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Evaluation

Within my evaluation for my negotiated brief I’m going to be discussing what went well and what could have gone better through my final major project along with the things that I would have done differently, I will also go into more depth prior to my mid-point review as to how covid-19 has affected my work process.

For me what I found that went well through my project was my time management even due to the current situation we’ve been placed in, this did mean that I had to prioritize other projects & I personally I feel as if this was the best way as this meant that I was able to solely focus on my major project however, I still suck to a time plan and managed to complete all that was asked of me by the deadline & I feel as if this was more possible due to myself personally being furloughed & allowing myself to have more time to complete each brief where I would have normally had to work around my work rota as well. Even through this was a very uncertain time and a unusual position that I found myself in I really feel as if I have proved to myself that I am more than capable to go off on my own and still stick to a time plan and produce a decent level of work even if I may not have the right software or best resources to do so.

One of the biggest supports was the contact with our lecturer, although this of course was more limited than if we were able to attend physical lectures it was still nice to have a set schedule each week and to know that if any issues did arise we were just able to contact Mark and he would reply to us as soon as he could even if this was on the days that we wouldn’t usually attend a lecture it was also a bit more of a relief that also the brief was adapted due to the current situation & that other students circumstances were taken into consideration as although I own my own laptop it is nowhere near as powerful as what is needed to complete my work to the highest/ higher standard of work I would have liked. Another help was that more detailed materials were provided on what is expect of us to do that had changed from the original brief and how we go about it as well as a guide of how to submit our work.

I really enjoyed researching and looking into my chosen topic of “Do we have the potential to be killers?” although this is a very out there topic, especially if I compare it to what I have done in the past as I usually find myself developing some sort of app, this topic is also more along the lines of phycology instead of the usual UX designer approach I take, I wanted to do something different from all of my other projects but I also wanted to keep within the important factor of fitting within my skill set and something that I can use within my portfolio to showcase to employers but that it also needed to be something that I am personally interested due to it being my final major project, as I have made this mistake in the past with my dissertation as although I enjoyed the topic their just want enough for me to research when it came to a 12 week project but with this specific topic having so much to research it was definitely something I was able to throw myself into & I actually found that at some points it was hard to actually know when to stop researching. I overall really enjoyed researching my topic and being able to have the freedom of not only decided what I wanted my project to be about but to also be able to make the final decisions and the specifics of what I want to cover, such as what serial killer I wanted to be my main focus and how I wanted to talk about this and lay it out it was especially nice when I could have gone so many different ways around it and showcased my work.

There are a few things that I felt that could have gone better such as the software that I had available to me as due to covid-19 I was un able to use the software that I originally planned to use (Maya) not only did I not have a copy of Maya but I had very little understanding how to use it & although I still had contact with my lectures and a few other resources I still was very uncomfortable and found it very intimidating, however I was able to get a somewhat basic understanding of Maya and after looking I still struggled to get a copy of the software however after talking to Mark and explaining these issues I decided to take another approach and use a different software that’s available to me and this is Sketch up Make, this is a free version of sketch up that is available to the public. I did try to use a free trail of sketch up pro however the website kept on saying that it was down and that the action I was trying to take didn’t exist, I have documented this on my blog. Even though Sketch up make has done it’s job there was still a number of bugs within the software causing it to crash a number of times. This also meant on a number of occasions id get to a certain level of completing my work and if I hadn’t saved it for a while the software would Unfortunately crash and there for losing my work sometimes this would even happen whilst saving and was very frustrating this also meant that a lot of my time was spent having to redo things that I had already done.

I also went on to realise that within my final major project as I look at the exhibition space some of the block of text are a little off and not evenly placed, I often found it very difficult to place things correctly and in a way that all of the text boxes has an even space this was again due to the size of my laptop and me only being able to use my track pad through where as I believe that if I had access to a mac this wouldn’t have been an issue as I would have been able to focus on the more intricate details and clean up the appearance of my exhibition space and made it look that little bit more professional. Another issue that I found with my infrastructure was that the walls seemed to connect at different point and that went I wanted to make my space a little bigger so that I was able to get a better view of what it all looked like inside this caused a number of issues & therefore I decided to leave it how it was and just work my way around it.

