(Source: Edmonton Journal Edmonton, Alberta, Canada 14 May 2010, Fri • Page 4)

(Source: Calgary Herald Calgary, Alberta, Canada 19 Oct 2010, Tue • Page 4)

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Name : HANNA, Lois Marie On July 3, 1988, Lois attended the "Celebrate In '88" festival at the Lucknow Arena. She left the arena at 11:45 p.m. and arrived at home at approximately 12:15 on the morning of July 4. After completing her fashion studies at at Fanshaw College, Lois worked at MacG's in Kincardine. …

Dr. Jerry Sovka (a nuclear engineer) is Russell William's stepfather. He was involved with the Douglas Point Nuclear plant in the Kincardine area which is a popular summer resort. Russell Williams may have had knowledge and access to this area via Dr. Sovka his step-father.

Russell Williams would have been the same age as Lois Hanna a woman who went missing at the age of 24 in the 80's from her home. There was another girl that went missing around that time as well...from the Owen Sound area...but I can't remember her name. I think that Russell Williams got caught for his crimes in the Ottawa area but that there may be others that have spanned many years. Russel was living in Toronto at the time and it wouldn't be a leap to think he might have accessed the Lake Huron resort area. I was watching an interview a reporter with last name Worthington was on from the Toronto Sun about Paul Bernardo's father visiting his son and about how Russell William's wife has been in contact with him. Why would she want to talk to Paul Bernardo's father?

I also read an article where Paul Bernardo's father was asked if his son has ever indicated to him that he was friends with Russell Williams and he said he asked his son that and that Paul said no. But then his father said that he didn't know that Russell Williams was going by the name of Russell Sovka at the time they were both at U of T. He indicated that he would ask him that the next time he visits him but I don't think the media did any follow-up to that. Something else that was in the media was that Paul Bernardo told either investigators or his dad that the police should be looking at the activities of Russell Williams during the time when his hormone levels were at their highest. I thought this was interesting. In other words Paul Bernardo was saying look back in time.

I think that it is interesting that Russell Williams changed his name to Sovka. I wondered if he was already trying to cover his tracks by taking the opportunity to do this and then change back to Williams when he went into the military.

I am from the Lake Huron area where Lois Hanna went missing and I remember the other girl from Owen Sound area going missing as well. No one has found these women. I cannot imagine how her family goes on. I found it very traumatizing at the time because nothing like this had ever happened to my knowledge.

If you read the details involving Lois Hanna it sounds like the person may have been waiting inside her home which is something that Russell Williams would do. I saw a lady interviewed on TV that was victimized by Russell Williams...he was in her house, writing on her computer etc.

I just thought I should send this info to someone just in case there is something to my amateur attempt at investigation.

I also saw an interview of a man who was friends with Russell Williams when he was at either U of T or Upper Canada and said that Russell liked to hide in their rooms and come out and scare them which he thought was a little quirky but sees it totally different in hindsight.

Thanks for reading this. Not sure if you are still following this story or not but maybe some of this info. may assist in your research. It has always bothered me that these women were never found and no one has been held accountable. Apparently Paul Bernardo's name did come up at some point and it was discounted.

Russell Williams was with his step father Dr. Sovka since he was 6 and I would imagine he spent some time in the Douglas Point area over the years. This could be tracked back I am sure somehow. If I am correct I think 1988 was the year Russell Williams would have graduated from U of T and went into the Armed forces the following year. I believe he may have had a pilots license by then. But could be wrong on that.

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The Gazette Montreal, Quebec, Canada 21 Jan 1989, Sat • Page 10

That is her basement? Granted I don't know the details of the case, but a fancy fully assembled, full-sized, double mattressed bed in an unfinished basement where the single female owner is raped and murdered is weird.

Russell Williams crimes very similar to the Golden state killer who was military then police for many years.

Russell Williams parents were an odd situation as well. Aparently swingers and his mother later married one of their swinging couples husband. Both Russell's dad and step dad were involved with nuclear engineering and the families both moved around the globe to follow new nuclear builds.

Golden State's father was military both Wiiliams and Golden state's family were in Korea at one point.

In Germany Golden State, at about 9 years old, witnessed his sister being raped in a military warehouse in Germany. Golden state's father left his family and started a new family in Korea and gave his new kids the same names as his first kids.

Williams was at U of T at the same time as Paul Bernardo. Same campus and it's said they were friends.

In late 2005, with more than six months still to go in his two-year posting as commander of 437 Transport Squadron, came the unexpected announcement that he would be wearing two hats. He would keep his position with 437 Squadron, but simultaneously he was taking charge of Camp Mirage, the quasi-clandestine air base post near Dubai, in the United Arab Emirates, that served as the Canadian military’s air bridge linking Trenton to the Afghanistan war effort.

In the fall of 2010, Camp Mirage became a very public political issue in Canada, over what looked to be an absurd squabble between the Stephen Harper government and the U.A.E. government. At issue were the landing rights in Canada of the U.A.E.’s two national carriers. Air Canada was complaining that the U.A.E.’s airlines were unfairly scooping up its customers on the shorter-haul flights between Canada and Europe. The two airlines’ access to Canada was restricted; in retaliation, the U.A.E. informed the Canadian military that its days in Dubai were over. But back in 2005, Camp Mirage did not officially exist, and was considered a highly sensitive topic. It was Williams himself who offered to take charge of the desert compound while retaining command of 437 Squadron, and the double duty looks to have been a mark of his ambition. “That was a career move, I think.

