Williams paid $12K a month behind bars
April 9th, 2010
Kenneth Jackson
QMI Agency
OTTAWA — Accused killer Col. Russell Williams continues to collect a paycheque to the tune of nearly $12,000 a month while he sits in a jail cell.
Williams, 47, has been locked up at the Quinte Detention Centre in Napanee, Ont., since his arrest Feb. 7 and has racked up about $24,000 in pay.
He was relieved of his duties as the Trenton base commander Feb. 8.
But no matter how long Williams continues to pull in thousands a month, the Canadian Forces said it will claw it all back if he's convicted of two counts of murder and sexual assault.
"If found guilty, a member must reimburse pay received while held in custody," spokeswoman Carole Brown said in an e-mail to QMI Agency.
Williams is getting paid because he's still a member of the Canadian Forces, she said.
Whether he's convicted or not, Brown said, Williams will still receive his pension because the Canadian Forces Superannuation Act determines when a former member is entitled to a pension.
"Entitlements are linked to years of service, not reason for leaving the Canadian Forces," she said.
Williams does face a Canadian Forces' administration review, which could lead to him being fired, Brown said.
Such a review takes place when a member's viability is brought into question.
"(The review) is commenced with the intent of determining whether the CF should continue to employ the member, and if so, under what conditions," said Brown.
It has yet to be determined when the review — which is independent of the criminal court findings — will wrap up.
Williams is accused killing Marie-France Comeau and Jessica Lloyd in the Belleville area as well as two sex attacks on women in nearby Tweed last fall.
Police are following his footsteps throughout his entire career.
Over the Easter weekend, Williams tried to commit suicide by jamming a cardboard toilet roll stuffed with foil and cardboard down his throat an apparent bid to suffocate himself.
William wrote a suicide note in mustard on the wall of his segregation cell saying his affairs were in order and his feelings are too much to bear.
He jammed the lock in his cell door with cardboard and foil in an attempt to prevent staff from getting into his cell quickly and stopping him.
His bid was unsuccessful and he was put on a 24-hour suicide watch which has since been lifted. He's now said to be on a hunger strike.
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Thursday, April 29, 2010
Police expected to charge Williams in break-ins
Police expected to charge Williams in break-ins
Posted By KENNETH JACKSON AND JON WILLING, QMI AGENCY
April 29th, 2010
Police are poised to lay charges in connection with Ottawa break-ins allegedly linked to accused rapist and killer Col. Russell Williams.
The charges are expected to come as early as today by the Ontario Provincial Police, according to police sources.
As soon as Williams was booked on two first-degree murder charges in February, police in the Ottawa area opened their files to find connections to local sex crimes.
Police were specifically looking at incidents where women's underwear were stolen during several 2008 break-ins in the Orleans area of Simoneau Way and Wilkie Drive, where Williams lived at the time.
Williams is already charged in the deaths of Cpl. Marie-France Comeau, 37, of Brighton and Jessica Lloyd, 27 of Belleville.
He was also charged with two home-invasion sex assaults.
While OPP have been investigating the violent attacks in eastern Ontario, police immediately swooped into the trendy Westboro home Williams shared with his wife after his arrest. Police put the home under a forensic lockdown for a week as they searched for evidence.
Some of the items hauled away included hundreds of pairs of women's underwear.
The investigation would soon stretch across the city.
Ottawa police have been assisting the OPP in the break-ins but they are not leading the local investigation.
A middle-aged couple told the Sun Wednesday evening someone tried to break into their home twice in a two-month period in 2008 on Simoneau Way.
Police visited their home and took the incidents seriously.
"We're concerned because the break-ins are sexual in nature," Karen remembers a detective telling her. She didn't want her last name used.
The couple was warned that there were a number of break and enters along Simoneau Way and Wilkie Drive.
"We didn't know who this was. We just thought it was a petty idiot," said Karen.
When they heard Williams was being investigated for the break and enters it all sort of sunk in.
"We went 'oh jeez,'" she said. Karen was also shocked when
she saw Williams' picture in the paper.
"I remembered him. I said 'why does he look familiar?' Then I remembered I used to see him walking. I think he even smiled at me a couple times."
Police told her whoever was behind the break-ins was studying the victims.
"He seemed to know the habits of the people here on the street," she said.
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Posted By KENNETH JACKSON AND JON WILLING, QMI AGENCY
April 29th, 2010
Police are poised to lay charges in connection with Ottawa break-ins allegedly linked to accused rapist and killer Col. Russell Williams.
The charges are expected to come as early as today by the Ontario Provincial Police, according to police sources.
As soon as Williams was booked on two first-degree murder charges in February, police in the Ottawa area opened their files to find connections to local sex crimes.
Police were specifically looking at incidents where women's underwear were stolen during several 2008 break-ins in the Orleans area of Simoneau Way and Wilkie Drive, where Williams lived at the time.