Rendering was one of my biggest issues and the hardest and most frustrating task that I came across whilst doing this project. I really struggled to get a good couple of final images and I think if I had a better understanding of how to do this then that would have also made my final major project look more professional and when it came to my final product I feel like I had to choose between it look more professional but missing some of the main components such as the actual titles of topics or it looking less professional but it having all of the main components of a exhibition such as the titles of what people are looking at. After speaking with Mark we decided that the best way around this was to simply include screen grabs of my final project instead of using the rendered pictures, this does mean that I have had to compromise on the resolution and cleanness of the images however right now it is my only way around it.

In conclusion I really enjoyed the concept for my final major project as it was something that I was passionate about and really enjoyed researching and looking into all the different concepts and which ways this project could go. If I was to do this project again one of the main things that I would do is make sure that I have the right software at hand as I believe that would have also helped me produce a higher standard of work. Another thing that I didn’t realise would have been useful until actually making my final project was that I should have planned out the layout of what would be displayed on the walls and not just the flooring as this would have saved me a lot of time in the long run but upon all of the mistakes and issues that arose when completing this final major project I’m beyond proud of what I have achieved and the consistent effort I have put in.

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Here is my final A1 bored, I have chosen to remove my phone number and email address from this copy as of course this is being displayed on the internet.

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21/05/2020

After having a conversation with mark about my rending situation i’m going to display what the rendering does look like and what it should look like:

Here is what a screen grab looks like and this is what my final product should look like

The here is what it looks like when its been rendered. as you can see no titles are being displayed.

so as a way to display my final major project my only way around this is to use screen grabs and input them so that you are able to see the full potential of my work and how it actually should look.

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majorproject-isobelmck · 5 years ago

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19/05/2020-20/05/2020

over the next few days i’m going to be finally rendering my major project as well as adding this to my presentation and creating my A1 bored.

Here is one of my very many attempts at rendering.

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16/05/2020

Today i’m focusing on finishing off my my final major project and what i need to do to get this complete is add in one final wall to my exhibition and here is all of the information that is required to do so.

Ted Bundy was born in Vermont, across the country from the Pacific Northwest communities he would one day terrorize. His mother was Eleanor Louise Cowell and his father was unknown. His grandparents, ashamed of their daughter’s out-of-wedlock pregnancy, raised him as their own child. For nearly all of his childhood, he believed his mother to be his sister.

His grandfather would regularly beat both Ted and his mother, causing her to run away with her son to live with cousins in Tacoma, Washington, when Bundy was five years old. There, Eleanor met and married hospital cook Johnnie Bundy, who formally adopted the young Ted Bundy and gave him his last name.

Bundy disliked his step-father and would later describe him to a girlfriend disparagingly, saying he wasn’t very bright and didn’t make much money.

Little else is known for sure about the remainder of Bundy’s childhood, as he gave conflicting accounts of his early years to different biographers. In general, he described an ordinary life punctuated by dark fantasies that affected him powerfully — though the degree to which he acted on them remains unclear. The reports of others are similarly confused. Though Bundy described himself as a loner who would stalk the seedy streets at night to spy on women, many who remember Bundy from high school describe him as reasonably well-known and well-liked.

College Years And His First Attack

Ted Bundy graduated from high school in 1965, then enrolled in the nearby University of Puget Sound. He spent just one year there before transferring to the University of Washington to study Chinese.

He dropped out briefly in 1968 but quickly re-enrolled as a psychology major. During his time out of school, he visited the East Coast, where he likely first learned that the woman he believed to be his sister was actually his mother.

Then, back at UW, Bundy started dating Elizabeth Kloepfer, a divorcée from Utah who worked as a secretary at the School of Medicine on campus. Later, Kloepfer was among the first to report Bundy to police as a suspect in the Pacific Northwest murders.

