Well, Surprise ...
A promising military leader, a truly professional's professional whose military comportment and accomplishments brought him to the attention of superiors capable of grooming him to become a signal part of the military elite. Possessing, obviously, all the needed attributes of a military man. Capable, intelligent, resolute, well mannered.
Someone who impresses his peers, his superiors, both military and political, and of course, his underlings. A fair and reasonable man, a friendly and dependable officer. So well regarded that some of his former neighbours, also in the military who had known him for over a decade, vow they will stand by him in his hour of need.
While other neighbours in an entirely other location, with whom he had been rather stand-offish, view him in no high regard. Explicable given the circumstances that when a dire and catastrophically vile murder took the life of a local, it was that neighbour who somehow came under police suspicion. And whose wife received abusive, anonymous telephone calls relating to her status as wife of a "murderer".
Certainly no suspicion could fall upon the well-regarded, reliable and high-value authority figure who was recently appointed commander of Canadian Forces Base Trenton, the largest, most important in the country. Not the merest whisper of suspicion of wrong-doing could possibly turn in his direction. Not even when a young woman under his command was found dead not long after he took command of the base.
Why on Earth would suspicion turn to the base commander? It's the stuff of which badly-written crime fiction is comprised, after all. And then, when another young women suddenly disappeared with no clues as to her whereabouts and frantic searches revealed nothing, well it was understood that the area near the base - not the base, mind - those towns near it - had a decided problem.
Obviously, a psychopath was on the loose. Verified amply by the fact that two home invasions occurred, one following hard on the other, where women were sexually violated. These alarming, mysterious and brutal crimes posed a true dilemma. Who, in the community, would do these dreadful things?
Now, Col. Russell Williams a rising star in the Canadian military as an air force officer of distinction who met all the challenges of previous assignments, and on track in the relatively near future, it was rumoured, to achieve the rank of general, has been arrested, charged with first degree murder in the deaths of Jessica Lloyd of Belleville, and Cpl. Marie-France Comeau, a military flight attendant based at CFB Trenton.
He has traded in his proud blue-and-gold uniform with its distinguishing epaulletes for a blue prison jumpsuit. His equally talented and enterprising (and no doubt utterly devastated) wife of many years has been temporarily removed from the family home to enable further police searches. Evidence being sought to form part of the case against this man.
Presumed guilty, but innocent until proven otherwise.
Someone who impresses his peers, his superiors, both military and political, and of course, his underlings. A fair and reasonable man, a friendly and dependable officer. So well regarded that some of his former neighbours, also in the military who had known him for over a decade, vow they will stand by him in his hour of need.
While other neighbours in an entirely other location, with whom he had been rather stand-offish, view him in no high regard. Explicable given the circumstances that when a dire and catastrophically vile murder took the life of a local, it was that neighbour who somehow came under police suspicion. And whose wife received abusive, anonymous telephone calls relating to her status as wife of a "murderer".
Certainly no suspicion could fall upon the well-regarded, reliable and high-value authority figure who was recently appointed commander of Canadian Forces Base Trenton, the largest, most important in the country. Not the merest whisper of suspicion of wrong-doing could possibly turn in his direction. Not even when a young woman under his command was found dead not long after he took command of the base.
Why on Earth would suspicion turn to the base commander? It's the stuff of which badly-written crime fiction is comprised, after all. And then, when another young women suddenly disappeared with no clues as to her whereabouts and frantic searches revealed nothing, well it was understood that the area near the base - not the base, mind - those towns near it - had a decided problem.
Obviously, a psychopath was on the loose. Verified amply by the fact that two home invasions occurred, one following hard on the other, where women were sexually violated. These alarming, mysterious and brutal crimes posed a true dilemma. Who, in the community, would do these dreadful things?
Now, Col. Russell Williams a rising star in the Canadian military as an air force officer of distinction who met all the challenges of previous assignments, and on track in the relatively near future, it was rumoured, to achieve the rank of general, has been arrested, charged with first degree murder in the deaths of Jessica Lloyd of Belleville, and Cpl. Marie-France Comeau, a military flight attendant based at CFB Trenton.
He has traded in his proud blue-and-gold uniform with its distinguishing epaulletes for a blue prison jumpsuit. His equally talented and enterprising (and no doubt utterly devastated) wife of many years has been temporarily removed from the family home to enable further police searches. Evidence being sought to form part of the case against this man.
Presumed guilty, but innocent until proven otherwise.
Labels: Human Fallibility, Life's Like That, Terrorism
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