Russell Williams was a model military officer,
described by his co-workers as an elite pilot
and shining bright star of the Canadian army.
Williams had a fetish for women’s underwear.
But he wasn’t satisfied with buying them.
Instead, he felt an urge to steal women’s
underwear, from girls as young as nine years
old.
What started as a harmless cross-dressing
and panty-fetish, eventually led to r@pe and
murdær.
Williams was born in England but his family
immigrated to Canada when he was four.
He went to high-school at Canada’s most
prestigious boy's school in Scarborough, Ontario.
His parents moved to South Korea because his
father accepted an overseas job with a nuclear
research program.
He studied economics and political science
at the University of Toronto, Scarborough.
After gaining a Bachelor of Arts in 1986,
he enrolled in the Canadian Armed Forces in
1987.
His 23-year military career was nothing but
success.
Promoted to captain in 1991, he was the commander
of Canada’s largest and busiest military
airbase and even once flew the Queen across
the Atlantic.
The same year, Williams married Mary Elizabeth
Harriman with whom he had four healthy children.
On the Department of National Defence website,
Williams described himself as a keen photographer,
fisherman, and runner as well as an avid golfer.
The first victims were Williams’ next-door
neighbors.
They thought they know Williams and spent
a great deal of time together with the sadistic
murdærer, who also shared a close bond with
both of their children.
The former colonel felt so comfortable inside
their home that in September 2007, he chose
their daughter as his first victim.
He sneaked into her bedroom when the whole
family was out of town, dressed in their 12-year-old
daughter’s underwear, masturbated, stole
six pairs as mementos and left a message on
her computer saying: “Merci” (Thank you
in French).
Over the course of two years, Williams committed
82 fetish-related home invasions, frequently
masturb@ting while lying on the beds of his
victims and later photographing himself modeling
with the stolen lingerie.
In 2009, his perversions escalated from fetish-motivated
burglaries to sexual assaults and murders,
when Marie-France Comeau, a 37-year-old military
flight attendant, was found dead inside her
home.
27-year-old Jessica Lloyd vanished on January
28, 2010.
Williams entered her bedroom while she was
still asleep, woke and tied her up, and covered
her eyes with duct tape.
He then took photos of her wearing what she
had worn to bed – a tank top and jogging
pants – after which he videotaped himself
r@ping her.
Following the brutal assault, Williams decided
to take Jessica to his home, where he forced
her to take a shower and r@ped her again.
At some point, Lloyd started to have seizures
because of the stress put on her body and
begged for mercy.
“If I die, will you make sure that my mom
knows that I love her?” she asked, but was
instead struck unconscious with a flashlight
and strangled to death with a rope by Williams.
Investigators found distinctive tire tracks
left in snow near Lloyd’s home and later
identified them as belonging to Russell Williams.
During a ten-hour interrogation, Williams
gave detailed information about his crimes
and told investigators where the thousands
of images he had taken of his victims could
be found.
When police searched his Ottawa home for evidence,
they discovered tons of stolen lingerie – all
neatly stored, cataloged, and concealed.
He was sentenced to life in prison with a
minimum of 25 years before parole eligibility.
The Canadian Armed Forces dishonorably discharged
him, but he still collects his $60,000 annual
military pension.