Also among the four people who gave police Bundy’s name was former Seattle police officer Ann Rule, who met Bundy at around this same time while they were both working at Seattle’s suicide hotline crisis center.

Rule would later write one of the definitive biographies of Ted Bundy, The Stranger Beside Me.

Ann Rule remembers the moment she realized Bundy was a killer.

In 1973, Bundy was accepted into the University of Puget Sound Law School, but after a few months, he stopped attending classes.

Then, in January of 1974, the disappearances began.

Ted Bundy’s first known attack was not an actual murder, but instead an assault on 18-year-old Karen Sparks, a student and dancer at the University of Washington.

Ted Bundy’s First Murders Across Seattle

Ted Bundy’s next victim and his first confirmed murder was Lynda Ann Healy, another UW student.

A month after his assault on Karen Sparks, Bundy broke into Healy’s apartment in the early morning, knocked her unconscious, then clothed her body and carried her out to his car. She was never seen again, but part of her skull was discovered years later at one of the locations where Bundy dumped his bodies.

Afterward, Bundy continued targeting female students in the area. He developed a technique: approaching women while wearing a cast or appearing otherwise disabled and asking them to help him put something in his car.

He would then bludgeon them unconscious before binding, raping, and killing them, dumping their bodies in a remote location in the woods. Bundy would often revisit these sites to have sex with their decaying corpses. In some cases, Bundy would decapitate his victims and keep their skulls in his apartment, sleeping beside his trophies.

A woman who survived Ted Bundy’s attack in the 1970s reveals what saved her: her hair.

“The ultimate possession was, in fact, the taking of the life,” Bundy once said. “And then . . . the physical possession of the remains.”

“Murder is not just a crime of lust or violence,” he explained. “It becomes possession. They are part of you . . . [the victim] becomes a part of you, and you [two] are forever one . . . and the grounds where you kill them or leave them become sacred to you, and you will always be drawn back to them.”

Over the next five months, Bundy abducted and murdered five female college students in the Pacific Northwest: Donna Gail Manson, Susan Elaine Rancourt, Roberta Kathleen Parks, Brenda Carol Ball, and Georgann Hawkins.

Responding to this rash of disappearances, police called for a major investigation and enlisted a number of different government agencies to help look for the missing girls.

One of these agencies was the Washington State Department of Emergency Services, where Bundy worked. There, Bundy met Carole Ann Boone, a twice-divorced mother of two whom he would date on and off for years as the murders continued.

Relocation To Utah And Arrest For Kidnapping

As the manhunt for the abductor continued, more witnesses produced descriptions that matched Ted Bundy and his car. Just as some of his victims’ bodies were being discovered in the woods, Bundy was accepted to law school in Utah and moved to Salt Lake City.

While living there, he continued to rape and murder young women, including a hitchhiker in Idaho and four teenage girls in Utah.

Kloepfer was aware that Bundy had relocated to the area, and on learning of the Utah murders, she called the police a second time to reaffirm her suspicion that Bundy was behind the killings.

There was now a mounting pile of evidence pointing toward Ted Bundy, and when Washington investigators compiled their data, Bundy’s name appeared at the top of the suspect list.

Unaware of law enforcement’s growing interest in him, Bundy continued killing, journeying to Colorado from his home in Utah to murder more young women there.

Finally, in August 1975, Bundy was pulled over while driving through a Salt Lake City suburb, and police discovered masks, handcuffs, and blunt objects in the car. While this was not enough to arrest him, a police officer, realizing that Bundy was also a suspect in the earlier killings, put him under surveillance.

The officers then found his Beetle, which he had since sold, where they discovered hair matching three of his victims. With this evidence, they put him in a lineup, where he was identified by one of the women whom he had attempted to abduct.

He was convicted of kidnapping and assault and sent to prison while police attempted to build a murder case against him.

Ted Bundy Escapes Jail In Aspen

But arrest didn’t stop Bundy from killing.

He was soon able to, for the first of two times in his life, escape from custody.

In 1977, he escaped from the law library at the courthouse in Aspen, Colorado.