Williams is already charged in the deaths of Cpl. Marie-France Comeau, 37, of Brighton and Jessica Lloyd, 27 of Belleville.
He was also charged with two home-invasion sex assaults.
While OPP have been investigating the violent attacks in eastern Ontario, police immediately swooped into the trendy Westboro home Williams shared with his wife after his arrest. Police put the home under a forensic lockdown for a week as they searched for evidence.
Some of the items hauled away included hundreds of pairs of women's underwear.
The investigation would soon stretch across the city.
Ottawa police have been assisting the OPP in the break-ins but they are not leading the local investigation.
A middle-aged couple told the Sun Wednesday evening someone tried to break into their home twice in a two-month period in 2008 on Simoneau Way.
Police visited their home and took the incidents seriously.
"We're concerned because the break-ins are sexual in nature," Karen remembers a detective telling her. She didn't want her last name used.
The couple was warned that there were a number of break and enters along Simoneau Way and Wilkie Drive.
"We didn't know who this was. We just thought it was a petty idiot," said Karen.
When they heard Williams was being investigated for the break and enters it all sort of sunk in.
"We went 'oh jeez,'" she said. Karen was also shocked when
she saw Williams' picture in the paper.
"I remembered him. I said 'why does he look familiar?' Then I remembered I used to see him walking. I think he even smiled at me a couple times."
Police told her whoever was behind the break-ins was studying the victims.
"He seemed to know the habits of the people here on the street," she said.
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Friday, February 12, 2010
Former officer paints a picture of a serial killer
By IAN ROBERTSON, QMI Agency
Last Updated: 12th February 2010, 8:58pm
A sexual deviant who binds and takes photos of female victims as souvenirs is “the worst of the worst,” a private investigator and ex-Toronto Police detective says.
Such men often have a “trophy collection,” former Det.-Sgt. Dave Perry said in an interview.
And the veteran of some of the city’s worst sex and homicide cases, now CEO of ISN Investigative Solutions Network Inc., said such offenders usually start young.
While emotional and sexual gratification are key motives, Perry said, attackers rarely take captive photos.
The danger of them escaping detection is what starts teens fantasizing about assaults that can escalate over many years into physical contact, rape and murder, “because what used to work doesn’t any more,” he said.
Behavioural experts say trophies include peeping toms seeking personal items such as panties belonging to women they secretly observe and taking them from washing lines, laundry dryers or homes during break-ins.
Psychological and behavioural profiling of offences and offenders became a valuable tool years ago in helping predict a low-level offender’s likelihood of becoming a serial stalker and for revisiting unsolved cases, Perry said.
“But it’s not an absolute science,” he cautioned. “When you try to figure out a sexual offender, you could go crazy.”
Since the arrest this week of Col. Russell Williams, until recently commander of 8 Wing at CFB Trenton, families of unsolved sex crime victims have had their hopes raised, urging police to revisit those cases.
Similar demands were made after the arrest of Scarborough rapist Paul Bernardo, who was convicted in 1995 of the murders of teens Leslie Mahaffy and Kristen French after he moved to St. Catharines.
The OPP has asked police in Toronto, Manitoba and the Maritimes — where Williams has lived — to wait for its behavioural science analysis service team’s profile, which could take several months.
Asking to reopen cold cases now “is a natural reaction,” Perry said.
But, he said, “people have to calm down and relax.
“There are a lot of sex offenders out there, who haven’t been caught, and you only want to use evidence to rule somebody in or out,” Perry said. “To jump to conclusions and pile it all on one man is negligent.”
He praised the OPP team, which helped him in such high-profile cases as the 2003 rape, murder and dismemberment of Holly Jones, 10.
Michael Briere, the only neighbour to refuse a police DNA request, pleaded guilty to her slaying.
Perry said he earlier rewrote the sex crimes unit manual, requiring the force to consult it on non-intercourse cases with warning signs of a possible sex offender.
DNA comparisons are essential, but since the national databank was only created in 2000, older cases are more difficult to match to a suspect.
Canadian police need a warrant or post-conviction order to get a suspect’s DNA.
But Perry said Toronto Police have obtained “cast-off samples” from public places, where an officer has observed and seized a suspect’s discarded cigarette butt, drinking glass or pop container.
Williams, 46, who used the name Sovka at Birchmount Park Collegiate Institute and Upper Canada College while living in Scarborough in the late 1970s and 1980s, is charged with murdering two women.
A funeral service will be held Saturday for Jessica Lloyd, 27, whose body was found Monday near Belleville.
Cpl. Marie-France Comeau, 38, was murdered in November in her Brighton home, west of Trenton.
An avid photographer, Williams is also charged with the forcible confinement of two women in Tweed, a village northeast of Belleville, two break and enters and their sexual assaults.
