Police yet to share evidence
By Glenn Johnson
Canwest News Service
February 12, 2010
There is no evidence to suggest any connection with cold cases in Halifax and recent homicides in Ontario, Halifax police said Thursday.
"That is exactly correct," said Halifax Regional Police Const. Brian Palmeter.
Palmeter said his force received a number of calls asking whether there was any connection with any cold cases there because Col. Russell Williams had served at CFB Shearwater, near Halifax. Other media inquiries about unsolved homicides have been made in other cities where Williams was also stationed with the Canadian Forces, including Manitoba.
Palmeter said the Halifax and Ontario officers have not discussed any evidence in the specific cases.
Palmeter said the three cold cases in Halifax involved the deaths of young women, including one in January of 1992 and another in late November, 1994. But Palmeter said there is no evidence Williams was in the area during those times.
"We were getting a lot of calls trying to connect him to these files and I said we had no information. We don't even know that this guy was here when these happened."
Palmeter said any speculation is premature because the police forces are not at the point where any specific evidence has been shared about cases. "We're not saying there is not a conceivable possibility -- but we haven't been given any evidence that suggests there is any connection with our files at this time."
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