Because he was serving as his own lawyer, he had been allowed into the library during a break in his preliminary hearing. Nominally, he was researching the laws pertaining to his case. But the fact that he was his own counsel also meant he was unshackled — and when he saw his chance, he took it.

He jumped from the library’s second-floor window and hit the ground running, disappearing into the trees before the guard returned to check on him.

He planned to make his way toward Aspen Mountain, and he broke into a cabin and later a trailer for supplies. But resources were scarce, and it wasn’t long before he scrapped his plan to vanish into the wilderness.

Back in Aspen, he stole a car, thinking to put some distance between himself and the jail cell he was fleeing.

But the reckless speed with which he left Aspen made him conspicuous, and police officers spotted him. He was recaptured after six days of being on the run.

The Chi Omega Murders At Florida State

Bundy’s next escape took place just six months later, this time from a jail cell.

After carefully studying a map of the prison, Bundy realized that his cell was directly beneath the living quarters of the prison’s chief jailer; the two rooms were separated only by a crawl space.

Bundy traded with another inmate to get a small hacksaw, and while his cellmates were exercising or showering, he worked away at the ceiling, scraping away layer after layer of plaster.

The crawl space he made was small — very small. He began deliberately cutting back on meals in an effort to lose weight.

He also planned ahead. Unlike last time, when his escape had failed because he was without resources in the outside world, he stowed away a small pile of money smuggled to him by Carole Ann Boone, the woman who would later marry him in prison.

When he was ready, Bundy finished the hole and crawled up into the chief jailer’s room. Finding it unoccupied, he swapped his prison jumpsuit for the man’s civilian clothes and strolled out the jail’s front doors.

This time, he didn’t dawdle; he stole a car immediately and got out of town, making his way to Florida.

It had been Bundy’s intention to keep a low profile, but Florida life was presenting unexpected challenges. Unable to produce identification, he couldn’t get a job; he was back to grifting and stealing for money. And the compulsion toward violence was simply too strong.

On January 15, 1978, two weeks after his escape, Bundy broke into a Chi Omega sorority house on the Florida State University campus.

Within the span of just 15 minutes, he sexually assaulted and killed Margaret Bowman and Lisa Levy, bludgeoning them with firewood and strangling them with stockings. He then assaulted Kathy Kleiner and Karen Chandler, who both suffered horrific injuries, including broken jaws and missing teeth.

He then broke into the apartment of Cheryl Thomas, who lived several blocks away, and beat her so badly she lost her hearing permanently.

Still on the run on February 8, Bundy abducted 12-year-old Kimberly Diane Leach from her middle school and murdered her, concealing her body on a pig farm.

And then, once again, his reckless driving caught the attention of the police. When they realized that his plates belonged on a stolen car, they pulled him over and found the IDs of three dead women in his vehicle, linking him to the FSU crimes.

“I wish you had killed me,” Bundy told the arresting officer.

Trial And Execution

Throughout his ensuing trial, Bundy sabotaged himself by ignoring the advice of his lawyers and taking charge of his own defense. He unnerved even those assigned to work with him.

“I would describe him being as close to being like the devil as anyone I ever met,” said defense investigator Joseph Aloi.

Bundy was ultimately convicted and placed on death row at Florida’s Raiford Prison, where he suffered abuse from other prisoners (including a gang rape by four men, some sources say) and conceived a child with Carole Ann Boone, whom he’d married while he was on trial.

With hours left to live, Ted Bundy reflects on his crimes.

Bundy was finally executed by electric chair on January 24, 1989. Hundreds of people gathered outside the courthouse to celebrate his death.

“For everything he did to the girls — the bludgeoning, the strangulation, humiliating their bodies, torturing them — I feel that the electric chair is too good for him,” said Eleanor Rose, the mother of victim Denise Naslund.

Bettmann/Getty ImagesFSU’s Chi Phi fraternity celebrates the execution of Ted Bundy with a large banner that says “Watch Ted Fry, See Ted Die!” as they prepare for an evening cookout where they will serve “Bundy burgers” and “electrified hot dogs.” 1989.