The OPP said a home invader awakened each survivor, raped and tied them up, then took their photos.
Search warrants police obtained for William’s bungalow in Tweed cited lingerie, baby blankets and computer data storage devices. Ottawa police also searched the trendy Westboro neighbourhood home shared with his wife, Elizabeth Harriman.
In custody at the Quinte Detection Centre in Napanee, east of Belleville, his next court appearance is Thursday in Belleville, via a video link.
ian.robertson@sunmedia.ca
Last Updated: 12th February 2010, 8:58pm
A sexual deviant who binds and takes photos of female victims as souvenirs is “the worst of the worst,” a private investigator and ex-Toronto Police detective says.
Such men often have a “trophy collection,” former Det.-Sgt. Dave Perry said in an interview.
And the veteran of some of the city’s worst sex and homicide cases, now CEO of ISN Investigative Solutions Network Inc., said such offenders usually start young.
While emotional and sexual gratification are key motives, Perry said, attackers rarely take captive photos.
The danger of them escaping detection is what starts teens fantasizing about assaults that can escalate over many years into physical contact, rape and murder, “because what used to work doesn’t any more,” he said.
Behavioural experts say trophies include peeping toms seeking personal items such as panties belonging to women they secretly observe and taking them from washing lines, laundry dryers or homes during break-ins.
Psychological and behavioural profiling of offences and offenders became a valuable tool years ago in helping predict a low-level offender’s likelihood of becoming a serial stalker and for revisiting unsolved cases, Perry said.
“But it’s not an absolute science,” he cautioned. “When you try to figure out a sexual offender, you could go crazy.”
Since the arrest this week of Col. Russell Williams, until recently commander of 8 Wing at CFB Trenton, families of unsolved sex crime victims have had their hopes raised, urging police to revisit those cases.
Similar demands were made after the arrest of Scarborough rapist Paul Bernardo, who was convicted in 1995 of the murders of teens Leslie Mahaffy and Kristen French after he moved to St. Catharines.
The OPP has asked police in Toronto, Manitoba and the Maritimes — where Williams has lived — to wait for its behavioural science analysis service team’s profile, which could take several months.
Asking to reopen cold cases now “is a natural reaction,” Perry said.
But, he said, “people have to calm down and relax.
“There are a lot of sex offenders out there, who haven’t been caught, and you only want to use evidence to rule somebody in or out,” Perry said. “To jump to conclusions and pile it all on one man is negligent.”
He praised the OPP team, which helped him in such high-profile cases as the 2003 rape, murder and dismemberment of Holly Jones, 10.
Michael Briere, the only neighbour to refuse a police DNA request, pleaded guilty to her slaying.
Perry said he earlier rewrote the sex crimes unit manual, requiring the force to consult it on non-intercourse cases with warning signs of a possible sex offender.
DNA comparisons are essential, but since the national databank was only created in 2000, older cases are more difficult to match to a suspect.
Canadian police need a warrant or post-conviction order to get a suspect’s DNA.
But Perry said Toronto Police have obtained “cast-off samples” from public places, where an officer has observed and seized a suspect’s discarded cigarette butt, drinking glass or pop container.
Williams, 46, who used the name Sovka at Birchmount Park Collegiate Institute and Upper Canada College while living in Scarborough in the late 1970s and 1980s, is charged with murdering two women.
A funeral service will be held Saturday for Jessica Lloyd, 27, whose body was found Monday near Belleville.
Cpl. Marie-France Comeau, 38, was murdered in November in her Brighton home, west of Trenton.
An avid photographer, Williams is also charged with the forcible confinement of two women in Tweed, a village northeast of Belleville, two break and enters and their sexual assaults.
The OPP said a home invader awakened each survivor, raped and tied them up, then took their photos.
Search warrants police obtained for William’s bungalow in Tweed cited lingerie, baby blankets and computer data storage devices. Ottawa police also searched the trendy Westboro neighbourhood home shared with his wife, Elizabeth Harriman.
In custody at the Quinte Detection Centre in Napanee, east of Belleville, his next court appearance is Thursday in Belleville, via a video link.
ian.robertson@sunmedia.ca
Bernardo gives tips in case against colonel
By JOE WARMINGTON and DON PEAT, QMI Agency
February 12th, 2010
TORONTO — Locked away inside Kingston Penitentiary, notorious schoolgirl killer Paul Bernardo has heard about the arrest of Col. Russell Williams and, in a bizarre turn, even has some advice for cops.
Bernardo, speaking from solitary confinement, shared his thoughts with his father, Ken Bernardo.
“He said he doesn’t understand it and how (Williams allegedly would) have the ability to cover all that up,” Ken Bernardo told the Sun.
