04:21Toyo Open Country HT the tires and the
1:04:26list of SUVs were fed into a provincial
1:04:29database which produced a list of 450
1:04:33potential vehicles that could belong to
1:04:35the suspect on February 4th 2009
1:04:40Belleville Police assisted by members of
1:04:43the Ontario Provincial Police set up a
1:04:46checkpoint on Highway 37 and for 11
1:04:49hours Stop drivers throughout the night
1:04:52Sergeant Julie forel of the Belleville
1:04:55Police Poli told the media that the
1:04:57roadside stops were being done to find
1:05:00information that might help with their
1:05:03investigation and to speak with anyone
1:05:05who might have been on Highway 37 the
1:05:08previous Thursday evening or Friday
1:05:11morning this was only partially true
1:05:14what police didn't release to the public
1:05:17was they were searching for an SUV with
1:05:20Toyo Open Country HT tires a very
1:05:23unusual type of Tire Trad
1:05:26the roadblock wasn't even completely set
1:05:28up yet when police spotted a vehicle
1:05:31with tires that looked like an exact
1:05:33match Belleville police officers would
1:05:36pull over a silver 2001 Nissen
1:05:40Pathfinder driven by Colonel Russell
1:05:43Williams the colonel would identify
1:05:45himself to police as the commander of
1:05:48Trenton base while a second officer in
1:05:51the meantime studied his vehicle the
1:05:54officer who was speaking with Russell
1:05:56that evening initially wasn't suspicious
1:05:59because of who he was the commander of
1:06:02Canada's largest Air Force Base didn't
1:06:04seem like a plausible suspect but police
1:06:07had a big problem Russell's vehicle was
1:06:11the only car to drive through the
1:06:12checkpoint that night with tires that
1:06:15match the suspicious tracks in the field
1:06:18he would be allowed to continue on his
1:06:20way but was immediately placed under
1:06:22surveillance where a team of undercover
1:06:25off officers would follow Russell for
1:06:27the next 3 days and that's where we will
1:06:30leave things for now in part two I'll
1:06:33cover Russell Williams interrogation
1:06:36what finally made him confess to these
1:06:38horrific crimes his trial and the
1:06:41evidence presented against him thank you
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