Though he confessed to many murders before his death, the true number of Bundy’s victims remains unknown. Bundy denied certain killings, despite physical evidence tying him to the crimes, and alluded to others that were never substantiated.

Ultimately, all of this has led authorities to suspect Bundy killed anywhere from 30 to 40 women, making him one of the most infamous and terrifying serial killers in American history — and perhaps “the very definition of heartless evil.”

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15/05/2020

Carrying on with my final major project, after spending the last couple of days working on my presentation I now need to finish off my final major project e.g. my main exhibition space.

What I’m going to do now is add in more information to my exhibition and hopefully have it all finished by today.

Henry Lee Lucas

Lucas was born on August 23, 1936, in a one-room log cabin in Blacksburg, Virginia. Lucas lost an eye at age 10 after it became infected due to a fight with his brother A friend later described him as a child who would often get attention by displaying frighteningly strange behavior. Lucas' mother, a prostitute, would force him to watch her with her clients and make him cross-dress in public, purportedly so she could later pimp him out to men and women alike.Eventually, his schoolteachers complained about the cross-dressing and a court order put an end to it.

In December 1949, Lucas' alcoholic father, Anderson Lucas, died of hypothermia after going home drunk and collapsing outside during a blizzard. Shortly thereafter, while in the sixth grade, Lucas dropped out of school and ran away from home, drifting around Virginia. Lucas claimed to have committed his first murder in 1951 when he strangled 17-year-old Laura Burnsley after she refused his sexual advances. As with most of his confessions, he later retracted this claim.

On June 10, 1954, Lucas was convicted on over a dozen counts of burglary in and around Richmond, Virginia, and was sentenced to four years in prison. He escaped in 1957, was recaptured three days later, and was subsequently released on September 2, 1959.

In late 1959, Lucas traveled to Tecumseh, Michigan to live with his half-sister, Opal. Around this time Lucas was engaged to marry a pen pal with whom he had corresponded while incarcerated. When his mother visited him for Christmas, she disapproved of her son's fiancée and insisted he move back to Blacksburg. He refused, and they argued repeatedly during the visit about his upcoming nuptials.

The home of a killer

At the age of 10, Lucas lost his eye after it got infected from fighting with his brother. It’s no surprise though, as Lucas went to extreme lengths to get attention, acting out in frightening and strange behavior. His mom pimped him out during her own prostitution stint, making him crossdress in public to get attention.

After Lucas’ father died though, he went on the run, escaping to Richmond, Va. While there, he claimed to have committed his first murder, choking a 17-year-old to death after she rejected him sexually. He wasn’t convicted for that, but was convicted for multiple burglary charges and sentenced to four years in prison.

His first true murder

After spending time in prison in Richmond, Va., Lucas travelled to stay with his half-sister in Michigan, and it seemed like he was getting his life on track. Getting engaged to a lifetime pen pal, Lucas brought his fiancee with him to a family event in Blacksburg, Va., but his mother made it clear she disapproved of his choice of spouse.

Hating your lover is a perfect reason to cut your mother off, but not literally cut her. Lucas hit his mother over the head with a broom during another argument, and then stabbed her in the neck, fleeing the scene. When he was captured, he tried to claim self-defense, but the plea was denied, and he was given 20-40 years. But after 10, Lucas was freed due to prison overcrowding.

Drifting lifestyle

After he was released, Lucas began drifting around the U.S. from state to state, looking for work. At one point, Lucas was charged with trying to kidnap three young girls and given 5 years. While in prison, he became close with a family friend and ended up marrying her, but left after his stepdaughter accused him of sexually assaulting her.

From there, he travelled to Jacksonville, Fl., where he met fellow killer Ottis Toole. The two had a sexual relationship, and it almost seemed like Lucas was changing his life around. He became a roofer and bonded with Toole’s niece Frieda Powell.

