Predator In An Unlikely Place
This story hits close to home for me. I live in the general area of Trenton and have occasion to come into close contact with our military brothers and sisters. Yesterday morning the first hint I got that Jessica Lloyd, missing from her Belleville area home since Jan. 28th, had been located was a note across Twitter.
As I watched the posts unfold I learned it was her body which had been found and that someone was in custody, the police would hold a press conference at 1pm. Then I saw a tweet saying the home of the Commander of CFB Trenton’s home in Tweed was being searched, my eyebrows shot up. How could that possibly be related? I wondered.
By the time the press conference rolled around, the news was out. Col. Russ Williams, Commander of CFB Trenton had been charged with the murder of Jessica Lloyd, the murder of Cpl Marie Comeau of Brighton (just 10km away from me) and the sexual assaults on two Tweed residents. The news was stunning to say the least.
It took a bit to realize, sexual predators like this don’t just spring from out of nowhere. This man had only been in the Trenton area since July 2009. The first attacks took place in September. Investigators are going to have to go back to every where he’s been and look at unsolved cases. While the media is talking about unsolved murders, I suspect unsolved rapes, particularly home invasion assaults are going to be explored. If we ever learn the full extent of his double life, it’s going to prove interesting to say the least.
My heart goes out to the families of the victims. I understand from what I have read the two victims who survived his assaults have come to learn their attacker lived not far from them. I can’t even begin to imagine the psychological damage this predator has and continues to inflict on these young women.
My heart goes out to those who served under Williams, those who reported to him, who saluted him (literally), looked up to him, respected him for the example of leadership he presented to them. To discover you looked up to and took commands from a predator, it can’t help but leave you shaken.
The Canadian military doesn’t easily advance members of the forces to the level of Colonel without being pretty sure there were no blemishes on the record. Those who advanced him, are going to be shaking their heads and wondering what they should have seen, that they didn’t see.
My heart goes out to William’s wife. I can’t imagine what it would be like to learn that the man you share your life with hasn’t just been unfaithful, he’s committed sexual assaults and murders, or at least stands accused of committing them. How do you respond to your world being turned upside down?
She’s a director with the Canadian Heart & Stroke Foundation, an organization dedicated to saving lives. She’s just learned her husband stands accused of taking the lives of two young woman and turning the lives of two others on their heads. God only knows how many more will be added to the toll as the investigation continues.
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