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nastyleg
02-08-2010, 08:36 PM
Top Canadian military official charged with murder
(February 8th, 2010 @ 2:54pm)

By ROB GILLIES
Associated Press Writer

TORONTO (AP) - The commander of Canada's largest Air Force base, who once flew dignitaries around the country, has been charged with first-degree murder in the deaths of two women.

Ontario Provincial Police Det. Insp. Chris Nicholas said Monday that Col. Russell Williams, 46, was arrested Sunday in Ottawa. He was also charged in the sexual assaults of two other women.

The charges left Canada's military in a state of shock.

Williams, a 23-year military veteran, was appointed as the base commander of Canadian Forces Base Trenton in Trenton, Ontario last July. Trenton is Canada's busiest Air Force base and is providing logistical support for Canada's missions in Haiti and Afghanistan.

Williams is charged with the first-degree murder of Jessica Lloyd, 27, of a Belleville, Ontario, resident whose body was found earlier Monday, and Marie Comeau, a 38-year-old corporal found dead in her Brighton, Ontario, home in November.

Authorities said Williams came to the attention of police during a roadside canvas on Feb. 4, six days after Lloyd was deemed missing.

Williams, 46, is also charged with forcible confinement, breaking and entering and sexual assault after two women were sexually assaulted during two separate home invasions in the Tweed, Ontario area in September of 2009.

"We're shocked by the connection that has been made with a leader in our Air Force," Maj. Gen. Yvan Blondin, the direct commander of Williams, said in Trenton.

"It obviously is no longer possible for the commander to remain in his position."

Lieutenant-General Andre Deschamps, Canada's Air Force chief, said the Air Force is fully supporting civilian police. He called it a difficult period but said the Air Force would provide support for personnel at Trenton.

Dan Dugas, a spokesman for Defense Minister Peter MacKay, called the charges serious but said MacKay will not comment.

Police descended on Williams' Ottawa home on Sunday and police cars remained posted there Monday evening. Williams' Defense Department biography said he is married.

Williams once served as a Challenger aircraft pilot who transported VIPs. The Air Force declined to say who he flew but the Challenger regularly flies cabinet ministers and the governor general, Canada's ceremonial head of sate. A spokesman for Prime Minister Stephen Harper said he didn't believe Williams flew Harper.

Between December 2005 and June 2006, Williams was the commanding officer for Camp Mirage, the secretive Canadian Forces forward logistics base that is not officially acknowledged by the government or military but has been widely reported to be near Dubai.

"We are certainly tracking the movements of where this man has been over the past several years and we're continuing with our investigation," Nicholas said.

Williams walked into a courthouse in Belleville, Ontario on Monday in hand and leg shackles, wearing a blue prison-issue jumpsuit. The judge imposed a publication ban on other details.

He was held in custody and will appear in court by video on Feb. 18.

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Reactor-Axe-Man
02-08-2010, 10:11 PM
Jesus Christ, a Canuck General who's a serial killer?!

nastyleg
02-09-2010, 12:26 AM
Jesus Christ, a Canuck General who's a serial killer?!

Hollywood could not even write this shit.

GTFPDQ
02-09-2010, 01:38 AM
Quite a shock. Who would have thunk it?

Pittsburgh
02-09-2010, 02:25 AM
Hollywood could not even write this shit.

Nope. They couldn't write it, but they could portray it. Then again, they are too busy making anti-American war films such as 'Elah', ''Rendition', 'Stop Loss', 'Lions for Lambs' and 'Redacted'. Now if American military personnel were involved in something like this, I'm sure the likes of Oliver Stone, Brian DePalma and Michael Moore would be all over it.

nastyleg
02-09-2010, 02:51 AM
Nope. They couldn't write it, but they could portray it. Then again, they are too busy making anti-American war films such as 'Elah', ''Rendition', 'Stop Loss', 'Lions for Lambs' and 'Redacted'. Now if American military personnel were involved in something like this, I'm sure the likes of Oliver Stone, Brian DePalma and Michael Moore would be all over it.

well said sir well said.

Liskar
02-11-2010, 10:39 AM
This is CRAZY. No one could have thought he would be the type to commit acts like this, however now that people are profiling him, it doesn't seem that far fetched. I read they are reopening cold case files in every province he was stationed at. Even cases in countries he has been stationed in will be looked over. Kind of reminds me of a real life Dexter, but far more drastic. Crimes like these rarely just 'start'. Chances are he has been doing this for years, but the extent is still yet to be determined.