Once Powell’s mother and grandmother passed away, Lucas asked her to run away with her. The pair escaped to California, where connections landed them with Kate Rich, who took them in for a little bit. But once the two failed to follow through on their jobs, Rich pushed them out on the street. At the same time, Powell was homesick for Florida.

Caught in a web of lies

After leaving Powell at a truck stop in Texas, Lucas continued travelling through Texas by himself. He was eventually picked up by state police for unlawful possession of a firearm. While in police custody, he confessed to Powell and Rich’s murders, even leading police to remains that he claimed were theirs.

Forensic investigation couldn’t formally identify either body, but this cooperation is what led police to trust Lucas and his confessions. From there, Lucas continued to confess to about 200 unsolved crimes with state police. But as investigation dug further into his confessions, police became clear he was not involved in any of these cases.

Thanks to his willingness to police, he was given preferential treatment, including access to rooms with case files. It became clear Lucas just read through unsolved cases, and made up a story about a murder based on information police already knew, altering his story as the interrogations went on.

Death for 11

While most of his confessions were proven false after investigation, police were able to prove 11 of Lucas’ confessions to be true. Initially given a death sentence for all 11, Texas governor George W. Bush pardoned Lucas, changing his sentence to life in prison.

The main reason for the change is the death of Debra Johnson, who at the time was only known as “Orange Socks”. The unidentified corpse was estimated to be murdered around Halloween 1979, and Lucas claims he killed her. But there’s evidence suggesting Lucas was in Florida working at the estimated time of Debra’s death.

Regardless, Lucas served his sentence until March 12th, 2001, when he finally passed away from heart disease. Ironically, the murderer’s grave has been left unmarked due to burglary, the first crime of Lucas’ long career.

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14/05/2020

Today i’m still working on my presentation and adding i all of the relevant slides and information that i think is necessary as well as keeping all of the pages as consistent as i can.

I have almost finished off my presentation and i’m currently trying to write around 500 words a day within my evaluation to make sure that i cover everything i want to talk about as well as reach the word count.

As of right now all that i need to do is finish off my final major project, create my A1 art bored and add in the final touches to my presentation.

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12/05/2020 - 13/05/2020

As of the past two days I’m still working on my major project but i have now started to put together my final presentation, I’ve been told to do this as if i am presenting to the class and that I’m pitching my work to someones who’s never seen my idea before. The brief wants 20 slides explaining how we’ve achieved all of our work , to achieve this i need to have a presentation order and this will be:

Proposal

Purpose

What i hope to achieve

How i plan to do it

Initial breakdown

Timescale

Research

Mood bored

Planning

Logo

Social media strategy

Final space

How will this benefit my future career

Thanks for listening

Hopefully after following this list i’ll have a clear view of how I’ve completed my project.

Here i am starting out my presentation. I’ve chosen to keep the theme of my portfolio running thought my major project presentation as i feel this will tie it all together and give it a more professional look.

Above are a few pages of my presentation that i have completed. As you are able to see i have kept the same format throughout therefor maintaining a professional and uniformed look.

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07/05/2020

Today is my catch up with mark at 3:20 to discuss where i’m at but as of today i’m starting to place out the pages for my presentation as well as adding in the information that needs to be displayed through my exhibition.

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David Russell Williams 06/05/2020

Feature wall three below is the information that i will be showcasing on my feature walls within my exhibition, Today i want to narrow down their stories so that i am able to showcase this and today’s task is actual starting to add in all of this information into my work.

https://murderpedia.org/male.W/w/williams-russell.htm

https://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/russell-williams-case

David Russell Williams is an English-born Canadian convicted murderer and former colonel in the Canadian Forces. From July 2009 until his arrest in February 2010, Williams commanded CFB Trenton, Canada's largest military airbase and a hub for the country's foreign and domestic air transport operations.

Colonel Russell Williams was commander of Canadian Forces Base (CFB) Trenton in 2010 when he was convicted of murder, following a series of bizarre sex crimes that shocked the country.

Colonel David Russell Williams was a decorated air force pilot and commander at the Canadian Forces Base (CFB) at Trenton, Ontario, when he was arrested in 2010, and charged with the murders of two women, and numerous other sexually related crimes. The bizarre case shocked the military and the country and became an international media sensation.

