Thinking about it, it’s a perfect role for a sociopath who has extraordinary skills. A position of responsibility and respect makes the best cover.
It’s unbelievable, is what it is. TO think how well he must have covered his tracks–and he must have had background checks and security clearances in one ear and out the other.
According to the newspaper this morning, he’s being suspected for crimes as far back as 1992. His home in Ottawa is being searched for evidence. It’s freaky as all get-out.
Has he really confessed? It’s still sketchy. Could he have confessed to some break-ins and that’s all? I’m not convinced he would throw everything away so immediately without a fight. Guys like this tend to deflect blame and try to play down important evidence as purely circumstantial.
ETA: Sure my tire tracks were there. I live in the area and while I was out taking some nature photographs I must have turned around in that driveway… etc.
You know the story.
A good commander knows how to delegate.
Plus as a military commander, he might have an opportunity ot order the deaths of others. He might REALLY get off on that.
This story completely stunned me. Like others, “commanding officer” and “murderer/rapist” just don’t go together. Plus, you know, it’s Canada. I thought this kind of thing… Well, other than Willy Picton… and Paul Bernardo… and Clifford Olson…
It’s a terrible story, at any rate. Just shocking.
Most serial killers are dysfunctional in one way or another although some lead pretty average lives while killing. This guy is way up in the social pecking order to be doing something like this if the charges are true.
This guy held down a job although he had issues.
The problem is that real sociopaths are rarely keep their dysfunction contained in neat little boxes, and are generally dysfunctional enough to keep them from advancing socially and professionally into top level jobs.
And the Greyhound Decapitator…
I thought Canadians were supposed to be polite.
Just look at this thread.
What better cover, if you can pull it off, than playing a role where the reaction of everyone to your crimes is incredulity?
It appears that he is polite. Bizarre story.
Hoo boy. Here we go. This was almost predictable: divorced parents, alienation…
There are two types of serial killers: organized and disorganized. Most people think of disorganized when they hear the term, but the organized are far more deadly.
Ann Rule was a former police woman and a true crime writer. She knew about criminals. Yet she never recognized that her friend Ted Bundy was a serial killer until he was arrested. He was truly “The Stranger Beside Me.”
Williams is obviously an extremely organized serial killer.
Police are hinting at the fact his computer is chock-full of photos related to his alleged crimes.
Add that to the apparent confession (which I assume led police to find the second woman’s body, given that Williams was arrested Sunday night, while the body was found on Monday), and it seems like there’s no question Williams is guilty.
Seems to me like he had the perfect lifestyle for a serial killer - plausible excuses for taking off in the middle of the night or disappearing for a few hours at a time if his family got suspicious, never living in the same place for more than a few years at a time, uniform and military title to lend him an appearance of trustworthiness.
And Marc Lepine, and the Boyd Gang…
Leaffan’s link leads to a story in today’s Globe and Mail, which tells me that he may have been a classmate of mine: Apparently, we both studied at the University of Toronto’s Scarborough campus at about the same time. I certainly remember the rapes that the news story mentions as occurring on campus. I don’t recall a “Russ Williams” or a “Russ Sovka” in particular, but you can’t know everybody, and it’s possible that he was a classmate in a large lecture, or the guy holding up the cafeteria line.
Exactly right.
The truly amazing thing is that he was able to hide his sociopathic urges and acts so as to fool everyone for so long - I imagine high ranking military officers are subjected to far more invasive official scrutiny than almost anyone else.
And his dad used to work in the facility in Eastern Ontario that I’m at right now. I’m sure I’m going to hear some gasps from some of the old-timers soon.
I’m convinced that the dysfunctional ones are just the Psychopaths we find out about. I think there are a lot more of them out there undetected. If you are interested, “The Sociopath Next Door” is a great book.
We have a prize for this?
I wonder what the trophy looks like.
Astro Your source saying he confessed is citing unnamed sources as reported in “the Toronto Globe and Mail”. There is no Toronto Globe and Mail. There are the Toronto Star and Toronto Sun and there is a national newspaper The Globe and Mail. I’m not seeing anything about a confession on any of their websites and that would be major headline news.
ETA: The CBC however, is reporting that he has led police to a body.