Williams, 46, was charged Monday with two counts of first-degree murder in connection with the deaths of Jessica Lloyd and Cpl. Marie-France Comeau.
Bernardo, 45, was convicted in 1995 for the first-degree murders of Kristen French and Leslie Mahaffy.
In the wake of Williams’ arrest, police forces across the country have vowed to examine cold cases in their area to see if they might be a match with the alleged crimes the colonel is accused of committing. Williams’ military life straddles at least four provinces including Ontario, Manitoba, Nova Scotia and Quebec. He was also stationed in the Middle East at Camp Mirage for six months.
Bernardo offered advice for police as they scour Williams’ life.
“(Paul) suggested they go back 20 years and look at everything, because that’s when his testosterone would have been at the highest,” Bernardo’s father said.
don.peat@sunmedia.ca
February 12th, 2010
TORONTO — Locked away inside Kingston Penitentiary, notorious schoolgirl killer Paul Bernardo has heard about the arrest of Col. Russell Williams and, in a bizarre turn, even has some advice for cops.
Bernardo, speaking from solitary confinement, shared his thoughts with his father, Ken Bernardo.
“He said he doesn’t understand it and how (Williams allegedly would) have the ability to cover all that up,” Ken Bernardo told the Sun.
Williams, 46, was charged Monday with two counts of first-degree murder in connection with the deaths of Jessica Lloyd and Cpl. Marie-France Comeau.
Bernardo, 45, was convicted in 1995 for the first-degree murders of Kristen French and Leslie Mahaffy.
In the wake of Williams’ arrest, police forces across the country have vowed to examine cold cases in their area to see if they might be a match with the alleged crimes the colonel is accused of committing. Williams’ military life straddles at least four provinces including Ontario, Manitoba, Nova Scotia and Quebec. He was also stationed in the Middle East at Camp Mirage for six months.
Bernardo offered advice for police as they scour Williams’ life.
“(Paul) suggested they go back 20 years and look at everything, because that’s when his testosterone would have been at the highest,” Bernardo’s father said.
don.peat@sunmedia.ca
Canadian Forces name Williams' successor
By QMI Agency
Last Updated: 12th February 2010, 6:51pm
The Canadian Forces have announced a replacement for Col. Russell Williams as commander of the 8 Wing Trenton military base.
Toronto native Lt.-Col Dave Cochrane will take control of the Ontario base on Feb. 19, when he is officially promoted to the rank of Colonel, said Chief of Air Staff, Lt.-Gen Andre Deschamps in a statement Friday.
Cochrane has a masters degree in defence studies from the Royal Military College. He is married to Sherri Cochrane (nee Smith) of Ottawa. They have a son, 13-year-old Jamie, and a daughter, 12-year-old Lindsay.
"I believe Col. Cochrane has the exceptional leadership qualities necessary to lead 8 Wing Trenton at this challenging and critical time, as the Canadian Forces are experiencing an unprecedented operational tempo," Deschamps said.
"He is a highly experienced, trustworthy and capable commander who is well known in the local community, as are his wife and children. He is a respected member of the air mobility community and has my utmost confidence."
Cochrane will take over from Lt.-Col. David Murphy, who has served as acting commander since Williams, 46, was arrested in connection the murder of 27-year-old Jessica Lloyd.
Williams was charged Monday with two counts of first-degree murder. He is currently being held at a provincial jail in Napanee, Ont., where it is reported he is on suicide watch. He has been placed in a segregation cell where he can be monitored by staff.
Last Updated: 12th February 2010, 6:51pm
The Canadian Forces have announced a replacement for Col. Russell Williams as commander of the 8 Wing Trenton military base.
Toronto native Lt.-Col Dave Cochrane will take control of the Ontario base on Feb. 19, when he is officially promoted to the rank of Colonel, said Chief of Air Staff, Lt.-Gen Andre Deschamps in a statement Friday.
Cochrane has a masters degree in defence studies from the Royal Military College. He is married to Sherri Cochrane (nee Smith) of Ottawa. They have a son, 13-year-old Jamie, and a daughter, 12-year-old Lindsay.
"I believe Col. Cochrane has the exceptional leadership qualities necessary to lead 8 Wing Trenton at this challenging and critical time, as the Canadian Forces are experiencing an unprecedented operational tempo," Deschamps said.
"He is a highly experienced, trustworthy and capable commander who is well known in the local community, as are his wife and children. He is a respected member of the air mobility community and has my utmost confidence."
Cochrane will take over from Lt.-Col. David Murphy, who has served as acting commander since Williams, 46, was arrested in connection the murder of 27-year-old Jessica Lloyd.
Williams was charged Monday with two counts of first-degree murder. He is currently being held at a provincial jail in Napanee, Ont., where it is reported he is on suicide watch. He has been placed in a segregation cell where he can be monitored by staff.
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