Background

In July 2009, Colonel Russell Williams, 46, became commanding officer of 8 Wing CFB Trenton. Born in Britain, he had immigrated to Canada as a boy. He was educated at Upper Canada College and the University of Toronto. Williams joined the Canadian Forces in 1987, and served in various capacities as he steadily rose in rank. As a pilot of VIP transport planes, he had passengers such as Prime Minister Jean Chrétien, and Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Philip. Williams was decorated for his years of exemplary service and for a tour of duty in the Middle East.

A C-177 Globemaster cargo plane sits on the tarmac at Canadian Forces Base Trenton (8-Wing Trenton).

Williams was married to Mary Elizabeth Harriman. The couple, who were childless, lived for 13 years in a house on Wilkie Drive in the Ottawa suburb of Orleans. Later they moved to a home they had built in the capital’s Westboro neighbourhood.

Break and Enter

Williams often spent time at a cottage he owned on Cosy Cove Lane in the village of Tweed, Ontario, 53 kilometers from Trenton. On the night of 8–9 September 2007, Williams broke into a neighbour’s cottage while the family was away, and took photographs of himself in pornographic poses with a young girl’s underwear, some of which he stole. In the months that followed, Williams broke into other residences in Tweed and the Belleville area. Beginning in May 2008, a rash of similar crimes occurred in the vicinity of Williams’s home in Orleans.

Williams victimized families whose members included girls or young women, entering residences at night when the people were away. In some cases he made return visits. Sometimes Williams walked in through unlocked doors. Other times he gained entry by cutting a screen, forcing a window open, or picking a lock.

During the burglaries Williams took photographs of female undergarments spread out on a bed, and of himself wearing brassieres and panties. When he finally left, he took underwear as trophies. In 82 documented burglaries, Williams stole around 1,400 pieces of clothing, most of it underwear and lingerie.

None of Williams’s Tweed victims reported break-ins to the police. Some weren’t aware at the time that their homes had been violated, or hadn’t noticed anything missing. However, 15 of the 25 Orleans families whose homes were broken into reported the crimes to the Ottawa Police Department. Undercover officers were posted to watch Wilkie Drive, but without results.

Detective Sergeant Jim Van Allen, a criminal profiler with the Ontario Provincial Police (OPP), assessed the information on the Orleans break-ins and deduced that as the intruder continued to evade detection, he was becoming more aggressive. In one home, he had left a taunting message on a computer. In another, police found semen on a photograph of a woman. Van Allen concluded that the prowler posed an increasing danger for “a hands on sexual assault.”

Tweed Creeper

As Van Allen had warned, the dangerous nature of the crimes escalated. Two women in Tweed were attacked in September 2009: Jane Doe (her real name protected by a publication ban) on the 17th, and Laurie Massicotte on the 30th. Both women were asleep when Williams broke in. Both were bound and blindfolded, assaulted, and forced to pose nude for photographs.

In both cases the victims called the police, but only after the Massicotte attack did the OPP advise the public. Constables went door-to-door in search of information that might lead them to the prowler locals called the Tweed Creeper.

Murders

On the night of 23 November 2009, in Brighton, a town just west of Trenton, Williams broke into the home of Corporal Marie-France Comeau, who was under his command at CFB Trenton. Comeau put up a fight, and was struck on the head several times with a flashlight. Over the next two hours, Williams repeatedly raped Comeau, beating her viciously if she resisted. He recorded it all on video and with photographs. Williams asphyxiated Comeau by wrapping her face with duct tape. He wrapped her body in a duvet and left it in her bedroom, where it lay undiscovered for more than 30 hours. While police searched Comeau’s house for clues following the discovery, Williams sent personal condolences to her father.