He could have waited, but it’s all about getting through those gates as quick as you can,” Garrett Lawless says. “He sacrificed the last six months of his two-year tenure as CO, which are generally seen as the highlight of a career—the command of a squadron—to take concurrent command of Mirage. He could have handed it over to his deputy, but he wanted joint command.”

Formally known as Theatre Support Element, Camp Mirage was attached to the U.A.E.’s Minhad air base, a short drive south of glittering, skyscraper-choked Dubai, and was the worst-kept military secret in the Middle East. Al Minhad served as a transit point for other Afghanistan-bound coalition troops too, and anybody who wanted to could find out exactly where Camp Mirage was; if not, Google Earth could assist.

The consensus, at least in Canadian military circles, was that the vagueness about its location stemmed less from security concerns than from a reluctance to embarrass the host state, the U.A.E., which was not anxious to advertise its military ties to Western powers fighting their assorted wars in Muslim lands.

It would be Williams’s first and only spell both in the Middle East and in a war zone, and he appears to have thrived at Camp Mirage. He already had a “Secret” security clearance (as opposed to “Top Secret”), which was deemed sufficient for his new duties. He underwent no additional background screening for the posting. He was taking charge of an air base as busy as some major European airports, a conduit for flights that streamed in day and night. In all, well over 200,000 passengers have passed through Mirage since it was created in 2002, and when Williams was there most of them arrived and left aboard the aging CC-130 Hercules transport planes that were the backbone of the Canadian war mission, whose hub was Kandahar Airfield in southern Afghanistan.

A former air force officer under his command at Mirage described the new CO’s performance as “fantastic,” saying he appeared comfortable under pressure and was adept at juggling several balls at the same time, always with good humor. And the pace was nonstop, frequently requiring Williams to put in an eighty-hour week.

Camp Mirage’s primary function was as a transit point for troops starting or ending six- or nine-month tours of duty. But many Canadian VIPs came and went too, as did soldiers and dignitaries from allied countries. There were also the occasional ramp ceremonies for soldiers who died in Afghanistan—one when their bodies arrived at Mirage and a second when they were sent on to Trenton and then Toronto, for a final autopsy. There was no combat role for the Camp Mirage personnel (hence no possibility that the genesis of Williams’s crimes was some type of post-traumatic stress disorder) and from a distance a stint there might have looked like easy street. In fact, it was highly demanding.

Air maintenance was the chief task of the rotating 300 to 400 officers deployed to Mirage for six months at a time, drawn from air bases in Winnipeg, Greenwood, Trenton, Cold Lake, Comox and Bagotville. Also on hand were communications experts, an intelligence unit, military police and civilian support staff.

Troops had access to a well-run mess hall, shared with other coalition troops, phone cards, an Internet area, a recreation room, a music room and even a scuba club.

Among those who served at Camp Mirage, three years before Williams arrived, was Corporal Marie-France Comeau, whom he would later rape and murder in her Brighton home. She was part of Operation Apollo, the first group of Canadian soldiers to land in Afghanistan, and was deployed as a traffic technician, driving a forklift truck to load and unload cargo and drawing widespread admiration for her hard work and unflagging good spirits.

Up the road for the handful of senior officers able to pay regular visits was safe, West-friendly Dubai. But the working conditions at Mirage were often brutal, encompassing long work weeks and blistering temperatures that could reach 140 degrees Fahrenheit. In the hottest months, the Persian Gulf humidity was so extreme that much of the work had to be done at night.

As base commander, Williams oversaw everything, from day-to-day duties such as the fire detail, medical detail, kitchen duties and the computer system to the constantly shifting arrivals and departures schedules. Everything was to run like clockwork, he insisted, and for the most part it did. In addition, he had to travel regularly within the region—to the Kandahar base, which he visited at least once a month, to Abu Dhabi, the U.A.E. capital, and sometimes to Qatar, for consultations with senior U.S. military officials based there.

It was all very much like being a mini wing commander—a continuous, highly visible job. Nonetheless, after the murder and sex-assault charges were laid against Williams, voices in the blogosphere speculated that perhaps in his off-hours at Mirage—a tour that wrapped up in June 2006, fifteen months before his first acknowledged break-in—he found time to commit crimes in the Dubai region, possibly other murders.

One conspiracy theory that briefly gained attention suggested that a military policeman’s unexpected suicide at Camp Mirage while Williams was there might have occurred because the officer had discovered something suspicious about his boss—liaisons with prostitutes in Dubai, for example, who for a high price were definitely available.

There’s no evidence whatever to support this thesis, and two factors weigh against it. First, Williams’s existence at Mirage was highly regulated, and he was rarely out of view. Every six weeks, the Camp Mirage commander had a 48-hour rest and recreation break off the base, but because of the importance of his job, he would never have been alone. And during those short spells, Garrett Lawless says, “everybody would always need to know how to contact you.”

Second, the trajectory of Williams’s admitted crimes began with dozens of break-ins committed when the homeowners were almost invariably absent, a pattern that continued for two full years (September 2007 to September 2009) before spiking up sharply and accelerating into sexual assault and finally murder.

It is conceivable and in fact very likely that long before Williams carried out the first burglary with which he was charged, targeting a family who lived near his cottage in Tweed, his obsession with women’s underwear had manifested itself—perhaps as voyeurism, or sneaking into a bedroom during a house party. And he may well have committed earlier burglaries too. But it seems improbable he did anything illegal in Dubai.

Source - A New Kind of Monster The Secret Life and Chilling Crimes of Colonel Russell Williams by Appleby Timothy