Williams’s next victim was Jessica Lloyd. He broke into her house on Highway 37 near Belleville, Ontario, at about 1:00 a.m. on 29 January, and found Lloyd asleep. Williams raped her and made her pose for photographs. Then Williams took Lloyd to his silver-coloured 2001 Nissan Pathfinder, parked in a nearby field, and drove her to his cottage. Lloyd’s ordeal continued until about 8:15 p.m., when Williams cracked her skull with a flashlight and strangled her with a piece of rope. He captured it all on video. Williams hid the body in his garage. On the night of 2–3 February, he dumped Lloyd’s body in the woods near Tweed.

Tire Tracks

Lloyd was reported missing when she didn’t show up for work and wasn’t at home, though her car was there. Police responded quickly. Investigators from the OPP and the Belleville Police Department suspected that the sexual assaults in Tweed, the Comeau murder and Lloyd’s disappearance were connected. A massive search was launched. It included personnel and a search-and-rescue aircraft from CFB Trenton, authorized by Colonel Williams.

Despite the efforts of police and hundreds of volunteers, after a week no trace of Lloyd had been found. However, witnesses reported seeing a silver-coloured SUV parked in a field near Lloyd’s house on the night of her disappearance. Police found tire tracks whose distinctive tread narrowed the range of potential suspect vehicles to a few, including the Nissan Pathfinder.

On the evening of 4 February, Williams was stopped at an OPP checkpoint on Highway 37. While appearing to be looking for drunk drivers, officers asked occupants of vehicles questions pertinent to the search for Lloyd, and examined tires. Williams said he was in a hurry because he had a sick child at home. During the brief roadside interrogation, officers saw that the tread of Williams’s tires matched those found in the field. From that moment, Williams was under police surveillance.

Arrest

Suspicion mounted when police realized that Williams had lied about the sick child. On the afternoon of 7 February, Williams went to Ottawa Police headquarters at the request of OPP Detective Sergeant Jim Smyth, who said he had a few loose ends to tie up. Once Williams was in the interrogation room, Smyth confronted him with questions for which he had no satisfactory answers. Moreover, Williams was wearing the boots he’d worn the night of Lloyd’s disappearance, which were matched to footprints found in the snow outside her house.

While the interview was in progress, officers with search warrants were going through the cottage in Tweed, and through Williams’s Ottawa home in the presence of his shocked wife. Smyth periodically left the interrogation room to get updates from the search teams, which provided him with more damning facts. Williams finally gave up all pretence of innocence. Smyth asked, “All right, so where is she [Lloyd]?” Williams replied, “You got a map?”

The searches of Williams’s properties turned up his camera, a duffel bag containing a black skull cap, a manual for lock picking, and boxes and pillowcases stuffed with underwear and lingerie. Hidden in the basement ceiling of the Ottawa house were two computer hard-drives containing expertly concealed records of Williams’s activities as a sexual predator over a two-year period. Video clips and nearly 3,000 photographs included depictions of the Tweed assaults and the murders of Comeau and Lloyd. There were also detailed accounts of his break-ins, and a meticulously compiled inventory of all the items he had stolen.

News of Williams’s arrest and his bizarre double-life stunned everyone who knew him and shocked the public.

Imprisonment and Suicide Attempt

In court in Belleville on 8 February, Williams was charged with murder, sexual assault and forcible confinement. He would later be charged with numerous counts of break-and-enter. He spent the next eight months in the Quinte Detention Centre in Napanee, from which he made several court appearances via video link. Because Williams pleaded guilty to all charges, he was not put on trial.

During the Easter weekend in April 2010, guards prevented Williams from choking to death on a cardboard toilet-paper tube he had shoved down his throat. He was subsequently kept under 24-hour watch. On 22 October 2010, Williams was sentenced to two terms of life imprisonment, with no possibility of parole for 25 years. He was also registered as a sex offender. His Nissan Pathfinder and his hoard of stolen garments were destroyed.

Williams was stripped of rank and dismissed from the Canadian Forces. His uniform was burned, and his decorations were destroyed. Harriman, who claimed to have known nothing about her husband’s crimes, began divorce proceedings. Williams is now incarcerated in the maximum-security prison at Port-Cartier, Québec.

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